Re: VMs: Similar Plant VMS and The Herbal of Dioscorides Pedanius

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

This is a good example of the complexities of making a match between a plant 
drawing and a plant as it exits in vivo.

http://becker.wustl.edu/ARB/Exhibits/Herbal/1/codex1.jpg
http://www2.uah.es/farmacia/images/histor3.jpg
http://www.godecookery.com/tacuin/tacuin20.jpg
http://www.magdalin.com/herbs/plants_pages/m/mandrake.htm

While mandragora does seem to appear in the VMs

f100r: (second row, plant sprig on the right)
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dlxc/brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2002046&iid=1006248

I am not swayed to consider f17r as a correlation to mandragora. There are, 
however, examples of faces drawn in the roots of plants seen in the VMs.

f33r:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dlxc/brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2002046&iid=1006138

f89r1: (bottom middle of second folio)
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dlxc/brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2002046&iid=1006233

f101v2:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dlxc/brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2002046&iid=1006138


Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene Zandbergen" <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Similar Plant VMS and The Herbal of Dioscorides Pedanius


>
> --- Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It kind of reminds me of something,
> > too, though I'm not sure what.  A large allium?  But
> > not the leaves.  A large fritillary?
> >
> > Anyway, I suppose you want a plant that has the
> > association of involving
> > an underground being, e.g., a mandrake,
> > [...]
> > A mandrake would be labeled, one would assume,
> > mandragora or something like that.
>
> That's what it seems to say in Greek (left and
> right of the stem).
>
> Note that this herbal, according to the description,
> is from the 15th C, but written on paper.
>
> Cheers, Rene
>
>
>
>
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