HERB - Re:Tacuinum sanitatis
nweders@mail.utexas.edu
nweders at mail.utexas.edu
Thu Sep 24 08:45:37 PDT 1998
There was a little gift book that was published by Chronicle Books called
"A Medieval Herbal" that contains some of the same pages from the Tacuiinum
Sanitatis in it. It's one of those books people delight in getting for you
because they know you like herbs.... I have two and a copy of the sequence
A Medieval Flower Garden. These are the nice little largesse books you can
sometimes give out at competitions.....
On an other note, a friend of mine gave me a book he had found at a sale --
oh about ten or 15 years ago, I stuck it in some oversized art books and
it has been over looked... It was published by David Godine in 1976 and was
compiled by Joseph Wood Krutch and goes by the obvious name of "Herbal"
It's a collection of plates (reproductions) from 1563 and 1575 taken from
Pierandrea Mattioli's volume of Commentaries on the Six Books of
Dioscorides. The modern author seems to have compiled observations from
various late period herbalists and discussed the Plates... The plates are
gorgeous woodblocks. Funny hpw things drift to the bottom of piles.
BTW, I am not good in language -- how does one pronounce Dioscorides. I
assume its Dee-o scor- i-des but it could easily be Dee os-cor i-des.
Like I said I'm not good at pronunciation.
Clare
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