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Preface

---continued from dioskorides, etc.

_ -

Page
ix
1

Hekbaricjm of Apuleius

248

Medicina de Quadrupedibus

326

Leechdoms from Fly Leaves op MSS.

376
384

Charms

(in

part)

PREFACE,

Dfl

58 ir

PRE E ACE.
It will be
difficult for tlie kindliest

temper to give

Prepossessions

a friendly welcome to the medical philosophy of Saxon As man has an ever recurring proneness to days. make himself the standard of truth, to condemn, sneer at, and despise all that he does not choose or is unable to comprehend, so in a greater degree every generation of men admires its own wisdom, skill, science, art, and progress it calls its own, whatever it has learnt from men of former days, and counts the few improve;

ments which have had their birth in its own time, as triumphs and distinctions which elevate it above all
the past.
If

we

consider the history of the ages gone by, these Our

high pretensions will

confidence.

soon abate somewhat of their

of those contrivances towards

debt to ^^^^ ^^^^*

The progress

our comfort, which we sum up in the term civilization, Our great has been very creeping and laborious.
capitals are

smaller than
trifles

Rome, the fortunes of our

to the wealth of a Crassus
less

men
or

of millions are

a Lucullus,

our houses are

carefully

warmed

in winter than the Roman villas, our poetry has no Homeros, our sculpture no Praxiteles, our architecture no Parthenon, our philosophy has never seen a century such as that between Perikles and Alexandres, those hundred years of Attic wit and wisdom have given us an education in dead languages, and in the lore and manners of two thousand years since, and are driving our native words from oif our tongues and

making them strange

to our ears.

PREFACE.
The Saxons
accept Greek and Latin learning.

same victory over future ages which puts into the hands of our children a Virgilius, a Demosthenes an Horatius, produced a similar effect upon our forefathers. When their driving, conquering, advancing
Tlie

brought them into the island of the Britons and gave them the Keltic careless tribes for a prey, they also found it worth their while to inquire what wa-s this system of Latin science, which raised fertile
spirit

crops

of wheat

for

the

food of

every mouth, built

which gave warmth amid the tempest, and fetched from foreign distant lands aids and helps whether to health or to disease and they, like ourselves, became students of Latin and Greek. Something of course they had learned of southern arts before, but when they arrived in and became owners of territories improved by the southron, they could only enjoy their new acquisitions fully by understanding
houses
;

Indigenous botany of the Teutonic

races.

method of ordering them. The Gothic nations had a knowledge of their own in the kinds and powers of worts, that is they had this is the more useful practical part of botany plainly proved by the great number of native names of plants which are found in the works now printed, in glossaries, and in the Gothic languages generally. Their medicine must have consisted partly in the
the
;

application

of the qualities of these worts to healing

purposes, for otherwise the study

was of no
were
first

real utility.

The

uses of

hemp and

liquorice

learnt

by

the Hellenes, from the Skythians.^

dently were also willing to rely

The Saxons evimuch upon amulets

and incantations, for while these resources are accepted by the later Greek physicians, they occur much more
frequently as the northern nations obtained a wider
footing in the

Roman

empire.

llerodot. lib. iv. cap, 74.

Theofrastos, Hist. Plant,

lib. ix.

cap. 15.

PREFACE.

XI

From
light

the cradle

modern Englishmen

are taught to Charms,

an angry battle against superstition, and they treat a talisman or a charm with some disdain and

much contempt.
things

But

let

us reflect that these play-

tended to quiet and reassure the patient, to calm his temper, and soothe his nerves objects which, if we are not misinformed, the best practitioners of our own day willingly obtain by such means as are Whether a wise physician will deprive a left them. humble patient of his roll of magic words, or take but from his neck the fairy stone, I do not know
;
:

Church of that early day, and the medical science of the empire by no means refused the employment of these arts of healing, The reader may these balms of superstitious origin. enjoy his laugh at such devices, but let him remember that dread of death and wakeful anxiety must be hushed by some means, for they are very unfriendly to recovery from disease. Some part of the prevailing superstition must have come from the Magi, for we find them ordering that the modern feverfue, the Fyrethrum partheniuTn, must be pulled from the ground with the left hand, that the fevered patients name must be spoken forth, and that the herbcrist must not look behind him.-^ Plinius says also,^ that the Magi and the Pythagoreans had many foolish tales about the eryngium, known in England as sea holly.^ That they ordered the pseudo anchusa to be gathered with the left hand, the name of him, who was to profit by it to be and that it should be tied on a man for uttered,
this is certain, that the Christian

Partly origi-

S^e^Magl"^

the

tertian

fever.^

They

used

the

ayXao(pooT)^,

or

pseony,^ for evocation of spirits.^

They got

cures for

'

Plin. xxi. 104

Id. xxii. 9

=
8.

30.

Plin. xxii. 24

20.

2
^

If it

is

the peeony.

E. campestre, being very

rare.

*^Plin. xxiv.

102

17.

XU
head
aclie,

PREFACE.
bleared eyes,

dim

sight, pearl, excrescences in

the eyes, tooth ache, rheumatism, quartan fevers, gout,

spasms,
snakes,

lumbago,
shiverings,

sterility,

ghosts

and
of

nightmares,
fascina-

phrenzy, fiimily discord, indifference to wives, epilepsy,

darts,

barking

dogs,

tion, gripes, gravel,

childbirth,

magic

arts,

mad

dogs,

and a potent love charm, a Lasses come follow me, from the hyena but he must be caught when the moon .is in Gemini.' The Magi had a special admiration for the mole, if any one swallowed its heart palpitating and fresh, he would become at once an expert in divination.^ The heart of a hen, placed upon a womans left breast
dysentery, poison, tyranny,
effeminacy,
:

while she
This the

is

asleep, will
calls

make her

tell

all
lie.

her

secrets.^

Roman
it.

a portentous

Perhaps he
nestlings

had tried
for

They were the authors of the search

stones in the

red or white

brood

of

swallows, mentioned
the blood of a mole

by our

Saxons.*
if

crazy fellow

(lymphatus) would recover his senses

:

sprinkled with

and those troubled with nocturnal spirits and by Fauns would be relieved if smeared with a dragon's tongue, eyes, gall, and intestines Bulls dung was good boiled down in wine and oil.^ for dropsical men, cows dung for woraen.^ The Magi also taught to drink the ashes of a pigs pizzle in SAveet wine, and so to make water into a dogs kennel, adding the words " lest he, like a hound,
" should

make

urine in his

own

bed."

"

If a

man

morning made water a little on his own foot it would be a preservative against mala medicamenta, For quartan fevers doses meant to do him harm. they catch with the left hand the beetle that has
in the

'

Plin. xxviii. 27
Id.

^
"
"

Id.

XXX. 24

10.

2
3
*

XXX.

3.

Id. xxviii. 68.

Id. xxix. 26. Id. xi.

71).

Id. xxviii. 60

15.

See below,

p.

xxxi.

PREI''A(^E.

XI 11

and make an amulet of liim.' For sleep the gall of a sacrificed goat smeared on the e^^es or put under the pillow was good.^ Demokritos was a devoted adherent of the teaching Demokritos. of the Mao-i, "ma^^orum studiosissimus." He wrote of an herb, the root of which wrought into pills and swallowed in wine would make guilty men confess everything, tormented at night by strange visions of the spirit world. Another, ewv ^p^nov, food of Gods, which kept the kings of Persia in health and vigour of mind.* I'he cayysAtf, or gospel plant, was drunk l)y the Magi before divination. The yt-XooTo^puAAic-, or laughter plant, produced fantoms and laughtt;r, that only ceased by drinking pine nuts, pepper, and honey in date wine. They had also an herb for begetting handsome and good children. A disciple of Demokritos, Apollodoros, had a wort to make old love, even what had turned to hate, revive again. All these had magic names. Plinius view of the general credit in which the doctrine of the Magi stood, is that it was of all sciences on the face of the globe most fraudulent, (which, be it observed, is a great deal to say,) and that it owed its acceptance to its embracing within itself the three sciences most influential among men medicine, and that, as it shewed the profounder and more venerable religion, in the darkness of which, says
reflected antennre,
'"^

he, the

human
is,

race
to

is

still

involved, (to call

here),

it

super-

stition

would be

modernize

and the mathePythagoras,

matics, that

astronomy.

Pythagoras held that the whole air is full of spiritual beings, who send men dreams, and the symptoms of disease and health nor to men only, but to sheep and
;

other cattle
lustrations,

that to these spirits are naturally

m^de

and averting ceremonies, and invocations.

>

riin. XXX. 30.

Id. xxviii. 79.

^
{

Id. xxiv.

102

17.

'

Ibid.

XIV

PREFACE.
tlie

and
is

like.^

He

tauMit
is

dill,

in the hand,

anetlmm, that good against epilepsy.Pythatliat lioldino-

goras was the founder of the healing art

among

the

Hellenic peoples.

Pythagoras taught that water would freeze with the

herbs coracesia and calycia, also the flower of the aquifolia

or hoUy.^

Chrysippus, that an animal, nobody

about,

was a good amulet for quartan fevers.'* Cato, that a man would go comfortably to sleep after eating hare and says Plinius, there must be something in the general^ perthe phryganium,
;

knew anything

suasion

that

after

hare a

man

is

good looking

for

nine days.^
Serapion.

Serapion of Alexandria flourished (B.C. 278) forty years after the death of Alexander the Great, and was

one of the chiefs of the Empiric school, who relied upon observation and experiment in preference to speculation

and thoughtful reasoning yet he in epilepsy prescribed the warty excrescences on the forelegs of animals, camels brain and gall, rennet of seal, dung of crocodile,
;

heart of hare, blood of turtle, stones of boar, ram, or

cock.
Soranos.

Soranos, an early writer of the methodic school, while

he refused incantations as cures for diseases, testifies *' Alii cantilenas in so doing to their prevalence
:

" adhibendas probaverunt, ut

"

etiam Philistionis frater

idem memorat

libro xxii. de adiutoriis, scribens quen-

"
"

dam

fistulatorem loca

dolentia decantasse, qu?e

cum

saltum sumerent palpitando, discusso dolore mitesAlii denique hoc adiutorii genus

" cerent.

Pythagoram

Kai a'jTorpoina(Tfiovs fiavriKriv re iracrav

TTAcWJ/'

KlA

UTTO

TOVTOiV

7rfJLirff6ai

Koi KKridSpas Kol

ra

<ifx.oia.

avdpdnroLS rovs
arifxeta

re

uveipovs

Kal
ical

ra
ov
>

Diofjenes, Laert. V. Pytliag. 32*

v6aov re koX vyLsias'

avOpUTTois

Plin. XX. 73.

Id. xxiv. 102. 72. Id.
Id.

fx6vov

oAAo

Kal Trpofidrois
E'ls

Kal

Tois

&\hoLs KTr]ve(np.

re

'

XXX. 30.

rovTOvs yiueaOai tovs re Kadapfiovs,

-'

X xviii.

79.

PREFACE.
"

XV

memorant invenisse
vanitate

sed Sorani iiidicio videntur hi qui

" mentis

iactari,

modulis
is

et
^

cantilena

" passionis

robur excludi posse crediderunt."

that the rule
to

Plinius records
curses

sow

basil

with
the

riinius
.

and ugly words ;^ that

pills

of elaterium,

drastic juice of a wild cucumber,

in

rams wool, help parturition,

hung about the waist if the patient knows

nothing about the resource f he knew a man of praetorian rank, a chief man in Spain, who was cured of
intolerable disorders of the uvula
his

neck by a thread a root of fell in love with Phaon because he found a masculine root of eryngium ;^ that an amulet of the seed of
tribulus

by carrying hung to purslane f that Sappho

cures

men
if

afflicted
tie

veins f that tradition avers with tertian fever are relieved of it

varicose
nettle,

they

on themselves a root of autumnal

provided that

when

the root

is

dug the

sick

mans

names are duly pronounced aloud ;^ that if a man carry a poplar wand in his hand he will not get his legs chafed ;^ the herb selago, which was like savine, was gathered without use of iron,
his parents

and

with the right hand, in pickpocket fashion, " velut a " furante," poked through the left armhole of the tunic, in a white robe, with naked clean washed feet, after an oblation of wine and bread.^ Since ordinary " clinic"
medicine avails not in quartan fevers, he will
tell

us

by the dust in which a hawk, has been rolling himself tied up in a bit of cloth with a red thread by the longest tooth of a black dog by a solitary wasp caught in the left hand
to cure it

how

by amulets
;

Cselius Aurelianus,

Chron.

lib.

'

Id. xxii. 9

= 8.
= 10.

V. cap. 1, p.
2

555, ed. of 1709.

'
**

Id. xxii. 12
Id. xxii. 16 Id. xxiv.

Cum maledictis
Plin. XX. 3
Id. XX.

ac probris, xix.

37

= 7.
3
*

= 1.

'

Id. xxiv.

= 14. 32 = 8. 62 = 11.
b 2

81=20.

