Chapter VII: The Later Seventeenth-Century Herbals (2)

"I have mentioned in the ensuing Treatise of Herbs the Planet that Rules every Herb for this end, that you may the better understand their Nature and may gather them when they are in their full strength, which is when the Planet is especially strong, and then in his own Hour gather your Herb; therefore that you may know what hour belongs to every Planet take notice that Astrologers do assign the seven days of the week to the seven planets, as to the Sun or [~Sun~] Sunday; to the Moon or [~Moon~] Monday; to Mars or [~Mars~] Tuesday; to Mercury or [~Mercury~] Wednesday; to Jupiter or [~Jupiter~] Thursday; to Venus or [~Venus~] Friday; to Saturn or [~Saturn~] Saturday. And know that every Planet governs the first Hour after Sun Rise upon his day and the next Planet to him takes the next Hour successively in this order, [~Saturn~], [~Jupiter~], [~Mars~], [~Sun~], [~Venus~], [~Mercury~], [~Moon~], [~Saturn~], [~Jupiter~]. So be it any day every Seventh Hour comes to each Planet successively, as if the day be Thursday then the first hour after Sun Rising is Jupiter's, the next [~Mars~], the next [~Sun~], next [~Venus~]. So on till it come to [~Jupiter~] again. And if you gather Herbs in their Planetary Hour you may expect to do Wonders, otherwise not; to Astrologers I need say nothing; to others this is as much as can easily be learnt."--_The Compendious Herbal_, by John Archer, One of his Majesties Physicians in Ordinary.

[125] In this connection he quotes Dr. Pinck, Warden of New College, Oxford, who, when he was "almost fourscore yeares old, would rise very betimes in the morning and going into his Garden he would take a Mattock or Spade, digging there an hour or two, which he found very advantageous to his health."

[126] Published 1651. The earliest copy in the British Museum is the second edition, 1653.

[127] See _Arcana Fairfaxiana_.

[128] Lord Fairfax had only a daughter (who married the Duke of Buckingham), and the son of Henry and Mary Fairfax succeeded to the title.

[129] Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1913.

[130] Dr. Stephens was the author of the _Catalogue of the Oxford Botanical Gardens_.

[131] Sloane 27466.

[132] The competition for "Doggett's Coat and badge" amongst Thames Watermen still takes place every August.

[133] This house is to be seen in Hogarth's "Morning."

[134] Francis Thompson, _An Anthem of Earth_.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

I

MANUSCRIPT HERBALS, TREATISES ON THE VIRTUES OF HERBS, ETC.

MANUSCRIPTS WRITTEN IN LATIN AFTER 1400 ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LIST.

_9th (?) century._ Liber dialogorum Gregorii cum 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 paginæ hujus codicis scribuntur
manu contemporanea quæ 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.

CLXXXIX. Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

_11th century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

Ashmole 1431.

_11th (?) century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

CLXXX. 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.

Digby 13 (VII). Bodleian.

(It is not known who Omad was.)

_12th century._ Macer de virtutibus herbarum.

Digby 4 (XI). Bodleian.

(The last folio is in thirteenth-century hand.)

_12th century._ Macer de virtutibus herbarum.

Library of Lincoln Cathedral.

_12th century._ Herbarium Apuleius.

Library of Eton College.

_12th or 13th century._ De negociis specierum. Inc. circa
instans negocium in simplicibus.

Trinity College, Cambridge.

_13th century._ Epistola antonii muse ad agrippam de herba
betonica.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

_13th century._ Antonii Musæ libellus de virtutibus herbæ
betonicæ.

Ashmole 1462 (VIII). Oxford.

_13th century._ [Synopsis libelli Antonii Musæ.]

Ashmole 1462 (II).

_13th century._ Synopsis Herboralii Apuleii.

Ashmole 1462 (III).

_13th century._ Herboralium Apuleii Platonis.

Ashmole 1462 (IX).

(The names of the herbs are given in English in rubric by a
hand of the fourteenth century.)

_13th century._ Herbarium apuleii platonici.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

_13th century._ Aemilii Macri de viribus Herbarum.

Royal 12 B. British Museum.

_13th century._ Aemilii Macri Carmen de viribus herbarum.

Ashmole (1398. II. v).

_13th century._ Liber Macri de viribus Herbarum.

Ee. VI. 39. II. Cambridge University Library.

_Late 13th century._ Aemilii Macri de Herbarum viribus.

(Formerly belonged to St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.)

Royal 12 E. XXIII. (III). British Museum.

_Late 13th century._ Liber Macri de Naturis herbarum.

Kk. IV. 25. (XVI). Cambridge University Library.

_13th (?) century._ Liber Macri de viribus herbarum.

438 (III). Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

_13th century._ De simplicibus medicinis.

505 (II. 2). Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

_13th century._ Poema de virtutibus herbarum macro vulgo
adscriptum.

Arundel 283 (I). British Museum.

_13th century._ Aemilius Macri (Fragment).

Library of Lord Clifden, Lanhydrock, Cornwall.

_13th century._ Le livre de toutes herbes appele "Circa instans."

Sloane 1977. British Museum.

_13th century._ Le livre de toutes herbes appele "Circa instans."

Sloane 3525. British Museum.

Incipit [liber de simplicibus medicinis ordine alphabetico
qui appellatur] "Circa Instans" Platearii.

Ashmole 1428 (II).

_Late 13th century._ Circa Instans.

All Souls College, Oxford.

_13th century._ De medicinis simplicibus sive de virtutibus
Herbarum libellus.

Balliol College, Oxford.

_Late 13th century._ De simplicibus medicinis.

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

_13th-14th century._ Liber cogitanti michi de virtute
simplicium medianarum.

Trinity College, Cambridge.

_13th-14th century._ Herbarium.

Addit. 22636 (XIII). British Museum.

