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i$th century. Here is vertues and seltyng of Rosmary by the ij doctours of 

 fysyk followyng. per Galyen and Platery, and a poem beginning " As in 

 a booke wretyne y fownd Of wise doctours in dyvers lond." 



Ashmole 1379 (II). 

 i^th century. Here follwyth y« wertues off ye rosses mare. 



Inc. " Take rosmare and bynd hem ynne a lynnene clothe." 

 Exp. " Allsso make a bathe off ye floure and y* wyll make ye yong- 

 lyche." 



Ashmole 1432 (V. iii). 

 15//; century. The vertu of rose mary. Tak }?e flower of J^e rose mary and 

 bynd hem. 



(The above is part of a series of herbal notes, etc., interspersed by a 

 later hand in the course of and following on a fifteenth-century book of 

 medicine.) 



Ashmole 1391 (VHI). 

 i^th century. " Here men may see ]?e vertus of dyuerse herbes, whiche ben 

 hoot and whiche ben coold, and to how many ]?inges they arne goode." 

 (Other copies are in Sloane 393, f. 13; 1592, f. 396; 3466, f. 78; Addit. 

 12056, f. 3; Lansdowne MS. 680, f. 2 and 17 B., XLVIII, f. 2, where, 

 however, the arrangement is somewhat different. On page 2 there is the 

 entry, " This is John Rice is boke, the which cost him xxv d.") 

 i^th century. " Here men may se the vertu of dyverse herbes, and what thei 

 be, and whiche ben hoote and which ben colde. And for howgh many 

 thynges they ben goode." 



(This MS. ends abruptly in " Calamynte.") 



Ashmole 1444 (I. iii). 

 i^ih (?) century. " The virtues of diuerse herbes which ben hoote and which 

 ben coolde." (With a large table of Contents prefixed.) 



Sloane 393 (I). British Museum. 

 15th century. Treatise on the virtues of herbs. Begins, " Aristologia rotunda. 

 The virtue of this herbe os Ypocras says." 



Sloane 962 (XII). British Museum. 

 15th century. An Herbary or alphabetical Materia Medica of herbs & other 

 drugs ; beginning with Aloen, Aloes, Aurum, and ending with Zelboarium. 

 Inc. " Aloen. To purge fleume and malancoly and colore." 

 Exp. " Zelboarium. To moysten and to norschen and to clensen and 

 wyth cold l?inges to akelen. Amen." 

 ^ Ashmole 1481 (II. ii). 



i^th century. An alphabeticall catalogue of Herbes. 

 Inc. " Aloen hath virtue to purge flewne." 



Ee. I. 13 (I). Cambridge University Library. 

 iSth century. A collection of remedies in English (with additions^ in other 

 handwritings). Begins with " Aloe " and ends with " vervej^n." 



609 (II). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 

 15/A century. In Latin and EngHsh. Herbal. Aloe— Zucarium, with notes on 

 Egrimonia, Acacia, in Latin, and on Cassia hgnea and Castorium in Enghsh. 



43. Jesus College, Cambndge. 

 I'ith century. The makynge of oyles of divers herbys. 



905 (II. 4). Trinity College, Cambridge. 