XVI

PREFACE.
tied on

and
and

by the head of viper cut

ofl*,
;

or

its

liv-

ing heart cut out, in a piece of cloth

tips of the ears of a

by the snout

mouse

in a rose-coloured patcli,

the animal itself to be

let loose

a living lizard poked out, in

the ball rolling scarabcieus
(.s\

by the right eye of a bit of goats skin by

; ;

sfercorarius)

;^

a holly

planted in (the courtyard of) a house keeps off witch-

f they say that an amulet of the chamaeelsea " (Da/ne laureola, B.'mezereuon) will cure pearl " albugo in the eyes, provided that the plant be gathered before sunrise, and the purpose be outspoken f an herb picked from the head of a statue and tied up in a red thread will cure head ache ;^ an herb by which dogs
crafts
stale,
if

drawn untouched by

iron, cures

dislocations;''

Enough, perhaps, has been said to mark the character

of Plinius collections.
losephos.

With Plinius was contemporary Joseph, or Josephus. The tales about the mandrake current much later,
and found in the Saxon Herbarium,^ are traceable to what he says of the Baaras, an herb that runs away from the man that wants to gather it, and won't stop till one throws on it oupov ywaixog to 6[j^[xt^vov a.i[xa, for nastiness is often an element of mysteries, and even then it kills the dog that draws it out. It is not certain that the mandrakes berries are meant in Genesis
'

r}

XXX. 14.
Philagrios.

Philagrios (.364 A.D.) thought

it

superfluous and un-

becoming to add to a prescription a direction to spit once into the drug pot, once on the earth, with some barbarous names, since without the names it would
be equally
efficacious.^

>

Plin. XXX. 30
Id. xxiv. 71
Id. xxiv. Id. xxiv.

^
^

= 11. = 13. 82 = lOfi 19.

1.').

" '

IJell.

lud. VII.

vi.

.T

= p.

117.

Art. cxxii,
Aetiiis, 007.
c.

**

in tho ]\Iedica;

Arti.s Principos, unpublisluHl in oriffinal lan/rnaffe.

the

''

Id. xxiv. Ill ==10.

I'llEFACK.

XVll

Xoriokratcs, who, says Galenos, llourisliod

rations, or sixty
air of confidence

two

i^eiK}- Xt-nokratcs.

years before himself, writes with an

on the good

effects to

be obtained by
;

eating of the

human

brain, flesh, or liver

by swallow-

ing in drink the burnt or unburnt bones of the head,

shin, or fingers of a

man, or the blood.

for
is

He had
which the

also
veil

a good

list

of nasty prescriptions,
required.^

of a dead language

Galenos
a
})erhaps,

is

cited

reluctant

by Alexander of Tralles,^ as doing His words, homage to incantations.

Galonus.

do not go further than the conclusions of an unprejudiced physician of our own day might do, were
he
Avilling

to

brave
"

the

quick rising imputation of

that incantations are
like

superstition.
" old

Some think
:

wives tales
plain

tis

I too did for a long v^^hile.

is

" at last I
''

was convinced that there

proofs before

virtue in
I

But them
trial

by

my

eyes.

For

had
of

" of their
*'

beneficial

operation in the

case

those

scorpion stung, nor less in the case of bones stuck

in

" fast

the throat, immediately,

by an

incantation,

" rally,

thrown up. And many of them aie excellent, seveand they reach their mark." Pampliilos makes Galenos angry with his gipsy trickeries; "his old wives tales, his Egyptian quackeries, " Ids babbling incantations used by the folk einployed " to collect the plants, his periapts, and his humbugs,
"

Pamphilos.

" not
" all

merely useless, not merely unprofessional, but false no good even to little boys, not to say
;

'

Hoais

5'

ISpirSs re

ical

uupov

ical
j

ytypacpe Sh
j

ical

ircpl

rod icara ra JjTa

icaTai,n]uiov
A.ipa,
ical

yvvaiKhs aaeXyyis

ical /35evj

pvirov KaraTnyo/JLeuov.
\

Tovrwu ovSeu
t/V (pdpvyya
^
,.
.

fjrroi/

k6-

Qalen. (h simpl. mixt.

lib.

ct

fuc,

irpo%,
aroi^i-a

V
.

SlaxplO|.Uv)^v re ro7s icara rh

fiop'.ois ei's

xx. vol.

xii.,

p.

248, ed.

Koi

Ki'ihu.
j

-!.,

Lib. ix.cap.

-1,

p. .'38, ed.

ir)jG.

XVlll

PKEFACE.
of medicine."

''

students

Pampliilos had written

^

in

alphabetical order about herbs.

Alexander of
Tralies.

Alexander of Tralies (A.D. 550) frequently prescribes thus for periapts, that is, amulets, and wise words colic, he guarantees by his own experience and the approval of almost all the best doctors, dung of a wolf, with bits of bone in it, if possible, shut up in a pipe, and worn during the paroxysm, on the right arm, or thigh, or hip, taking care it touches neither A lark eaten is good. The the earth nor a bath. Thracians pick out its heart, while alive, and make a A part of the periapt, wearing it on the left thigh. caecum of a pig prepared with myrrh, and put up in a wolfs or dogs skin, is a good thing to wear. A ring with Hercules strangling a lion on the Median A bit of a childs navel, shut stone, is good to wear.^ up in something of silver or gold with salt, is a periapt which will make the patient at ease entirely. Have the setting of an iron ring octagonal, and engrave upon it, " Flee, Flee, Ho, Ho, Bile, the Lark was searching on the head of the ring have an N ^ engraved this is potent, and he thinks it would be strange not to communicate so powerful an antidote, but begs it may be reserved from casual folk, and told
:

''

'

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o)}

Kal Hd/uLcpiXos iTToirjaaTo

Tovs fivdovs,

firjTL

76

5r]

rots /neTiiuai

tV
rivas

Tepi rcov ^oravooi/ Trpayfiareiav.

ei's

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fioi

t^j larpiK?}? pya.

Kai
cV

aAA.' iKiivos fifv

re ixvQovs ypaSjv
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7]

i^erpaTrero

uai

apxijruv
IBpaxvs,
(x^j

elprjaBai

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Sls

Se

re'x*'?? /J.aKpa, x<^P^'-^ "^ov

auaipov,uuoi

ras

fiordvas

eViAe-

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rohs XP^^'^^^

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yovai,
Kal

Kal

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01/5'

fxayyo.veias
e|co

ov

Trcpiepyovs
r^^vrjs,
7/,ue?s

Galen, defacult. simpL,

p.
-

lib. vi.

(xdvov,

t/js

larpiicris

792, ed. Kiihn.

device.
1.59,

oAAo

Kol y]/vde7s

airdcras.

5e

Gnostic

See Montis
cl.,

oijTe T0VT03V ovSev

oure Tas tovtcov ert

owSe

faucon, plates
'

161, 1G3.

Kr)pu}deis fj-erafiopcpucreis fpov/mev.

The

on the ring
t.

Gnostic

yap To7s
fiovs

/.iiicpois

iraia) KoixiSfj ^prjai-

see

Montfaucon,

clxix.,

vixoKa^^dvofJiiv

Hvai rohs roiov-

clxxvii.

PllEFACE.

XIX

only to such
(^iAapgVou^).^
cloth,
^opYig

and are trusty For the gout he recommends a certain

as

can

keep

secrets,

7roip$iVou

to

TrpcoTOV

sx.

rm

Kcx-Tuf^Yivioov

puKog

ui,o\vvQiv,

also the sinews of a vultures leg

and

toes tied

on,

minding that the right goes to the

;

right, the left

to the left

also

the astragali of a hare, .leaving the

;

poor creature alive

also
yoCiu,

also the skin of a seal for soles

rsxpij^st
8'

a line of Homeros,

oLyopri,

vtto

8e

o-rova-

X^K-'^^

when the moon is in Libra also a natural magnet found when the moon is in Leo. Write on gold leaf, in the wane of the moon, " mei,
on gold
leaf,
''

tlireu,

mor,

for,

teux, za, zon, the, lou, chri, ge, ze, ou,

sun is .consolidated in these names, and is " renewed every day, so consolidate this plaster as it " was before, now, now, quick, quick, for, behold, '' I pronounce the great name, in which are consoli" dated things in repose, iaz, azuf, zuon, threux, bain, " chook, consolidate this plaster as it was at first, now, " now, quick, quick/' ^ Then bits were to be chopped off a chamseleon, and the creature living was to be wrapped up in a clean linen rag, a^nd buried towards the sunrise, while the chopped bits were to be worn in tubes all to be done when the moon was in the wane. Then again for gout, some henbane, when the moon is in Aquarius or Pisces, before sunset, must be dug up with the thumb and third finger of the left hand, and must be said, I declare, I declare, holy wort, to thee I invite thee to-morrow to the house of Fileas, to stop the rheum of the feet of M. or N., and say, I invoke thee, the great name, Jehovah, Sabaoth, the God who steadied the earth and stayed the sea,
;

" as the

the

filler

of flowing rivers,

who

dried

up

Lot's wife,

and made her a pillar of salt, take the breath of thy mother earth and her power, and dry the rheum of the feet or hands of N. or M. The next day, before sunrise, take a bone of some dead animal, and dig the
*

Lib. ix. p. 165, ed. 1548.

(from some of
:
|

their

words nothing

'^

This

is also

probably Gnostic

rational has been elicited.

XX
root

PREFACE.

up with this bone, and say, I invoke thee by the holy names lao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloi, and put on the root one handful of salt, saying, ''As this salt
" will not increase,
" or

so

may

not

the

disorder

of N.

M."

And hang
etc.^

the end of the root as a periapt

on the

For agues, " the little animal '* that sits and weaves with the view to catch flies, " tied up in a rag, round the left arm, is good."'-^ The Gnostics Trallianus mostly wrote very good sense. professed a medley of all the religions they could
sufferer,

hear of

Alexander Trallianus also recommends for epilepsy, from Asklepiades 6 (papfxaxsvTriC, a metal cross, rjKov
ho-TOLuf^ajfjievov,

tied as a periapt to the arm.

He

obtains

from Zalachthes and Osthanes, interpreters of the Magi, a recommendation to try jasper and coral, with root Demokrates, an of nux vomica in a linen clotli.
Athenian,
get

who consulted some worms out of

the Delfic oracle,

a goats

brain.

was told to The occipital

bone of an asses head in a skin is also a good periapt. Get a big rivet from a wrecked ship, make a broach of it, and insert a bone cut from the heart of a living
stag.
Antiquity and
magic.

^he

arts of magic,
if

real arts,

with

effects visible to

^^6 ^y^j sciences,

the

modern

latitude of language

be allowable, had at a very early period arrived at high perfection in Egypt, when Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses and Aaron, turning their rods into
serpents,

and water into blood (1600

witch

B.C.)

in Syria,

when

the

or ventriloquist of Eiidor

promised

her clients conferences with the dead (1100 B.C.); in Hellas, when Vlysses visited the spirit woi'ld, and

Kirke turned
Persia,

men

into

swine

(1100 B.C.);

and in

beyond chronological

limits.

'

Jd.

ip.

lOS,

I'J'J.

That curious
]
'

-'

Id. p. 234, C^^vcpiou.

Gnostic charm seemed to deserve

quotation at length.

Alex. Trail,,

lib,

i.

pp.

81',

83,

S4, cd. 1556.

PllEFAC'K.

XXI

T]ie practical

wisdom

of such

men

as Hippokrates,

Tlic influence
^^'

and the Epikurean scepticism of the age of Horatins new"d^*^ Flaccus, had reduced the influence of magicians among The recultivated minds to some reasonable limits. vival of their power has been attributed to the depressing effect of imperial tyranny but a larger share is probably due to the inroad of barbaric minds which the calm light of knowledge had not reached. Saxons, Anejles, and all the Gothic races were wholly llejnyading o
; ' '

unable to accept, to use, to learn, the medical

Hellas and of
its

...

Barbcinans not skill of educated up to

^'""^^ '^^"

The point to Avhich surgery had been brought was high and if we don't say the same of physic, perhaps, we are not very good judges, having discovered very few specifics of our own. Our measure of their proficiency will be much safer
pupil Italy.
;

in surgery
It

than in pharmacy.
carefiil Examples of

seems pretty well agreed by competent and

that the

critics

book on Wounds of the Head is by the great Hippokrates, who flourished at Kos during the Peloponnesian war (fl. 436, died 377 ?). He used a (Tjotjxpoy TpvTTctvQv, a small trepan which implies also some greater, a tt^/wv, or saw, which had a Trsfio^og or circular motion, and w^hich is judged by medical men to be the tryphine, and a Trpiwv ^upajcrog, or jagged sUjVj, which is held to be the trepan,^ and he gives anxious directions to the operator, to withdraw the instrument frequently and cool both it and the bone with cold water, and to exercise all vigilance not to wound the lining membrane. The employment of
^

splints, vacSrjxac,^

here, as Ave

on broken limbs, is not of much mark find our Saxons could adopt the resource.
of Dr. Greenhill,
his

In
last

the

opinion

the "Opxog
;

in

the

works of Hippokrates may be

editor

according to the
or of the

of his

works,

it

is

his,

Koan
ciner

'

Hippokr.

p.

907,

913,

fol.

ed.

1615.

Sprengel
vol.
i.

Versuch

pragmatischen Geschichte dcr Arzneikunde, - Hippokr. lit sup. p. 755.

p.

