Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions is a new, wide-ranging and generously illustrated study of manuscript herbals produced between 600 - 1450. The book examines the two principal herbal traditions of Classical descent: the Dioscorides manuscripts in Greek, Arabic, and Latin and the Latin Herbarius of Apulcius Platonicus. It shows how, from 1300, the illustrations of the de herbis Traetatus treatises, the first of which was British Library, MS. Egerton 747, showed a new observation of nature, paving the way in the fifteenth century for French Livres des Simples and the magnificent plant paintings of later Italian Herbals. Medieval Herbals provides one of the few syntheses in English of existing research on the subject and also addresses issues of dating, location, production and ownership of the individual codices. Minta Collins demonstrates how many herbals were not only codices for medical scholars but expensively illustrated books for bibliophiles, of equal interest to students of manuscripts, to historians of medicine and botany, and to art historians.
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Minta Collins is an independent scholar with a PhD in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute.
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THE HERBAL treatise belongs to an ancient literary tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
omnium herbarum, cautery drawings, prefatory portraits, vettonica liber, herbis femininis, antique archetype, prefatory illustrations, taxone liber, sana pianta, latter codex, incipit pages, plant illustrations, figured illustrations, parchment folios, illustrative tradition, sister manuscript, herbal treatises, plant paintings, scuola medica, figured initials, surviving codices, basic iconography, uncial script, two codices, figurative scenes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Juliana Anicia Codex, Alphabetical Herbal Recension, Laurenziana Plut, British Library, Leiden Voss, Vatican Chigi, Late Antique, Herbarius of Apuleius Platonicus, Munich Clm, New York, Sextus Placitus, Biblioteca Nazionale, Old English, Cotton Vitellius, Old Latin, Antonius Musa, Simon of Genoa, Bodleian Library, Chiron the Centaur, Greek Herbals, North Italian, Arabic Dioscorides, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Great Lavra, Munk Olsen New!
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THE HERBAL treatise belongs to an ancient literary tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
omnium herbarum, cautery drawings, prefatory portraits, vettonica liber, herbis femininis, antique archetype, prefatory illustrations, taxone liber, sana pianta, latter codex, incipit pages, plant illustrations, figured illustrations, parchment folios, illustrative tradition, sister manuscript, herbal treatises, plant paintings, scuola medica, figured initials, surviving codices, basic iconography, uncial script, two codices, figurative scenes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Juliana Anicia Codex, Alphabetical Herbal Recension, Laurenziana Plut, British Library, Leiden Voss, Vatican Chigi, Late Antique, Herbarius of Apuleius Platonicus, Munich Clm, New York, Sextus Placitus, Biblioteca Nazionale, Old English, Cotton Vitellius, Old Latin, Antonius Musa, Simon of Genoa, Bodleian Library, Chiron the Centaur, Greek Herbals, North Italian, Arabic Dioscorides, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Great Lavra, Munk Olsen New!
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- Greek Anthology, Volume II: Book 7: Sepulchral Epigrams. Book 8: The Epigrams of St. Gregory the Theologian (Loeb Classical Library) by W. R. Paton on page 99, and Back Matter
- A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H): The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with Their Modern Scientific Uses by Margaret Grieve on page 288, and Back Matter
- Painting in Islam by T.W. Arnold on page 142, and Back Matter
- History of the Rose (The Old roses series) by Roy E. Shepherd on page 101
- The Medieval Health Handbook -- Tacuinum Sanitatis by Luisa Cogliati Arano on page 29
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- Visualizing Medieval Medicine And Natural History, 1200-1550 (Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art) by Jean A. Givens on page 26, page 66, and page 116
- Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Studies in English Language) by Irma Taavitsainen in Back Matter
- Pharmacodynamic Basis of Herbal Medicine, Second Edition by Manuchair Ebadi in Back Matter
- Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine by Anne Van Arsdall on page 99
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