I have a doodle/marginalia of a woman smoking a small black pipe which is in a
French manuscript dated 1318. Since smoking did not occur in Europe until the
16th century, I am assuming that this doodle is a later addition.
However, she is wearing distinctive head wear, and I am wondering if
yes, please… I am currently reading an alternative history set where-in folks
unable to access regular smoking-tobacco make do with all kinds of
substitutions (usually awful), so unless there's a cured tobacco leaf as we
know it also in that babewyn, I'd wonder if what she were smoking might
