Sloane 147 (V). British Museum.
It begins--
"Of erbs xxiiij I woll you tell by and by
Als I fond wryten in a boke at I in boroyng toke
Of a gret ladys preste of gret name she barest
At Betony I wol begyn at many vertuos het within."
_14th century._ De virtutibus herbarum quarundam.
Ashmole 1397.
(On the medical uses of some herbs. Begins, "Bytayne and
wormewode is gode for woundes.")
_14th (?) century._ List of names of herbs in Latin and
English.
1377 II. Trinity College, Cambridge.
Begins, "Apium Commune Smalache."
_1352._ De preperacione herbarum. A treatise on the medicinal
qualities of and modes of preparing herbs, quoting Serapion.
A short list giving first the Latin and then the Irish name, etc.
23 F. 19. Royal Irish Academy.
_14th century._ Vocabulary of herbs in Latin and Welsh.
Addit. 14912. British Museum.
_14th century._ Meddygon myddfai or the Practice of Physic
of the Myddvai Doctors: a collection of Recipes for various
diseases and injuries, prognostics, charms, virtues of
herbs, etc., by the physicians of Myddvai co. Caermarthen.
Addit. 14912 (I). British Museum.
(In Welsh.)
_14th century._ Nomina herbarum. Latin and English.
Addit. 17866. British Museum.
_14th century._ De virtutibus herbæ.
Arundel 507. British Museum.
(The above once belonged to Richard Seybrok, a monk of
Durham.)
_14th-15th century._ Nomina quarundam ... plantarum arborum.
Harleian 210 (XI). British Museum.
(In French and English.)
_14th-15th century._ Names of herbs in Latin and English.
Harleian 2558 (I). British Museum.
_14th century._ Herbal. Latin and English.
(Directions in gathering herbs, flowers, roots, etc.)
Sloane 2584. British Museum.
_14th century._ Liber cinomorum (synonomorum) de nominibus
herbarum.
(Latin, French, English.)
Bodleian 761.
_1360-70._ Nomina herbarum. (Latin, French, English.)
Bodleian 761 (VI. B.).
Two texts from this MS. were published by E. Mannele
Thompson, _Chronicon Galpedi de Baker de Swynebroke_.
Clarendon Press, 1889. He gives a list of the contents of
this volume, calling this item fol. 158, "Medicinal notes
from Roger Bacon in Latin." Interpolated by
fifteenth-century writer in spaces left vacant by the
fourteenth-century scribe are many recipes and much
astrology.
_14th century._ Virtues of rosemary in prose and verse.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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