268 AsTerR History; PLATEARIO 
pared from the Domian recension, perhaps at Siena, by Barto- 
lomeo Mino da Siena,* about 1340. Copyists have corrupted 
his name into Bartolomeo Minid’sens and Mundsens. 
Bartolomeo’stitle ‘‘ Tractatus herbarum Dioscorides et Platonis 
atque Galieno et Macrone translatate ”’ implies that he made some 
additions from a text of Galen and from one that he understood 
to be of Plato but which was really of Pliny. So we find the Ortus 
when printed, 1491, etc., ascribing matter to Plato which should 
have been credited to Pliny. He also implies his belief in Macer 
as a Greek by calling him Macron or Macro,+ “ great.” He evi- 
dently thought the Latin poem of Macer a translation from an 
original Greek { form. He certainly seems to have made indus- 
trious use of Macer; for Camus’ list of less usual citations made 
by Bartolomeo, comprising “ Pliny, Ipocrates, Appollonio, Platon, 
Aristotele, Asclepias, Pitagora, Olympia Thebana,” are all found 
in Macer and were quoted by Macer from Pliny. Bartolomeo’s 
other citations may be classed as follows : 
2d. Such as already existed in Matteo’s Circa instans, or in 
its Giovannian form; namely, citations from Isaac, from Con- 
stantino, mulieres Salernitanae, Preposito’s Antidotarium, the Pas- 
sionarius, the Flos Medicinae, and some of those from Macer. 
Prensa 
‘ Explicit tractatus herbaram Dioscorides et Platonis atque Galieno et Macrone trans- 
latate manu et intellectu Bartholomei minid’ sens in arte speciarie semper infusus,”’ 
listed in the Modena Bibl. Estense catalog of codices, about 1790, as ‘* 993,”’ ‘* Dios- 
— Tractatus de herbis, cum Platonis Galieni et Macri hujusmodi a Barth ; Mund- 
* Bartolomeo, Camus suggests, was perhaps father of that poet of the 14th 
century Andrea Mino da Siena, one of igs celebrated family of the Piccolomini and sur- 
named Ciscranna, ‘ the folding-chair, 
t The Tractatus cites him rarely as Macro, Macron, reel in ablative, Macrone; 
the Compendium Sal. of Breslau, as Mac. (abbreviation for Macro, Renz2); the printed 
Circa instans has guessed at it as “* Macrobius.”’ maeiealg 1305, as well as Barthol- 
omaeus Anglicus, c. 1256, knew the name as Macro, but were also interpreted by 
printers as meaning Macrobius, 
t It is possible that Macer wrote part of his matter in the native Greek of his Calabria 
and when bes itup into the Latin poem, with continuous use of vos, sost77, in sen 
of “we who speak Latin,” si have neglected to translate certain Greek words as 
Sciasis, cacostumachon, incaustru #, etc.; this would account for their now occurring a 
a 
the Latin. 
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scripts something pice: chat: Macer was a Greek is not impro ; eae 
have guessed from that fact alone that the Latin poem by Macer was a translation. 
