Heures d’Anne de Bretagne, BNF Lat 9474 — List of Plants

The following is a list of the plants illustrated in BNF Latin 9474 Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne (1505–1510). The list was published by Jules Camus in 1894 and is available on…

The mansions of the moon in ms Urb.lat.1384 and Reg.lat.1283.A

Trinity College MS O.2.48 — The Hermetic Lunatica

Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.2.48 is a late XIV Century herbal which is thought to have been written in Germany. Edit: According to Maria Amalia D’Aronco, the manuscript was written in Southern Italy and dates to the XIII or XIV Century…

The Andromeda constellation in ancient traditions

Trento Herbal — Torogas

Alchemical herbal from Trento (MS 1591). End of the XV Century. Language: Latin and Italian dialect from Veneto. This illustration is peculiar for the many human faces in the leaves and roots. The plant is listed as #3 in Vera Segre Rutz’s list (“Il Giardino Magico degli Alchimisti”) .