07-12-2017, 09:25 AM
Postscript - I might also remind members that the idea that the botanical folios form a 'herbal' is entirely a product of speculation; efforts to find matches in the fairly limited range of Latin European herbals (as Tiltman noticed half a century ago) produces none which contain enough comparable examples to prove such an intention. What we have, at best, is evidence that plants were drawn in a not-dissimilar manner in some cases in some herbals.
The reasons for this not-terribly-close similarity in those instances has rarely been investigated in any depth. To be honest, I don't know of anyone else who has ever looked into it, and I can't claim my own studies to be exhaustive, but I have published on that subject, in connection with inferences drawn from the codicological evidence.
If that's of interest.
The reasons for this not-terribly-close similarity in those instances has rarely been investigated in any depth. To be honest, I don't know of anyone else who has ever looked into it, and I can't claim my own studies to be exhaustive, but I have published on that subject, in connection with inferences drawn from the codicological evidence.
If that's of interest.