[Sca-cooks] Herbals
Mark S. Harris
stefan at texas.net
Wed Jul 17 00:19:17 PDT 2002
Akim replied:
>>Akim, which of the histories of herbals are you familiar with? Would
>>anyone be interested in some titles to follow up on this?
>
> Let's see... I have the full sized Gerard and Besler, Sweerts, Tacuinum
> Sanitatis,
> and a bunch of other later ones including the dreaded Culpepper.
> I have read the Leech Book of Bald, Turner's Herbal, and am familiar
> with classical works of Galan, the herbals of Lyte and Fuchs. I also have
> many histories of plants and gardening. My library on plants is very
> extensive as I am a landscape architect.
Ah, but how many of those landscape plants are edible? :-)
Folks, you might be interested in this "short" article from Baron
Akim on fruits:
Period-Fruit-art (60K) 1/13/02 "Fruit of Period Times" by Baron
Akim Yaroslavich.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/Period-Fruit-art.html
Or this one:
Pattrn-gardns-art (12K) 10/13/00 "Parterres and the Jardins Potager in the
Current Middle Ages" by Akim Yaroslavich.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/Pattrn-Gardns-art.html
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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