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cold, dry or moist, a prolix account of the diseases for which the 
plant is applicable, and the method of using it. Over 400 of the 
chapters represent plants ; about 150 are English plants, but are 
not so designated; many of the figures are imaginary, many are 
misplaced ; several times the same figure occurs used for different 
plants ; those with animals are particularly absurd; that of the 
mandrake, Pulteney remarks, “exhibits two perfectly human 
figures, with the plant growing from the head of each”’; a familiar 
mediaeval conception. * 
Works which are very largely based upon the Circa instans also 
include the following, which I treat separately : 
10. Natura Rerum, in Latin, by Thomas de Cantiprato, a 
Fleming, 1244; never printed. 
11. De... plantis, by Albert Magnus, about 1265; in Latin; 
printed 1517. 
12. Kuralium, etc., of Crescenzi, 1305; his Book 6 is very 
largely drawn from Circa instans. 
13. Buch der Natur, translation of Cantiprato into German of 
Bavarian dialect, by Conrad von Megenberg, 1349, printed 1475 
14. Aggregator Practicus, in Latin, author unknown, Italian or 
German? of perhaps 1350; printed circa 1473? etc., and with 
German and Italian translations, 1480? etc. 
15. Ortus Sanitatis, in Latin, author unknown, Italian? of per- 
haps 1400? printed 1491, and earlier but undated; early French, 
Dutch and Lower-Saxon translations, printed 1492, etc., more OF 
less close to the original. 
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* This 1526 volume is a small folio, of about 350 unnumbered pages; its title 1s 
of Herbes and there gracyous vertues which God hath ordeyned for our prosperous 
welfare & helth, for they hele and cure all manner of dyseases & sickenesses that fall or 
misfortune to all manner of creatoures of God created. 
** Practysed by many expert and wyse masters, as Avicenna and other, etc. /! : 
it geveth full parfyte understandyng of the book lately prented by me (Peter Treveris) 
named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery. 
; ‘* Imprynted at London in Southwarke by me Peter Treveris, dwelling in the 
Sign of the Wodows, 1526, the 27th day of July,”’ 
See Richard Pulteney, “ Historical and biographical Sketches of ... Botany in Eng- 
land’’: 46-50, London, 1790. See also Meyer, 4: 391. 
