198 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



i$fh century. Of the virtues of herbs — seemingly out of Macer. The following 

 verse is prefixed : 



" This booke ys drawe be fesyke 

 That Macer made for hem that ben seeke 

 The vertu of herbis het descrieth ryght wel 

 And help of mannys helthe every del." 



Sloane 963 (XVIII). British Museum. 



i^th century. Macer on the virtues of herbs. 



Inc. " Mugworte or brotheworte is clepid Arthemisia." 

 Exp. " drynkys juse of thys erbe." 



Ee. I. 15 (Ilia). University Library, Cambridge. 

 15;!/; century. Macer. " Vertues worthe & commendable propertees of many 

 & diverse herbes." In three books. 



Rawl. C. 81 (V). Bodleian. 

 i^th century. Part of the poem De virtutibus Herbarum. The EngHsh 

 names of plants are occasionally given in the margin. In the volume 

 containing Froucestre's History of the Monastery. 



Library of Gloucester Cathedral. 

 i$th century. A treatise of the medical properties of herbs and other simples ; 

 arranged alphabetically, being a translation from the treatise of Johannes 

 Platearius, De medicinis siinpiicihus. 



Sloane 706 (IV). British Museum. 

 i$th century. English Herbal, Secundum magistrum Gilbertum Kemor, 

 arranged alphabetically. 



Sloane 770. British Museum. 

 i^th century. Of the virtues of Rosmaryne. 



Inc. " Rosmaryne is both tre and erbe." 



Sloane 7 (VI). British Museum. 

 i^th century. The virtues of Rosmaryn. 



Inc. " Rosmaryn is bothe tre and herbe." 



Sloan 962 (VI). British Museum. 

 15/A century. These ben sum of ]?e vertues of Rosemary, as the Gierke of 

 Sallerne seyde and wrote tho the Cowntes of Hynde, and sche sende hem 

 tho here dow5tur Phylype p^ was weddyde tho pe Kyng of Engelond. 

 Inc. " Rosmary ys bothe tre and herbe." 



Ashmole 1438 (II-XX). 

 i^th (?) century. This is ye Htyl boke of ye vertuys of rosmaryn yt y« scole of 

 Saleme gaderyd & compiled at instance of ye Cowntese of Henowde. . . . 

 I danyel bain translatyd into vulgar ynglysch worde for werde as fonde in 

 latyn. (The translator adds that before 1432 Rosemary was unknown in 

 England and that it was first sent from the Countess of Hainault to her 

 daughter Queen Philippa.) 



1037 (i) (XIV). Trinity College, Cambridge. 



15/^ or early 16th century. The medical virtues of Rosemary in prose. Begins, 



" Rosus marinus is called rose mary, the virtue of this herbe is goode." 



Ends, " ne brennyng of unkynd hete be at ]?i stomake ne at p^ hert." 



(At the foot of page 3 is written " Robert Hychys is the ower of thys boke.") 



Ashmole 1379 (I). 



