ASTER IN GART DER GESUNDHEIT 323 
“Diss krut schynet in der nacht glich den sternen an den 
hymmel und schynet also hecht das dich der mensch wenet es sy 
ein gespenst oder bedriigniss des diifels.”’ 
As a general thing this German translation is simplified from 
the Latin Ortus in other ways than merely translation ; the abbre- 
viated forms are almost entirely written out, Pli. appearing as 
Plinius, Galie. as Galienus, etc. 
As in Ortus a woodcut of Eryngium does duty for Aster, but 
much enlarged and otherwise different. In my copy this and other 
figures are rudely colored by hand, apparently by contemporary 
works ; leaves and stem are green, and the bristling flower-heads 
a blue-green. The figure occurs on the previous page; it is usual 
in this work that the figure precede the title and the plant-descrip- 
tion. The figure used for Eryngium is a thistle, or a Scolymus. 
The article following Vugwirialis (Aster) in the Ortus was on 
the plant Ypoquistidos, t. e., the hairy rose-gall; in the Gart der 
Gesundheit this disappears and the article following is Yacea, the 
pansy (with figure of the small form, the old time Ladies’ Delight 
of the gardens) ; just as the violet followed the aster in Dios- 
corides’ arrangement ; though this is a mere coincidence, as here 
the order is founded on the alphabet, and in Dioscorides it is irreg- 
ularly related to use. 
LIX. Da MANLIio 
One of the least known botanical writers of the fifteenth cen- 
tury was Giacomo da Manlio or Jacobus de Manliis, a Pavian of 
about 1450,* 
Da Manlio’s writings include his Luminare majus, a work on 
materia medica, of which editions appeared at Leyden 1536, Ven- 
ice 1540, 1551, 1561; and his Exrplanationes, peers 
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: prengel, who devotes a page to him, : 
his so-called «« Zatinobarbara aetas,”’ or just preceding Theodorus Gaza, who brought 
‘s Patres Bar- 
= 99 
Manlio, « the good man wasted oil and labor while he was endeavoring to ae 
Matthaeus Sylvaticus and Simon Genuensis with the ancients; yet he merite 
Praise bestowed on him by Euricius Cordus.”’ 
