(23-10-2025, 05:45 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My theory is that the Author had the text for the herbal but at most only a sketch of some parts of some of the plants. Thus he asked the Scribe to make up all the missing plants and parts, and gave him a bunch of those "alchemical" herbals to use as crib. (By the way it is unfortunate that the name "alchemical" has stuck. I don't see much connection to alchemy. "Fantastic herbals" may have been a better name...)
Do you think that the text describes the plant and the scriba drawn it according to the text? Or that the description was given apart (in another text or oraly)?
I think also that the plants were drawn from a text and that's why they look so weird