22 C H A P T E R 2, 
eight Books, De Her bis, de Aromatihtis^ 
et de Gemmis. Bib. Bodley. 6353. 
Of nearly the fame age are faid to be, 
fome manufcripts preferved in BibL Regt'a 
Lond. under the following titles, De Na^ 
tura Pecudum, Arborum, Lapidum : and 
one De JSfaturis Her bar urn, Biftiop Tan-- 
tier mentions an Engli&man of the name 
of Arviel, who had travelled much, 
and refided fome time at Bologna^ about the 
year 1280. He left a manufcript De Bota^ 
nica,Jive Stirpimn Varia Hifloria. 
The fame author notices a manufcript, 
in the Sloanean colledlion, of John Bray, 
who lived in the time of Richard the Ild. 
He ftudied Botany and Phyfic, and received 
an annual penlion from the king, for his 
knowledge and fkill in thefe fciences. It 
is entitled, Synonyma de nominibus Herba^ 
rum. It contains the names, in Latin, 
French, and Englifh, 
Befides the Compendium Medicince of 
GiLBERTUS LeGLE, or GiLBERTUS An- 
GLicus, who alfo flourifhed in the thir- 
teenth century, a manufcript is recorded of 
6 . that 
