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22 September 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few years ago I noticed something was going on with the plant names in Codex LJS 419, but I was busy with other research, so I bookmarked it for future reference. In March 2020, with most of the world in quarantine, I finally had a few minutes to leaf through the scans and realized, when I saw the peony plant, that the labels had been lightly enciphered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
A Plant Book that Spanned a Century<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
According to the U. Penn Schoenberg Collection<\/em> Subject Details, the LJS 419<\/em> Erbario<\/em> was begun in the first half of the 15th century with a number of later additions. The drawings are quite good for 15th century. Some are stylized, but most are recognizable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UPenn Schoenberg Collection<\/em> LJS 419<\/em> is a bit of a pastiche. The drawings are in at least three different styles, and the ones on the recto (the original drawings) are frequently smaller than the ones they face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are labels by most of the drawings, and text under some of the images in handwriting that was common to the 16th century. Thus, the text may have been added as much as a century after the drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I noticed that some of the labels are incorrect. The plant below is clearly not Calendula<\/em>, a plant that has had the same name for centuries. It is recognizable as Senecio<\/em>, probably Senecio vulgaris<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n