plant
Lily
Lily as a plant people have named and used. White stillness, pure mark, tall stem — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Lily is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists lily (krinon) among softening ointment and burn-plant drugs. A named lily in that handbook, not lotus as a separate water-plant identity and not a funeral-flower dump alone.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Lily is historically related to Oil.
In Culpeper’s herbal, oil of lily is made from the flowers as oil of roses is made — the flower oil is taken to clear freckles, spots, sunburn, and morphew from the skin.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Lily is historically related to Oak.
In Wood's The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Lily and Oak are named as companions in the same handbook speech.
from Rev. James Wood (ed.) · The Nuttall Encyclopædia, 1907 (Gutenberg #12342)
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Lily is historically related to Wax.
In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Lily sits with Wax in polish and candle speech — named together on the working page.
from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906
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Lily is associated with Purity.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the lily is the well-known emblem of purity and innocence — the lily seats that purity emblem.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Lily is historically related to Fig.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, a ripening cataplasm takes white lily root with fat figs and boils the roots along with the figs — lily is boiled with that fig.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Lily is historically related to White.
In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Sadi compares an amiable youth to the white lily in a bed of narcissuses — the lily is named as that white lily.
from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)
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Lily is historically related to Book.
In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the angel Gabriel holds the lily in a ms book of hours - the lily is drawn in that book.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Lily is historically related to Mitre.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, an Annunciation lily in a vase between angel and virgin is taken from a bishop’s mitre of the thirteenth century.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Annunciation is used in Lily.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the lily stands in a vase between the angel and the Virgin at the Annunciation — the lily is the placed emblem of that Annunciation composition.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Angel is associated with Lily.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, at the Annunciation the Lily is either held in the hand of the Angel Gabriel or placed in a vase standing by the Virgin — the angel holds that lily.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Olive is historically related to Lily.
In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the olive tree plate sits beside the lily flower plate among early Christian vegetable emblems.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia · Rev. James Wood (ed.)
Rev. James Wood (ed.), The Nuttall Encyclopædia (1907).
- The Jewish Encyclopedia · Isidore Singer et al.
Isidore Singer et al., The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906).
- Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art · Louisa Twining
Louisa Twining, Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art.
- Domestic Medicine · William Buchan
William Buchan, Domestic Medicine (12th ed., 1791).
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · Richard Watson
Richard Watson, A Biblical and Theological Dictionary.