425.

xxu
school
;

PKEFACE.

it is

a remarkable document, as laying

down

the outlines of professional etiquette, of the broad line

and surgeon, and for its plain statement that cutting for the stone was then practised.^ The process is spoken of as familiar, and its dangers are shortly expressed by Aretiieos
(A.D. 81),

of distinction between the physician

who

observes that

men sometimes

die the

day of the operation, which, however, is indispensable.^ The same author mentions the relief afforded to those afflicted with the stone by the
very
use of the
catheter.^

Philagrios

described in his lost

works his own treatment of a case, where the calculus had escaped from the bladder and stuck fast in the ureter, so that the man, with suppression of urine The stone had and with pain, had almost gone. made its way almost to the orifice of the canal, but with a fine pair of forceps could not be extracted, nor yet by gently moving it with a probe. He would not cut the urethra from below, because that would certainly end in an artificial and inconvenient urinary orifice, but he cut down upon it from above.* Celsus, in the case of a large stone, recommends, as of course,
Litholrity.

that

it

should be crushed by the instrument invented

Ai5otojw,o?,

by Ammonios, the
chief attention to
his

or surgeon,

who gave
is

his

this

subject,

and of course before

supposed to

own time

(A.D. 15.)^

Ammonios

have practised at Alexandria.

Ov

T/i6ft>

5e ouSe /.iV Xt-Bi^vTas.

cussum quoque
revolvatur
;

ten eat,

ue

is

retro

eK%copT^ff'co

5e

ipydrrfai av^pdai

irp-f]-

turn

ferramentuni

ad-

^los rfjo-Se.
ipydrrjffi.^
'
='

(I

write ipydrrjai not

hibetur crassitudinis modicai, prima

parte
tenui,

sed

retusa,
et
;

Aret. Chronic,
Id.

lib. ii.

cap. 4.

motum
ictum,
551,
habita,

calculo,

quod adex altera parte

Acut.

lib. ii.

cap. 9.
col.

eum

findit

magna

cura

Philagrios in Actios,

in

Med,
is
^

Art.

PrincipLS.

The
iniici-

original

unpublished.
fit.

ne aut ad ipsam vesicam ferramentum perveniat, aut calculi fractura ne quid incidat. Celsus,
lib. vii.

Id hoc modo
sic,

Vncus

cap. 26. 3.

tur calculo,

ut facile

cum

con-

PUEFACK,
Asklepiades (B.C.
respiration,

XXlll

100), in

extreme cases of

difficult Laryngotomy,

from whatever obstruction of the trachea, Antyllus^ cut through the air tube of the throat.^ directions for even a timid wrote down the proper
operator.

We

find

described in the

Museo Borbonico

some

Surgical in^^^^I"*^.'^^^^

surgical instruments of bronze discovered

in Hercula-

ot

antiquity.

num and
yoke
tion
for

Pompeii.

matricis, or diozTpiov,

There is the speculum magnum with two branches and a travelling

for ocular

them driven by a screw,

organic
state

examinait

of the
as

of the

matrix

served

rather

a dilatator than as a speculum,

and

has

been superseded by a better instrument, the invention The careful use of it is described by of Kecamier. Paulus JEgineta.^ There is also the speculum ani, or

composed of two branches bent at right angles this instruand opening by pressure on the handles
^iQTTTpoi,
:

to the author of the ment was known as on haemorrhoids among the works of Hippokrates.^ book
xaroTrryjp,

Further has been found a forceps of a curious construction, suited for removing pieces of bone from the
surface

of the

brain in cases of fractured skull. considered

It

has

been

specially

by

Prof.

Benedetto

have been The Greeks, he obintended to take up an artery. serves, as appears by an inscription dug up near Athens, were able to tie an artery in order to stop haemorrhage, and words implying so much are found in a treatise
Yulpes,
[1847],

who

thinks

it

may

also

of Archigenes,

(A.D.

100,)

existing in
:

MS.

in

the

Laurentian

library

at

Florence

Sc7rol3po^$Eov

oh

yj

'

A veteribus
Cffilius

probatam approbat

'-'

In

Paullus ^gineta,
pi.

lib.

vi.

arteriae

divisuram ob respirationem

cap. 33.
^

faciendam,
vocant.

quam

laryngotomiam

Vol. xiv.

36, also Vulpes,

Aurelianus, Acut.

plate iv.
*

III. iv. p. 193.

Lib. vi. cap. 73.

Hiem.,

sect. 6.

XXIV

PKEFACE.

carrying (blood) toiuards the incision must he Near the end of the sixteenth tied or sewed up. century a French surgeon was the first to recover the ligature of the artery, and the instrument he used was very similar (somiglia moltissimo) to the forceps
vessels

in the
forceps.

Museum

at Naples.^

curious

pair

of

forceps

has

also

been

found,

without a parallel among modern surgical instruments; the blades have a half turn, and the grip is toothed and spoon shaped, when closed. By construction it is
suited for introduction into
for

holding

firm

and

fast

some internal cavity, and some excrescence there.

Professor Yulpes finds it well calculated for dealing with the excrescences which grow upon the Schneiderian membrane covering the nasal bones, or such as come on the perifery of the anus or the orifice of the female especially such as having a large base canurethra
;

not be

tied.^
is

tap.

an instrument for tapping the dropsical, described by Celsus'^ and Paulus .^gineta.* It was somewhat altered in the middle of the sevenThere
further

teenth century
Another
tap.

by

Petit.

An

instrument

suited

to

carry

off

the

dropsical

humours by a little at a time on successive Celsus^ and Paulus ^gineta^ recommend, has dug up. Rust and hard earth, which cannot removed, have blocked up the canal of the
render conclusions
The
Probe,

days,
also

as

been

safely be
relic

and

less certain.'
jw,i5^>j,

The probe,
to

*'

spocillum,"

is

reported by Cicero

have been invented by

tlie

Arkadian Apollo, who

'

Vulpes, Illustrazione di
chirurgici

tutti gli

Lib.

vi.
vii. vii.

cap, 50.

Strumenti

scavati

in

'
i

Lib.
Lib.

cap. 15.
cap. 50.

Ercolano
-

e in Porapei, Napoli, 1847.

j

"
'

Ibid.

Vulpes, ut supra.

Lib.

vii.

cap. 15.

PRKFAf'K.

XXV

Seven varieties are figured in the work of Professor Yulpes in one plate, with ends obtuse, spoon shaped, flat and oval, The obtuse knob flat and square, flat and divided. was TTvpYjv the spoon was xucc&iTxog those which liad such as had a knob a flat extremity were (r7ruQo[ji.Yi\ui
also

was the

first to

bind up a wound.'

at each

end were

SiTruprjva.

The catheter of the ancients is figured by the same The catheter, writer.' It was furnished with a bit of wood to be drawn out by a thread,*^ to prevent the obstructive effects of capillary attraction and to fetch the urine It is of bronze, and elastic after it when withdrawn. catheters seem to be of modern invention. They have, or had in 184!7, eighty-nine specimens <^ther instruof pincers in the Naples Museum, fifteen are like what
are

now

called

anatomical pincers, one only has the

form of the tenaculum, seventeen are depilatory pincers. One pair of nippers is rectilinear, terminating in points
like

a pair of compasses.

Their names were

\y.(5ioz:,

volsellse.

Hooks, hamuli, uy^io-rpu, to the number of fourteen, had been laid up in the cases in 1847 also a trident
;

for cauterizing,*

and a spatula

a silver lancet

was

accompanied in the excavating b}^ a small spoon, suited, as medical men agree, for examining a small quantity' of the flowing blood. There are also cupping vessels of a somewhat spherical shape, from which air was exhausted by burning a little tow. A fiem for bleeding horses, of the same shape as that now used, and a bent lever of steel, ij^o^Ximv, vectiarius, for raising the bones of the cranium in case of depression by fracture. Professor Yidpes has given us figures of eight steel
or iron

knives for various surgical purposes, and of

'

Cicero de Nat. Deor.,

Plate IIT.

lib.

iii.

'' I

22.
-

Galen. Medlcus, cap. xix Paulus yEginet., lib. vi. can.

fiff.

].

48.

XXVI

PREFACE.
its

a small plate suitable in the form of

the application of cautery

handle for

by

fire.^

drug.

There exists a tract of twelve pages by Dr. Simpson

of Edinburgh, "
*'

On some
Lykion
"

ancient Greek medical vases

[1856].

for containing

He knows "of four

^'

ancient vases or druo; bottles intended to contain " this valued eye medicine," " the Aumov IvSixov of Dios" korides.'' They are severally lettered Auxiov tiupol

Movcraiou, 'HpaxAe/ou

Auxov [for

AuxiOv], lua-ovog Aukiqv (two).

The drug

is

the rusot or ruswut of India, an inspissated

extract prepared from the

It is "

wood

or roots

of several
etc.'^

species of berberis, as the berberis lycium, aristata,

most useful in

all cases

of inflammation of the

" external tunics

it

of the

eye."

The vases

in

which

was found are of very small dimensions, and in three of them the internal content is much smaller
than the external promise; this the high price of the drug.
Northern
medicine.

arose, of course,

from

Beside these elaborate contrivances and this skilful

audacity of the Mediterranean peoples, northern medicine

shows not to advantage.

earliest authorities, gives

Beda, one of our safest

and

an account of a leech, Cynifrid, or Cyneferth, who, A.D. 679, opened a tumor for iEtheldryth, queen and abbess, without saving her
life.

The name and

the people
:

office

of

leeches

was

familiar

to

the Leechbook, or Liber Medicinalis,

is in;

tended for the use of a medicus, not of a layman and the frequent expression, "as leeches know how," shows
that they received a professional education.
Resources.

These leeches then, unable to use the catheter, the searching knife, the lithotritic hammer, and ignorant
of the afar sought Indian drugs, were
practice almost wholly

in

their

early

thrown back

U2:)0n

the lancet.

'

Vulpes, as before.

'

Royle.

PREFACE.
wlicrewitli
zi)'7:opi(TTu,

XXVI
the
" parabilia/'

to

let

blood,

and
chiefly

the
field

the

accessibles,

worts from the

and garden.

Not only the Engle and Seaxe, the warour

rior inhabitants of

own

island,

but also

all

the races

of Gothic invaders, were too rude to learn much of Galenos, or of Alexander of Tralles, though they would fain

do

The writings of Marcellus, called Empiricus, the Herbarium of Apuleius, the stuff current under the
so.

name

of Sextus Placitus, the copious volumes of Conof St.

stantinus Africanus, the writings

Hildegard of

Bingen, the collections out of Dioskorides, the smaller

Saxon

pieces, are

all

of one character, substituting for

the case of instruments and Indian drugs, indigenous

herbs, the worts of fatherland,
chants.

smearings, and wizard

of Europe,

Over the whole

face

while the

old Hellenic school survived in Arabia, the next to

hand

resource became the established remedy, and the search-

ing incision of the practised anatomist was replaced by a droning song.

The triumphant barbarians had no Psean, no JEsculapius, no Chiron, far less an Hippokrates. That they must have employed herbs before their pouring down over the south seems indisputable, and leeches are
not
are
ages.

only Teutonic in

mentioned

form of their name, but as driving a profession in the rudest

the

Limrunar skaltu kunna,

ef
J)u vilt laeknir

Twig runes
if

shalt thou ken,

vera
;

thou a leech wilt be

;

ok kunna sar
a berki skal

at sia
}>aer

rista

ok a baSmi viSar
J)eim er luta austr limar.^

and ken a sore to see on bark shall one them write and on branch of wood, whose limbs to east do lout.
be,
if

The Runic ceremony here described may

conjecture be allowed to us, analogous
tion
to

to the allocuthe wort, the declaration of healing purpose,

Sigrdrifumal

II. in

Saemundar Edda.

XXVlll

PREFACE.

the announcement of the patients name, so often fonnd

in our

Saxon volumes.
ainiat,

pat kann ek
))eir

That ken

I second,

er |>urfu yta synir,

er vilja lasknar liva.'
is

there needs us sons of men,

who

will as leeches live.

virus,'' was with them venom ;" epidemics were produced by " flying venom ;" there was also " red venom," which suggests scarlet fever,

What

now

" morbific

"

"

watchet venom,"

''

white venom," " livid venom,'' and

Religion of charms.

no doubt appropriate names." The state of feeling about sorcery among tliese northern hordes is best gathered from a perusal of the elder Edda, which is a world of witchery the Gods themselves were truly described as charm smiths.'*^ We may perchance wonder at the slavery in which people were held by the Church, during the earlier ages of our modern period at the saying of medicine masses,
so on; all
;
;

at

the

blessing

the

worts
altar
;

out

of the

field,

at

the

placing
livered

them upon the

men

but the Church had defrom a worse servitude than this, from

the tyranny and terror of the poisoner and the wizard.

The conscious helplessness of man, when the hand of God is upon him, must gladly humble itself in the Let the dust, and lick the dirt in craving mercy.
head on high at the so called superstition of the simple Saxon, but consider rather how audacious an infidel that man, in those ages, would have seemed, who had refused to pray in the received manner for the restoration of
scornful
reader, in

good health, not

toss his

his health.
Practical necessity.

am

scarce willing to take the tone of apology for

syllables

the

magical

we

find

in

these

leechcrafts.

It will be
that,

well to take a practical view, and to say

in

especially

the

centuries

between

500

and

'

Flavamal, 148, ibid.

rjalldia smi'Sir. Yn^linpf-a S. vii.

Lacnunga,

fol.

1 i')2.

PREFACE.

