[Sca-cooks] Herbals

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> >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.

That isn't actually what I asked, BTW. There are some good works on the
history of herbals (one I can cite offhand is Rohde's _Early English
Herbals_) and of course there are three or four more scholarly ones.

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