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Although plants are a common motif in European manuscripts, medieval viewers would have hardly considered them commonplace.
Dr. Jennifer Carnell shares ways that plant life appears in these manuscripts and what the illuminations may have meant to the people who made them: https://bit.ly/4bn96Sl
1484 woodcut in Herbarius Moguntinus and a c. 1920 illustration (Carl Axel Magnus Lindman).
Although the plant is still added to teas, its use as a medicinal herb has long since ceased. It was used for all sorts of things, but it didn't really help with anything.
Kestron is Betonica officinalis, THE wonder drug of late antiquity and large parts of the middle ages.
Here it is in Leiden MS. Voss, Q 9, 6th century.
(Treatise De herba vettonica in the Pseudo-Apuleius tradition.)
Kestron in an Arabic Dioscorides, c. 1224 (Iraq?).
If you're interested in Dioscorides, this paper by Marie Cronier is a fascinating read.
"Identifying the Plant Illustrated on Yerevan Dioscorides Greek Fragment. Some Remarks on the Illustrative Tradition of De materia medica."
aldrovandiana.it/article/view...
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A human looking wood product, and the hair are branches of a tree.
When your ideas start to grow ...
A new German Sammelband on Fake News in the Middle Ages.
With an article on astrology by @kpo.bsky.social.
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There is certainly research literature on the transformation of parchment to paper and manuscripts to prints, but does it also address this aspect? If not, it is clearly a desideratum.
It's a shame there weren't more answers. Even though I think it wasn't such a big problem back then, I still find the question quite interesting.
a monk with eyeglasses
The year is 1518, and this monk is wearing one of these fancy eyeglasses of the past - without temples! How did they manage?
Den Pofalla hatte ich schon erfolgreich verdrängt. Mist.
Packing a facsimile of Vienna Codex 93.
Packing a facsimile of BL Sloane 4016.
Monday meetings can be fun, too.
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Tatsache.
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Vielleicht auch Markus Söder, weil Melanie Huml es in Bamberg nicht einmal in die Stichwahl geschafft hat?
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...
Aktueller Stand der Stadtratswahl in Würzburg:
SPD und AfD gleichauf, Linke besser, vorneweg Grüne und CSU.
wahlen.wuerzburg.de/Wahl2026-08-...
Talking about recycling:
"Oh man, I have so many pictures to paint, let's just vary the same motif."
Patient, doctor with medicine, assistant with mortar.
Vienna, Codex 93, 1st half of the 13th c.
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Actually, I was looking for illustrations of female physicians in early printed books. They appear frequently in manuscripts from the 13th to 15th centuries, but are practically nonexistent in printed works.
Midwives are depicted, like in Rösslin 1513.
Two examples of the use of this woodcut:
www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb1...
digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/arnol...
Recycling in the 16th century:
This image was used in 1551 to depict Constantinus Africanus teaching at the school of Salerno. As early as 1535, the same printer (Egenolph) had used this image to show the prophet Amos in the Temple.
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Wenn die SPD den Weg der FDP gehen möchte, dann muss sie nur so weitermachen.
Die Blanken sind nerv.
"Und Sie sind von der SPD, ja?"
Female physician blood-letting.
BL Sloane MS 6, f.177v, 2nd quarter of the 15th century.
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Der Anatom Hans Virchow, Sohn von Rudolf Virchow, leitete ab 1903/04 die ersten Präparierkurse für Studentinnen in Berlin. Der damalige Ordinarius ließ zu den regulären Übungen keine Frauen zu.
api.aerzteblatt.de/pdf/70/49/a3...
Karl Tiburtius:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ti...
Franziska Tiburtius:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franzis...
Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
Bei all den dummen Männern, die damals herumliefen (und es bis heute tun), muss man wohl auch mal einen Karl Tiburtius loben, der seine Schwester Franziska zum Medizinstudium in der Schweiz ermutigte und die Zahnärztin Henriette Hirschfeld heiratete, die in den USA studiert hatte.
Leider ist praktisch nichts über das Leben von Trota, Sara, Serlin oder Gnenlin bekannt. Und selbst bei den Ärztinnen des Kaiserreiches lässt das Bildmaterial etwas zu wünschen übrig.
Die erste approbierte Ärztin Deutschlands (1901), Ida Democh-Maurmeier, 1941.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Dem...
Ach, das wusste ich noch gar nicht. Danke!
Langweile ich Euch schon mit meinem wilden Ritt durch 900 Jahre Geschichte europäischer Ärztinnen von Trota bis Prof. Marion Kiechle?
Hier sind die Herztropfen für die alten weißen Männer, in deren Kopf immer noch 1900 ist. ;-)
Abb.: Wien, Codex 93, 13. Jh.
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