_13th-15th century._ [Lines on the virtues of the scabious
plant.]

Addit. 33381 (XXXVIII). British Museum.

_Late 13th century._ De collectione herbarum.

Arundel 369 (II). British Museum.

_13th century._ De Naturis Herbarum.

Royal 8c IX. (X). British Museum.

(From St. Mary's, Reading.)

_13th century._ De virtutibus herbarum rhythmice.

Sloane 146 (III). British Museum.

_13th century._ Præfatiuncula in totum præsens volumen.

_Inc._ In hoc continentur libri quattuor medicine Ypocrates
Platonis Apoliensis urbis de diversis herbis.

Ashmole 1462 (I).

_Late 13th century._ Hic sunt virtutes scabiose distincte.

Digby 86 (LXXXV). Bodleian.

_13th (?) century._ De proprietate herbarum.

Laud Latin 86 (XIII). Bodleian.

_13th-14th century._ Liber qui vocatur "Circa Instans."

Peterhouse College, Cambridge.

_13th-14th century._ Circa instans Platearii.

Trinity College, Cambridge.

_13th-14th century._ Versus de Ysope (Hyssop).

Harleian 524 (CLXI). British Museum.

_Circ. 1300._ De herba Basilisca seu Gentiana.

Harleian 2851 (XXIX). British Museum.

(Written in England.)

_13th century._ Beginning of a history of trees and plants
which ends abruptly on page 3.

Harleian 4751. British Museum.

_Late 13th-14th century._ [Verses--including 19 lines on
various herbs.]

Royal 12 c. VI. (VI). British Museum.

(Belonged to Bury St. Edmunds Abbey.)

_Circ. 1360-70._ Le liure de herberie en français qui est
apele "Circa Instans," translated from Johannes Platearius,
_De simplici medicina_.

Bodley 76 I. Bodleian.

_14th century._ MS. on the virtues of herbs.

Library of Eton College.

_14th century._ Macri p[oe]ma de Viribus herbarum;
præmittitur tabula.

Harleian 2558 (XXIV). British Museum.

_14th century._ De viribus herbarum p[oe]ma.

Sloane 420 (XL). British Museum.

_14th century._ De viribus herbarum.

Rawl. C. 630. British Museum.

_14th century._ Macer de virtutibus herbarum.

Sloane 340 (XV). British Museum.

_14th century._ De virtutibus herbarum.

Digby 95. Bodleian.

_Early 15th (?) century._ Macer. Of virtues of herbis.

Hutton 29. Bodleian.

_14th century._ Aemilii Macri de Herbarum viribus.

Royal 12 B. III (I). British Museum.

_14th century._ Aemilii Macri Carmen de viribus medicinalibus
herbarum cum nominibus earum Anglia explicatis.

Ashmole 1397 (E. XV). Oxford.

_14th century._ Macer de viribus herbarum.

Ff. VI. 53 (X). Cambridge University Library.

_14th century._ Macer de Herbarum viribus.

36 (I. i). Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

_Early 14th century._ Aemilius Macer. Carmen de viribus
herbarum.

Arundel 225 (II). British Museum.

_14th century._ De viribus herbarum.

Harleian 3353 (I). British Museum.

_14th century._ [De virtutibus Ros marine in English.]

759 (XI). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_14th century._ Herbal in alphabetical order with descriptions.

Arch. Selden 335. Bodleian.

_14th century._ On simples. Latin and English.

1398 (III). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_Late 14th century._ Herbarium.

C. XIII (IV). St. John's College, Oxford.

_14th century._ Here begynnyt a tretys of diverse herbis and
furst of Bytayne (Old English poem of 43 couplets).

Begins--

"To tellyn of bytayne I have grete mynde
And sythen of othur herbys os I fynde.
Furst at bytayne I wyl begynne
Yat many vertues berys wt inne."

Last line--

"Yche stounde whyle it mai on erthe be founde."

Ashmole 1397 (II-IV).

_Early 14th century._ Experimenta Alberti Magni de herbis
lapidibus et animalibus.

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 colorati[=o] 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 Icoupo[=n] (? cophon) _i. e._ de and on hole
materie a[gh]en brou[gh]t 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 [gh]ou 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.

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.

Digby 95 (VII). Bodleian.

_14th century._ Of the virtues of herbs.

Digby 95 (VIII). Bodleian.

_Late 14th century._ Herbarium Anglo-Latinum, with many
recipes interpolated in a later hand.

MS. Grearerd. Bodleian.

_Late 14th century._ Names of herbs in alphabetical order
with a few English interpolations. The MS. comes from
Llanthony Priory and was given by R. Marchall.

312 (X). Library of Lambeth Palace.

_14th century._ De simplici medicina John Platearius.

(This MS. is supposed to have belonged to the Countess of
Hainault and subsequently to Queen Philippa of Hainault.)

Addit. 29301 (IV). British Museum.

_14th century._ Nomina Herbarum Medicinalium, with some
English and French names.

Phillipps MS. 4047 (II) now in the
library of T. Fitzroy Fenwick, Esq.,
Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham.

_14th century._ Here ben the virtues of Rosemarye
(purporting to be taken from "the litel boke that the scole
of Sallerne wroat to the Cuntasse of Henowd and sche sente
the copie to hir dou[gh]ter Philip the quene of England").

_Inc._ "Rosemarye is boþe tre and herbe hoot and drie."

_Exp._ "Wasche him þerwiþ and he schal be hool."

Royal 17 A. III. (III). British Museum.

_1373._ Translation of Macer _De viribus herbarum_ by John
Lelamour, Schoolmaster of Hereford.

Sloane 5. British Museum.

_14th century._ Particulars of simples arranged under the
various months.

754. Trinity College, Cambridge.

_14th century._ A herbal in Latin and English beginning with
Allium.

