HERB - Scholarly sources

[RAISYA@aol.com]

Jennifer,

Jadwiga's list is a good one, I can add a couple of details about my 
favorite...

>>>Walfrid Strabo, _Hortulus_ (I don't know if there was an english
>>>translation)

There IS an English translation, done by Raef Payne, in a lovely edition that 
includes a photocopy of one of the surviving 9th century copies.  This is one 
of the few surviving sources on herbs and gardening from the earlier periods. 
 Unfortunately, it was a very small printing, you may have problems finding a 
copy.  I posted most of them to the list a couple of years ago for that 
reason.

Also from the same period, look for The Gardens of St. Gall, which is a book 
about a surviving monastery plan from the 9th century, including vegetable 
and medicinal herb gardens, and the list from Charlemagne's Capitulare de 
Villis, which includes about 100 plants he felt should be grown.  If you 
can't find that one, let me know and I'll post a translation to the list.

I think there may be a couple of others, like the Medieval Health Handbooks, 
I'll try to add more on those later.

Raisya
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