XXIX

lOOO A.D., so strong was the general acccj)tanco of magic influence, so general was the fashion set in that
direction,
tlie

that

every candidate for

fall

tlie

confidence of

public

must

in

with

it.

Marcellus, otlierwise

showing both how the skilful use of surgical instruments liad been lost, and how much more rankly this weed of faitli in spiritual The date of this influences had spread its growth. writer is set at about 380 A.D. He recommends, to avoid inflamed eyes, " when Examples. '' you see a star fall or cross tlie heavens, count " quickly, for you will be free from inflammation for " as many years as you count numbers."^ For the same disorder, write on a clean sheet of paper ou^aix, and hang this round the patients neck, with a thread from the loom.^ In a state of purity and chastity, write on a clean sheet of paper cjjup^a^av, and hang it will stop the approach it round the mans neck; of inflammation.'*^ The following will stop inflammation coming on, written on a clean sheet of paper povjSoc, pvQvsipag pYj=Kiog ooc. xavrz^opu. xai iTavTBg YiuzoTEi it must be hung to the neck by a thread and if both the patient and operator are in a state of chastity, it will stop Again, write on a thin plate inveterate inflammation.'^ of gold with a Jieedle of copper opvM oupoo^ do this on a Monday observe chastity it will long and much
a worthless author,
is useful,

as

avail.^

As soon

as a

unwrought
his

flax as

man gets many knots

pain in his eyes tie in

as there are letters in

name, pronouncing them as you go, and tie it round his neck.'^ If a man have a white spot, as cataract, in his eye, catch a fox alive cut his tongue out let him go dry his tongue and tie it up in a red rag and hang it round the mans neck.' If any thing to cause annoyance get into a man's eye, with five fingers
;

'

Col. 269 h.
I

'

Col.
Col.

270

b.
c.

Col. 270 a.
Ibid. Ibid.

'

'
*

270 Col. 276

b.

XXX
of the same

PREFACE.
side as tlie
eye,

run the eye over and fumble at it, saying three times tetunc resonco, bregan For the same, shut the vexed gresso, and spit thrice.^ in mon deromarcos axatison, and eye and say thrice, spit thrice; this remedy is " mirificum/'^ For the same, shut the other eye, touch gently the vexed eye with the ring finger and thumb, and say thrice, " I buss the " Gorgons mouth." This charm repeated thrice nine times will draw out a bone stuck in a mans throat.^ For hordeolum, which is a sore place in the eyelid, of
the shape of a barleycorn, take nine grains of barley

and with each poke the sore, with every one saying the magic words >cvpia. xvpia. xoKractpioe. (rovf>co(p^i, then throw away the nine, and do the same with seven throw away the seven, and do the same with ^ve, and so with three and one. For the same, take nine grains of barley and poke the sore, and at every poke say,
;

(^evys,

(pEvys

jcpi^Yj

os

diwxsi, fiee, flee,

barley thee chaseth.

For the same, touch the sore with the medicinal or ring
finger,

and say

thrice, vigaria gasaria."^

To shorten the

be stanched by the words sicycuma, cucuma, ucuma, cuma, uma, ma, a. Also by " Stupid "on a mountain went, stupid stupid was;"'^ by
matter, blood

may

socnon socnon ;^ o-oxcroxajw. cryxj/xa;" by \(/a rJ/= \(/5 \|/a \[/e.^ For toothache say, Argidam margidam sturgidam;^ also, spit in a frogs mouth, and request him
\l/>) rj/ij

For a troublesome uvula catch a spider, say suitable words, and make a For a quinsy lay Jiold of the throat phylactery of it.^^ with the thumb and the rinor and middle fino^ers, cocking up the other two, and tell it to be gone.^^ " If a shrewmouse fall into a rut, there by a natural
to
off

make

with the toothache. ^^

'

Col. 278 d.
Ibid.

Col. 290
Id.

f.

"

Col. 278

e.
e.

^
'"

So Leechbo. Col. 295 e.

Ibid.

'

Col. 279
Col.

289 e. Col. 290 b.

" Col. 303 b.

'-

Col.

304

d.

PREFACE.
" fate
*'

XXXI

lie

perislies

cloth or red rag,

wrap him up in clay or linen and with him go three times round
so

" kernels
"

behind
throats

the

cars

wondrously quickly wilt

thou heal them."^

sore
;

TJie following is a capital

tie

remedy

about the neck in a red rag and be bound with a thread, the following words pure in writing them
for
;

El&ov Tp//xop(poy ^puasov ToavaScv,

xa) TccoToicou^ov
(Twdov
fxs,
(refj^vl

[SscTTrorrjv]

Touo"ava5ov.

vsprspcjov

VTripraTs,"'

Another charm
white kernel, a bone in

for

a kernel,

Albula glandula, pretty

sister kernels, eight

etc.

Another, "nine

" sister kernels, seven sister kernels,

and so on/' ^ For the throat say or write for an amulet

[jLOi

M:^

yopyslriv

KS(pccKY)V Isivolo

TTsXwpov

For disease in the kidneys, as an amulet Kapa^pccajQ.^ In cubili canis urinam faciat, qui urinam non potest " continere, dicatque dum facit, ne in cubili suo urinam " ut canis faciat/'*^ To cure bites, put your hand on the bitten mans belly and say thrice nine times, Stolpus tumbled out of heaven, etc7 For belly-ache, wear a gold ring with a dolphin engraved, and the
"

words,

One,

who

does not

want
his

to have belly-ache,
left

care he always puts

shoe on

first,

must take and must

wear on gold
three

leaf

L
make seven
'

^-

M
etc.'-'

E>

times written,
knot!=v,

For buboes in the groin, naming seven old widows and seven
^

Col.

305

g.
e.
f.

Col.

358

b.

This

is

nearly

Col. 307 Col. 308

TpijxepTi, eel.

viscera in Hebrevr.

Col. 362

e.

Col. 309 b. Odyss. A. 633.

intelligible

A
h.

Col. 373 h.
Col. 378 h. Col. 379 b.

mixture of
ligible

and unintel-

"

nonsense occurs at Col. 339

C 2

XXXll

PREFACE.

wild beasts, etc'

tie to

For chafing
tlie
tlie

in

riding or Avalking,
xvarogr

the thigli on paper

word

before getting out of bed in

morning,
say,

s})it

For gont, on yonr

flee,

hand, rub
etc.^

all

your sinews, and

Flee,

gout,

Albertus jMagnus.

It will

not be out of place to compare here the

.statements of Albertus

Magnus on

the

first
*'

of the herbs

on whicli he writes in his treatise De Virtutibus " Herbarum." It is the heliotropion. If one gather it in August and wrap it up in a bay leaf with a wolfs tooth, no one can speak an angry word to the wearer. Put under the pillow, it will bring in a vision before the eyes of a man, who has been robbed, the thief, and all his belongings. If it be set up in a place of worship, none of the women present who have broken
their marriage contract will be able to quit the place
till it
Effects, bad.

be removed.

"

This last

is

tried

and most

true."

Effects, good.

which act on the mind of the person cliarmed, always have some effect; in incantations, commonly a mischievous one. Hearne, the traveller in North America, relates somewhere that beino- solicited by an Indian to give him a charm against some enemy, and convinced of the harmless foUy of such sorceries, he complied, and drew on a sheet of paper The Indian who resome circles, signs, and words. ceived this took care that the doomed man should know it he immediately sickened and before longHearne resolved to make no more magic papers. died. Sometimes fliith produces a visible and useful effect. A woman who had bad eyes obtained an amulet to Hopeful of its efficacy, she refrained from cure them. But some shedding tears, and her eyes recovered. zealous enemj^ of sorceries attacked her upon the wickedness of getting well in this Avay and prevailed
Charms,
;

'

Col. 391 h.

Col. 411

a.

Col. 392

b.

PREFACK.

XXXlll

him the amulet tu exiLmine. When untbldevi, the paper showed nothing but these words " Dor Teufel cratze dir die augen aus, und scheisse
on her to
':'ive

"

dir in

die locher/' "laay the devil scratch thlitc

cycn

and saw how

out,

she

As soon had been amended slie

In the
holes.

as
lost

the

woman
took

ftiith,

and her eyes ])ecame as bad as ever.^ The Catholic Church of the day, unequal to root Magic niixcd out these superstitious and rarely beneficial ideas, tried ^\^^\^y to iling a garb of religion round them to invoke holy names to drive out devils by exorcisms. The Saxon leech therefore, had he been as cool Magic in scpaheaded as Hippokrates, as piggish an Epikurean as gJixon mTdiour friend Horatius, must have bowed before the cine. fashion of the day and bemoaned his patients notions. Possibly the makers of magic gibberish were as incredulous as men now are in its efficacy but what mattered that? TJie leechbook must adapt itself to
to tears again,
:

its

day.
Nightmare,

In considering the special forms of popular belief, it is well that the Nightmare, in which men still believe, should come first. Mare in that combination is something
like

Genius,

Spirit

it

occurs
for

in

Woodmare,

which
efiects,

was

the

Saxon name

Echo.^

From

the

accounts
the

we have of the importance attached to its it may be suspected that something beyond

symptoms of an uneasy position in sleep, or an undigested supper, must have been included in the term. Yet, while we habitually divest our minds of terror by referring this paroxysm to imprudence in eating, it is in itself, while it lasts, an ugly mental struggle, and much more like an emissary from the sulfurous pit, than an angel visiting from heaven. Scott relates some instances of tiie unwelcome atten" The door of dance of unembodied spectres or Mares
;
'

Wler, Opera,
Gl. Clcop.

p.

403.
a.

man Mahr,
The Gerfeminine.

masculine

Isl.

Mara,

fol.

33

XXXIV
" the

PREFACE.

an old hag enters with a " frowning and incensed countenance, comes straight "up to me with every demonstration of spite and indignation, she rushes upon me says something, " and then strikes me a severe blow with her staff. " I fall from my chair in a swoon. To the recurrence Again of this apparition I am daily subjected."
flies

room

wide open

''

''

"

My

visions

commenced two

or

three

years

since,

"
"

when

I found myself embarrassed

by the presence

which came and disappeared I could not exactly tell how. In the course of a few months " it was succeeded by a sj)ectre of a more imposing " sort. This was the apparition of a gentleman usher, " arrayed in a court dress, with bag and sword, tam" boured waistcoat and chapeau bras he ascended the " stairs before me, as if to announce me in the drawing" room, and at times appeared to mingle with the com" pany. After a few months the phantom of the gen" tleman usher was seen no more, but was succeeded " by one horrible to the sight, the image of death " itself, the apparition of Alone or in a skeleton. " company the presence of this last phantom never " quits me. The patient sank under the malady.'""^ "A " man, mentioned by Dr. Rush, imagined that he had a " Caffre in his stomach, who had got into it at the Cape " of Good Hope."'*^ I have somewhere read of a gentleman, who must always sleep sitting in a chair, for as soon as he took a reclining position, he was attacked by a ^spectre skeleton which throttled him even in chair, he would sometimes in his sleep drop the down, and was immediately attacked by his frightful sleepmare; he was therefore always attended by a man, whose duty it was to wake him whenof a large cat,
"
:

'

Scott's

Demonology,

p. 24.

Abercrombie on the
p.

Intellectual

Ibid. p. 29.

The

narratives arc

Powers,

319.

abridged here.

PREFACE.
ever
tlie

XXXV
upright
position.

Nightmare, as among our own forefathers, was considei'ed as a god or a demigod, deus or semideus,^ for the physician Soranus denies this popular belief, denies that it deserves a place
the

began to Hellenic world

he

lose

liis

In

among
that
it

the
is

declares it

now, worthy the attention of a pathologer, but a mere perturbation of sleep.^ This calling
7ra5>),

passiones,

or

as

men

phrase

it

a nocturnal horror by
its

mean names does not

dispose of
it

alarms.

Themison of Laodikeia,
^

(B.C. 63,) called

UviyccXiMv, Throttler,

Choker, " siquidem pra^focat segroit

" tantes."

Others commonly called

I

the

'EcpjaArvjc,

which means,

suppose, as

Actuarius and
;

the

dic-

tionaries say, the

Jumper on
is

and

doctors tells us that

;

the disorder deserves attention at the very outset

its

for

perpetuation
it

Oribasios calls

by insanity or epilepsy. a strong disease, and anticipates the

followed

same

where it comes on every night, dwelling on those cases, where it has its origin in the brain. Some of the most horrible of these visitations arise from the sympathies of night with mental agony in the day, but our authorities take no notice of these. To this night demon many passages in the works now published refer not under the exact term Nightmare, but as monstrous night visitors," and perhaps under
ill

effects,

''

'^

the general term,

"

temptations of the

fiend.'' ^

The

'

Cselius Aurelianus, Chron. lib.

iii.

i.

vapKccdris (TvpaLa6r}(ns irapa rovs viruovs,

iruLy/xod (pavracria

cap.
^

p. 289, ed,

1709.

