SECRES DE SALERNE Po | 
[Gentile de Fuligno, fide Camus], and under Spinaca, “‘ un acteur 
appellé Tacuin.”’ 
The figures in Pelous’ MS. Secres are less varied than in the 
Tractatus 993, but better executed and more vividly colored. 
The artist has however at times represented a plant wholly dif- 
ferent from that of the text; as under /ucensaria. Probably the 
artist was the assistant Abourg (in the Modena catalog, Abourt), 
whom Pelous + names as aiding him. 
This MS. Secres bears the name of two owners, one in a hand 
of the 16th century, “ Livre des simples A Monsr. Durfe,” and 
another similarly old, ‘‘ Jehan Duboys.”’ 
The MS. begins without title, directly as the original Czrca 
imstans, with ‘‘ En ceste presente besoingne cest nostre propos et 
entencion de traitier des simples medicines’? and ends with the 
words “Et pour eviter prolixite cy est la fin de ce livre on quel 
sont contenus les secres de Salerne. Explicit cest herbollaire,”’ etc. 
__ One other MS. of this French Secres de Salerne is known, that 
* Either or both of two works may hav e been meant, the Tacuinus sanitatis, a 
translation of an Arabic work, Tagwim azszihhadt, sitlioted to Elluchasem Elimithar 
or the Zacuinus de curis morborum corporum, attributed to Abu Ali Jahia Ben Gezlah; 
— eaiidds occur in the same codex, 175, in Bibl. Estense at Modena, written 
ut 1290, in part at Aversa, in part at Rome 
Of the swirls of Le Petit Pelous, as the translator signs himself, we may in- 
sp Camus from the form of his words, that he came, not like many writers of that 
» from Normandy, but from central France; and that he came, like so many 
Engl, French a {ernie copyists of manuscripts in that century in Italy, as a 
young man to study in one of the Italian universities. Many such students, remarks 
Puccinotti, copied manuscripts under direction of their professors; and in the city 
library at Siena alone, among codices of the fifteenth century are some signed by 
Insulis natione Picardus otadictas auditor, etc. Such a student was Pelous, who ian 
as his colophon to his Secres, ‘Explicit cest herbollaire Auquel a heu asses affaire 
Abourg. Il a este escript Mil CCCC cinquante et huit. Et la escript cest tout cer- 
tain Le patron de sa propre main Tie pour luy Je vous en prye Pour amour De la com- 
Paignye. Le petit eget 1458. 
amoris 1458.’’ 
Shou o any one claim that Pelous was merely copyist an 
as well, Camus observes that the French translation has in its language ‘ ‘an in- 
saane siareadet of the 15th century,’’ so it could not have been much older than 
lous if not his own wo. 
