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Cl cian, who flourifhed in the year 1210, entitled, 
1. De Virtutibus Herbarum, MS. Bodl. Digb. 75. 
2. Gilberti Liber de Viribus & Medicinis Herbarum ? 
Arborum, 6c Specierum, MS. dim Monad:. 
Sion. 
3. De Re Herbaria, Lib. I. 
(^) The Bifhop likewife mentions one John Ar 
dern, a famous furgeon, who lived at Newark i 
Nottinghamihire from 1349 to 1370, as the author 
of a MS. (now extant in Sir Hans Sloane’s library), 
entitled, Volumen Mifcellaneorum de Re Herbaria, 
Phyfica, 6c Chirurgica. 
In the Aihmolean Library are the following MSS. 
viz. 
(1 e ) (N° 7704.) entitled, A Treatife of Chirurgery, with 
an Herbal, &c. in Old Englilh, 4to. 1438. 
And another, 
(N° 77 09.) called, An Herbary, &rc. written al- 
phabetically, according to the Latin names, 
in 1443. And 
(N°7537.) entitled, A Book of Plants and Ani- 
mals, delineated in their natural colours on 
yelom, Old Englifh, A. D. 1304. 
Mr. Ames, in his Typographical Antiquities, 
p. 470, informs us, that, in the year 1516, a folio, 
entitled, “ The Create Herball,” was printed in 
( 4 ) Bibliotheca, p. 48. 
( e ) Cat. MSS. Angl. p. 341. 
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