The Old English Herbals Part 23

Library of Gloucester Cathedral.

_15th century._ A treatise of the medical properties of herbs and other simples; arranged alphabetically, being a translation from the treatise of Johannes Platearius, _De medicinis simplicibus_.

Sloane 706 (IV). British Museum.

_15th century._ English Herbal, Secundum magistrum Gilbertum Kemor, arranged alphabetically.

Sloane 770. British Museum.

_15th century._ Of the virtues of Rosmaryne.

_Inc._ "Rosmaryne is both tre and erbe."

Sloane 7 (VI). British Museum.

_15th century._ The virtues of Rosmaryn.

_Inc._ "Rosmaryn is bothe tre and herbe."

Sloan 962 (VI). British Museum.

_15th century._ These ben sum of e vertues of Rosemary, as the Clerke of Sallerne seyde and wrote tho the Cowntes of Hynde, and sche sende hem tho here dow?tur Phylype {t} was weddyde tho e Kyng of Engelond.

_Inc._ "Rosmary ys bothe tre and herbe."

Ashmole 1438 (II-XX).

_15th (?) century._ This is ye lityl boke of ye vertuys of rosmaryn yt y{e} scole of Salerne gaderyd & compiled at instance of ye Cowntese of Henowde.... I danyel bain translatyd into vulgar ynglysch worde for werde as fonde in latyn. (The translator adds that before 1432 Rosemary was unknown in England and that it was first sent from the Countess of Hainault to her daughter Queen Philippa.)

1037 (1) (XIV). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_15th or early 16th century._ The medical virtues of Rosemary in prose. Begins, "Rosus marinus is called rose mary, the virtue of this herbe is goode." Ends, "ne brennyng of unkynd hete be at i stomake ne at {e} hert." (At the foot of page 3 is written "Robert Hychys is the ower of thys boke.")

Ashmole 1379 (I).

_15th century._ Here is vertues and seltyng of Rosmary by the ij doctours of fysyk followyng. per Galyen and Platery, and a poem beginning "As in a booke wretyne y fownd Of wise doctours in dyvers lond."

Ashmole 1379 (II).

_15th century._ Here follwyth y{e} wertues off ye rosses mare.

_Inc._ "Take rosmare and bynd hem ynne a lynnene clothe."

_Exp._ "Allsso make a bathe off ye floure and y{t} wyll make ye yonglyche."

Ashmole 1432 (V. iii).

_15th century._ The vertu of rose mary. Tak e flower of e rose mary and bynd hem.

(The above is part of a series of herbal notes, etc., interspersed by a later hand in the course of and following on a fifteenth-century book of medicine.)

Ashmole 1391 (VIII).

_15th century._ "Here men may see e vertus of dyuerse herbes, whiche ben hoot and whiche ben coold, and to how many inges they arne goode." (Other copies are in Sloane 393, f. 13; 1592, f. 39_b_; 3466, f. 78; Addit. 12056, f. 3; Lansdowne MS. 680, f. 2 and 17 B., XLVIII, f. 2, where, however, the arrangement is somewhat different. On page 2 there is the entry, "This is John Rice is boke, the which cost him xxv d.")

_15th century._ "Here men may se the vertu of dyverse herbes, and what thei be, and whiche ben hoote and which ben colde. And for howgh many thynges they ben goode."

(This MS. ends abruptly in "Calamynte.")

Ashmole 1444 (I. iii).

_15th (?) century._ "The virtues of diuerse herbes which ben hoote and which ben coolde." (With a large table of Contents prefixed.)

Sloane 393 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ Treatise on the virtues of herbs. Begins, "Aristologia rotunda. The virtue of this herbe os Ypocras says."

Sloane 962 (XII). British Museum.

_15th century._ An Herbary or alphabetical Materia Medica of herbs & other drugs; beginning with Aloen, Aloes, Aurum, and ending with Zelboarium.

_Inc._ "Aloen. To purge fleume and malancoly and colore."

_Exp._ "Zelboarium. To moysten and to norschen and to clensen and wyth cold inges to akelen. Amen."

Ashmole 1481 (II. ii).

_15th century._ An alphabeticall catalogue of Herbes.

_Inc._ "Aloen hath virtue to purge flewne."

Ee. I. 13 (I). Cambridge University Library.

_15th century._ A collection of remedies in English (with additions in other handwritings). Begins with "Aloe" and ends with "verveyn."

609 (II). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ In Latin and English. Herbal.

Aloe--Zucarium, with notes on Egrimonia, Acacia, in Latin, and on Ca.s.sia lignea and Castorium in English.

43. Jesus College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ The makynge of oyles of divers herbys.

905 (II. 4). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ These ben the precious watris & vertuous for diverse ejvellys.