200 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



i$th century. These ben the precious watris & vertuous for diverse 

 ejvellys. 



Inc. " Water of wormode is gode . . . grete lordes among the Saracens 

 usen to drink hitt." 



Addit. 37786 (I). British Museum. 

 15;!^ century. Of the Herb Moon-wort. 



Inc. " I schal you tel of an Erbe }?at men cal Lunarie, 



He ys clepit Asterion ; wych ys an Erbe J^at men calleth Lunarie." 

 Harleian 2407 (IX). British Museum. 

 i^th century. Virtues of the onion, gariic and pennyroyal. 

 Begins, " Here beeth pe vertues of the Oynoun." 



Royal 17 B. XLVHI. (H). British Museum. 

 i^th century. Miscellaneous recipes and extracts from herbals. 



Begins, " Rosa rebia [sic] ys an herbe that men clepyth rede rosys." 

 Royal 18 A. VI. (VII). British Museum. 

 i^ih ( ?) century. A treatise of herbs and the several medicaments compounded 

 from them. 



Begins, " The roose as saith the philosopher Plinius hath doble 

 verteus." 



Sloane 67 (II). British Museum. 

 15th century. A treatise of herbs, alphabetically arranged. (Imperfect.) 

 Begins, " Carabana id est wylde hempe." 



Sloane 297 (I). British Museum. 

 i^th century. A treatise of the temperature and virtues of simples alphabetically 

 arranged. 



Sloane 965 (VII). British Museum. 

 i^th century. " Here men may se the vertues of herbes." 



Bodley 463 (B iii). 

 i^th century. Liber de herbarum virtutibus. 



Inc. " Here may men se the vertu of herbes which ben hot and which 

 ben colde." 



Laud Misc. 553 (II). Bodleian. 

 15th century. Vertues of Herbes. 



I71C. Apium is an herbe that men call smallache or marche. 



Addit. A. 106 (A. IV). Bodleian. 

 15th century. " Here begynnythe to mak waters of erbys sondry and ]?er 

 vertues and howe pei schalle be made in stillatorie." 

 Inc. " In pe fyrst of dyl. The water is of gret vertue." 



Ashmole 141 B (II. v). 

 15th century. Instructions for the proper time of gathering simples by name. 

 Inc. " Medysines ben done, some by leves [som] bi sedis, som by flowres 

 and some bi fretes." 



Ashmole 1481 (II. iii). Oxford. 

 i$th century. The medical use " Of waters distilled from Sundry plants & 

 flowers." 



(The above belonged to Richard Saunders, the Astrologer.) 



Ashmole 1489 (II. ii). 

 i$th century. Alphabetical Herbary. 

 Inc. " Agrymonia is an herbe." 



Bodley 463 (B. ii). 



