a8 CHAPTER 2. 
very few of the manufcripts before enume- 
rated, exhibit any confiderable portion of 
original matter ^ but, that they are princi- 
pally extrads and compilations, from pre- 
ceding writers of the lower age ; fuch as, 
Apulems^ Mmilius Macer^ Sethus^ Ifi- 
dore^ Conjlantinus^ the Pandedis of Mat- 
thew SylvaticuSs Plafearius^ fome of the 
later Arabians, and other writers of that 
ftamp. At the renovation of knowledge 
juft mentioned, thefe appear to have been 
the primary fources from v/hich our an- 
ceftors of that generation derived affiftancej; 
|ince we find many MSS, of the above au- 
In other colk<Ellons the following : 
^76. I'raciaius de Herbh, Bibl. Caj. Gonv. Cant. 
S875. " The Book of Simples ; or a Treatife of 
Herbs and their Virtues.'^ Sloan, 
1747» Herb'is ei Planus. Coll. John. Bapt. Gxon, 
1695. Notabilia de Vegctabilihus ei Plantis^ Bib, Sc. 
Petri Cant. 
S44. Nomina Herbarumy ear unique Fires, Eib. Cajc 
Gonv. 
8738. Nomina Herbarum^ it de eariim Proprietatibus^^ - 
Sloan. an F ideri2 cum priori, 
959' •i'flphabeiwn Herbanmi^ cum Synorymis, Bib=. 
Caj. Gonv. 
S746, Des Proprieih et Noms des Herhei,. 
thOF!? 
