Unified Medieval Name of Simple Medicine » amylum

amylum

2 occurrences of this item have been found across medieval herbals
Herbal Variant name in herbal entry Glosses Modern name
G 12 II 87: Herbarius, Cristannus de Prachaticz amidum
VIII G 28: Herbarius, Cristannus de Prachaticz amilum
Note

Glossarium Latino-Germanicum mediae et infimae aetatis e codicibus manuscriptis et libris impressis. Supplementum Lexici mediae et infimae Latinitatis conditi a Carolo Dufresne Du Cange. Francofurti ad Moenum: J. Baer, 1857

 

Specification: wheat starch, fine starch flour