(23-10-2025, 05:45 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My theory is that the Author had the text for the herbal but at most only a sketch of some parts of some of the plants.  Thus he asked the Scribe to make up all the missing plants and parts, and gave him a bunch of those "alchemical" herbals to use as crib.  (By the way it is unfortunate that the name "alchemical" has stuck.  I don't see much connection to alchemy.  "Fantastic herbals" may have been a better name...)