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Thanks a lo for the information I'm working on medicinal remains mine are
not from medieval site but this could be useful for me.

Angela Lanza
Archeobotanist

"...If you want to find the secrects of the Universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency, and vibration..." ~Tesla~

El jue., 12 de abr. de 2018 03:12, Gerard Cheshire <
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> Dear Archaeobotany members,
>
> For those of you interested in the human use of plants and their
> products during the Medieval, as medicinals, therapeutics, food ingredients
> and so on, there has been an interesting development, due to the
> translation of a 15th manuscript from the Mediterranean.
>
>
> In 2017 the writing system of the aforementioned manuscript was revealed
> to be proto-Romance: i.e. the ancestor to the modern Romance languages. In
> addition, it is written with a proto-Italic alphabet. It is the only known
> document of this kind and therefore has considerable linguistic and
> scientific importance.
>
> Two papers have been issued, which explain the writing system and
> translate a number of excerpts as examples. They can be freely downloaded
> from the LingBuzz website.
>
>
>    1. Linguistic Missing Links: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737
>    2. Linguistically Dating and Locating MS408:
>    http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003808
>
>
> The manuscript has many illustrations of Mediterranean plant species,
> accompanied by text concerning their uses. Their are no plant names given,
> as they would have had various common names at that time, and the concept
> of scientific names was yet to arrive. Thus, the illustrations focus
> primarily on the useful parts of the plants. The draughtsmanship of the
> artist is also primitive, so it becomes a matter of deduction to identify
> each species by combining the visual and textual information.
>
> Regards,
> G. E. Cheshire,
> University of Bristol.
>
>