[Sca-cooks] Lustgarten was Another question on peas

[wheezul at canby.com]

> If I have this correct, Lustgarten der Geshundheit was originally
> published
> in Frankfort in 1546.  It is an encyclopedia on agrarian subject from a
> medical point of view, Ryff being a physician.
>
> Let me suggest that you add Leonard Fuchs herbal to your study.  The
> herbal
> is contemporaneous to the Lustgarten.  The plates are webbed at Yale and
> there is another online facsimile with the original German text.  Also, an
> edition was published (with English translations) only a few years ago.
> That may be available through ILL.  Fuchs makes some errors and raises a
> number of questions, but he is highly useable as a mid-16th Century
> source.
>
> Bear

Just downloaded the pdf, all 326mb worth, yesterday with delightful squee
when it finally opened up.