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[MichelleL11]

Wikipedia says that Hartlieb used Lunaria in a recipe of a flying ointment, circa 1440. Unfortunatlely, it is not specified what is the exact work of his, and what exactly name he does use.



The same Wikipedia article suggests that Judas in this plant's name is more typical for Northern Europe, such as in Dutch and Danish.

Hi, Anton and all:

It is Buch aller verboten Kunst (which was originally entitled what was translated in 2017 by Richard Kieckhefer as Hazards of the Dark Arts: Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic).  Here is a translation (likely Kieckhefer's or maybe Falk Eisermann and Eckhard Graf. Ahlerstedt or Frank Furbeth, who translated parts in 1989) of this section:

   

The section is cited as chapter 32 by at least one commenter.  

Here is a link to the Handscriftencensus page for this work: 
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Two of the three copies have been fully digitized, but I have run into that old problem of "can't read medieval German language or handwriting" and have been unable to match up the translated text with the original medieval German.  So I can't tell you what name for certain Hartlieb called Lunaria in the original.  But I've seen enough translations of this work to say he did tend to use the Latin terms, rather than common names with plants.

Perhaps someone with more German skills can find the exact page in one or the other digitized copies.

Thanks,

Michelle