Medieval Herbals

Medieval Herbals

Author: Minta Collins

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780802083135

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Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.


The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript

Author: M. E. D'Imperio

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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In spite of all the papers that others have written about the manuscript, there is no complete survey of all the approaches, ideas, background information and analytic studies that have accumulated over the nearly fifty-five years since the manuscript was discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich in 1912. This report pulls together all the information the author could obtain from all the sources she has examined, and to present it in an orderly fashion. The resulting survey will provide a firm basis upon which other students may build their work, whether they seek to decipher the text or simply to learn more about the problem.


Journey to the East

Journey to the East

Author: Liam Matthew BROCKEY

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0674028813

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It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.


The Illustrated Herbal

The Illustrated Herbal

Author: Wilfrid Blunt

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780500277867

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This beautiful and original book, fully illustrated from some of the rarest sources, is an account by two leading authorities of the creation and decoration of Europe's most charming herbals. The illustrations, many in splendid color, are taken from manuscripts and books chronicling human curiosity about the medicinal properties of plants, and making an unconscious record, through the strange (sometimes ludicrous) customs and procedures they describe, of life in past times.