194 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



i^th century. Here begynneth medecines gode for divers euelys on mennes 

 bodys be callen erchebysschopes auicenna and ypocras Icoupon ( ? cophon) 

 i. e. de and on hole materie a3en broujt and ferst of herbis. 



Pepys Library 1661. Magdalene College, Cambridge. 

 (Various simples are described. After the " vertues of rose maryne " a 

 series of sections in verse written as prose beginning " I wil 30U tellyn by 

 & bi as I fond wretyn in a book, pat in borwyng I be took of a gret 

 ladyes prest J?at of gret name pe mest." The following sections are on 

 centaurea, solsequium, celidonia, pipernella, materfemia, mortagon, 

 pervinca, rosa, lilium, egrimonye. Ends " Oyle of mustard seed is good 

 for ache and for litarge and it is mad on pe same maner.") 

 Circ. 1400. A treatise in rhyme on the virtues of herbs. 



Sloane 147 (V). British Museum. 

 It begins — 



" Of erbs xxiiij I woU you tell by and by 

 Als I fond wryten in a boke at I in boroyng toke 

 Of a gret ladys preste of gret name she barest 

 At Betony I wol begyn at many vertuos het within." 



i^th century. De virtutibus herbarum quarundam. 



Ashmole 1397. 

 (On the medical uses of some herbs. Begins, " Bytayne and wormewode 

 is gode for woundes.") 

 i^ih ( ?) century. List of names of herbs in Latin and EngHsh. 



1377 IL Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 Begins, " Apium Commune Smalache." 

 1352. De preperacione herbarum. A treatise on the medicinal qualities of 

 and modes of preparing herbs, quoting Serapion. A short list giving 

 first the Latin and then the Irish name, etc. 



23 F. 19. Royal Irish Academy. 

 i^th century. Vocabulary of herbs in Latin and Welsh. 



Addit. 14912. British Museum. 

 i^th century. Meddygon myddfai or the Practice of Physic of the Myddvai 

 Doctors : a collection of Recipes for various diseases and injuries, prog- 

 nostics, charms, virtues of herbs, etc., by the physicians of Myddvai 

 CO. Caermarthen. 



Addit. 14912 (I). British Museum. 

 (In Welsh.) 

 i^th century. Nomina herbarum. Latin and English. 



Addit. 17866. British Museum. 

 i^th century. De virtutibus herbae. 



Arundel 507. British Museum. 

 (The above once belonged to Richard Seybrok, a monk of Durham. 

 i^th-i^th century. Nomina quarundam . . . plantarum arborum. 



Harleian 210 (XI). British Museum. 

 (In French and English.) 

 i^th-i^th century. Names of herbs in Latin and EngHsh. 



Harleian 2558 (I). British Museum. 