Kal

icardXrj'^LS,

u>s

Somni
[xkv
v)

turbatio, ibid.

eViTrecrcVroy tiuos, [xera tqv ahvuaTe7v

Hepl rov icpiakTOv.

airh

rhu iipLuA-

Trphs

(K^oup
5e

v)

(poiveiu

aarii.(.dpTa>s.
kc.I

rr}u ol
yovcri;^,

avdphs uvofidcrdai Ae-

Evtoj

(papTaaiovPTai.

aKoueiP

airh

tov (pauraaiouaOai rohs

oos

iToWuKis TOV

ii^LTTQcrovros, KoX acppodi-

tV auT(^ "yivofjiivovs,

icpaAXoixcvov

Tiuus. efi'KTwv 5e Sik rod d^Koirov roov

(TioiP avTWP opiyeadai, (pevyeip ok TUP SaKTvXup Gvpax^^vrcap. Paulus

^TTKTTokiKwv TTViyaX'iuua TTpocrctivoixaaep,

iiTcos ttTTo

JEgincta,
'

lib.

iii.
i.

cap. 15.
1
j

ToD

irviyeiv.

'^vviffTarai Se
KcCi

Herbarium,
viii. 1
;

Medicina de
lib.
iii.

Trept

rovs KpaLirakovvras
tois 5e iv

cruusxoifs

Quadr.
cap.
"

Leeclibook,

aeiTTOvvras.
(x4vois

avra yepoicai

liii.

TrapaKoXovOel

SvaKiurjaia

Leeclibook, lib. iii. cap. lxii.,lxiv.

XXXVl
following story
is

PREFACE.

Grcndel.

" Vanlaiidi from the Heimskringia " hight a son of SvcgS, who took to the kingship after him, and managed the wealth of the Upsalers " he was a mickle man of war, and he fared far and " wide about lands. He stayed the winter in Finn" land with Snio the Old, and took to wife his " daughter Drifa. In spring he went away, and Drifa " was left behind and he gave his word to come " again in three winters time but he came not in ten " winters. Then Drifa sent after a cunning woman, " Huld, and sent Visbur, son of herself and Yanlandi, '' to Svithia, the Upsal country. Drifa chafiered with " Huld, the cunning woman, that she should bewitch Vanlandi into Finnland, or in the other case, if that " went not w^ell, should do him to death. When the " witcheiy was wrought, then was Yanlandi at Upsal " then he made him ready to fare to Finnland but " his friends and his redemen bade him not, and ^' said there was the hand of a Finn witch in his " ready getting. Then there came upon him a heavy " sleepiness, and he laid himself doAvn to slumber. When he had slept a little, he called and said that " a mare trod him.- His men came to him, and would " help him but when they took up his head, then " she trod his legs, so that they near broke. When " they took up his feet, then she danced upon his head so that he died/' ^ still more frightful account of such a demon, and going beyond these traditions of a Nightmare, yet not excluded from the notion of hostile visits from a Dwarf, is found in the deeds of Grendel and his mother. " Then came from the moor, under a mist screen, " Grendel, ganging. Gods ire he bore minded the '' murderer, of man's kin, some one to seize, in the high " saal he went under the welkin, till he the wine
:
''

'

'

*''

'

Ynglinga Saga.

-\vi.

PREFACE.
" chamber,
"

XXXVll
gaviiished could sec,

the

gold-decked

liall,

" he

with flagons fair. Nor was that the first time, that yet never he in Hrothgars, liome liad sought
:

" okl
''

"
"

"

"
"

"
"

" "

had harder Ijcroes, hall da3's, Thus came then to that chaniher, thanes, found. that champion on, that being doomed, at the door he dashed, all iron fast and when his fingers plied it open flew, the room ho it, they liung it wide, spread floor, reached and rudely then, on the fair Ireful he walked, wrath from the fiend set foot. his eyes, like lightning glared, a gleam of bale. Then viewed he there, of valiant men, not a few then laughed asleep assembled there, a manly band his mood to deal he minded, ere day should come,
early
or
late,
:

" hateful awful one,

"

to

each one

of them,

a deadly
;

doom

then dawned upon him, of feasts a hope

but

" ftite
''

gave not, that more than one, of men that night, devour he should. The valiant youth, Beowulf be-

" held,
'*'

how

the

with grip of " of delay, but

"

demon beast, would ^ fix his grasp, hand. Not that the loath one, thought
seized

he soon, a sleeping man, for

uj)
;

turn the

first,

and tore him

in

he broke his bones,

" his

blood

he drank,

snips

he had, of the lifeless feast, " e'en feet and hands; then forth he stepped; he l.iid " hand on, the hero chief, at rest in bed raught out " at him," and so on.
;

" soon

he swallowed form, all made a

him

...

To the
victims

Trolls of the

Edda and
;

to Grendel the light Dwarves

^^'

in the

of the sun

would be
the

fatal

they must seize on their

This
it
is

during

night.

not so clear of

Dwarves, nor, of course, could

be true of Mares,

and in the pieces now published we find the dwarves worrying the sick during the day.

'

Fa^ne,

TrotKi'Aoy,

variegated, as if

Purposed

to.

vvith tessellae.

XXXVlll Daemonum
concubitus.

PREFACE.
hearted
Horatius,

Tiie liglit

who

believed nothing

but what he could eat and drink, touch and smell, speaks with fashionable philosophy of the
"

Immundo somnia

visu."

The wider observation of the medical authors taught them that this inconvenience grew in some patients into a disease, and the manner of treating all subjects belonging to the unknown, which prevailed among l)eople whose imaginations were as lively as our own, and whose book learning was less, represented, whether truly or not, I say nothing, the same thing, as of the devil. The earliest plain statement is from St. Augus" Et quoniain creberrima fama tinus (387-430 A.D.)
:

" est,

multique se

expertos,
fide

vel

ab

eis

qui

experti
esset,

" essent,

de

quorum

dubitandum

non

" audisse
"
''

confirmant, Silvanos et Faunos,

quos vulgo

''

improbos ssepe extitisse mulieribus, et earum appetisse ac peregisse concubitum et quosdam daemones, quos Dusios Galli nuucupant,
incubos vocant,
;

"

banc assidue
videatur;

immunditiam

et

tentare

et

efficere;

" plures talesque asseverant, ut

"

hoc negare impudentiae

definire,

non hinc aliquid audeo

utrum
mis-

" aliqui

spiritus

....
.

possint

etiam

banc pati

" libidinem,
''

ut

sentientibus

feminis

ceantur."^

Women more
faithful.

AVomen, sensitive to a sense of what is wrong, and anxious to do right, were the quicker to complain of and to give a demons form to these unhallowed visitors. They were not always trusted " DiBmones incubos " et succubos hominibus infestos, ex 1). Augustino et " aliis patribus cognoscimus [leather, cogoiovhnus^
;

"

verumtamen non

fticile

in

similibus

omnibus

tides

'

Also Tope Gregorius in Beda,

August, de Civit. Dei, xv. 23.

p. 68.

PREFACE.
" adhibenda, prsecipue

XXxix
sexui,

femineo

mirabilium

for-

" maiiim

in imaginatione suscepturo."^
'J'\'^'

Against these impure demons the Church appointed Exorcists, and that, perhaps, was not the best method of getting rid of the torment it is anywise not that
;

Clmrch

doctrlne!^^

which was prescribed by the Hellenic luTpol, and now by our own medical men; for to exorcise a demon
dangerous powers, and does not prevent his return with seven others, perhaps, worse than himself If the Exorcist was a
presentable person, and not of the severest iciness of demeanour, his visits did more harm than good.^ In
the Church
affirms his presence, testifies to his

the Exorcist ranked

after

the subdeacon

and the acolyte. The careful Exorcist is bid take note, whether from a love of fashion and attraction women have not brought upon themselves this affliction as a punishment from heaven in that case they must be admo;

nished
" etiam

to

curtail

their

expenses

in

dress.

''

Videat

prudens
a
in

Exorcista

utrum

haec

afflictio

non

" infligatur "

Deo aliquando
vestibus,

feminis ob

nimiam

curio-

crinium et similibus, " quibus non contentse naturali sua pulcritudine, variis
sitatem
'^

ornatu

" fucis et mediis

Quo
bus,

fit,

^'

Deo qu8e nimium

student allicere viros in sui amorem. permittente, ut fiant ludibrio dsemoniin

sua

gloriantur

pulcritudine.

ad compunctionem peccatorum suoemendationem vitae qua in posterum ab " huiusmodi laqueis abstineant, et se componant ad " modestiam, humilitatem, et verecundiam decentem.''^ This having to do with a devil is mentioned in the Mention by
" rum, et plainest terms in the Leechbook,
tents,
lib.

" Tales adducendse

II.

cap.

Ixi.,

Con-

^^'''''' ''^^^''''

]7am

monnum
this

Ipe

beojrol
it

mib hsemeS.
is

Grimm
mention

says, " if "

be incubus,

the

oldest

Eynatten, Manualis Exorcismoi.'um, 1619,

Eynatten,
Id. p. 231.
p. 33, "

p.

220.

=*

voluptuosa incitamenta."

C6

xl

PREFACE.

extant.^
certain,
parties.
Praying.

That it represents to a-uvova-Kxi^siv is quite and as certain that a devil is one of the
these ideas, having something of reality
in

So

far,

them, were widespread and frequent. The Exorcist, called upon sometimes to drive out other devils
beside Chemosh,

was a recognised

officer

in the Church,

due position and dignity. It is and was much less common to find a woman pregnant by such devilry, and of a pregnant she devil I have never read. Hence in the passage, Leechbook, I. Ixiii., where
assigned his

the

only

known

significations of jzeban are

;

1.

^jro-

creare,
is

ghrjneve,

'par eve

2.

nutrlre,

and the second

the

inappropriate,

we

may

understand

former
ar-

as

applied
)7one

to

the

father.

The

presence

of the

in case a devil 2^'>'ocreate the Tiian, is somewhat irksome, but no cautious critic will imagine a new and unsupported signification on
ticle

with mannan,

that account.

Gejzebeb, Qiatij Beda, p. 565, 29, implies

jejieban, gignere.
onl}^

an active verb Leechbook not

that
is,

We

have then in the

the assertion that a devil ha^meS,

devil ceoplaS, or that a he devil

that

she

with mankind, but even that of this vile eonThis is beyond the junction progeny may come. ordinary run of opinion. Wier in his curious and unreserved work De Praestigiis, gives an account^ of a monk and a she demon, also^ of a priest that had a succuba, and he found the faith so deeply rooted of
pipa'S,

the substantial reality

that he, with

of

these

g-vvovo-Ioh,

ha^mebj^mj,

the
fixct

about u/x^jv, fitted for a forensic trial, urges matter of investigations, which, he hopes with some awkearnestness,
details

much

and with

ward Ifs, will disabuse people of the notion that such He mentions'^ a birth demon visits were realities.

'

Mythol.

p.

G71.

^
*

-'

Pase

522.

Page 524. Page 530.

PREFACE.

xli

from commerce with a

devil,

but this belief evidently

has not distm'bed him, and cannot have

much
it

obtained.
it

In the consultation that a devil might be father of Merlin,

of devils
to
so

bring

about,

that

any

real

commerce

witli

was objected woman was impossible,

case a

and that the end could only be obtained in

devil

should be found
;

who

could
"

take the
:

forn\ of
'

a
"
"

man
' '

and that was done.

Li uns dist
;

De

ce

"
" "

'

ne de semence en feme avoir Meis se le povoir en avoie, sachiez de voir {d.e vevo) je le C'une femme en men povoir ei ki fera feroie.
n'ei pooir

'

"
"

'

Nous avuns cilec un de nos compeignuns Qui fourme d'omme puet avoir Et femme de lui concevoir, Meis il
quanque
je vourrei.'

Li autre dient,

'

'

convient que
preigne/

"
''

'

Et que couvertement la Ainsi dient qu'engenrerunt un homme en

il

se feigne

femme et nourrirunt." One of the torments with which witchcraft worried meUj was the Knot, by which a man w^as withheld so that he could not work his will with a woman. It the Latin of the times Nodus and was called in
^

The Knot.

Obligamentum, and appears in the

glossaries, translated

by the Saxons,
effect

into lyb,

drug,
''

(pctpixuxov,

as

the

evil

might be produced by such means.^ The glossary Spadatus vel enuchizatus, pi'inted by Somner^ has " belifnob," but read from the Junian copy, which Somner used, eunuchizatus, and by belifnob understand be-lib-efn-ob so that the sense is onade a eunuch, may be rendered hedrugged ; showing that in early English times it was believed a man's chastity miglit be maintained by the administration of drugs in spite To the same effect, from a qI. of his own wishes. " Obligamentum lyb, lybsn,'' that is to unpublished,'*
;

'

Roman
p.

de

Saint
a.

Graal

ed,

^^

P. 55

b.
a.

Furnival,
2

43

Fol. 44

See the Glossary in Fopbepan,

xlii

PREFACE.

pharmacy will put a man under a knot, and render him incapable of haemebj^mj. Cures for this poisoning are mentioned in the Leechhook/ and in
say,

the Medicina de Quadrupedibus.

An
*'

accidental
in

cause

producing the

same

effect

is

Med. de Quad. ix. 13. To make a " detestable " by Theodorus, ligatura is pronounced Archbishop of Canterbury, in 668. The knot is still

mentioned

''

and Nouer I'aiguillette is a resoi*t of ill will. An example of such a knot is found in the Njalsaga; the first instance it is spoken of as arising from some words, which on an imagination prepared to dwell on them, and a diffident misgiving temper, might produce much effect. Desire, though the strongest of passions, finds no home in a heart already possessed with fear, hatred, jealousy, or any other great emotion. But in the quotation from the
in

known

France,

poet of that tragic story, the bewitched impotence of

the husband
to poison.
is

attributed, as in the

Saxon

glossaries,

Example of a
Knot.

