Discusses 5 medieval health manuscripts: The Tacuinum of Lie'ge; The Taciunum of Paris; The Taciunum of Vienna; The Theatrum of the Casanatense Library, Rome; The Tacuinum of Rouen. Has 48 color plates and the commentaries from the Medieval Manuscripts with 243 much smaller black and white plates with commentaries from the medieval manuscripts. A table of concordance between the manuscripts that lists the herbs and what pages in which manuscript they are covered on. There is an extensive bibliography broken down by the year of publication of the reference and a list of related manuscripts that aren't mentioned in the actual text. The Rouen manuscript was dated to the 15th century, and the other four to the 14th century. All are attributed to the Po Valley area of Italy.

A pretty thorough grounding in the subject. ( )