The herbal of Giovanni Cadamosto da Lodi

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Davidsch asked me to translate some of the text in the Vienna manuscript, so here is the text in the first page:

Facto questo nobilissimo Collegio et studio detanti Valenthomini circa le nature de lherbe de cibi e de ueneni / de pietre et de parole et de loro iuuamenti et nocumenti et ad remouere li nocimenti soi et claramente ha[n]no / conclusa la mera uerita de queste cose , le quale paerndo admi Iohanne Cadamosto sparse in tanti uolumi . no[n] / con pocha fatica . uigilie . et affanni . le ho reducte insema . como nel processo udereti: per Alphabeto . per piu / facilita trouarle ad laude et honore dello omnipotente iDio el quale sana ogni langore:

This very noble council and study of so many men of value was made about the nature of plants, foods and venoms, / stones and words and their benefits and damages and to remove their damages and clearly they / concluded the pure truth of such matters. Seeming to me, Giovanni Cadamosto, that all these things were spread in many books, with no / little efforts, vigils and troubles, I brought them together, as you will see in the following, alphabetically, so that they / are easier to find, for the praise and honor of the almighty God who heals every sickness.

The illustration represents the “noble council” presided by Avicenna.