06-03-2021, 04:07 PM
MarcoP wrote
Dioscorides mostly remained confined to Greece, but for the passages that were incorporated into Pseudo-Apuleius and De Herbis.
That is simply wrong, the alphabetical D. in the Vienna D. tradition was translated (6th c., D. longobardus), reworked very likely by Constantinus Africanus and commented on by Petrus de Abano and was very present in the Late Middle Ages, only it was not illustrated.
I think it is a great mistake to ignore the non illustrated plant description and recipe tradition, especially Galen, Avicenna, the Encyclopedists and so on, of course the VMs is NOT a traditional illustrated herbal, whose text was copied one to one somewhere.
Dioscorides mostly remained confined to Greece, but for the passages that were incorporated into Pseudo-Apuleius and De Herbis.
That is simply wrong, the alphabetical D. in the Vienna D. tradition was translated (6th c., D. longobardus), reworked very likely by Constantinus Africanus and commented on by Petrus de Abano and was very present in the Late Middle Ages, only it was not illustrated.
I think it is a great mistake to ignore the non illustrated plant description and recipe tradition, especially Galen, Avicenna, the Encyclopedists and so on, of course the VMs is NOT a traditional illustrated herbal, whose text was copied one to one somewhere.
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