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3d. Certain citations quote Matteo Plateario who was indeed 
the source of the whole body of the work. Possibly they are due 
to Matteo’s nephew, Giovanni, who may have inserted his uncle’s 
name when mentioning certain remedies, to show that they had 
been specially tested and used by him. 
4th. Additions made from the Pandectae medicinae of Matteo 
Silvatico, 1313. 
5th. Additions and figures from an illustrated Dioscorides ; 
Bartolomeo’s text and figures serving, it may be, as chief source 
for early MSS. of the Ortus Sanitatis, perhaps by the year 
1400. 
From what MS. of Dioscorides these figures * came, demands 
further investigation. From some Dioscorides many figures in the 
Modena (1458) and the Kénigsberg MSS. of the Secres de Salerne 
seem also to have been derived, as well as those in Benedict 
Rinius’ Liber de simplicibus, 1415; long before the removal by 
Busbecq (1522-1592) of the great Anician MS. of Dioscorides, 
Codex C, from Constantinople to Vienna. 
Bartolomeo’s Synonyms.—Out of Dioscorides, Bartolomeo ob- 
tained the numerous synonyms, which he credits to the “« A ffri- 
cani, Egipcii, Dacii, Ostani, Profeti,’ and perhaps those to the 
‘Siculi, Corinti and Romani.’’ Some of these may have come, 
however, with his “ Punici,’’ out of Apuleius. He may as a 
* Some figures, says Camus, show flowers and fruit both, some so true to the plant 
as to suggest direct copying from nature, as in Viola, Borrago, Pervinca, Cichorium 
sylvaticum, Crocus; and in corncockle, rice, fleur-de-lis, strawberry. Many figures in- 
clude accessories, as the elegant vase for culture of marjoram, the ornate iron coffer for 
Preserving mastic, and very rich chests containing gums and minerals. A number of 
animals are figured as the frog, stag, elephant, snake, lizard, salamander. Often the 
rude figure is made interesting by the introduction of some characteristic personage 
h 
gold ; a man extracting sulphur from the brink of a volcano in eruption ; a poor aioe 
who sacrifices his castoreum to the assailing huntsman ; barbarians with black visage 
and with their dogs, before whom flies a musk deer; a frightful horned devil threaten- 
ing with his hoof a hare hidden behind a plant of Sparagi se/vatici with red berries, 
the plant Asparagus tenuifolius, called Palacium leports, i. e., ‘rabbit's palace,”’ in 
the text, still so called in Italy in the time of Caesalpino, 1583, though in Ortus the 
name is transferred to an endive-like plant. This figure was probably added to explain 
a insertion in the text by Bartolomeo, stating that this is the plant under whic th 
timid hair secura est a ayapolo. 
