What a wonderful tradition! Books and Roses on Sant Jordi day! Thanks for the copy Chef! And I got the extra pleasure of meeting your younger brother! @chefjoseandres @littlespain #santjordiday #ChangeTheRecipe

An early 16th-century drawing of an orange-red poppy flower with green stems, and a brown fly. Master of Claude de France, Book of Flower Studies - Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) with a brown fly, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which owns a collection of "studies" of various flowers, made by an illustrator in the employ of the French queen, Claude de France: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/823979.f022r (The Met).

Snippets of the two newly digitized manuscript copies of the Practica secundum Trotam (Practical Medicine according to Trota). Madrid, Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense (Biblioteca Ildefonsina), MS 119, f. 140г (detail); Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.III.51, f. 129г (detail).

The MEDMED ("Medieval Medicine") community has had a tradition of celebrating #SantJordiDay in the Catalan way: sharing a flower & a book. This year, I'm sharing this poppy from a 16thC model book, & the recently digitized copies of Trota of Salerno's book. #MedievalSky #histmed