218 Aster History ; SALERNO 
This Pseudo-Dioscorides, as Giacosa terms it, may be distinguished as the Marcel- 
line Botanicum, for its unknown author styles it ‘‘ Libe//um botanicum* ex Dios- 
coridis libris latino sermone conversum, cum depictis herbarum figuris,’’ and addressed 
it ‘to the studious Marcellinus.’? It was evidently a briefer work than the Butanicus 
corides of the Lombards (p. 233) or that used by Cassiodorus (p. 152 ), its proportion of 
plants (hae but va above that of animals, having 37 animal ate and 46 of plants 
(one of which, ‘* Dipsacos,’’ is reproduced by Giacosa). t seems to have had no 
figure of Aster, and probably no description. The Compositae foul in it appear as 
abrotanum, achillea, buftalmon, coniza, eliotropus (if meant for Cichorea), and scol/imos 
Among its less familiar plant-names appear herba actionum, herba sion, herba Misa. 
engosminor, osiris, crysola canon, hyera bo of the Iarus of secon 9) ? which 
interprets as=Arum /talicum Mill. ); als for strychnos ), 2.¢., 2 nigrum iL, 
1005. judas Judasschn and Joseph, are giantioned. living in the Jews’ quarter of 
Salerno. 
1015. Adelferius medicus ; whose son ue a rie married a wife Amma- 
randa this year; so reads the recor Ammaranda may e been one of the learned 
‘¢ Meisterinnen.’’ ‘The effort of Pore Victor IL to suppress oe of priests did 
not come till 1055, 
1020? Gariopontus wrote about this time ; compiler of a PASSIONARIUS ; aided 
in it by ** his companions, especially Albicius.’’ See infra, p. 2 
1020? Rabli Helinus, i. e., a Jewish Rabbi named Eli or Pisa Meyer (or Eli 
ph a 
the old Gate of Salerno called Porta Elina, or Elias Gate, Renzi; Mazza names him 
** Rabinus Elinus Hebraeus, qui primum Salerni medicinam Hebraeis de litera Hebraica 
legit,’’ and calling him Primus, says that he, with masters Pontus and Salernus ** were 
the three ancient founders of Salernitan study,’’ ‘*7. ¢., were the founders of that new 
growth of the school and its garden under een « Magee | also names Rabbi 
“pode 
*This Botanicum occupies about 62 folios or nearly two-thirds of the oth century 
Lucca codex no. 236. erest consists of Apuleius (see p. 171), and the De pigmentis 
(pp. 216 and 233), and of a brief treatise also apparently in a gth century hand, 
ponderibus medicinalibus, which claims to have been the work of ‘‘ a the 
philosopher,’’ and to have been written out at Mantua by aG oder 
Th - seems to have remained undescribed till its cabiieios Boe ae MSS. 
Prof. Piero 
” n- 
at the Exposition of the History of Medicine at Turin in 1898, when 
Giacosa recognized it as ‘‘importantissimo,”” and ‘ meriting profound d study, 
fortunately the codex was recalled before comparisons could be made pee than the 
rief mention given in Giacosa’s Magistri Salernitani nondum editi (Tu n, 1901): 
For brevity further references to this valuable work the A/agistri, etv., ib 
by use of the name of its editor, Giacosa. It contains about 240 
tises on 
e authors’ 
Others 
Gre- 
cosa also prints entire in about 314 pages, several Salernitan trea 
medicine and on plant remedies. Of the chief of these little more than 
names were known before, as of Ferrario, Salerno, and perhaps ae 
are by writers wholly unknown, an Ursone, a binge and ‘a Giovanni son © 
gorio. All were discovered in various 12th c tury MSS. of the Bibl. Angelica Sas 
Rome), in the codices numbered 1408, 1481, 1 Ee and 1506, 
[Mee gee ee an ae igh Pe Ce 