The adventures of Hrut led him from Iceland to Norway, where he formed a connexion with Gunnhilld, mother of King Haralld Grayfell, grandson of Haralld By and bye Hrut tired of this queenly the Fair haired. bliss, and began to wish to return to Iceland. At the " Many good gifts have I taken parting, Hrut said " of thee/' Gunnhilld put her hands round his neck and kissed him and said " If I have as much power " upon thee as I ettle, then lay I that upon thee, that thou may never come at bliss with the woman
: :

''

"

whom thou ettlest there in Iceland but thou shalt " well frame thy will with other women. And now " neither of us holdeth to the connexion between us.
;

"

Thou

trustedst

me

not

to tell me."

At

this ban,

thus laid upon him, Hrut laughed, and sailed for Ice-

I. xlv. 6.

i.

4.

PREFACE.
land,

xliii

where he married an Icelandic maiden whose name was Unna. But before long Unna could endure she rode with a neiglithis banned marriage no longer bour to the Thing or parliament, and there she met her " What sayest thou to me,'' says he, " from father. " Hrut thy fellow ? " She tried several times to express herself in veiled language, which was, it proved, too obscure to convey her meaning to her fatlier. But, at length, compelled to speak out, she was separated from Hrut.^ Unna believed Hrut had poison in his veins but the spell of Gunnhilld might poison his imagination,
;
;

as the tale itself seems to represent.

Traces of this philosophy, for

it is

more physiology

Knots in Latin
^

than superstition, are to be found elsewhere. Pliiiius says that southernwood is most efficacious against all Also that the veneficia, quibus coitus inhibeatur." ^
''

^uthorr^

seed of the

tamarisk mixed in a drink or meat with

that
the
as
''

the urina of a castrated ox will put an end to venus."^

Galenos
"

says
it

priests

eat

rue and agnus

;

he says, and so the seed of rocket with honey and fenugreek given to a man fasting incapacitates him (ovk la " Maleficiorum vero genera multa sunt, 6 gQ ova-Sal)." " incantationibus, nodis, imaginibusque illata. Nam " alia hominum mentes perturbant coguntque succum" bere vehementibus animi motibus, ut intenso amore
seems,

" castus,"

refrigerative

for

'-

''

" ingenito, aut odio efferato,

''

aut terrore aliisque animi

;

vexationibus.
find

Alia venereos actus impediunt

*'

et cet."^

We
^'

protections

contra maleficium ligaturse ut

vocant."

Priests are

warned not
the

to

make

alterations
service

in the

mode

of conducting

marriage

by

'

Sagan

af Niali

porgeirssyni,

'

De

Parabilibus Med.

lib. iii.

eel.
-

1772, p. 10.
Lib. xxi. 92

vol. xiv. p. 543, ed. Kiihn.

= 21.

Crosalpinus,
fol.

Dsemonum Investi-

Lib. xxiv. 42.

gatio,

154.

xliv

PREFACE.
"

any reason of these knots

"

" tionis vel liGjaininis alicuius,

ne ob timorem innodaniatrimonia solemnizent

loci

modo

aliquo

ab ordinario

non approbato,"

for

tlieir

doing so

terror
'
''

alios

would only rivet the chains of this upon the minus of tlie people, " ne ipsi, qui ab huiusmodi vano timore, verbo et exemplo
mali
et

retrahere debent, ipsis

damnabilis

timoris

^'

exemplum
;

praebere videantur."
"

And

the same author

ne impediantur ab opere conuses the plain phrases " iugali ad impediendaai filiorum generationem." ^
Eecipcs for Knots,

The were of course

as
acfcual

processes

in use for these mischievous purposes

secret,

both as valuable possessions and

the doctor
;

as dangerous evidence against

poisons or as ridiculous trash. specimens are on record. " Si quem coire noles fierique
" cupies
"
''

and either But a few

in

usu

venerio

tardiorem,

de lucerna

qu?e

sponte extinguetur, fungos adhuc viventes in potione

eius

extingue,

bibendamque
Again,
''

inscio

trade, confestim

" enervabitiu'."
''

Si

quem

cum
The

foemina coire non posse,

wizard,
witch,

noctem pistillum coronatum sub

voles

per

" lecto illius pone.'"'^

Love charms.

sorcerer,

druggist,

doctor,

or

medicine

man was
the

equally ready at securing affection.

of

He

played

part

sort

of ochreous
his

Cupid.

Instead of smiles and bright eyes,

dealings were

with some nasty stuff put into beer, or spread slyly I have read somewhere of some agency upon bread. known to Theofrastos, not less potent than Spanish flies,'^ but if the Saxon poisoners used tliem, they held In the warning against witchtheir tongues about it. however, it is expressly charged that some craft, women " work for tlieir wooers drinks or some mis-

'

Eynatten,
^larcellus
e.

Manualis
p.

Exorcis-

ox^vTiKas
l-ifXP'-

Suj/ayttftr

clvai,

us

Ka\
tirial/Lia

morum, 1G19,
-

220.

f^fi^ojxiiKovTa

(rvvovcriQ>v

de

Medicamentis,
rivas

nX^'iv Koi

Th Tc\euTa7ov avroTs

396
3

cLTTOKpli'^ffdai.

Athenceos,

i.

p. 19.

QciftppaaTOS

5'oi/t&j

(jtrja't

prefac:e.

xUtliem for wives."

"

ehievous

sfcufr,

that they

may have
it

In the Shrift book of Ecgbort,

of their methods
I
is

arclibislio])
is

of York, one
filtljy,

censured, and

so

tliat

must leave
J^ip

it

in

the

ol)SCurity of the
pejiej^
j-aeb

original
hijie

old

English.
'j

jfeo "Se

menjS

on
pe

mete
]fi;i;

J>one

\>icifi

f heo J^am ppepneb

man

leoppe
to

jrrej'te

heo

in

pinteji.^

It

is

necessary
audita)

quote

another
" tantes

record

of

their

nasty ways, in a language

"

more generally known.

se

Qusedam

sunt iac-

prsecipue excrementa propinasse, " menstrua, quibus cogant se amari." St. Hildegard *^ Sed si aliquis speaks of bewitched love as familiar " vir a muliere sen aliqua mulier a viro, ulla magica

sua

'*

" arte

illusa

fuerit,

seu

aliquo

prestigio

illius

rei

" facta fuerit, seu ullis fantasticis et dyabolicis incan" tationibus coniurata fuerit, ita quod vir in amore -tionum. Ed.
" mulieris
" insanit,

aut quod mulier in amore viri

turn bethoniam queerat."*

sic

incantata
will be

The herb
It
is

cure,

" si

nullum

incitamentum amoris aut comegustavit."

also

" dendo

aut bibendo

a good

remedy for love caused by magic words. A mans death was sometimes compassed by the arts Deadly lllffS. of the sorcerer, who undoubtedly was a true veneficus, making up venena, when occasion required, but who was supposed to work by incantation and fascination.^ The prevalence of superstii-ion is well seen in a

deal-

Doom
" idols

of king
;

Knut
is,

"

And we
is

forbid earnestly every

" heathenship
;

heathenship
that a

that

man

reverence

that

man

reverence heathen gods.

'

De

Auguriis,

p.

395, IMS. Bibl.

gatio, fol. 154- b.

Cccsalpinus died

Publ. Cantab.
-

in 1603.

Confessionale

Ecgberti,

29.

'

St.

Hild. cxxviii.

Bethonia
G,

is

Such things more generally

Poenitentiale,
lib. iv.,

in his
18.

perhaps rosemary.
^

sect.

JEKlstans Dooms, No.

Idola, etSojAa,
;

with

A
39.
^

corroborative allusion,

p.

390,
art.

Prices note.
"

sect. 10.

See Edgars Canons,

in

glish

which

as a

the old EnGreek Avord re-

f?!

Crcsalpinus, .

Daraonura Investi
_

quired explanation,

^/y^^^jf^

/,/

rc/o^

^'^-^^^^^^i

xlvi

PREFACE.
fire

"
"

and the sun or moon,

stones,

or flood, waterwylls or of

"
" "

any sort; or love witchcraft, or perform bad underhand work in any wise either by way of sacrifice or divining, or perform any act of such delusions." Masking on new
or
trees

of the

wood

years night in skins of beasts,

devil worship.
Abortion.

is

said

to

be part

of

Saxon women are often warned of the wickedness of getting rid of an unborn child by abortive agencies,^ and especially by a drink.
Hildegard furnishes us with a talisman against magic arts " dry the tail of a steinbock with skin
St.
;

''

"

and carry it in your hand you will never be aff*ected by magic (zauber) without your
flesh,
;

and

"
Elves.

own

consent."^
are acquainted with the Nightmare,* which, as

We
word

appears from the

German Mahr, may be a masculine

and with the Woodmare,'^ answering to the Hellenic, Echo, who was a nymph. To translate various Greek words, the Saxon vocabularies mention mount elves, wood elves, sea elves, downs elves, land elves,^ water elves. ^ The Leechbook ^ has a recipe for the " water elf disease, when the nails " of the hands are livid, and the eyes lacrymose and
as well as feminine,

Cnuts Dooms, v. p. 167. Cf. Northumbrian Laws, p. 419, art. 48. The word jyphc in these passages, unexplained by the tormented edi*

17
p.

p.

354,

art.

19

p.

362,

art.

370,
2

art. 10, 11.

tors,

is

commonly
words

written ypihc,

in the

Yjnh.'cpxm'g,

(Lye), a
place

De Auguriis ; and often in the Laws, as Poenitent. Ecgberti, lib.iv. Edgars Canons, p. 406, x. sect. 21 ^ St. Hildegard, de Animalibus,
;

derivative of ypihtejie, (Narratiunculse,

p.

xii,
'

79).
is

The changed
in

Incuba, maejie,

gl.

C,

fol.

35

a.

of the

accordance

with

Thus

feminine, for properly Incubus

phscnomena well known in philology, (Examples in Spoon and

Sparrow,

and Succuba were the Latin terms. ^ Gl. Cleop., fol. 33 a.

"

729

a.)

Thus

in

the

Ruricolas

musas,

Gl.

Cleop.,

volume now published,

our village Wark,
Fpsec
;

jisejic,

pain,

fol.
'

108

d.

is

always written
15
;

Id. fol. 68 b.

p. 342,

art.

p, 346,

art.

Lib. in. Ixiii.

PREFACE.
"

xlvii

downcast

" tlie disease is to

be cured by herbs and

hiccup/ the
convulsive

an incantation.
sevei'al

It

has another for elf disease, with

for
elf

prescriptions,

Ayy/xoV of the

for

for
is

Greek medical authors. It has a salve all the Elvish kin, and for nightcomers,^ another nightcomers ^ again, for elves and uncouth, that
;

strange,

company

for

elf shot horse.

Medicina de Quadrupedibus, tlie translator has added a receipt against a Dwarf These beings, when offended, were terrible. They seem to derive their name from f'peoji, }>pep, 'perverse, and in gl. C.^ teter is translated buepc. According to
of the
^

To the Latin

Dwarves,

Grimm, the invisibility of the dwarves lies usually in some definite part of their clothing, in a hat or mantle, by the accidental removal or loss of which they suddenly become visible. The Dwarf tales mention nebelkappen, caps of darkness, grey frocks, and red caps, scarlet mantles. Earlier centuries employ the expressions hell cap, hell clothes, mist caps, and tarn caps.'' But, as appears, the dwarves of this book now printed, are more like the fearful creations of the
Edda.

were bruited about of the power of Storms raised, witches and wizards over storms, weapons, spirits, love, and death. I have been assured that at this day the country folk, some of them at least, tremble at the sight of one of these gifted persons, or persons of such repute, lest by some chance the sorcerers eye lighting on them should kindle in him a dislike. " A strange thing lately happened, as has been ascer" tained in Swabia a little girl, eight years old, was led by her father, who was a bailiff, to visit the
tales
:

Many

''

Lib. III. Ixxii.

Lib. III. Ixi.

^ix. 17.

'

-'

3
'

Lib. IIL 53.

Lib.

Gl. C, fol. 60 a. Grimm, D, Mytliol.,

p.

431, ed.

n. Ixv

1854.

d 2

xlviii

PREFACE.

"
''

"
''

"
''

"

"
'

"

and wlien he complained of the extreme drouth, she said slie would soon get up some rain if there Her fiither, in wonder, asked were need of it. whether she knew how to do it she declared she When could get rain, or even hail if she chose. asked where she had learnt this, she said from her mother, and that instructors in these matters were To learn therefore by trial at hand when required. whether the child told the truth, he bid her call for For that purpose the daughter rain upon his farm.
fields,
;

" said she should

'''

want a

little

water

when then he

had brought her

to a small stream just by, the child,

" in pursuance of her mothers instructions, stirred the

water with her finger in the devils name hereupon was agitated and the rain descended as she *' had predicted. Her father told her to fetcli some " hail upon another field, and when she had done it *' the man denounced his wife to the authorities. She " was burnt alive, and the child was reconciled to the church and made a nun."^ The Finns made in So in the Saga of Saint Olaf, " the night violent weather with their cunning sorcery " and a storm at sea/' ^ And in the story of king
"
;

" the air

*'

*^

Hakon Hakon arson

"

"

King

Hakon

lay

in

the
fell

"

"
''

Southern Isles, on a Saturday, the night before wild fury, and

the Hebrides, St.

