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Guillermus Guerualdus Cadomensis, physician and professor of medicine at the Univer- 
sity of Caen, accompanied the Caen edition, 1509 
Translations have been made into Polish, French and English ; the Polish by 
Lovicz, professor of medicine in the University of Cracow, who added notes, woodcuts, 
and this translation, to his rearranged alphabetical Macer, Cracow, 1537 
_ The French translation, ‘*par Lucas Tremblay,” entitled ‘‘ Les fleurs du livre 
des vertus des herbes ... par Macer Floride,’’ with the commentary by Guillaume Ger- 
oult, and with figures, was printed at Rouen, 1588, 8vo , but the translation extended 
only through the first seven chapters; to which an ophthalmic remedy was added and 
a description of Nicotiana ( Pritze/). 
A MS. English translation (in Bibl. Sloane) was by John Lelamar, master of 
Hereford school about 1 73; 
The printed English translation, a 12mo. later than 1535 ( Pritse/), bears the title 
“Macer’s Herbal, practysed by doctor Lynacro, translated out of Latin into Englysshe, 
with [additions] shewynge theyr operacyons and vertues set into the margent of this 
ke, to the entent you might know theyr virtues.’’ This phrase suggests its translation 
from the French edition of about 1500, which ends with a woodcut of a monk writing, 
and with the words ‘* Herbarum varias qui vis cognescere vires Macer adest disce : quo 
duce doctus eris,’’ 7, ¢., ‘* Macer is at hand, to teach you, you who wish, to know the 
jan) 
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obt. Wyer, dwelling ‘at the signe of St. Johan Evangelyste, in seynt Martyn’s 
Parysshe, in the Bysshop of Norwytch’s rentes, besyde Charynge Crosse’ ( Hoefer. ) 
The oldest col’ated MSS. , fide Choulant, are of the thirteenth tury ; of which one, 
name or title except as recently added; nor do all of the MSS. of the fourteenth cen- 
tury possess a name, although two, ¢ and 2 of Choulant, have the title de virtutibus 
her barum, and bear the name Macer. ‘The Florentine MS. mentioned below bears the 
litle Liber Macronis. The title now used, Macer de virimus herbarum, rests on older 
Simon Steyn of Penig, who received his MD degree the year following. Zhe name 
Aemilius occurs coupled with Macer on no MS., and was evidently first joined to this 
i knowledge of Aemilius Macer the Roman poet of plants and friend of 
Vergil (see supra, p. 135), and first by the editor Atrocianus, 1527; after which most 
editions bore the name of Aemilius Macer ; as those of Lovicz and of Pictorius. acer 
Philssophus was the title by which the rare editio princeps named the author, 1477 ; 
and so in that of Vienna, 1506. Macer Floridus first appeared as his title in the sup- 
Posed third edition, in France about 1500, but without note of place or time ; the first 
dated edition bearing this name is that of Paris, 1511. : 
A Florentine MS. of Macer, written in its 77 chapters in a small Italian hand 
of the 14th century, not known to Choulant and said to have been early in the Library 
of San Marco, Florence,—is of peculiar interest because illustrated, and _ has recently 
come to America, into possession of Mr. Oakes Ames, of North Easton, Mass., who 
S kindly given me some items of information regarding it. It seems to lack all the 
So-called spurious chapters and about 115 of the lines accepted as genuine by Chou- 
t Its 56 col pe * ee : dat the end of the whole ; 
and were Pronounced by an English ibiiographer to be “far more accurately delin- 
