Re: VMs: Viola tricolor

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

At 00:01 25/05/2004 -0500, Dennis wrote:
>         However, Rene said a long time ago that the VMs plants
> do not resemble known distorted images in medieval
> herbals either.  Also, the VMs belongs to the
> Renaissance, when the herbal was in the process of
> change.

To be precise, the "generally accepted" placing and dating evidence 
(Europe, 1450-1500) is "early modern" - neither medieval nor Renaissance 
(strictly speaking), but somewhere inbetween.

>         I do not recall the derivation of the "alchemical
> herbals".  Toresella gave a manuscript tradition tree,
> but I do not recall more.  The images were fanciful,
> but not entirely fanciful.  T. did say the VMs is not
> the same anyway.

Sergio's conclusion was that, while it was broadly similar to all the 
alchemical herbals he had studied, the VMs was not itself an alchemical 
herbal. Also, that it was unlike any known family of the (100s? 1000s?) of 
"conventional" herbals he had examined. True, a few details matched details 
in other codices (like the "little dragon", which he suggested resembled 
one in a codex in Paris), but that was just about it.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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