The Old English Herbals - Part 16
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Part 16

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

I

Ma.n.u.sCRIPT HERBALS, TREATISES ON THE VIRTUES OF HERBS, ETC.

Ma.n.u.sCRIPTS WRITTEN IN LATIN AFTER 1400 ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LIST.

_9th (?) century._ Liber dialogorum Gregorii c.u.m libro medicinali in duabus partibus quarum altera tractat de virtutibus herbarum et "Herbarium" vulgo dicitur altera de virtutibus lapidum.

Hutton 76. Bodleian.

(This is the translation of Gregory's Dialogues made by Bishop Werefirth of Worcester. The MS. formerly belonged to Worcester Cathedral.)

_10th century (Lacnunga)._ Liber medicinalis de virtutibus herbarum.

Harleian 585. British Museum.

_10th century._ S. Columbarii Epist. versibus Adonicis scripta. Ad frontem prima paginae hujus codicis scribuntur manu contemporanea quae dam de virtutibus herbarum et versiculi nonnuli.

Harleian 3091. British Museum.

_10th century._ Leech Book of Bald.

Royal 12 D. British Museum.

_11th century._ Peri Didaxeon. (Saxon translation.)

Harleian 6258. British Museum.

_11th century._ Herbarium Apuleii Platonici quod accepit ab Ascolapio.

Cott. Vit. C. III. British Museum.

_11th century._ Incipiunt Capites (capita) libri medicinalis.

Payne 62. Bodleian.

(This is a version of Herbarium Apuleii Platonici.)

_11th (?) century._ De herba Betonica. Apuleius or Antonius Musa.

CLx.x.xIX. Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

_11th century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

Ashmole 1431.

_11th (?) century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

CLx.x.x. Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

(This copy once belonged to John Holyngborne.)

_11th century._ Incipiunt nomina multarum rerum Anglice.

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

(In the list occurs Nomina herbarum.)

_12th (?) century._ Dioscorides de virtutibus herbarum.

Jesus College, Cambridge.

(Formerly at Durham.)

_12th century._ Exceptiones de libro Henrici de herbis variis.

Digby 13 (VIII). Bodleian.

(The above was compiled, according to Leland and others, by Henry of Huntingdon.)

_12th century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

Harleian 4986. British Museum.

_12th century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

Harleian 5294. British Museum.

_12th century._ De virtutibus herbarum.

Sloane 1975. British Museum.

_Late 12th century._ Imago Medici Conjurantis Herbas.

Harleian 1585. British Museum.

_12th century._ De viribus herbarum.

Harleian 4346. British Museum.

(In verse, commonly ascribed to Macrus.)

_12th century._ Macer de viribus herbarum.

Sloane 84. British Museum.

_12th century._ De viribus herbarum. Liber Omad.