(Given by Thomas Gale Dean of York.)

759 (VII). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Aemili Macri de virtutibus herbarum. The
names of the plants are explained in English in the margins,
and there are also some remedies in English.

Ashmole 1481 (III).

_15th century._ Macer. De Virtutibus Herbarum. The English
names of the herbs are also given. (Written by Nicholas
Kyrkeby of Saint Albans.)

VI. 15. Bishop Cosin's Library, Durham University.

_15th century._ Herbal in three books.

_Inc._ "Mogworte or brotheworte ys clepid archemisia ... and
this medicine ys a nobil medycyne."

_Ends_, "Here endeth the third part of Macer. And here
begynneth a fewe herbes which Macer foryete no[gh]t nor thei
ben nort founden in his book."

Addit. 37786 (II). British Museum.

_15th century._ The treatise of Macer intitled "De viribus
Herbarum," translated into English.

"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.

_15th century._ A treatise on the virtues of Herbs;
beginning "Agnus castus ys Anglice herbe that men cally the
tutsayne or ells parkelenus."

Ashmole 1432 (V. i).

_Mid 15th century._ Herbal with book of recipes.

_Inc._ "Agnus castus is an herbe."

Bodleian 463 (A).

_15th century._ Liber de Herbarum virtutibus.

_Inc._ "Agnus castus ys an herbe that cleepeth Toussane."

Laud Misc. 553 (i). Bodleian.

_15th century._ An Herbal with the properties of the
different herbs in alphabetical order, with a table
prefixed.

_Inc._ "Agnus castus ys an herbe that me clapys Tustans or
Porke levys."

329. Balliol College, Oxford.

_15th (?) century._ "An English Herbal."

Begins, "Agnus Castus," etc.

Harleian 3840 (II). British Museum.

_15th century._ A treatise on the virtues of herbs.

Begins, "A bed ymade of Agnus Castus."

Sloane 297 (XVIII). British Museum.

_15th century._ Latin-English dictionary of herbs.

_Inc._ "Alleluya Wodsoure stubwort."

_Expl._ "Quinquefolium fyveleved gras."

Dd. XI. 45 (XII). Cambridge University Library.

_15th century._ A book of the medical virtues of herbs,
described in alphabetical order.

_Inc._ "Anet ys an herbe that ys clepyt anet oþer dylle."

_Expl._ "doyth a way the fow[gh]e or the fragelys."

Ashmole 1447 (IV. i).

_15th century._ "Yes ben y{e} vertuse of betayn."

Ashmole 1438 (II. vii).

_15th century._ A treatise of the virtues of certain herbs.
Begins, "Betaigne is hot and drie in þre degrees, and so
seyth Ypocras, and it is an herbe of many faire vertues."

Ashmole 1438 (XXV).

_15th century._ Aemilius Macer. De virtutibus herbarum. (In
French, Latin and English.)

Digby 29 (XXXVII). Bodleian.

_15th century._ Of the virtues of herbs--seemingly out of
Macer. The following verse is prefixed:

"This booke ys drawe be fesyke
That Macer made for hem that ben seeke
The vertu of herbis h[=e]t descrieth ryght wel
And help of mannys helthe every del."

Sloane 963 (XVIII). British Museum.

_15th century._ Macer on the virtues of herbs.

_Inc._ "Mugworte or brotheworte is clepid Arthemisia."

_Exp._ "drynkys juse of thys erbe."

Ee. I. 15 (III_a_). University Library, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Macer. "Vertues worthe & commendable
propertees of many & diverse herbes." In three books.

Rawl. C. 81 (V). Bodleian.

_15th century._ Part of the poem De virtutibus Herbarum. The
English names of plants are occasionally given in the
margin. In the volume containing Froucestre's History of the
Monastery.

Library of Gloucester Cathedral.

_15th century._ A treatise of the medical properties of
herbs and other simples; arranged alphabetically, being a
translation from the treatise of Johannes Platearius, _De
medicinis simplicibus_.

Sloane 706 (IV). British Museum.

_15th century._ English Herbal, Secundum magistrum Gilbertum
Kemor, arranged alphabetically.

Sloane 770. British Museum.

_15th century._ Of the virtues of Rosmaryne.

_Inc._ "Rosmaryne is both tre and erbe."

Sloane 7 (VI). British Museum.

_15th century._ The virtues of Rosmaryn.

_Inc._ "Rosmaryn is bothe tre and herbe."

Sloan 962 (VI). British Museum.

_15th century._ These ben sum of þe vertues of Rosemary, as
the Clerke of Sallerne seyde and wrote tho the Cowntes of
Hynde, and sche sende hem tho here dow[gh]tur Phylype þ{t}
was weddyde tho þe Kyng of Engelond.

_Inc._ "Rosmary ys bothe tre and herbe."

Ashmole 1438 (II-XX).

_15th (?) century._ This is ye lityl boke of ye vertuys of
rosmaryn yt y{e} scole of Salerne gaderyd & compiled at
instance of ye Cowntese of Henowde.... I danyel bain
translatyd into vulgar ynglysch worde for werde as fonde in
latyn. (The translator adds that before 1432 Rosemary was
unknown in England and that it was first sent from the
Countess of Hainault to her daughter Queen Philippa.)

1037 (1) (XIV). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_15th or early 16th century._ The medical virtues of
Rosemary in prose. Begins, "Rosus marinus is called rose
mary, the virtue of this herbe is goode." Ends, "ne brennyng
of unkynd hete be at þi stomake ne at þ{e} hert." (At the
foot of page 3 is written "Robert Hychys is the ower of thys
boke.")

Ashmole 1379 (I).

_15th century._ Here is vertues and seltyng of Rosmary by
the ij doctours of fysyk followyng. per Galyen and Platery,
and a poem beginning "As in a booke wretyne y fownd Of wise
doctours in dyvers lond."

