04-04-2016, 09:17 AM
The Lessing image looks like the handwriting in the Tacuinum Sanitatis (the NYPL version). It should be pretty easy to check it against that.
The design of the root is the same idea as Antora in the Kraüter und Pflanzen Arzneipflanzenbuch (early 1500s).
I'm not sure what plant it is. It somewhat resembles Cardamine.
Besler includes a plant called Antora with roots that might be interpreted as an ox head but the leaves and flowers are quite different from the Antora illustrated in Tacuinum.
The design of the root is the same idea as Antora in the Kraüter und Pflanzen Arzneipflanzenbuch (early 1500s).
I'm not sure what plant it is. It somewhat resembles Cardamine.
Besler includes a plant called Antora with roots that might be interpreted as an ox head but the leaves and flowers are quite different from the Antora illustrated in Tacuinum.