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Fifteenth-Century Herbals 



[ch. 



Among the herbs, substances such as starch, vinegar, 

 cheese, soap, etc., are included, and as these do not lend 

 themselves to direct representation, they become the excuse 

 for a delightful set of genre pictures. " Wine " is illus- 

 trated by a man gazing at a glass ; "Bread," by a housewife 

 with loaves on the table before her (Text-fig. 15) ; "Water," 



Text-fig. 14. "Bauser vel Bausor" [Ortus Sanitatis, 

 Mainz, 1491]. 



by a fountain; "Honey," by a boy who seems to be ex- 

 tracting it from the comb ; and "Milk," by a woman milking 

 a cow. The picture which appears under the heading of 

 Amber shows great ingenuity (Text-fig. 16). The writer 

 points out that this substance, according to some authors, is 