Michaels mass

and on the Monday night, that is, Monday, came a mickle storm with drove a cock boat and a long ship

"
'

*'

"

"

upon the coast of Scotland. On Monday the storm was so fierce that some cut away their masts and some ships drove. The kings ship drove also into the sound, and there were seven anchors out, and at last the eighth, which was biggest, but she drove

" notwithstandinof.

little later

the anchor held

fast.

'

Crcsalpinus

Dscmonum

Investi-

Iloimskringla, vol.

ii.

8.

gatio, fol.

155

1).,

A.I). 159.3.

iiu:face.

xlix

''

So

iiuckl(j

was
:

this

storm that
one

men

said

it

was
it

tlio

'^

work

of enchantment, and

made upon
seiirchiiig

these

"

skaldic verses
"
''
*

There met the much

inaintainer of

'

war

"
" "

'

the sorcerers arts of Scothinds warlecks.

Roarins: the rasrins sea

'

"
" " "
''

'

drove Avith

its fair sails

'

many

a proud ship

'

of the beah giver

'

'

" "
"

'

'

broken on Land. Blew with its loud blasts on the brine skimmers, full fraught with warriors,
fiercely the

'

sea storm,

"
" "

stirred

by the wizards.

'

Up

on to Scotland

'

scattered and tossed

" " "

"

'

broad barking billows

'

'

'

threw brave men of battle Avith shields and war gear shivered and torn.' "
^

Tlie following story is told of the marriage of Erik,

son of Haralld the Fair-haired.

" to

"

When

he came back

Finmark
in

his

men found

in a hut a

woman, who
:

" equal "

winsomeness they had

never seen

She

named

lierself before

them Gunnhilld, and

said that

dwelt in Halogaland," Helgeland, a hill district in Norivay, " he hight Otzor Toti. I have " been here for the purpose,' said she, 'of getting '' knowledge from two Finns, who are the Avisest in " the Mark now they are gone forth to hunting " and both of them want to have me and they are " so cunning that they can follow a spoor like hounds, " both in thaw and frost they are also so clever at
'

" her father

'

Heimskringla, vol.
is

v.

p.

324.

raising

in

Brands Popular Antiiii.

There

something on

this storm-

quities, vol,

p. 4.

PREFACE.

''

going

on
hit.

snow

shoes, that

" neither
'

men nor

deer

none can escape them, whatsoever they shoot at,

''

So they have destroyed every man who came into the neighbourhood and if they become
they
:

" wroth, the earth turns upside

''

down

at the

sight of

them, and
them,

if

" "

it falls

anything quick comes within view of down dead. Now therefore none must
;

way I must hide you here in the must try if we can kill them.' They you " agreed to that. she took a Then she hid them " linen sack, and they thought there were ashes in it " she took that in her hand and sowed with them " about the hut, within and without. A little after " came the Finns home they speered what was come To there; she said that nothing was come there. " the Finns that seemed wonderful, for they had " traced a spoor all the way to the hut, and beyond " found they none. Then they prepared their fire " and got some meat, and when they were satisfied, " then Gunnhilld made ready her bed. There had by Gunnhilld had this time passed three nights, that " slept, and each of them had kept awake over against " the other, for they mistrusted one another. Then " said she to the Finns Come now hither and lie " by the side of me each of you.' They heard this " gladly and so did she put her hands round the " neck of each of them they went to sleep imme" diately, but she waked them and instantly they " went to sleep again, and so fast, that she could " hardly wake them, and then they slept again, and " now she could not wake them at all she set them up, " yet still they slept. Then she took two mickle seal " skins and turned them over their heads and bound " them down stark and strong over their hands. Then she gave a nod to the kings men they leapt forth, " they bore weapons against the Finns, and despatched " them and dragged them out of the hut. The night
come
in
their
" hut,
; ;

'

'

'

''

I'REFACE.

li

'

alter there

were such thunders of Thor

riding, tha^

" "
''

"
"

But in tlie nioriiiiig they went aboard ship, and had Gunnhilhl with them and brought her to Erik. Erik and she went south to Halagoland he then called to him Otzor
they could not fare thence.
:

Erik said, that he wished to take his daughOtzor said yea to that then Erik took Gunn" hilld and had her with him south in the land." Again In the time of king Olaf Tryggvason, " Rau^ AnotluT " the strong was the name of a powerful and wealthy " yeoman, who lived in a firth in Helgeland, which " hight Salfti, where is an island hight Go^ey. Rau^S had with him many housecarls, and kept well to do " men in his train, since he was the greatest headman in the firths, and many Finns followed him in case " he had need of them. RauS was a mickle man for " sacrifices and a cunning man in witchcraft " King Olaf kept his course northwards along shore,
T6ti
; ;

" ter

ex-

'

'

"
'

''

"
"'

"

"
''

"

"

"
"
" "

"
'"

"

and made Christians of all folk wheresoever he came when then he came north to Salfti, he ettled to go into the firth and to find Rau^, but storm and bad weather were within the firth, so the king lay without for a full week, and it held on always bad weather within the firth, but outside there was a breeze blowing to sail north along land so the king sailed north to Avmd, and all the folk there underwent christening. Afterwards he bent his course southwards again. And when he came from the north to Salfti there was a tempest and a driving The king lay there for some sea out of the firth. nights and the weather was the same. Then the king spoke with bishop SigurS, and speered, if he knew of any plan to suggest. The bishop said that he must try if God will give him power to overcome the might of the fiends there. By and bye
;

'

Harallds Saga ens Ilarfagra, cap. xxxa'.

lii

PREFACE.
all

mass vestments, and went to the stem of the kings ship he then " had set up there a rood cross, and lifted tapers and ])iirnt incense, and read there the gospel and many " other prayers,' and sprinkled holy water about all " the ship then he bade them take away the tilt or " awning, and to row into the firth then he made them call to the other ships, that all should row in after them. Then when the rowers were ready in " the Trana, then went she into the firth and found " there no wind upon them, where the ships were, and the sea in their track was as smooth as a lawn, " so that there was a calm, yet on either side the " sea was running so high that the fells were nowhere '^ seen. Each ship then rowed after other there in " the calm, and so they went all day, and the night " after, and a little before day they came to Go^ey. And when they came to Rau^s dwelling, there
his
"
;

" the bishop robed himself in

^'

'

''

'

''

" floated

in
"

by land
full

his
^

mickle ship the Drake, or

the
pretensions
relates

"
Full faitli of the Saxons.

Dragon

(and so on).
faith

Beda had

in

of

these

witches to raise

storms.

and Lupus, bishops of by a church synod to Britain, were encountered by an " inimica vis dsemonum,'' a hostile lot of daemons, who raise storms and turn day into night, driving the bishops vessel from its course, and flinging the billows over it. Lupus calls up Germanus, who felt somewhat disordered by this tossing, and with the name of the Trinity and some drops of water the tempest is stilled. Theodorus, archbishop of Canterbury, mentions this

how Germanus Auxerre and Troyes, when sent

He

power of the witches

" fuerit,
'^

"Si

quis

emissor tempestatis
iii.

id

est

maleficus,
^

vii.

annos poeniteat,

in

pane

et aqua."

'

Saga Olafs Konungs Tryggva-

^
'

Beda

Hist. Eccl.,

I.

xvii.

sonar, 210,211.

Penitentiale Theodori, p, 293.

PREFACE.
It is related in the

liii

Herbarium, in an article on the Castor oil jilant (clxxvi.), where the name of the plant is taken probably from Dioskorides, and the receipt is due to the proverbial ** stupidit^s Saxonum," that that wort smootheth every tempest. The same is
delivered of the aglaofotis (art. clxxi.).

Herbs generally afforded the Saxons

for healing all bodily infirmities:

their materials Saxon

cures.

from animals. Our own largely taken from what we call the vegetable kingdom; but their composition is concealed from the
times
patient

but they drew somemedicines are very

by the mysteries

of prescriptions

and of foreign

names.
if

sick

man

thinks himself effectually tended,

he chance to make out that his doses contain Taraxacum, Belladonna, Aconite, Hyoscyamus, or
Arneca, or
smiles
if

he be refreshed with

contemptuously at the administers dent de lion, nightshade, wolfsbane, henbane, elecampane, or who burns horn in the sick chamber. Perhaps herbs are more really effectual than we shall The locksman at Teddington told me easily believe. that he had broken the bone of his little finger, and for two months it was grinding and grunching, so that he felt sometimes quite wrong in himself. One

Ammonia but herb woman who

;

he

'

and told him go by day he saw Dr. he said, you see there that comfrey, take a piece of the root of it, and cham it, and put it to your finger, and wrap it up. The man did so, and in four days his This story struck me the more since linger was well. comfrey is the confirma of the middle ages, and the <Tuiu(^iiTov of the Greeks, both which names seem to attribute to the plant the same consolidating virtue. Besides the instances in the medical treatises which survive, and which are the less characteristic as they are boiTOwed, we find the healing power of worts spoken of as a thing of course. Thus, '' Nis no wurt " woxen on woode ne on felde )7er euure mage )7e lif

liv

PREFACE.
^

" uplielden."

which for ever

Scintillarum,

No wort is waxen in wood or infield may onans life uphold. In the Liber
Sicut

unpublished, the words

uenenata
are

animalia fortiores herbal uel pigmenta expellunt,

translated,

Spa fpa jeaittpube nytenu fcjienjpan pypt;a oS^e pypt jemanju ut anybaS;^ as the stronger ivorts or wort mixtures drive away poisonous ani'tnalsj where it was not necessary to consider pigmenta as made of herbs. Absurd remedies are not infrequent
besides

those

in

this

volume,
;'

we
for

find

shrifts

for

burning
''

corn "

on the place where a dead

a

" for the healing of the living

swallows of her husbands blood " dom ;" " if she set her daughter over a house or in
'^

man was, woman " if she by way of a leech-

an oven, for the purpose of curing her of fever/' Some, for a babys recovery, would creep through a hole in the ground, and stop it up behind them with thorns some to secure health would fast " in honour " of the moon ^ some would treat a sick child by witchcraft, or pull it through some earth at the cross;

"

;''

ways.^
Saxon botany.

of the Angles and Saxons here printed from errors. How could it be expected ? is not free One fourth, they say, of the plants mentioned by Dioskorides, has not yet, in 1863, been truly identified. Even our own botanists are often scientifically at issue with one another, and are certainly historically wrong

The botany

upon the bilberry family of plants tlie name vaccinium, which, as was clearly shown, more than a hundred years ago, by John Martyn, professor of botany
in setting

>

Proverbs of Alfred,
b.

p.

231, ed.

Kemblc.
^Fol. 17
3

bishop of " Foramen

^

Canterbury,
terra;."

p.

293.

Pcenitentiale
;

Ecgberti,
sect.

in

old

Shrift

32, 33.

book of Ecgbert, 31, Penitent iale of Theodorus,

English
heoiia

lib.

iv.

20.

Teo'S
i

cilh J^ujih 'Sa eoji'San

yya

p. 292, ult.
^

beoyle beca3ca'6'
beajin.

hi

fvlje ]

heojm

Peniteutialc of Theodorus, Areh

Do

Auguriis.

MS.

PREFACE.
in the University of Cambridge,

Iv

and

as

must be conPlinius

ceded by

all

of classical taste,
;

is

the 'Taxiv^oj.

found on page 310; he is also the author of the error that Cyprus is privet, No one in the middle ages instead of Ligustrum.

makes many mistakes

one

is

thought of

questioning

the accuracy of

this

author.

The translator of a Latin w^ork containing names of plants into English, had a hard task before him. He of course, always know what plant was meant did not, In the Herbarium, art. xxix. by the Latin name. the translator made it, for want of occurs Ostriago some better equivalent, luater elder, which it is not.
;

What
I

Latin dictionary,

now
;

that

the world

is

much

improved, will give any information on the subject,

have not ascertained the best I know gives none. Yet I cannot doubt the tree is the 'Ocrrpua, Oa-rpvlc
Ostrya of modern botany. It is figured in Keichenbach, Flora Germanica, vol. xii., plate
of Theofrastos,

the

In art. xxv., ^afxaUKuiu, the Dafne mezereoii, is mistaken for ^x(/.cnXe(jov, a stalkless thistle, and translated luolfs comb, which is a thistle, but stalked. The error in xcvii. may perhaps be a mere slip, from inIn art. c, hedera nigra is very far from attention. Tribulus (cxlii.) is not gorse earth ivy. Strychnus
G3o.
;

(cxliv.) is

not foxglove

^afx^l/u^og (cxlviii.)
is

is

not

elder,

Samhucus ; Capparis
perus
is

not gorse.

not woodbind; luni(Leechbook, I. xxx. 3.) Among

(clxxii.)

these mistranslations
pression on

that

which produced most im-

which all hop plant, with the poisonous Bryony. All doubt whether our lexicographical conclusion is correct has been removed by the author of the Saxon book himself, for he says of his own motion, not quoting the Latin text, but adding to it of his own judgment, ''this wort is so excellent that it is mingled
" in

myself was the confusion of the JOymele, its Teutonic affinities make out to be the

ordinary drinks," that

is,

in beer.

