14- CHAPTER r: 
not wholly difregard this ftudy ; Uncc, al-» 
though rare, there are manufcript Saxon 
herbals extant in feveral public libraries* 
The two following occur in the Bodleian : 
4123* Herbarium. Saxonice. 
5169. Liber Medicinalis, confix 
nens njirtiites herbarum. Sax- 
onice. 
1 am unable to determine whether the 
above are the fame with the two following, 
which Dr. Ducarel notices from the Har- 
leian colledion * 
5066. Entitled, Herbarium. Sax-* 
onice. 
^85; TraBatusy qui ah Afigb'Saxoni-^ 
bus dicehatur Liber Medi-^ 
CINALIS. 
The laft is faid to be an Anglo-Saxon 
verlion of Apuleius, whom I fhall have 
occafion to mention hereafter. The date 
of this tranflation is of the tenth century. 
The Saxons having been converted to 
Chriftianity at the latter end of the lixth 
century, the communication between -Br/- 
taiJi and Home became by degrees very fre- 
quent^ 
