196 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



i^ih century. Macer. De Virtutibus Herbarum. The English names of the 

 herbs are also given. (Written by Nicholas Kyrkeby of Saint Albans.) 

 VI. 15. Bishop Cosin's Library, Durham University. 

 i$th century. Herbal in three books. 



Inc. " Mogworte or brotheworte ys clepid archemisia . , . and this 

 medicine ys a nobil medycyne." 



Etids, " Here endeth the third part of Macer. And here begynneth a 

 fewe herbes which Macer foryete no^t nor thei ben nort founden in his 

 book." 



Addit. 37786 (H). British Museum. 

 je^ih century. The treatise of Macer intitled ' ' De viribus Herbarum," translated 

 into English. 



" Here followeth the cunnynge and sage clerk Macer tretynge and 

 opynly shewy^i^ the vertuys worthy and Commendable propyrtes of many 

 & dyuerse herbys and her vertuys of the whyche the firste is mugworte 

 or modirworte." 



Sloane 393. British Museum. 

 i<,ih century. The vertuys of Erbys aftyr Galyon Ypocras and Socrates. 



Lansdowne 680 I. British Museum. 

 I5^A century. Here folwythe the vertu of Erbis. Isop is hoot and drie in ij 

 degreis so seith Ipocrace if a man drynke it fastynge. 



Ashmole 1477 (HI-IV). 

 15/A century. Aemilius Macer. Of the virtues of herbs. English translation. 



Sloane 140. British Museum. 

 i$th century. Aemilius Macer. Of the virtues of herbs. English translation. 



Sloane 2269. British Museum. 

 i$th century. Aemilius Macer. De virtutibus Herbarum. English translation. 

 In the hbrary of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney at DidUngton 

 Hall, Norfolk. 

 je^th century. List of herbs in Latin and English. 



Sloane 3548. British Museum. 

 15/A century. Herbal. 



Inc. " Of herbys now I 



Will you telle by and by. 

 As I fynde wryten in a boke 

 That in borrow3mg I betoke 

 Of a gret ladyes preste," etc. 



Expl. " It dryveth away all foul moysteris 



And distroyeth venym and wykyd humours 

 It distroyeth the morfew 

 And dispoyhng to the leper." 



Dd. X. 44 (VIII). Cambridge University Library. 

 15/^ century. An Herbary l?e whiche ys draw out of Circa Instans and 

 hyt towcherj? schortlyche l?^ principal vertuys and ]?« special effectes of 

 herbis and droggis p^ be j?* most comyne in use, and her dyvers grees 

 of qualites or yher complexions and her propur and most special kynd of 

 worcheyng. 



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