Ashmole 1379 (II).

_15th century._ Here follwyth y{e} wertues off ye rosses
mare.

_Inc._ "Take rosmare and bynd hem ynne a lynnene clothe."

_Exp._ "Allsso make a bathe off ye floure and y{t} wyll make
ye yonglyche."

Ashmole 1432 (V. iii).

_15th century._ The vertu of rose mary. Tak þe flower of þe
rose mary and bynd hem.

(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."

Harleian 2407 (IX). British Museum.

_15th century._ Virtues of the onion, garlic and pennyroyal.

Begins, "Here beeth þe vertues of the Oynoun."

Royal 17 B. XLVIII. (II). British Museum.

_15th century._ Miscellaneous recipes and extracts from
herbals.

Begins, "Rosa rebia [_sic_] ys an herbe that men clepyth
rede rosys."

Royal 18 A. VI. (VII). British Museum.

_15th (?) century._ A treatise of herbs and the several
medicaments compounded from them.

Begins, "The roose as saith the philosopher Plinius hath
doble verteus."

Sloane 67 (II). British Museum.

_15th century._ A treatise of herbs, alphabetically
arranged. (Imperfect.)

Begins, "Carabana id est wylde hempe."

Sloane 297 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ A treatise of the temperature and virtues of
simples alphabetically arranged.

Sloane 965 (VII). British Museum.

_15th century._ "Here men may se the vertues of herbes."

Bodley 463 (B. iii).

_15th century._ Liber de herbarum virtutibus.

_Inc._ "Here may men se the vertu of herbes which ben hot
and which ben colde."

Laud Misc. 553 (II). Bodleian.

_15th century._ Vertues of Herbes.

_Inc._ Apium is an herbe that men call smallache or marche.

Addit. A. 106 (A. IV). Bodleian.

_15th century._ "Here begynnythe to mak waters of erbys
sondry and þer vertues and howe þei schalle be made in
stillatorie."

_Inc._ "In þe fyrst of dyl. The water is of gret vertue."

Ashmole 141 B (II. v).

_15th century._ Instructions for the proper time of
gathering simples by name.

_Inc._ "Medysines ben done, some by leves [som] bi sedis,
som by flowres and some bi fretes."

Ashmole 1481 (II. iii). Oxford.

_15th century._ The medical use "Of waters distilled from
Sundry plants & flowers."

(The above belonged to Richard Saunders, the Astrologer.)

Ashmole 1489 (II. ii).

_15th century._ Alphabetical Herbary.

_Inc._ "Agrymonia is an herbe."

Bodley 463 (B. ii).

_Late 15th century._ Virtues of herbs.

_Inc._ "Here a man maye see."

Selden, _supra_ 75 (E. VI). Bodleian.

_Late 15th century._ A treatise on the properties of plants,
fruits, meat and drinks as food and medicine. (In Welsh.)

Jesus College, Oxford.

_15th century._ Names of herbs.

(Given by Humphrey Moseley, 1649).

69. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Verses in English and Latin on herbs and
spices.

(Given by W. Moore.)

176 (I. 2). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Recipes in English and Latin.

(Given by W. Moore.)

230 (II). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Herbes for a saled.

(This once belonged to Nicholas Butler.)

414 (_d_). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Collection of recipes in English, probably
all by John Ardern of Newark. Illustrated with rough
coloured drawings of herbs, instruments and patients. It
begins, "This is a mirrour of bloodletynge in þe weche þey
þt wolen beholden it diligently," etc. There is a recipe in
French for Greek fire. _Exp._ "tabula libri Sirurgice." Mag.
Joh. Arderne de Newerk.

(Given by Humphrey Moseley, 1649.)

69. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Here begynnythe an herball of namys &
vertues of diverse herbys aftyr letterys of the a, b, c,
etc.

905 (I). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ Virtues of various plants.

905 (II. 4). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_15th century._ On the virtues of herbs.

_Inc._ "This booke is drawe be Fesyk. That Macer made for
hem þat been seck. Y{e} vertu of herbis it discryeth ryght
wel."

1637 (I. i). Trinity College, Cambridge.

_1485._ A collection of the Latin and English names of
plants with their descriptions and medical virtues.

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

_15th century._ Alphabetical list of herbs. (Names partly in
Latin and partly in Irish.)

2306. Royal Irish Academy.

_15th century._ Alphabetical treatise on herbs and their
uses. In Latin and Irish.

1315. Trinity College, Dublin.

_15th-16th century._ List of plants used in medicine. (In
Latin and Irish.)

1334 (V). Trinity College, Dublin.

_15th century._ Vertues of rose maryne þat er contened &
compyled in þis space & ar gadirde out of bukes of gude
philosofirs & of oþer wyse clerkes.

V. IV. 1. Durham University, Bishop Cosins Library.

_Late 15th century._ Herbal in Welsh.

In Mr. Wynne's library at Peniarth, Merioneth.

_15th century._ The vertu of Rose-marry & other Secrets.

Harleian 1735 (XII). British Museum.

_15th century._ Verses on the virtues of Rosmaryne.

Sloane 3215. British Museum.

_15th century._ Vertues of the herb betayne.

Rawl. C. 211 (II). Bodleian.

_15th century._ Treatise on the vertues of herbs.

Addit. 12056. British Museum.

_15th century._ Treatise on the vertues of herbs & metals in
alphabetical order. In Irish.

Addit. 15403. British Museum.

_Late 15th century._ Herbal.

_Inc._ Agnus Castus is an herbe.

Harleian 3840 (III). British Museum.

_15th century._ A fragment of a treatise on the virtues of
herbs.

Sloane 7 (III). British Museum.

_15th century._ An alphabetical herbal.

Sloane 297 (VII). British Museum.

