"Here followeth the cunnynge and sage clerk Macer tretynge
and opynly shewy{th} the vertuys worthy and Commendable
propyrtes of many & dyuerse herbys and her vertuys of the
whyche the firste is mugworte or modirworte."
Sloane 393. British Museum.
_15th century._ The vertuys of Erbys aftyr Galyon Ypocras
and Socrates.
Lansdowne 680 I. British Museum.
_15th century._ Here folwythe the vertu of Erbis. Isop is
hoot and drie in ij degreis so seith Ipocrace if a man
drynke it fastynge.
Ashmole 1477 (III-IV).
_15th century._ Aemilius Macer. Of the virtues of herbs.
English translation.
Sloane 140. British Museum.
_15th century._ Aemilius Macer. Of the virtues of herbs.
English translation.
Sloane 2269. British Museum.
_15th century._ Aemilius Macer. De virtutibus Herbarum.
English translation.
In the library of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst
of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk.
_15th century._ List of herbs in Latin and English.
Sloane 3548. British Museum.
_15th century._ Herbal.
_Inc._ "Of herbys now I
Will you telle by and by.
As I fynde wryten in a boke
That in borrowyng I betoke
Of a gret ladyes preste," etc.
_Expl._ "It dryveth away all foul moysteris
And distroyeth venym and wykyd humours
It distroyeth the morfew
And dispoyling to the leper."
Dd. X. 44 (VIII). Cambridge University Library.
_15th century._ An Herbary þe whiche ys draw out of Circa
Instans and hyt towcherþ schortlyche þ{e} principal vertuys
and þ{e} special effectes of herbis and droggis þ{t} be þ{e}
most comyne in use, and her dyvers grees of qualites or yher
complexions and her propur and most special kynd of
worcheyng.
(At the end of every alphabetical division of this work is
left a page or more, blank, for the purpose of inserting
additional matter. There are several additions by old hands.
Some additions on the margins have been torn off.)
Ashmole 1443 (IV).
_15th century._ Treatise on herbs. 169 chapters, with table
of Contents prefixed.
_Inc._ "Agnus castus is a herbe that men clep Tutsayne or
Park levis."
Arundel 272 (II). British Museum.
_15th century._ An Herbal. Arranged alphabetically to the
letter P.
_Inc._ "Agnus castus is an herbe," etc. Breaks off in
"pulegium rurale." (Other copies--both ending with S--are in
Addit. 4698, f. 16_b_, and Arundel 272, f. 36.)
Royal 18 A. VI. (VI). British Museum.
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