05-07-2015, 10:27 AM
Well, you are now trying to force your assumptions on to these plants.
It is entirely possible that the text next to each plant is actually a little story that has nothing to do with medicine. Say a little uplifting moral story, or possibly a reminiscence of the author, illustrated with a nice picture of a plant that reminded him of the tale
But let us take your template. The name of the plant will either be its common Latin name which we know from herbals. Or it will be a local vernacular. If it were a Latin name then we could assume the text is describing the use of the plant in the same fashion as other herbals. But it doesn't look like it, So if it's a local vernacular... we're lost, because we don't even know in which language or area to start looking.
It is entirely possible that the text next to each plant is actually a little story that has nothing to do with medicine. Say a little uplifting moral story, or possibly a reminiscence of the author, illustrated with a nice picture of a plant that reminded him of the tale
But let us take your template. The name of the plant will either be its common Latin name which we know from herbals. Or it will be a local vernacular. If it were a Latin name then we could assume the text is describing the use of the plant in the same fashion as other herbals. But it doesn't look like it, So if it's a local vernacular... we're lost, because we don't even know in which language or area to start looking.