a SIXOXOMA BARTHOLOMEI. 



Tanncr mentions not only the ' Breviarium Bartholomei ' but also 

 a MS. work of Marfelde's in the hbrary at Lambeth, and he gives 

 the authority of Brian Twyne for stating that he was an Oxford 

 man, and that he Hved in thc time of Henry VI. This very MS. 

 seems to have been lent to Brian Twyne by Dr. Clayton, Master of 

 Pembroke College, and it must also have been inspected by Anthony 

 Wood (Hist. and Antiq., voh ii. part 2, p. 715), as he quotes from it in 

 more than one place. 



The interest of the Glossary became apparent at the time of the 

 pubHcation of Professor Earle's lists of English plant names. Pro- 

 fessor Earle saw it, and made certain extracts from it which he has 

 embodied in his notes. It was then that I thought it worth while to 

 copy out the whole of the Glossary, which the Clarendon Press has now 

 consented to publish. But it was in the plant names chiefly that my 

 interest lay : the purely medical terms, I confess, perplexed me much. 

 It was some time before I learned to consult Gorraeus, Foesius, and 

 Erotianus : my guide to them was the preface of Holyoke's Latin 

 Dictionary, a book which often threw light upon a word when all was 

 dark beside. Many of the words and phrases I find come from 

 Isidore, many from Albertus Magnus ; but not in all cases have I 

 lcarned this sufficiently early to embody the information in the notes. 

 Dioscorides, Galen, Nicolaus Myrepsus, Paulus ^gineta will explain 

 many; Aviccnna, I should suppose, still more ; while there yet remains 

 a large number of Arabic words which I have been obliged to leave 

 without any explanation at all ^ 



If it be asked what materials the author himself employed, the 

 answer may be supplied partly from the Glossary, and partly from 

 the body of the work itsclf. In the Glossary he quotes Isidore, p. 3H, 

 Constantinus (Africanus ?), p. 40, Avicenna, p. 40, Galen, p. 40, and 

 Rogerus, p. 20: in the work itself Arnaldus de Villa Nova (fol. 131), 

 Rhases, Ysaac de Dictis (foll. 147, 241 verso, 277), Rogerus Fucard (fol. 

 177) ^V. de Conrado (fol. 177 verso), Macer (fol. 254 verso), Nicholaus 

 de Polonia (fol. 269), and Platearius (fol. 275). 



' For the fullest information on medical witers, Greek, Latin, Arab, and Medireval, see 

 Choulant, Hattdbuch der Bucherhinde fur die dltere Medicin : Leipzig, 1841. Cf. also Fabricius, 

 Bibl. Grcec., vol. xiii, and, for Semitic plant-names, Low, Aramdische PJlanzen-navien, Leipzig, iS8i. 



