Koen G > 21-10-2021, 06:23 PM
bi3mw > 21-10-2021, 06:42 PM
(21-10-2021, 05:46 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Some texts point out that the round leaves look like coins
Quote:Corpus Christi College MS 395 — Catalan Lunaria
Translation [f48v] by Marco:
Its leaf is rounded like a silver florin[?],....
Quote:The city of Florence founded a mint in 1237 and minted the first silver florin (fiorino d'argento). Until then, the common coin had been the denaro, but this had lost so much of its value with the decline of the Holy Roman Empire that higher-value coins from the then still larger cities of Siena and Lucca also came into circulation.
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Koen G > 21-10-2021, 08:54 PM
Anton > 22-10-2021, 08:30 AM
MarcoP > 22-10-2021, 09:38 AM
(21-10-2021, 06:23 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thank you for checking, Marco! Excuse me if this is a stupid question, I don't know much about alchemy, but is it possible that a "concept" of the plant existed in alchemy - related traditions that was separate from the actual plant? And so that folk names for the plant, whatever those may have been, existed in a separate sphere? Unfortunately the herb seems to have been of little interest outside of alchemy, even though especially the wild variety grows profusely in some regions.
MichelleL11 > 22-10-2021, 04:54 PM
(22-10-2021, 08:30 AM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.
bi3mw > 22-10-2021, 05:24 PM
Koen G > 22-10-2021, 05:26 PM
MichelleL11 > 22-10-2021, 07:43 PM