Hall 3 · Botany

The herbal

A herbal in the medieval manner, listing forty-one plants with their properties, their seasons, and their uses. None of the forty-one has been identified by any botanist consulted. Every one of them is drawn from life, in the sense that the drawings are alive.

Uses, as given

⚠ The herbal is kept open at a different page each morning. The Institute does not turn the pages. The Institute has stopped trying to close the herbal, on the advice of the Archivist, who did not explain the advice.

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Every plate in this wing is generated in your browser from a number, in the manner of the public-domain sources it imitates — marginalia, anatomical atlases, herbals, patent drawings, star charts. Nothing here is a scan of a real work; nothing is retrieved from anywhere. Refresh and the collection is re-grown, differently.
IGUAKO INSTITUTE · WING IV · THE COLLECTION · improperly conserved since acquisition