Meaning of ribes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. currant
   Medieval-Latin, declension-3, indeclinable
2. Equivalent to 'Currant': A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape.

Equivalents

Examples

“DE RIBES [...] Ribes est frigida & sicca, stringit ventrem, extinguit choleram, acuitatem sanguinis.”

On the currant ... The currant is cold and dry; it constricts the belly [and] gets rid of cholera [and] sharpness of blood.

“De Ribes. Ribes, sive (secundum Stephanum) Ribesum, non est hoc arbustum, cuius fructu in Italia falso pro vero ribes, omnes vtuntur pharmacopôlae.”

On the Currant. The Currant, or (according to Stephanus) Ribesum, is not that tree whose fruits all the pharmacists in Italy use falsely instead of the true currant.

“vocatur ubiq[ue] locorum syrupus seu iuleb de ribes[...]”

Syrup or julep of the currant is referred to in all parts [of this book]...

“Frutus molliores, ut cerasa, baccae ribes, berber. mala armeniaca, persica, pyra moschatellina, et similia, quae molliora sunt, vel saccharo calente aut melle perfunduntur, vel iisdem immersa conquuntur, donec fructuum humiditate absumta saccharum et mel suam consistentiam recipiat; atque usui servantur. [...] paranturque inprimis e succo sine expressione parato, puriore et defecatiore cydoniorum, pomorum, pyrorum, ribium.”

Softer fruits, like cherries, currant berries, barberries, apricots, peaches, musk pears, and similar ones, which are softer, are soaked in hot sugar or honey, or are cooked [while] submerged in them, until the fruits' moisture is absorbed and the sugar and honey take on its consistency, and these are kept for use. ... and they are mainly prepared from unsqueezed, pure, and clarified juice of quinces, apples, pears, [or] currants.

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