_15th century._ "Of the vyrtues of the Asche tree," etc.

Sloane 297 (XVII). British Museum.

_15th century._ The first part of an intended complete body
of Pharmacy in seven parts. The first part treats of herbs,
which are alphabetically arranged in 150 chapters.

Sloane 404 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ On the virtues of herbs, with recipes for
various disorders. The last is a charm "for alle maner
woundys."

Sloane 540 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ For to knowe the ix Sauge levys.

Sloane 706 (VIII). British Museum.

_15th century._ Treatise on the virtues of herbs
alphabetically arranged.

Sloane 1088 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ Herbes necessarie for a Gardyn.

Sloane 120 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ On the virtues of herbs.

Sloane 2403. British Museum.

_15th century._ Poem on the virtues of herbs.

Sloane 2457. British Museum.

_15th century._ Treatise on the virtues of herbs.

Sloane 2460. British Museum.

_Early 15th century._ A fewe othre dyverse herbes with her
vertues wich be not yfound in the bokes of Macer.

Rawl. C. 212 (II). Bodleian.

_15th (?) century._ A treatise on medicinal herbs. (In
Irish.)

Royal Irish Academy, 23 H 19.

_15th century._ A fragment of a treatise on the medicinal
properties of herbs. (In Irish.)

Royal Irish Academy, 2306.

_15th (?) century._ A treatise on herbs and their medicinal
qualities and the mode of preparing and administering them.
(In Irish.)

Royal Irish Academy, 2395.

_15th-16th century._ Alphabetical list of plants used in
medicine and the manner of preparing them. (In Latin and
Irish.)

1334 (II). Trinity College, Dublin.

_1415._ Alphabetical list of plants used in medicine. At the
end is the transcriber's name, "Aedh Buide O'Leigin," and
the date 1415. Also the name of the person from whom the
original MS. was purchased--"Tad hg O'Cuinn bachelor in
physic." (In Irish.)

1343 (II). Trinity College, Dublin.

_15th century._ A dictionary of herbs in Latin and English.

In the Marquis of Bath's library at Longleat, Wilts.

_15th century._ Treatise without title on the virtues of
herbs.

In Lord Leconfield's library
at Petworth House, Sussex.

_15th century._ Medicinal qualities of herbs.

Phillipps MS. 11077, now in the
library of T. Fitzroy Fenwick, Esq.,
Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham.

II

ENGLISH HERBALS

(Printed books)

The Herbals are listed according to authors, or, in the case of anonymous works, according to the names by which they are usually known, and all known editions are given. In cases where only one copy of an edition is known the library where it is to be found is indicated. Editions mentioned in Ames, Hazlitt, etc., but of which no copies are now known, are listed, but in each case the fact that the only mention of them is to be found in one of the above is stated. [] indicates books which are not strictly herbals, but whose omission would make any bibliography of herbals incomplete.

_Bartholomæus Anglicus._

1495. [Bartholomæus Anglicus. De proprietatibus rerum.] The
seventeenth book of the above--containing nineteen
chapters--is on herbs. It was the first original work on
plants by an English writer to be printed, and the woodcut
at the beginning of the book was probably the first
botanical illustration to be printed in an English book.

There is the following note on a slip in the copy of this
edition in the British Museum. "This is generally considered
to be the finest copy known of a work which is certainly the
_chef d'[oe]uvre_ of Winkin de Worde's press. The paper on
which it is printed is said to be the first ever made in
England for the press. See Douce, ii. 278. Dibdin, _Typt.
Ant._ ii. 310."

1535. Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum. Londini in
Aedibus Thomæ Berthelete. Regii Impressoris.

1582. Batman uppon Barth[=o]lome His Booke De Proprietatibus
Rerum. Newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such
Additions as are requisite unto every seuerall Booke: Taken
foorth of the most approved Authors, the like heretofore not
translated in English. Profitable for all Estates as well
for the benefite of the Mind as the Bodie. London. Imprinted
by Thomas East, dwelling by Paules Wharfe.

(For foreign editions, French, Dutch and Spanish
translations, see Bibliography of Foreign Printed Herbals,
p. 225.)

_Banckes's Herbal._

1525. ¶ Here begynnyth a new mater / the whiche sheweth and
| treateth of y{e} vertues & proprytes of her- | bes / the
whiche is called | an Herball | ['.'] | ¶ Cum gratia &
priuilegio | a rege indulto |

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprynted by me Rycharde Banckes / dwellynge
in | L[=o]d[=o] / a lytel fro y{e} Stockes in ye Pultry /
y{e} xxv day of | Marche. The yere of our Lorde, M.CCCCC. &
XXV. Black-letter 4to.

1526. Second edition of above. Only known copy is in the
Cambridge University Library. Title and colophon identical
except for slight differences in spelling.

¶ Here begynneth a newe marer / y{e} whiche sheweth and |
treateth of the vertues & propertes of her- | bes / the
whiche is callyd | an Herball | [.'.] | ¶ Cum priuilegio. |

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprynted by me Rycharde Banckes / dwellynge
in | L[=o]d[=o] / a lytell fro y{e} Stockes in y{e} Pultry /
ye xxv daye of June. The yere of our Lorde, M.CCCCC. & XXVI.
Black-letter 4to.

1530. (approximate date assigned in the catalogue of the
British Museum). A boke of | the propertyes | of herbes the
| whiche is | called an | Herbal | [~cross pattée~] |

_Colophon._ Imprynted at | London in Fletestrete at | the
sygne of the George by | me Robert Red- | man [.'.] |
[~cross pattée~] | Black-letter 8vo.

