HERB - Re: Culpepper and beginning period books

[Jenne Heise]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Gaylin Walli wrote:
> At one point we listed the fav 5 in our collections and it was very
> obvious from that thread that we all had different choices. The
> Grete Herball, Gerard's Herball, Macer Floridius, the Agnus Castus,
> Turner's Herbal, even Platina's work, Markham's work, information
> from Digby, Aristotle, Pliny, and scads of other might be appropriate
> for a beginner all depending on what you meant by beginner and what
> topic they were beginning in.
> 
> Can you be a little more specific? I don't mean to make it so difficult,
> but I really and truly couldn't just pick one period reference and say
> "hey, this is the best beginner's book there is." I'm fairly confident
> one single book doesn't exist. I'd love to be proven wrong.
> 

Honestly, I don't think any one single book can do it. But most SCAdians
own a copy of Culpeper, sooner or later. For the 'one book to take to a
desert island' I'd think Gerard, myself; but I think Markham's _English
Housewife_ should be the one they substitue for Culpeper; or Banckes', but
there's no edition, let alone an illustrated edition, out...

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
 "in verbis et in herbis, et in lapidibus sunt virtutes"
(In words, and in plants, and in stones, there is power.)

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