OT!!! Re: SC - Spices / Francesco di Marco Datini (1335-1410)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

<snip>
 >over 100.000 letters,

One hundred thousand letters?!  <:-O  That's over 400 letters a month for
20 years!  You'd think he was a member of this list!

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>Thomas
>BTW: Did anyone answer the "tatar herb"-question? The indices of some
>herbals (Matthiolus, Tabernaemontanus) are of no help. To which language
>belongs "tatar (herb)"? To the English of the article or to the Italian
>or Polish of the sources?
>

Not yet. I checked the indices to Gerard & Parkinson without success.  It
may be buried in the text of Gerard, but Tatar is probably a place name
reference, rather than the name of the herb.


Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/


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