VMs: Herbal factoids (3)

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From:

A. Louis
Geschiedenis van de plantkunde
Eerste periode
De plantkennis in dienst van Farmacie en Landbouw
Van Oudheid tot Renaissance
Scientia, Gent, 1977

This 700 page book has some interesting information.
I have no scanner and OCR at home so I typed in some small excerpts.
If you want more, tell me.

i) The following herbals were most popular in Europe.
The following editions have been counted:
                                                     1469  1500 1531 1563
                                                      --    --   --   --
Title                            Author              1499  1530 1562 1600
Total

Hortus Sanitatis                 Johann von Cube       38    35   15    -
88
Commentarii in Materiam Medicam  Pierandrea Mattioli    -     -   20   23
43
Materia Medica                   Pedakios Dioskorides   3    12   22    3
40
Harbarius                        Anonymus              24     7    5    -
36
Liber de proprietatibus rerum    Bartholomeus Anglicus 27     6    2    -
35
Stirpium historia                Leonhard Fuchs         -     -   31    3
34
Opus ruralium commodorum         Pier de Crescenzi     20     4    6    2
32
Liber Pandectarum Medicinae      Mattheus Sylvaticus   11     2    9    -
22
Kreuterbuch                      Hieronymus Bock        -     -   14    8
22
Cruydeboeck                      Rembert Dodoens        -     -    6   15
21
Adnotationes in Dioscoridis Materiam Medicam
                                 Konrad Gessner         -     -   12    6
18
Distillierbuch                   Hieronymus Bruschwig   -    10    7   17
17
De historia plantarum            Theophrastes Ereisos   2     5    8    -
15
Herbarum vivae Eicones           Otto Brunfels          -     1   14    -
15
Macer floridus                   Anonymus               3     9    1    1
14
Nomenclaturae graecae, latinae, hebraicae et germanicae
                                 Adam Lonitzer          -     -    5    8
13
Historia medicinal de las cosas ... de nostras Indias occidentales
                                 Nicolas Monardes       -     -    -   13
13
De re rustica libri tres         Marcus Terentius Varro 2     -    6    4
12
De re rustica                    Marcus Porcius Cato    1     4    5    1
11
Plantarum omnium nomenclaturae   Remacle Fuchs          -     -   10    -
10
Epistolarum medicinalium libri XX
                                 Johannes Manardi       -     1    9    -
10
Buechlein der Artznei     Johann Tollat von Vochenberg  2     7    1    -
10
Buch de Natur                    Konrad von Megenberg   7     -    2    -
9
Herbarius pseudo Apuleius        Pseudo-Apuleius        2     2    5    -
9


The rest of the herbals have less than 9 editions. But the list goes on for
another 7 pages! This may give a finite list of herbals that could be
searched for VMS-like imagery.

ii) The complete list of plant names from the "Physica"
("Liber simplicis medicinae") by Hildegard von Bingen is listed.
Maybe this is useful for a statistical analysis of old plant names,
Sorted by Taxon:

Lylie
Sommerzwiebel
Priseloch
Surrigo
Knoblaub
Schalotte
Herbstzeitlos
Ugera
Binze
Simz
Rohrkolbe
Dudelkolbe
Swertliliengewachs
Aloe
Aron
Mierlinsen
Hirse
Trespe
Hafer
Kolbenhirse
Stutgras
Weizen
Spelt
Roggen
Gerste
Zizania
Galant
Ingber
Dattelbaum
Birke
Erber
Haselnuszstrauch
Hagebuche

And the list goes on for another 7 pages. Anyone interested?

iii) A list of Latin herbs from the Macer Floridus:

Artimisia
Abrotanum
Urtica
Allium
Plantago
Ruta
Apium
Althea
Anethum
Betonica
Sabina
Porrum

And the list goes on for 2 pages. Anyone interested?

iv) Pages 533 - 544 have an interesting treatise on the
"mystical botanographers of the Renaissance" and it describes
the works of Theophrastes von Hohenheim (1493-1541) (alias Paracelsus),
Bartolomeus Carrichter (?-1575), Leonhardt Thurneisser zum Thurn (1530-1596)
And Giambattista Porta (1539-1615). Their ideas are weird enough to look up
their illustrations. But this must have been researched before.

Anything else I should look up in this book on the history of botany?

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