XXX PREFACE. 



contain a problem, which, in our imperfect knowledge 

 of the works of the physicians of the lower empire, is, 

 it seems, beyond solution. If the prescription of celan- 

 dine for the eyes, Lb. I. ii. be supposed to have been 

 derived from Marcellus 272 g., then the other passages 

 cannot, as far as, after repeated examination I see, be 

 discovered in that author. A mark which comes near 

 to F. is set, in the MS., over against the words pi^ 

 eajna mifre, fol. 10 b., line 3, and it does not occur 

 again ; compare Marcellus 272 b. It adds to the diffi- 

 culty of the investigation, that recipes became a tradi- 

 tion passing from one author to another. A cypher 

 rather differing from H., which I will call h., occurs at 

 fol. 10 b. at the words 6j:t piS 'Son ilcan cele]?onian : 

 nearly the same on the same folio, towards the end, at 

 Gyt finolej'. That this prescription is found in Plinius 

 Valerianus does not help us. Another like a plummet 

 line, sometimes as in the facsimile, and at fol. 30 b. 

 for angnail, with a ring at top, sometimes with a cross 

 line, as at fol. 30 b., line 4. Tip nsejl fie, is so much 

 like that called I., that it may be meant for the same 

 name. There is another like F. reversed, occurring at 

 ol. 11 a. 6]:t pyj-laj', also at fol. 32 a., towards the 

 end of the leaf, J^onne Ipu j:yp, at fol. 55 b. as in the 

 facsimile, twice with a shght difference, at fol 56 b. top 

 line, with another small variation, at fol. 57 b. at last 

 line but one ; at fol. 94 a., ejzt jenim ipiep leap ; at fol. 

 125 b., by the third line of chapter Ixiiii., with these 

 words, " quia omni potu et omni medicinfe maleficia- 

 " torum et demoniacoi-um a[d]miscenda est aqua bene- 

 " dicta, et psalmis et orationibus vacandum est, sicut 

 " in hoc capitulo plene docetur." At fol 31 b. by the 

 word eallunja is a mark with a blot, meant probably 

 for I. At fol. 55 h. jip ]7u pdle, at 55 b., as in fac- 

 simile, at 56 a., chapter Ixxv. Ixxvi, is a sign like H., 

 with legs of varied length, thus running into re- 

 versed F. At folio 5G b., chapter Ixxxii,, is an orna- 



