19-01-2020, 03:20 PM
With the depth of mnemonics that the author had, he probably had no need to mention plant names in botanical folios at all.
So trying to link otaim to a plant name may well lead to a deadend.
What's interesting is that alam is found, beside this folio, only in text-only f58 and in Recipes. Which makes it "special".
What's also interesting but possibly coincidental is that 7 of 8 occurrences of alam are line-end.
I find it not unlikely that alam was written first to label the leaf (or the plant on the whole), and only afterwards, maybe at another time as an afterthought, otaim dam was added to the left.
What's interesting about this folio is that it looks as if the author never intended to place regular text there. The image occupies too much space.
So trying to link otaim to a plant name may well lead to a deadend.
What's interesting is that alam is found, beside this folio, only in text-only f58 and in Recipes. Which makes it "special".
What's also interesting but possibly coincidental is that 7 of 8 occurrences of alam are line-end.
I find it not unlikely that alam was written first to label the leaf (or the plant on the whole), and only afterwards, maybe at another time as an afterthought, otaim dam was added to the left.
What's interesting about this folio is that it looks as if the author never intended to place regular text there. The image occupies too much space.