Mediaeval Gift: A Book of Curative Plants Owned by K. F. Bogaevskii
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

This article presents a volume found in K. F. Bogaevskii’s personal library, an antique edition of 1626, the Herbal Book by the Italian physician and scientist Pietro Andrea Mattioli. This book, printed in Frankfurt am Main, is the fourth German edition with amendments by the physician Joachim Camerarius to discuss the medicinal plants of the Alpine region and the ways of their use for medicinal purposes. The study and translation of the handwritten inscriptions has revealed that two of them (in