194 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



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 a$en 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 jou 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 ]?e 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 J?e same maner.") 

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



Sloane 147 (V). British Museum. 

 It begins 



" Of erbs xxiiij I woll 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^th ( ?) century. List of names of herbs in Latin and English. 



1377 II. 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.) 

 century. Nomina herbarum. Latin and English. 



Addit. 17866. British Museum. 

 century. De virtutibus herbae. 



Arundel 507. British Museum. 

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

 14/^-15/7* century. Nomina quarundam . . . plantamm arborum. 



Harleian 210 (XI). British Museum. 

 (In French and English.) 

 i^th-i^th century. Names of herbs in Lathi and English. 



Harleian 2558 (I). British Museum. 



