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found by Meyer in the Royal Library of Konigsberg, and described 
by him in his History, 4: 187; containing 202 small folios, written 
in two columns, without title, but ending, exactly like the Modena 
MS. with the words “Et pour eviter prolixite cy est la fin de ce 
livre en quel sont contenus les secres de salerne.’’ The colored 
figures of exotics and little known plants are quite fantastic, but 
others, says Meyer, are quite true to nature, as those of Apium, 
Aristolochia, Asarum. The handwriting was thought by Professor 
Voigt to be of about 1500 A.D. Meyer judged it must have pre- 
ceded the first printing of the French herbal derived from it about 
1480, and remarked, 1857, that it must have been copied from 
some lost MS. Camus’ discovery of its source in the Modena MS. 
followed in 1885. 
‘Meyer described it as of 463 chapters, some taken without 
acknowledgment from Isaac, as those on Castanea, Phaseolus, 
etc., and many seemingly from an abridged MS. of Apuleius 
Platonicus, and many from unknown sources. Meyer also partic- 
ularly remarked the interest of the folk-names, often introduced 
with the words, “ Les domiciens appellent.” These we now know 
are traceable to the Domiani of the Domian MS., see p. 266. 
7. Arbolayre, the first printed edition of the French “ Grant 
Herbier” ; a rare work, the colophon of which as furnished to Camus 
by L. Delisle, director of the Bibl. Nat. of Paris, reads “Ce est 
fin de ce livre ou quel sunt contenus les secres des erbes et 
communes medicines et drognes a vray translater ‘de latin en 
francoys et bien corrigees selon pluseurs docteurs de medicine,” 
t. €., the Secres de Salerne was used as a true translation (referred 
to as les Secres des Erbes) and after corrections and additions from 
many physicians, was printed by the name Arbolayre, at Paris, 
about. 1480 by Pierre Caron, fide Haller and Meyer. Lacroix, 
who dates it 1495, less accurately entitles it “a new herbal, called 
L’Arbolayre, extracted from the medical treatises of Avicenna, 
Rhazes, Constantine, Isaac and Platéaire.” 
8. Le Grant Herbier en JSrancoys was the title borne by the 
ty 8 or 9 rare subsequent editions of the Arbolayre ; one at Paris, 
‘printed about 1490 by Guillaume Nyvert, one by Jacques Nyvert, 
one by Jehan Janot, one by Denis Janot and Alain Lotrian, others 
with dates 1499 and 1521, and another printed by Alain Lotnan 
