266 AsTEeR History; PLATEARIO 
Serapion, under the title “ Serapionis practica sive breviarium.” 
The remaining printed editions‘are thought to be reprints from this of 
1488 ; they also were bound with the Practica of Serapion, in case 
of the editions, folio, of Venice, 1497 * (printed by Bonetus Loca- 
tellus), 1499, 1530, of Lyons 1524, Leyden 1525 (by Fradinus); 
or were bound with the Dispensarium attributed to Nicolaus Prae- 
positus, 1517, and Leyden 1512 (by Fradinus) and 1536, Paris 
(by Nicolaus Bonsonius) 1582. All are rare; Meyer had the 
1530 edition, the British Museum has those of 1497, 1517, 1524, 
1525, 1536, which it catalogs ( 1893) under /oannes Platearius. 
A synopsis of the printed Circa instans was printed by Choulant 
in his Handbuch der Biicherkunde der altern Medecin, p. 298. 
4. Domian redaction, perhaps by 1190 or 200 A. D.; pecu- 
liar in its use of the adjective Domianit. The Ferrarese redaction 
was distinguished by copious omissions; the Domian by slight 
additions. The former is now represented by the printed Circa 
instans ; the latter by its outgrowth, the MS. Zractatus Herbarum. 
The name Domian I apply from its peculiar use of an adjective 
domiant and domani with plant-names, apparently to specify, as 
Camus points out, those names current a¢ home to the reviser (L- 
domus),a reviser, who was perhaps a Calabrian, for his names indi- 
catea home in southern Italy and a dialect influenced by Arabic T 
and Greek ¢ elements. 
Pho erer 
by the printer; probably the printer inferred Johannes Platearius as author from the 
' occurrence of his name in the body of the work under Ambra. ’ 
* The first Venice edition, 1497, bears the title « J. Platearii practica brevis felic- 
iter incipit,—Incipit Liber de simplici medicina,’’ etc., as in 1488 ; shortened in ! 525 
P. Liber de simplici,”’ etc. 
_ _ TArabic and Greek elements had both influenced the dialect as Camus points - 
in Its name /ome, a resin, modified through Greek speech of Calabria and Sicily in the 
form e/emmi, from the Arabic el-luban, resin, these Greeks replacing Arabic 6 by "+ 
as in the chapter Gumma Elemmi, the Domian writes «« Sarraceni vocant e/emmt, 00S 
autem vocamus /omte, 
imbar,’’ which is 
not in the printed or Ferrarese Circa instans ; nor inthe Ortus santtati', though it cites 
its A/ve largely from Plateario; nor in the Breslau MS. of the Compendium Salernitanums 
but only in the Modena MS. of the Tractatus, representing the Domian r action. 
imbar received the tardy but effectual confirmation of the nineteenth century, when 
Danielli reported Zambaron and sabbara (the Arabic saé r, aloe) as the vernacular 
survivals to-day in Sicily and Calabria. 
+ Examples include the following (of which the first and second were observed by 
Camus): ‘ Altea Domiani vocant eam moloche agrie,”’ i.e., we at home know the Al- 
thea as wild-moloche (mallow); Theophrastus had called it Ma2éyn aypia. The 
also under 4/oe, Domianus writes, *‘ nos autem 
