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2 pictures on vellum : tempera, col ;
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Date
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1400
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Folio
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Subjects
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Plants, Medicinal
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Herbal illustrations - Italy - Lombardy - 1400
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Araceae
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Tubers
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Orchidaceae
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Aphrodisiacs
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Related Text
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Apuleius, Barbarus. Herbarium.
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Description
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Two plants, one, top, "dracontea" (family Araceae) probably Dracunculus vulgaris, with concave brown-red leaves divided into pointed lobes, arising directly from rhizome, flower bud at top (Cf. Corpus medicorum Latinorum, v. 4, pp. 47-48); plant at bottom, an aphrodisiac, "satirion" (family Orchidaceae) possibly Orchis mascula or another Orchis species, has a purple rhizome or tuber, four green crescent-shaped leaves at the bottom of the stem, two on each side and at the top of the stem, a brown/red flower (Cf. Corpus medicorum Latinorum, v. 4, pp. 47-50 and Tabula II.) Adjacent text: Herbarium Apuleii.
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Source
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Yale Medical Library. Manuscript. 18 [Herbarium Apuleii and other works]. [ca. 1400] MS 18 fol. [14]
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Origin
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Italy-Lombardy
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Manuscript
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Yale Medical Library. Manuscript. 18 [Herbarium Apuleii and other works].
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Notes
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Lombardy, ca. 1400.
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Text surrounding upper image: XV Nomen herbe dracontea dicitur...prima cura ad omnium serpentum morsus.
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Text surrounding lower image: XVI Nomen herbe huius satirion dicitur...[on fol. 14v] prima cura eius ad omnia sananda.
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