(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 þe vertus of dyuerse
herbes, whiche ben hoot and whiche ben coold, and to how
many þinges 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 þinges 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 Cassia 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.
_Inc._ "Water of wormode is gode ... grete lordes among the
Saracens usen to drink hitt."
Addit. 37786 (I). British Museum.
_15th century._ Of the Herb Moon-wort.
_Inc._ "I schal you tel of an Erbe þat men cal Lunarie,
He ys clepit Asterion; wych ys an Erbe þat men
calleth Lunarie."
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