Re: Dana's Botany

[Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A little light reading:
http://www.unizh.ch/lexma/

Regards,
Dana Scott

"Rafal T. Prinke" wrote:

> Dear Nick,
>
> > I've just been checking through "The Elixirs of Nostradamus": the
> > introduction mentions three key botanical works:-
>
> Almost a year ago I posted the message enclosed below. I have
> not been able to get hold of the Schmid publication - perhaps
> you could look it up in the BL and copy the genealogica tree
> of herbals? It might certainly be helpful as without knowing
> the relationships of various herbals ("stemmata"), a lot of
> time would be spent on checking what are basically the same
> works.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rafal
>
> -------- copy of 28 FEB 2001 message below -------------
>
> Adam has mentioned ancient/medieval herbals which reminded me
> about the "genealogical tree" of herbals reproduced in
> _Lexikon des Mittelalters_, vol. 5, col. 1479.
>

> The reproduction is totally illegible but its source is
> given as:
>
>    A. Schmid, Ueber alte Kraeuterbuecher, 1939 [no place]
>
> The bibliography for that entry is almost a full column.
> Many titles look promising, eg.:
>
>    C. Nissen, Die botan. Buchill.: ihre Gesch. und Bibliogr.,
>          I-II, 1951 [Neudr. 1966; mit Nachtrag]
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rafal