Barley
Type Subject
Date 1390-1400
Artist
- Attributed to the circle of Giovannino de' Grassi
Media
Manuscript Illumination
Location
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 4182, LXXXI
Notes
Hordeum vulgare (L.).
According to some scholars, the barley plants represented in the miniature may belong to the two-row barley variety (Hordeum distichon L.). In fact, barley comes in two varieties, distinguished by the number of rows of flowers on its flower spike.