THE ANTIDOTARIUM 223 
? Buranicus, or ‘‘ Butanicus de simplicibus medicinis,” a work earlier than 
Nicolaus Praepositus but otherwise unknown, often cited by Simon Januensis, A/eyer 3 : 
466 and 4: 167: perhaps the work cited by DaManlio, about 1450, as Compositor. 
a LIBER DE SIMPLICI MEDICINA, another book much used by Simon Jan- 
= but now unknown ; he says it was without title, but was in hoc re copiosus. 
I obert Coxthoae, the crusader son of William the Conqueror, and who had 
just “s saluted King of England to succeed his brother William Rufus, now comes 
to Salerno early in 1100, with his bride Sdy//a da Conversana, to be healed of a poi- 
soned arrow wound, His bride heals him; see p. 23 
e REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI is written out in leonine verse, by the éofa 
schola Sad and sent to Roberto Anglorum regi, after his arrival, September, 1100, 
in ocean 
1. Joannes de ce mba is claimed by an ancient MS. to have been the 
Bue editor of the preceding ; see p. 230. 
1110? Nicolo Pr apne abt Sih known as Nicolaus Praepositus, ‘a man of 
a and noble blood,’’ * author of a celebrated ANTIDOTARIUM f or register of medi- 
cines, printed in the 15th Se ek «* became a standard work for compounding medi- 
cines, and the foundation of many later compilations” : ‘¢this with the works of Matthaeus 
Platearius are to the soners the most important of the productions of the Salernitan 
school,’’ says Meyer. Nicolo cites no authors, but is thought to have used the previous 
** Antrorarium’’ or Asesoticlom of “a eeren Masters as his basis. His drugs bore 
appropriate Greel as his d y called Philoanthropos ; or names © ob 
virtutis excellentiam,’’ as evr ue aureum ; or from some one cured, as his e/ectu- 
arium Ducis; or, as in SERIE frog Galen and Aétios, from the age from whom 
a were descended, as his /zstinwm, a diuretic remedy, recommended a o by Otho 
monensis. Nicolo was also author of a lost ANTIDOTARIUM MAJUS,{ t ad of a 
ccs aye in a 15th century redactio 
1118. Giovanni Ferrario 1, or ‘ place at medico”’ ; living 1118, Kenai; 
chief author of sane on drugs, in ae with three seasons whose treatise, 
Medicina a survives s in fra 
he prepared the COMPENDIUM SALERNITANUM by making additions to his Circa lesa 
1140. Matteo ues s last lectures, heard by i young poet and physician 
Aegidius of Corbeil, may have occurred about this time. 
% te 
Plenus divitis et ex nobil isanguine procreatus,’” says Cristoforo da Onesto, 
in preface to his notes on Mesue. 
t Nicolo’s Antidotarium has been but once printed separately, a rare and very 
early edition; but it is also printed in all editions of the Antidotarium of the Arabic 
Physician Mesue, a nd best in the folio by Valgrisi, Venice, 1562. 
Asculanus and Christophorus de Honestis in the 15th century speak of this large 
Work. Perhaps it was the basis of the Dispensariu 
This is a dictionary of drugs in three books bearing the title Dispensarium 
magistri Miectod prepositi ad aromatorios ; Ackermann deemed it to be the work k called 
Maju s by Asculanus ; Choulant proved b adie of works cited in. it that its pres- 
ent state dates from the 15th — reba a redactor then worked over the M/ajus, 
earlier? than the time of Asculan ention. Meyer po: ssessed an edition printed in 
1505 in quarto at Leyden ; three puotaare! later caren were known to Choulant, all 
“ecompanying the Circa instans, 
