[Sca-cooks] Lustgarten was Another question on peas
wheezul at canby.com
wheezul at canby.com
Thu Mar 4 10:02:15 PST 2010
> 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.
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