-JKP- > 30-04-2017, 06:26 PM
MarcoP > 30-04-2017, 06:31 PM
-JKP- > 30-04-2017, 06:34 PM
(30-04-2017, 06:31 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
About "Barbaria", I think it might be the land of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Northern Africa).
Diane > 01-05-2017, 02:49 AM
Quote:merlons (i.e. at least with V-shaped incisions) in a german MS is so unusual, that it may be reason to be sceptical about this proposed origin
Koen G > 01-05-2017, 03:02 AM
-JKP- > 01-05-2017, 03:47 AM
(01-05-2017, 02:49 AM)Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
And regarding Ethiopia - it was not so distant a place as one would imagine. For example, as preparation for his travels east, John of Montecorvino went both to Armenia and to Ethiopia, and there was a hostel for Ethiopian pilgrims established in Rome, although I can't recall the date it was formally assigned them. I'll look up the old blog-post if anyone's interested. It was called 'St.Stephen of Abyssinia' and for all I know may still exist.
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MarcoP > 04-05-2017, 10:24 AM
(30-04-2017, 11:04 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.From what I have seen so far:
The Pseudo-Apuleius part of the MS is from folio 3v to folio 39r. Folio 14 (r+v) appears to be a dislocated page.
There should have been 4 herbs here, which I haven't yet found elsewhere in the MS.
Almost all herbs are easily identified with the standard set of herbs from this tradition, and most if not all names are standard.
The 'Ex Herbis Femininis' part is from folio 39v to folio 61r. The order is disturbed in several places, and a number of herbs have non-standard names, but the drawings are easy to match. The folio Marco has transcribed (54v) is in the middle of this sequence, but it does not belong to the 'Ex Herbis Femininis' list of herbs.
After this it gets more complicated.
Largely speaking, the herbs on folios 61 to about 106 or so tend to have recognisable names, but the drawings are different from those in the few herbals I compared them with.
From 107 onwards, the names all look as if they have been invented.
In addition, the Greek names aren't Greek if you ask me.
-JKP- > 06-05-2017, 08:37 AM
(06-05-2017, 07:25 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
There are lots more intriguing herbs in the same part of the MS and I have not yet had time to look at all of them.
On You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (top), for example, is a herb with the very distinctive name 'Tetrahit Yudaica'. This herb is also found in the Tractatus tradition, sometimes without and sometimes with the 'Yudaica'. However, the illustration does not look like these.
The description of the herb also refers to Centaurea Minor, and the illustration looks quite similar to that. Now that does not help us a lot, since this herb is common in essentially all herbal traditions that I know of.
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