254 AstTeR History ; PLATEARIO 
Following out the above process, we find in Circa instans 480 
alphabetic chapters, treating 435 plant remedies *; the other 
chapters are on mineral and animal remedies. _ Its plan is to give 
the Latin name and some synonyms, with brief descriptive te 
marks for the less familiar plants, and with the medical uses 
of all. . 
The partial editions of Circa imstans printed, 1488 to 1582, 
from the Ferrarese recension, are, unfortunately, very rare and 
very little known. But its botanical names are now accessible, as 
published,} 1886, at Modena by Professor Giulio Camus, under 
the title “ ZL’ Opera Salernitana’’t etc., forming the result of his 
recent discovery in the Este library at Modena, of two important 
MSS., representing early texts of Circa instans, one, § its amplifi- 
cation, the Zractatus Herbarum, || the other its French transla- 
tion, the Secres de Salerne. 
Sprengel,** as long ago as 1807, noted that Circa im 
stans furnishes “the first mention of three of our common plaf 
Galeopsis Tetrahit,t+ Clematis Flammula, and Spiraea Siliper 
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* Camus identifies among these, 30 Compositae, 32 Endogens besides eee 
30 Umbellifers, 27 of the Leguminosae, 20 Rosaceae, 20 Labiates, ete. There are ; 
cryptogams, including 7 ferns and 2 fungi. 
; and 8 others are in the French Sevres only ; leaving 436 i” 
treated in the Latin text; 
one of which, however, Radéosa, is an exact 
another, his Herba radiosa, 
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“rca instans above se a 
instams,’ ed il testo primitive ie : (ex 
ae ee Per Guilio Camus, Modena, 1886.”’ 4to, 
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Also reviewed by Choulant, Handbiich der Biicherkunde Ue? alee ae 
298. 1841. The names in the similar Compendium Salernitanum ween 
Henschel, in Janus, 2: 66, 1846, 
|| This Latin MS. of 142 sheets begins, 
without title and with the words « Circa instans ne ocium in simplicib® nat 
— versatur propositum, Simplex autem ‘neahieiaa est que talis et qualis et ce, 
producta,’’ 
a inslaMss 
as doubtless did the original C77 li 
** Sprengel, Hist. 
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** Tetrahit, or h j i oy) 
Be at ae, ws : erba judeyca ;”* « Flammula, idem vincula” < s 
: € names Plateario gives them. 