1532-1537 (approximate date assigned by Mr. H. M. Barlow).
"'A boke of the propertyes of herbes the which is called an
Herbal.' Contains k{4}. 'At the end, Imprynted at London by
me John Skot dwellynge in Fauster Lane.' This over his
device which is his cypher on a shield, hung on a rose-tree,
flowering above the shield, supported by two griffins: at
the bottom is a dog nearly couchant; I. S., the initials of
his name, one on each side of the trunk of the tree. In the
collection of Mr. Alchorne. Twelves."

The above is quoted from Herbert's edition of Ames, 1785. No
copy of the work can now be found in any of the chief
British libraries. Mr. Gordon Duff in his list of books
printed by John Skot mentions "The Book of Herbes. 12mo.
undated."

The following editions printed by Robert Wyer are all
undated. The dates assigned in the British Museum Catalogue
are 1530, 1535, 1540.

¶ If A newe Her- | ball of Macer, | Translated | out of
La- | ten in to | Englysshe.

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprynted by | me Robert wyer, | dwellynge in
saint Martyns pa | ryshe, at the sygne of saynt | Joh[=n]
Euangelyst | besyde Charyn | ge Crosse. | [~cross pattée~] |
Secretary type, 8vo.

¶ Hereafter folo | weth the know- | ledge, proper | ties,
and the | vertues of | Herbes.

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprynted by | me Robert Wyer, | dwellynge in
saynt Martyns pa- | rysshe, at the sygne of saynt | Joh[=n]
Euangelyst, | besyde Charyn | ge Crosse. | [~cross pattée~]
| Secretary type 8vo.

Macers | Herbal | Practy- | syd by | Doctor | Lynacro |
Translated out of laten, | into Englysshe, which | shewynge
theyr Ope- | raycions & Vertues, | set in the margent | of
this Boke, to | the extent you | myght knowe | theyr Ver- |
tues.

_Colophon._ Imprynted by | me Robert wyer | dwellynge in
seynt Martyns Pa- | rysshe at the sygne of seynt | Ioh[=n]
Euangelyst, besyde Charyn- | ge Crosse. Black-letter 8vo.

The only known copies of the two following editions are in
the Bodleian Library.

1541. A boke of | the propertyes | of herbes the whiche | is
called an Har | bal, MD. | XLI. |

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprynted at London | in Paules Churchyearde,
| at the Sygne of the may- | dens head by Tho- | mas Petyt.
| M.D.X.(I.) Black-letter 8vo.

1546. A boke of | the propertyes | of herbes the | whiche is
| called an | Herbal.

_Colophon._ Imprinted | at London in Fletstrete | at the
sygne of the George | nexte to seynt Dunstones churche | by
me Wyllyam Myddylton | in the yere of our Lorde |
M.CCCCC.XLVI. | The thyrde day | of July | Black-letter 8vo.

1548 (date assigned in the catalogue of the library of the
Manchester Medical Society. Only known copy.) ¶ A boke of |
the propertes | of herbes the | which is cal | led an her |
bal. | [~cross pattée~] |

_Colophon._ Imprynted at | London by | Johan Waley, |
dwellynge in | Foster Lane. | Black-letter 8vo.

1550 (date assigned in the British Museum Catalogue). A boke
of the | properties of Herbes called an her- | ball,
whereunto is added the tyme y{e} | herbes, floures and Sedes
shoulde | be gathered to be kept the whole ye- | re, with
the vertue of y{e} Herbes wh[=e] | they are stylled. Also a
generall rule | of al manner of Herbes drawen out | of an
auncient boke | of Physycke by | W. C. |

_Colophon._ Imprinted at London by Wyllyam | Copland. |
Black-letter 8vo.

1552 (date assigned in the British Museum Catalogue). A boke
of the | propreties of Herbes called an her | ball,
whereunto is added the time y{e} | herbes, floures and
Sedes shold | be gathered to be kept the whole | yere | wyth
the vertue of y{e} Her- | bes when they are stilled. Al- |
so a generall rule of all ma- | ner of Herbes drawen | out
of an auncyent | booke of Phisyck | by W. C. |

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprynted at London in the | Flete strete at
the sygne of | the Rose Garland by | me Wyllyam Copland. |
for John Wyght |. Black-letter 8vo.

The two following editions published by Anthony Kitson and
Richard Kele may be ascribed to Copland's press. No copies
exist in the chief British libraries. The titles are quoted
from Ames.

"A booke of the properties of Herbes, called an Herball.
Whereunto is added the tyme that Herbes, Floures and Seedes
should bee gathered to bee kept the whole yeare, wyth the
vertue of the Herbes when they are stylled. Also a generall
rule of all maner of Herbs, drawen out of an auncient booke
of Physicke by W. C. _Walter Carey._ Contains besides X{4}
in eights. For him."

1550 (date assigned by Mr. Gordon Duff, but in Ames 1552).
"The book of the properties of herbes, called an herball,
etc., drawn out of an ancient book of phisyck by W. C."

1550. A lytel | herball of the | properties of her- | bes
newely amended & corrected, | with certayne addicions at the
ende | of the boke, declaryng what herbes | hath influence
of certaine Sterres | and constellations, wherby may be |
chosen the beast & most luckye | tymes and dayes of their
mini- | stracion, accordynge to the | Moone being in the
sig- | nes of heauen, the | which is dayly | appoynted | in
the Almanacke, made & gathered | in the yere of our Lorde
god | M.D.L. the xii day of Fe- | bruary by Anthonye |
Askham Phi- | sycyon.

_Colophon._ Imprinted at | London in Flete- | strete at the
signe of the George | nexte to Saynte Dunstones | Churche by
Wylly- | am Powell. In the yeare of oure Lorde | M.D.L. the
twelfe day of Marche. Black-letter 8vo.

