Centum Galli/Centrumgalli (Salvia sclarea) is mentioned in MS. Arch. Selden. B. 35, but is labeled in most of the medieval herbals as Gallitricum (Kallitrixon) or Gallicrus (Galligrus).
Trinity O.42.48 includes this plant under the name of Gallitricus and draws it in a manner similar to the German and northern Italian (Lombardic?) herbals that are in U.K. and Italian repositories, and quite differently from the group that includes Morgan M.873 and Masson 116. Which is interesting in itself, as the two different pictorial approaches ended up in different regions away from where they were originally created.
I've identified a fairly high proportion of the plants in the first section of Trinity O.42.48 but the second section is quite challenging... a lot of old names, mostly southern. It takes donkey's years to look up each one, with only a small chance of actually finding it. Many of the old names fell out of use after the Linnaean system became more popular.
Trinity O.42.48 includes this plant under the name of Gallitricus and draws it in a manner similar to the German and northern Italian (Lombardic?) herbals that are in U.K. and Italian repositories, and quite differently from the group that includes Morgan M.873 and Masson 116. Which is interesting in itself, as the two different pictorial approaches ended up in different regions away from where they were originally created.
I've identified a fairly high proportion of the plants in the first section of Trinity O.42.48 but the second section is quite challenging... a lot of old names, mostly southern. It takes donkey's years to look up each one, with only a small chance of actually finding it. Many of the old names fell out of use after the Linnaean system became more popular.