To the Trader. 



quas Jf$l:c»fis plate de[critfit % &c. and thus alio he is named in the title of the Ej 



Proem : buc the end of the work is Explicit liber Platonis deberbis mafcnltms^&c.W 



in all things agrees that oi \A 

 one with M r lobn Tradcfcant y \\ 



I found 



Cipit b 



lowes 



is thus at the very beginning ; In nomii 



?pit k Scolapio^r Cbirom Centauro magi ft 



bookes) the tra^atafcribed to ^tntonius 



By this it fcems the Author of this W 



amongft fome other works of phyficke, and one Albantts Torinus fee it forth by the hefpe 

 of many Manufcripts,ofwhofe impcrfe&ions he much complains, and I think not with- 

 out cau/c. After this.Gabriel H umelber gius oi Rauenf purge in Germany fct it forth with 

 a Comment vpon it,who alio complaines of the im perfections of his copies,and thinkes 

 the Workenot perfed. Indeed both the editions are faulty in many places ; and by the 

 help of thefc Manufcripts I haue feene they might be mended ( ifany thought it worth 

 their labour) in fome things,as 1 obferued in curforily looking oucr them. One thing I 

 much marucll at,which is, That I finde not this Author mentioned in any Writer of the 

 middle times,as Plaiearim^anholom&us Anglm^&c. Now I conjecture this Worke was* 

 originally written in Greeke,for thefe reaibns ; firft.becaufe it hath the Grecke names in 

 fuch plenty ,and many of them proper,fignificant, and in the firft place. Secondly, fome 



are only named in Greek, ^Hierobulbon.Artemipa Leftophyllos ,and Arteniifiatao-antesfiatra- 



cbion } Gryas, (which I iudge rather Grcekethan Latine) &c. Befides, in botfr the written 

 books in very many places amongft the names I finde this word Omeetjbut diuerfly writ- 

 ten j for I conjecture the Greeke names were written in the Greeke chara&er,and fa/., a - 

 mongft them : and then alfo when the reft of the Worke was tranflared ,which afterwards 

 made the tranferibers whovnderftood itnot to write it varioufly,for in the one book it is 

 alwaies written Amotosjmd in theother,Ow»ow,and fometiraes Oncosis in the chapter of 



Brittanica,the one hath it thas.Nomen herfaiftius Britanica^Amocos dicttnt ettm Damafinium 

 &c. The other thus,Nomen herb* Brittanica.Omeos DamAfimttsjfrc. And in the chapter of 

 AhbuA the one hath it thus y Nome» hu]ut herb* Altea Amoeos vacant bane berbamMoloche &c. 

 The other^Nomen herfa Ibtfcus Omoeos Molocbe^&c. If it be certain which Philip F err arms 

 amrmes in his Lexicon Geegraphicam^hzt the City Apoley is Conftantinople,then haue 

 I found Apolienfts vrbsfif which I can find no mention in any antientor modern Geogra- 

 pher befides s and then it is more than probable that this was written in Greeke, and ic 

 may bee thought differently tranflated,which occafions fuch diuerfitie in the Copies as 



\** k. 



tfoo yeares ago 



conjecture this Work 



the 



controuerfi 



fluffed the books of fuch as haue writ of this fubic«a,had their beginning by reafon rhat 



any perf< 

 winter) 



• 



• 









ga«n,men began to be fomwhat more cunous,and by the notes and descriptions in thefe 

 anticnt Authors they haue labored to reftore this loft knowIedge,makin S inquirie firft 

 Whether it were knowne by Tbecfhrafi^DirfcmAs fit any of the Antienkthen by wbae 

 name. But to return to my Authors. • (; -** 



About An.Dom.i ioo,or a littleafter lined the Arabians Avicen.Averrhots MePue Rh* 



fn T S ' r fT° a u qf thc [ e Wlk but b " efl y of this M>iea,neither haue we thei Works' ** *** 

 in the Arabickc wherein they were written, but barbaroufly tranflated into Latine 21 



moft of thefe works were by them taken outof the Greeksfefpecially D*lfiorU ^ and Ca 

 w!^fe they - M ft " C ?^heir own^and otherwhilL col^ot^tl 



hereof 



fis alphabetically and briefly (following the method 



of O, en) giue the -aes ,tenWute 3 a^^ 



Serapo after a particular Trad of the Temperature and Qualities of Efj- • 

 generall jC omes to treat of them in partisan toi^Ktt^?" 111 

 [^and Paulus^ diuers Arabians that wen before him ThS? ^the c l Lf^^'^ 

 k«nde of the Arabians which hath come to vs : he^K 



face, 



But ****** 



Rbafu 



