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2 pictures on vellum : tempera, col ;
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Date
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1400
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Type
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Folio
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Subjects
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Plants, Medicinal
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Flowers
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Ranunculaceae
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Compositae
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Herbal illustrations - Italy - Lombardy - 1400
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Related Text
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Pseudo-Dioscorides. De herbis femininis.
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Description
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Two plants. Top plant, stylized, "achillea" probably (family Compositae, Anthemis tribe) Achillea millefolium, spp. (Common Yarrow, Millefoil) has a spindle root which extends up into a circular rosette of leaves portrayed as if solidified into a round green plate and seen from above. Extending from the circle are nine flower buds with very short stems. Bottom plant, "stafisagria" (family Ranunculaceae), perhaps Delphinium staphisagria, Lice bane, Lousewort, Palmated larkspur, with open five-petaled flowers and ovate-acuminate flower buds borne on three stems arising from a spindle-like root. No leaves. (Cf. Riddle, J.M. "Pseudo-Dioscorides" in Journal of the history of biology, v.14, no.1 (Spring 1981), p. 78.)
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Source
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Yale Medical Library. Manuscript. 18 [Herbarium Apuleii and other works]. [ca. 1400] MS 18 fol. [75v]
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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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Rubricated text to the left of upper image: xxxvii nomen herbe achillea.
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Rubricated caption to the left of lower image: nomen herbe stafisagria.
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Rubricated text immediately following lower image (on fol. 76): xxxviii nomen herbe predicte stafisagria.
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