Thursday 16 March 2017

Oak Spring - Italian manuscript: Bugloss

The Oak Spring Foundation has published a beautiful page from an Italian manuscript herbal dating to 1425 ca. It illustrates Anchusa azurea / garden anchusa / bugloss.

Transcription: Questa buglosa eperfeta a metere la radise nel uino e de quelo bere / perche el fa bona memoria e chonforta el celebro / anchora a farne aqua alambi e conforta ecaza la malanconia / cho conforta el core a berne / Ancora che auese postrema- / cion dura granda pestarla / e farla bolir nel vin e me- / ter su la resolve nel princi- / pio del mal Ancora delifi- / ori se fa el zucaro buglosa /

Ancusa L Crision g.ce Calcanta Lactuca asini Latine Lingua birona latine
Arabice: Calsa, Abugilise, Suitar, Smiar, Carfelus, Herfilus, Enochalia, Lotassus, abugelabus, Lucapsus, albicidion, Encusis, Cirospleton Latine: Meretricaria, Pes columbinus, Circeon
G.ce: Enochilon, archehion, Nochalin, Cresia, Oneusus

Erba buglosa, lin cua bounia nase per campi e fa algune / parechi canbe insimia in un hora algune pochi canbe e chi 1 / sola e tal dai e fa le foglie per tera destese e fa alta vii / bazo detera ouero pocho mancho.



Translation: This bugloss is perfect if you put its root in wine and drink it: / it gives a good memory and helps the brains. / It is also good distilled: it so cures and drives away melancholy. / Drinking it also help the heart. / Also, if one had large and hard / abscesses, crush [the plant] / boil it wine and put / it upon the abscess: it cures the / sickness in its beginning. Also, one / uses the flowers to make bugloss sugar.

Latin name: Ancusa
Greek: Crision, Calacanta
Latin: Donkey lettuce, birona tongue
Arabic: Calsa, Abugilise, Suitar, Smiar, Carfelus, Herfilus, Enochalia, Lotassus, abugelabus, Lucapsus, albicidion, Encusis, Cirospleton Latin: Meretricaria, dove's foot, Circeon
Greek: Enochilon, archehion, Nochalin, Cresia, Oneusus

The bugloss plant, ox-tongue, grows in the fields. Sometimes / it has several stems at a time, sometimes only a few and sometimes / just one. Its leaves grow on the ground. It grows seven / palms [?] from the ground, on a little less.

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