230 Aster History ; GARIOPONTUS 
masters.” Gariopontus, says Giacosa,* ‘‘ stands together with his 
predecessor Petroncello, at that period in Salernitan history when 
the previous sparse and scattered materials and diverse MSS. were 
put together and organized into a body of medicine.” In his case, 
as with other eminent codifiers, there has been a tendency to ascribe 
many works to him with which he probably had nothing to do ; 
Meyer, in 1856, bestowing on him several which Giacosa, writing 
in 1901 with new materials, finds must have reached their present 
form several centuries earlier. These new researches, issued since 
the present work first went to press, have completely changed the 
position occupied by Gariopontus in botanical literature, and I 
therefore present the subject in greater detail. 
The following extant works have been ascribed to Galen, but 
seem in their present form to be redactions by Gariopontus from 
various authors : 
1. The Passtonarius, 1. ¢., treatise on passtons, that is, diseases. 
This work was first published 1526 at Lyons as ‘ Galent 
passionarius, and 1531 at Basle as ‘“ Garioponti ... mpagsetov libri 
5, etc. The Basle MS. bears the title “‘ Passionarium seu Practica 
morborum Galeni, Theodori Prisciani, Alexandri et Pauli, quem 
Gariopontus quidam Salernitanus ejusque socii una cum Albicio T 
emendavit, ab erroribus vindicavit, et in hunc ordinem redegit.” i 
2. De Dynamidiis, i. ¢., ‘concerning the medical powers of 
plants,”’ 2 books, printed among the spurious works of Galen (as 
in the 1556 Venice edition in Latin) ; attributed by Meyer, fol- 
lowing Renzi, to Gariopontus; by Giacosa to various unknown 
writers anterior to the middle ages. Itis called the Dinamidii of 
Galen by Constantinus Africanus, who cites “a rearrangement of 
it” as among his sources, valuable to him “as it treats of the 
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* Magistri Salernitani nondum editi. Piero Giacosa, editor ; ; Fratelli Bocca, pub- 
lisher ; Turin, Igo! 
TA writer otherwise unknown ; Renzi searched in vain for other Salernitan refer- 
ence to him. 
The Pasaoas still exists in an 11th century MS. dating back nearly or quite 
7. ’ . . 
to Gariopontus’ lifetime, the Codex 1496 of be Bibliotheca Angelica at Rome, which 
* . ord 
abe et aliorum.’’ A slightly later hind has added, perhaps in the next geet 
ation, ‘* Auctor istius libri fuit Garimpotus, et Sse pee eum ex epistola Galieni ad 
Glauconem et ex libris Pauli, Alexandri, et Theodori. Modern criticism, says Giacos4 
‘confirms these sources, age finds tus hie ancient authors cited by it, by 9 name of 
Aurelius and Aescul lapius, ’ 
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