HERB - Re: Culpepper and beginning period books

[Danie'l Twombly]

OK no offence.. So please don't take it that way.
But I have  been reading and thinking.. If it is a good herb book and fairly
close to being historically correct... does it really matter.
I  was told that SCA was about living in the modern midages, being as close
to historically corrected as we can... but most of all building close
friendships and having a good time in an era that we all love.
I see and heard more *discussions* about how Historiacal  correct this and
that is that I have had my fill.
I am sorry if I have offeneded anyone...
Brightest blessings
Tarna
----- Original Message -----
From: M Wolfe <mwolfe at nwlink.com>
To: <herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: HERB - Re: Culpepper and beginning period books


> At 09:49 AM 8/28/99 , you wrote:
> >> 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...
>
> Greetings from Rauthulfr;
>
> The English housewife is probably the most approachable of the household
> books.  The recipes tend to be pretty yummy, and the Ales are very good.
>
> Banckes is probably the last of the Medieval Herbals.  It pretty much
follows
> the sort of thing one finds in Apulieus.  It was a work which was never
> published with illustrations.  That actually was one of it's key points.
It
> kept the herbal affordable.  The herbal Guild of An Tir is working on an
> edition of Banckes, it is going pretty slow because we are transcribing
form
> the facsimile edition.  If someone is interested I can forward them a copy
of
> a modernized edition which we based on a 1940's publication of Banckes.
>
> Banckes': An Herbal [1525], Edited & Transcribed into Modern English With
an
> Introduction by Sanford V. Larkey, M.D., & Thomas Pyles, Scholars'
> Facsimiles &
> Reprints, New York, 1941
>
> There was somewhat of an update to Banckes by William Turner Libellus de
re
> herbaria, 1538, [and] The names of herbes, 1548: Facsimiles, with
introductory
> matter by James Britten, B. Daydon Jackson & W.T. Stearn., London, Ray
> Society,
> 1965
>
> The Herbal Guild has produced a transcribed copy of The Names of Herbes.
What
> we've done with that was to convert the original text into modern type,
but
> all
> spelling, etc, remains true to Turner's text.
>
> I have posted a bibliography which has a fair number of facsimile editions
> cited.  Many of them are obscure, so getting them will probably require
> interlibrary loan, and a photocopy machine.
>
> http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/canterbury/228/Biblio.html
>
>
>
> Rauthulfr Meistari inn Orthstori  (OL, MC, P-eX, Et Cetera)  An Tir A&S
> Champion
> or, non- SCA: Michael Wolfe M. A. I. S. AB-
> *Practice Random Acts of Chocolate.....
>
>
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