200 Aster History; MAcER 
Macer’s work is largely wrought out of Pliny ; in next degree, ~ 
from Galen; a little from Dioscorides, Oribasius and Palladius; 
and from many ancients as Hippocrates, Diocles, Xenocrates, etc., 
who may have been known to him only through Pliny. Other 
ancient writers, as his Asclepius, were evidently known to Macer 
not through Pliny but through their own MSS. or in some way 
unknown to us. Choulant lists 23 classic writers cited by Macer; 
all Greek, except Cato, Pliny, Palladius,—and Strabus.* Perhaps 
his citations of Justus, Menemachus and Melicius are the only cita- 
tions of these authors known ; the others among his rarer sources 
are mentioned by Pliny. 
eated ’’ than the woodcuts of herbals like the Ortus-Sanitatis, a century or more after- 
wards. This MS. is further notable for its containing also 14 brief chapters on the na- 
ture of herbs, differing from those of the Circa instans, written chiefly in Italian, and 
beginning ‘‘ Cucurbita salvaticha erba.”’ 
Many other MSS. of Macer exist in Europe, in the British Museum, etc., ett, 
which were not collated by Choulant, some of which he refers to as ascribed to the 
11th century. : 
Names of redacto’s are borne on four of the MSS.: 
Odo Veronensis, unknown otherwise ; in a prose abstract of the 13th century, of 
which he was probably the author. 
Odo Magdunensis, of Mehiin, unknown otherwise, on a Dresden MS. of the 14th 
century. : 
Odo Muremundensis, on a 14th century MS., the Cistercian monk, Otto von Mae 
mont, in Burgundy, who died 1161; once Abbot of Beauprai. 
: Albert de Aulica, Dominus, on a Wolfenbiittel MS. of the 14th century. 
may have been the name not of the redactor or the scribe but of the master for whose 
medici, ut ipse vidi in codice quodam antiquissimo. Verum ut gratior exiret! 
m 
« o : : than — 
Macri titulo inscriptus est.’ But this Odo was doubtless redactor only, and later 
ent praise.’’—-Macer’s 25 lines on Ligusticum 
