Addit. 32622. British Museum (III).
_14th century._ Secreta fratris Alberti de Colonia ordinis
fratrum predicatorum super naturis quarundum herbarum et
lapidum et animalium in diversis libris philosophorum
reperta et in unum collecta.
Digby 147 (XXIV). Bodleian.
_14th century._ Secreta fratris Alberti ordinis fratrum
predicatorum (i) de herbis xvi (ii) de lapidibus (iii) de
animalibus (xviii).
Digby 153 (IX). Bodleian.
_14th century._ Bartholomæus Anglicus de proprietatibus rerum.
Royal 12 E. III. British Museum.
_14th century._ Bartholomæi Mini de Senis Tractatus de herbis
figuris quam plurimis coloratiō instructus.
Egerton 747 I. British Museum.
_14th century._ ? Gardener. Of the virtues of the herb
rosemary, etc.
In the Earl of Ashburnham's library
at Ashburnham Place. 122 (2. II).
_14th century._ Diversitates herbarum omnium que ad
medicinas pertinent.
Addit. 29301 (III). British Museum.
(The above has fine pen-and-ink drawings of 68 English wild
plants, with their names written in English. The MS.
belonged to the Countess of Hainault, Philippa, Queen of
England, and, lastly, to Mr. Pettiford.)
_14th century._ Herbal.
Dd. VI. 29. VII. University Library, Cambridge.
_14th (?) century._ List of herbs: English names also given.
198 (III). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
(The above once belonged to John Argenteux, Provost of
King's.)
_14th (?) century._ A list of remedies with English equivalents
and marginal additions in another hand.
200. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
_14th century._ [Recipes in Physicke] Glossary containing
many herbs.
Pepys Library 1661. Magdalene College, Cambridge.
_14th century._ Here begynneth medecines gode for divers
euelys on mennes bodys be callen erchebysschopes auicenna
and ypocras Icoupon̄ (? cophon) _i. e._ de and on hole
materie aȝen brouȝt and ferst of herbis.
Pepys Library 1661. Magdalene College, Cambridge.
(Various simples are described. After the "vertues of rose
maryne" a series of sections in verse written as prose
beginning "I wil ȝou tellyn by & bi as I fond wretyn in a
book. Þat in borwyng I be took of a gret ladyes prest þat of
gret name þe mest." The following sections are on centaurea,
solsequium, celidonia, pipernella, materfemia, mortagon,
pervinca, rosa, lilium, egrimonye. Ends "Oyle of mustard
seed is good for ache and for litarge and it is mad on þe
same maner.")
_Circ. 1400._ A treatise in rhyme on the virtues of herbs.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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