1550 A litle Her- | ball of the properties of Herbes, |
newly amended & corrected, wyth | certayne Additions at the
ende of | the boke, declaring what Herbes | hath influence
of certain Sterres | and constellations, whereby maye | be
chosen the best & most lucky | tymes & dayes of their
mini- | stracion, according to the Moone | beyng in the
signes of heau[=e] | the which is daily appo[=i] | ted in
the Almanacke, | made and gathe- | red in the yeare | of our
Lorde | God. | M.D.L. the xii daye of Febru | ary by Anthony
Askh[=a] | Physycyon |

_Colophon._ Imprynted at London, in | Paule's churchyarde,
at the signe of the Swanne, by | Ihon Kynge. | Black-letter
8{vo}.

1555-1561 (approximate date assigned by Mr. H. M. Barlow).
¶ A boke of the | propreties of Herbes called an her | ball,
whereunto is added the time y{e} | herbes, floures and Sedes
shold | be gathered to be kept the whole | yere, with the
vertue of y{e} Her | bes when they are stilled. Al- | so a
general rule of al ma- | ner of Herbes drawen out of an
auncient | boke of Phisyck | by W. C. |

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprinted at London by | Iohn kynge, for |
Abraham Wely |. Black-letter 8{vo}.

_The Grete Herball._

1516. The Grete Herball. Imprented at London in Southwark by
me Peter Treveris. MD XVI. the xx day of June.

(Mentioned by Ames. No copy of this edition in any of the
chief British libraries and no other record of it.)

1525(?). The Grete herball, which is translated out ye
Frensshe into Englysshe. With the Mark of Peter Treveris.
Undated.

(Mentioned by Hazlitt, who ascribes the date 1525-6. There
is no other record of this edition.)

1527. The grete herball. MDXXVII. 18 April.

(Mentioned by Ames as having been printed by Treveris for
Laurence Andrew. No copy of this edition in any of the chief
British libraries and no other record of it.)

1526. The grete herball | whiche geueth parfyt knowlege and
under- | standyng of all maner of herbes & there gracyous
vertues whiche god hath | ordeyned for our prosperous
welfare and helth, for they hele & cure all maner | of
dyseases and sekenesses that fall or mysfortune to all maner
of creatoures | of god created, practysed by many expert and
wyse maysters, as Auicenna and | other &c. Also it geueth
full parfyte understandynge of the booke lately pryn | ted
by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the
vertuous hand | warke of Surgery.

_Colophon._ ¶ Imprentyd at London in South- | warke by me
peter Treueris, dwel- | lynge in the sygne of the wodows. |
In the yere of our Lorde god. M.D. | XXVI. the xxvii day of
July. Black-letter folio.

1529. Second edition of the above also printed by Treveris.
Wording of the title is the same.

_Colophon_ differs from the first edition in that it does
not contain the printer's address.

¶ Imprynted at London in South | warke by me Peter Treueris.
In | the yere of our Lorde god. M.D.XXIX. | the xvii day of
Marce. Black-letter folio.

1539. The great herball | newly corrected. | The contents of
this boke. | A table after the Latyn names of all | herbes,
| A table after the Englyshe names of all | herbes. | The
propertees and qualytes of all | thynges in this booke, |
The descrypcyon of urynes, how a man | shall haue trewe
knowledge of all seke- | nesses. | An exposycyon of the
wordes obscure and | not well knowen. | A table, quyckly to
fynde Remedyes | for all dyseases. | God saue the Kynge. |
Londine in Edibus Thome Gybson. | Anno | M.D.XXXIX.
Black-letter folio.

This edition contains no cuts.

1550. Edition of "The Grete Herball" mentioned in Ames and
Pulteney. No copy of this edition in any of the chief
British libraries.

1561. The greate Herball, which | geueth parfyte knowledge &
un- | derstandinge of al maner of her | bes, and theyr
gracious vertues, whiche God hath ordeyned for | our
prosperous welfare and health, for they heale and cure all
ma- | ner of diseases and sekenesses, that fall or
mysfortune too all | maner of creatures of God created,
practysed by many | experte and wyse maysters, as Auicenna,
Pandecta, | and more other, &c. ¶ Newlye corrected and dili
| gently ouersene. | In the yeare of our Lord | God.
M.CCCCC.LXI.

_Colophon._ Imprynted at London in | Paules churcheyarde, at
the signe of the Swane, | by Jhon Kynge. In the yeare of our
| Lorde God. M.D.LXI. Black-letter folio.

_"The vertuose boke Of Distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of Herbes."_

1527. [The vertuose boke of Distyllacyon of the waters of
all maner of Herbes / with the figures of the styllatoryes /
Fyrst made and compyled by the thyrte yeres study and labour
of the most conynge and famous mayster of phisyke / Master
Jherom bruynswyke And now newly Translate out of Duyche into
Englysshe. Not only to the synguler helpe and profyte of the
Surgyens / Physycyens / and Pothecaryes / But also of all
maner of people / Parfytely and in dewe tyme and ordre to
lerne to dystyll all maner of Herbes / To the Profyte / cure
/ and Remedy of all maner dysseases and Infirmytees Apparant
and not apparant. ¶ And ye shall understand that the waters
be better than the Herbes / as Auicenna testefyeth in his
fourthe Conon saynge that all maner medicynes ysed with
theyr substance / febleth and maketh aged / and weke.

¶ Cum gratia et preuilegio regali.

_Colophon._ Imprinted at London in the flete strete by me
Laurens Andrewe / in the sygne of the golden Crosse. In the
yere of our lorde M.CCCC.XXVII (_sic_) the xvii daye of
Apryll.

Goddis grace shall euer endure.

Second edition. Title identical with above.

_Colophon._ Imprynted at London in the flete strete by me
Laurens Andrewe / in the Sygne of the golden Crosse. In the
yere of our Lorde MCCCCCXXVII, the xviii daye of Apryll.

¶ Goddys grace shall euer endure.]

(This edition, although professedly printed one day later,
varies considerably from the preceding.)

