03-01-2018, 06:16 AM
Marco, those are good parallels.
It's reassuring to know I got grape-vine and allium right just by glancing at them. I had completely forgotten that primrose was sometimes drawn that way (as soon as I saw the one in the herbal Marco posted, I smacked my head and thought, oh right, they do primrose that way). It's not a very good drawing of primrose, but at least they were somewhat consistent in how they represented it.
At one point I sat down and worked through all the Palatino 586 drawings, read all the captions, and even figured out how to interpret the figures around the bottom (the illustrator had a certain way of "storytelling" related to the plants), but it was several years ago, so they are no longer fresh in my mind. I would have to look them up in my files. I wasn't able to figure out all the metaphorical references, but some of them make sense after a while and they usually relate to the use of the plant.
It's reassuring to know I got grape-vine and allium right just by glancing at them. I had completely forgotten that primrose was sometimes drawn that way (as soon as I saw the one in the herbal Marco posted, I smacked my head and thought, oh right, they do primrose that way). It's not a very good drawing of primrose, but at least they were somewhat consistent in how they represented it.
At one point I sat down and worked through all the Palatino 586 drawings, read all the captions, and even figured out how to interpret the figures around the bottom (the illustrator had a certain way of "storytelling" related to the plants), but it was several years ago, so they are no longer fresh in my mind. I would have to look them up in my files. I wasn't able to figure out all the metaphorical references, but some of them make sense after a while and they usually relate to the use of the plant.