Herbs for the mediaeval household for cooking, healing and divers uses by Margaret B. Freeman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Margaret B.

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herbs.

Herbs--Therapeutic use--History.

Botany, Medical.

Medicinal plants.

Medicine, Medieval.

Herbals.

Plants, Medicinal.

History, Medieval.

herbals (reference sources).

Herbs--Therapeutic use.

Medical Subjects:

Plants, Medicinal.

History, Medieval.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 48 pages, 1 leaf) illustrations

Manufacture:

[New York] Huxley House

Other Title:

Herbs for the medieval household.

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art MCMXLIII [1943]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"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 anyone who loves unusual lore from the past"--Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction

Herbs for cooking : many of these have healing virtues also

Herbs for healing

Herbs for poisoning pests

Sweet smelling herbs : for laying among clothes and for divers other uses

Notes:

Printed in red and black

Includes indexes

Woodcut illustrations from various 15th- and 16th-century herbals

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Freeman, Margaret B. Herbs for the mediaeval household

OCLC:

681868558