_William Turner._

1538. [Libellus de | re herbaria novus | in quo herbarum
aliquot no- | mina greca, latina & Anglica | habes, vna cum
nomini- | bus officinarum, in | gratiam stu- | diose |
iuuentutis nunc pri- | mum in lucem | æditus. Londini apud
Ioannem Bydellum | Anno d[=n]i. 1538.]

1877. [Libellus de re herbaria novus by William Turner,
originally published in 1538. Reprinted in facsimile, with
notes, modern names, and A Life of the author, by Benjamin
Daydon Jackson, F.L.S. Privately printed. London, 1877.]

1544. Historia de Naturis Herbarum Scholiis et Notis
Vallata. Printed at Cologne.

(This book is mentioned by Bumaldus, but is not otherwise
known.)

1548. The na | mes of herbes in | Greke, Latin, Englishe, |
Duche, and Frenche wyth | the commune names | that Herbaries
| and Apoteca | ries use, | Gathered by Wil- | liam Tur |
ner.

_Colophon._ Imprinted | at London by John Day | and Wyllyam
Setes, dwel- | lynge in Sepulchres Parish | at the signe of
the Resur- | rection a litle aboue Hol- | bourne Conduite. |
Cum gratia & priuilegio | ad imprimendum solum.

1881. The names of Herbes by William Turner, A.D. 1548.
Edited (with an introduction, an index of English names, and
an identification of the plants enumerated by Turner) by
James Britten, F.L.S. London. Published for the English
Dialect Society, by N. Trübner & Co.

1551. A new Her- | ball, wherein are conteyned the names of
Herbes in Greke, La- | tin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and | in
the Potecaries and Herbari- | es Latin, with the properties
| degrees and naturall places of | the same, gathered & made
| by Wylliam Turner, | Phisicion unto the | Duke of So- |
mersettes | Grace. | Imprinted | at London by Steven |
Mierdman. | Anno 1551. | Cum Priuilegio ad imprimendum
solum. | And they are to be sold in Paules Churchyarde.

_Colophon._ Imprinted at London, By Steuen Myerdman, and
they are to be soolde in Paules | churchyarde at the sygne
of the sprede Egle by | John Gybken.

1562. The seconde parte of Vui- | liam Turners herball,
wherein are conteyned the | names of herbes in Greke, Latin,
Duche, Frenche, and in the | Apothecaries Latin, and somtyme
in Italiane, wyth the ver- | tues of the same herbes | with
diuerse confutationes of no small errours, that men of no
small learning haue committed in the intreatinge of herbes |
of late yeares |

Imprinted at Collen by Arnold Birckman | In the yeare of our
Lorde M.D. LXII. | Cum gratia et Priuilegio Reg. Maiest.

1568. The first and seconde partes of the Herbal of William
Turner Doctor in Phisick lately ouersene corrected and
enlarged with the Thirde parte / lately gathered / and nowe
set oute with the names of the herbes / in Greke Latin /
English / Duche / Frenche / and in the Apothecaries and
Herbaries Latin / with the properties / degrees / and
naturall places of the same.

God saue the Quene.

Imprinted at Collen by Arnold Birckman / In the yeare of our
Lorde M.D. LXVIII.

_Albertus Magnus._

1560 (?). [The boke | of secretes of Albartus Mag | nus, of
the vertues of | Herbes, stones and certaine beastes. | Also
a boke of the same au | thor, of the marvaylous thin | ges
of the world: and of | certaine effectes, cau | sed of
certayne | beastes.]

_Williyam Bullein._

1562. ¶ BVLLEINS | Bulwarke of def[=e]ce | againste all
Sicknes, Sornes, and woundes, that dooe | daily assaulte
mankinde, whiche Bulwarke is | kepte with Hillarius the
Gardiner, Health the | Phisician, with their Chyrurgian, to
helpe the | wounded soldiors. Gathered and pra- | ctised
fr[=o] the moste worthie learn- | ned, bothe old and newe:
to | the greate comforte of | mankinde: Doen | by Williyam |
Bulleyn, | and ended this Marche, | Anno Salutis. 1562 | ¶
Imprinted at London, by Jhon Kyngston.

1579. BVLLEINS | Bulwarke of Defence against | all
Sicknesse, Soarenesse | and VVoundes that | doe dayly
assaulte mankinde: Which Bulwarke is | kept with Hilarius
the Gardener, and Health | the Phisicion, with the
Chirurgian, to helpe the | Wounded Souldiours. Gathered and
practised from | the most worthy learned, both olde and new:
| to the great comfort of Mankinde: by | VVilliam Bullein,
Doctor of Phi- | sicke. 1562. Imprinted | At London by
Thomas Marshe, dwellinge | in Fleete streete neare unto
Saincte | Dunstanes Chur (_sic_)| 1579. | Eccle. 38.
Altissimus creauit de terra medicinam, & vir prudens non
abhorrebit illam.

_John Maplet._

1567. A greene Forest, or a naturall Historie, Wherein may
bee seene first the most sufferaigne Vertues in all the
whole kinde of Stones & Mettals: next of Plants, as of
Herbes, Trees, & Shrubs, Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules,
Fishes, creeping wormes & Serpents, and that Alphabetically:
so that a Table shall not neede. Compiled by John Maplet M.
of Arte, and student in Cambridge: extending hereby y{t} God
might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno
1567. Imprinted at London by Henry Denham, dwelling in
Pater-noster Rovve at the Starre. Anno Domini. 1567. June 3.
Cum Priuilegio.

(The dedicatory epistle is to the Earl of Sussex, "Justice
of the Forrestes & Chases from Trent Southward; and Captaine
of the Gentlemen Pensioners, of the house of the Queene our
Soueraigne Ladie, Eliz.").

_Pierre Pena and Matthias de l'Obel._