Freeman .:. Herbs for the mediaeval household

Freeman, Margaret B.,
Herbs for the mediaeval household, for cooking, healing and divers uses. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. xiii, 48 Seiten mit Abbildungen und Register. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. 4to.

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Bestell-Nr.156093 | ISBN: 0-87099-067-0

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Freeman | Botanik | Hauswirtschaft | Alternativmedizin | Komplementaermedizin | Mittelalter | Mediaevistik | Herbals

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HERBS for the Mediaeval Household
by MARGARET B. FREEMAN
Curator Emeritus, The Cloisters

THIS book contains curious and fascinating information about herbs—herbs for cooking, herbs for healing, sweet-smelling herbs for laying among clothes, and still other herbs. To read these pages is to look through a window into the intimate daily life of our mediaeval forebears. We learn what infusions were used to "make a good color in the face" (Madonna lily); how to "comfort the stomach"( wild strawberry) and keep witches away from the house (periwinkle and mallow); how to "make folk merry at table" (vervain) ; and how to cure a "cold humour in the head" (pennyroyal). Eighty-five different herbs are described and most of them are illustrated in handsome reproductions of woodcuts from fifteenth and sixteenth century herbals. This is a book for any-one who loves unusual lore from the past.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distributed by New York Graphic Society

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THE BOOK WAS DESIGNED BY FRANZ C. HESS. THE HEADINGS ARE SET IN GOUDY TEXT; THE TEXT IS SET IN 12 POINT CLOISTER OLD STYLE. THIS SIXTH PRINTING WAS DONE BY THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY.
From Le Fournier's DECORATION D'HUMAINE NATURE ET ADORNEMENT DES DAMES, Paris, Pierre Leber, 1533

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