The bryonia

Ivi

PKEFACE.

is

well

known hedge

creeper,

and every cottage

the

mother cautions her

berries.

children

against

poisonous

Our

Avriter, therefore,

who

has confounded the

two, is not to be regarded as infallible. His error may be seen shared by Lovell in his Herball as late as 1659. it is perhaps due to Plinius, who, at the commencement of his 2ord book, has spoken without clearness.
Dioskorides,

when he speaks

of the white

and black

The Saxon
Herbarium
criticized.

having a fruit clustered as in the gi'ape, certainly could not well mean the hop, which does not make one think of grapes at all. The awful halo of infallibility being once removed from the translators portrait, Ave are ready to question
^

bryony

as

some other assertions of his to which the most capital

(xx.),

thus,

Atterlothe
are

(xlv.),

qualities
;

attributed,

cannot be the cocks foot grass

which

to

those
tells

nor can Smearwort acquainted with the early

tale,

Teutonic languages
Aristolochia, but
It
is,

a greasy buttery

be any

must be Butterwort, Pinguicida. however, too exacting to require of a Saxon

plants.
It cannot be given

nine hundred years ago a faithful version of foreign

names of

now

in the latter

half of the nineteenth

Leechbook
sources.

century.

The

latest authorities

do not agree. In considering the composition of the Leechbook, the inquiry, how far the Saxons were able to draw from
the wells
in

of Hellenic

literature

will

come before us

an urgent form. The author of that work takes a page at a time out of Alexander of Tralles, Paullus It will be much more conof ^gina, and Philagrios. venient to state the particular facts when we have the Saxon text in its integrity before us. In the meantime it is desirable to furnish some materials for In some sense children the illustration of the subject. who learn the meanings of such words as " system,"

'

Lib. iv. cap. 183,184.

PllEFACE.

Ivii

scheme/' can be said to leant Greek, though the words And in some do not come in the proper ali)habet. sense our ordinary scholars may he said never to have
"

our Hellenic authors are scarcely ever printed in the true alphabet, but in an imitation of an Alexandrine or Byznntine cursive chaseen

Greek

book,

since

racter,

wliicli

neither

Plato

nor

Aristophanes

could

have read to save his neck.

These considerations forbid

our lashing out in hasty declarations that unless proof can be produced that the Saxons read Greek in the

Greek
read

character,

they

cannot well be said to have

Let us consent to suppose a Greek word wi'itten in the common English way, and duly understood by its English equivalent, to be a step towards
it all.

a knowledge of the Greek language, and we shall find that, as proved by the extant glossaries, which cite

Greek words by hundreds, the Saxons had taken ver}^ many steps, degrees, in knowledge of that sort. Sometimes a Greek word is marked as such by the letter G. Not rarely we find Hebrew words also interpreted. The Colloquium, now well known, was intended as The Collo^'^^' an academic exercise, to instruct the student, perhaps ^"|}"^ to test him, in some of the less easy words occurring That this was its purpose is in Latin conversation. proved by the words of iElfric Bata, who adds to a copy of the earlier Colloquium a piece of his ow^n, *' more difficult,'' as he says himself^ By the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Eld, librarian of St. Johns
College,

Oxford,

who permitted me
to
itself,

the

use

of

his

rooms, I have been able

devote some days to the

Oxford copy.~
glosses
it

The Colloquium

notwithstanding

the phrases of one

;

of its editors,

contains no

Saxon

was
to

therefore intended to be set to a class

of pupils

be turned into

English

and the Cot-

'

" Adliuc ego Bata difTiciliorem

" sententiam addo."

fol.
-

In capitals,

96.

library of Christs Church, Canterbury, is catalogued as " Locutio " Latina glosata Anglice ad instru-

copy of one of these in the

" endos pueros."

Wanley, Preface.

Iviii

PREFACE.
is

tonian copy, which

is

glossed, forms a tutors key,

I

an

early,

for

aught

know, the

earliest

and example

Another educational book hy iElfric

Bata.

of those
"

wooden

legs for halting teachers.

The "more

difficult" piece

by

the "scholar of the almost famous

^Ifric has a few scattered glosses, mostly occurring at the names of trees and herbs.
exercise.

This also was a scholastic

its

At the end
pletion, is

of the manuscript, added after

combears
profi-

found a third exercise glossed, and

it

somewhat upon the question of education and

ciency in languages

among

the

Saxons.

We

should

remember that what we call classics, and authors of the golden age, and Attic dramatists, are not the
whole nor the most practical part of foreign
literature.

The writers who treated of matters ecclesiastical and scientific were in early days much more valuable than what we have chosen. For the improvement of our acquaintance with what our forefathers were doing, I
shall print the third piece,

with its glosses, as far as I was able, in the bright days of summer, to read its blurred and worn record and it will be seen that Greek words were taught to the students. " Ah the self-satisfied may cry, " taught in a way " But our academic teaching has perhaps some weak points
;
! !

also.
clerice,

an

Gala ]m

clerc*

educational
exercise.

O
libon
ri

clerice

ne pana ]?u ne dempseris

pepan
pore

geppe

unquam
^

pexbpeba dipcicaf
plejaii

ppam
Jate-

fleog

]m
''

ealbop*

plibenbep

f ne

fugeas

corcula

labencif ludi

ne

blippe

ppaste
^

beep*

ne helle ealbop

p gepmn
sit
J?e

lecere ce peclia

fanbapila

neque coparchu]
]*i

machia^
ne

pe
tihi

f p
quo
fie

halij ealbop

ne ne

hellepyte

lerarchia^

neque

fit*

cloaca*

cibi

neque

'

Siirrvxcts.

'

Perhaps
fidxvlepapxia.

fetialis, heraldic.

'^

Read fugias. Read corculum

'

Tdirapxos.

= prudens.

Cic.

'

Tuscul.

'

PREFACE.

lix

p
fic

fcoh

;j;ercpGon'

'

ne

0]:ep}:yll

fot^ef
-

^cmyn?;ie

cnceca

nee

alogia

uerum
quia

conimoneut
flihiS*

Leoplic

abfida
j"i

mib J)e iicrimonia mentep-"^ tecum*

fqieivS

moh^

ppjmii pe ne

nou mor(18c
ne ceofe ne
fe

mob Sin Sm pinnent inno'S piac menf tua* cuuf agonitlieca^ ambafiUa^
bleoh

elegaf

butan
Prcecer

heof onlic

f opSan

pe jepunaS
folec

mann
uir

cromam.7
pefan*
eflfe

maximum
^

quia

job

m[icclum]

'^eyjh'^e

deus

mulcum

fectare

jetpmne gemellam
|?u

loecebom

onodiam

onbpocb

jepunian

ceo

a3C]'i

peali

fci^

f ne

(illegible here)

ablif

camen

boba

^o

^e

aecpme.

^^

jeprica*
Grip}:ia^2

melaf ^
fcapena

pogp

gelombce

gepunu
vifca

cangat.

chapcefia^^ cogatur crebro

gelombc
bimnyp*

gefetebnep

pe
^^

jepice

fo'Slice

frequenf' fmcheca-^-i

Grammaton*
feop

tibi
"]

ablifca^ uero

imeb

laelanep
^^

Glaucoma
fi^San
belling
^9

^7

ofpa crinem
meeg'S
20

longe

bpunbapu platunj* bracea bloxaque

^^

eabmobhc
encbtica

ne jepican

otephpon

cempan

profapia

non abiinc

imatenuf* militie

^^ '
'

placung was resplendence

in ]71itan.

see

aXoyia.

Lye
mentis.

So Lay amon 21,327,

fwulc

Read mobef, Read nih.

aycavoOirris.

heore fcalen wleote'S

fa^e
Cceldes
;

gold

their

scales

are re-

^
'^

splendent like gold variegated shields,

Ambasilla, venter, Gl. Isidor.

Xpoj/xa.

Grammars were not

invented.
s

Illegible in
avu^vv'iav
;

MS.
such errors as this

where Sir E. M. takes it not so. In the collection of glosses, MS. Cleop. A. iii., fol. 109 b., from some lives of the
Bratea read bractea.
Saints,

" Bratea

fila

fe

Sylbna
eyes.

may
'"

have been produced by writing

"

'5]ia&b,"
^^

golden thread.

to dictation.

y\avKcc[jLa,

a disease of the
;

Boba, vehemens robur,

ypacpai in

gl.

" aethpme.
'-

Read oyya criminis a weal the flesh from punishment.

^^

in

Greek,

Sps^^'

i^i

0^^

^^

dehinc.
iyKKiriKr].

English, are from one source.

'^

Cf.

tv;j'

TroKireiav
iirl

Kapxvcto-

iyKK\iix&riv
Xef'poj.

kol

piirovcrav

ru

Platon.

'^

ypaiMfxaruu,

d 8

-^

Ix
f uph

PREFACE.
pe gepunie

puh pea^el

leapebpa
^

eac

j*pilce

xpi per
fopbaeb

ce
^

ampliicappa
lu[pi]a6

lacon

nee
paep

non
3 per-

J)eaple

gense'Sa

badanola
jebpepebne

biamanc*'*

efpipiam
')

''

'"^

bpunbaf u fcragulam
*

bpenc
6

beoppup^e peap

hipebep

turbatamque
bejimen* cura

propomam
pip

fcragula pretexta

aubca

bpucS
ucitur

bealp

mene
^

ac
fed

bi]?

fceamhce
unha-

muher

anabola

abuticur

bpocen*

heo jepipS
Ipfa

bpo3

eac ppilce bpip

conuenit apozima^*^ nee non

clepc
pepe
]>u.

placenta

mua-

lum
hdip*
pi

eala

]9U

lapeop
^^

jeleapeb

O
pip
]>u.

eleponoma^^ maneas* codruf

CO galluxoriuf
^4

f an^^ ne diflertuf unique

on cobbepipco

t5u

])onne ])U bealbep

hopf
yp)pof^^

baud
]7ola

cum teneaf
^^

naman

jemynbliefce
limpbacici

^ g^
ut
ii

[beo]

gylbenmu'Sa
crilbfcomup
^^

careaf
aetii

nomme
bihle

'Su

]?egn gehealbe

mu6
of

bible fppece pe

jepuna
constes

adlif appocrifariuf ^s feruec

(5u

aponfmof^^

cibi

kininj
20
;]

PW^
beo
])u

t)

^^VJ^^'^^J^^
21

basileuf

abscemiuf antigrap)busque

^^^ ^^ miSSengeapb cofmograesto

pi

tobelent

emplacenc
cacafcopuf ^^

J>m
cui

ne

]?u

nacob ppam
ab

pbuf 22

escoque

ne

Ilf

gimnuf 24

* a.ix(pira.TTois,

rairrjriois aficpifjidWois

(Hesychios).
phitaba,
tapete.
^
^

Read hpeasel.
utraque

Am-

^^

Read ne
K6Spos
;

'p

an ac ne.
sense

ex

parte uillosa

^-

KkripovSixe,

Isidor. Origines.

^^

the

assigned

Read

laepebpa. XdiKwy.

litter.

Banadola, lectus quo

Gl. Isidor.

seems taken from the rauca Theseide Codri, misapprehended.

**

in itinerefertur.

Baio-

uxorius.
It

nula

(al.

Batanula)
here,

est lectus qui in

^^ 'linrovs.

appears that this

itinera

baiulatur.

Id.

Origines.

Bseb
^

is

times, the

and elsewhere somesame as bebb pop is iter.

;

means testiculos. ^^ Read -leapep.

^^

XpvffoarofjLos.

Read deamant,
i^'nTTTia
;

desperately love.

^^

From

UTr6Kpv(f>os

answering to

[pi] is doubtful.
^

Secretary.
see

See

Du

Cange,

on gense^a
is

the

^^ h(j)opi(riJLovs.
'^'>

Glossary.

fiacnXevs.
h,PTiypa<pos.
Kocrfioypdcpos.

The word
avKiKi).

doubtful.

'^'

' irpSirofxa, ^
"

'^'^

'*^

KaraffKoirds.
yvfivds.

ava^oKi]

is

womans

linen gar-

'^i

ment covering the head, not necklace.

PREFACE.
iinalepehlicum
inlicicif
l)eo
])U

Ixi

-]

peojipehlic

ealboji

jelomloec
celebrej~j

iifqiie

bioccicuf^

fiuccor

cihembplatenc
orofcopuf'^

liajie J)ii lap 3 beo ]m lapeop habeafque bibafcahif-* acnzimum'^ ef cu

j)eojipie

jmline lipien

on bebbe
^

"3

y\niin jepice fe beajible^e

ac
fed

p
lie

amphibalbum
henjefc
canceriuf*
pej-an
7

in

tlioro

&

ablic

epebnf^
eapblufienbe

genihcfumienbe jepite pe

pola

J>u

habunbe
)

cibi

ablic

amafmf
j-cme pexbpeb

capeaf

peSe
ceiTicuf
-3

embfpecenbe
periprafcicuf^

pope

atque

niceac abbachuf^
]>u

on mabasjie

hanb
nni

j'cine

jobcunbfpec
^"^

m\x6e papna

bepan
perre

atque mteac theologuf

jefa^li^bce
j^e

on
ne
j-i

uideaf
]ni

bac-

pycce*

caulum^^
aneajebe

fausce

te cloacoa

hadlif^^
])ii

cofcencenb ^epeb prodignf obbquuf

pacenpul
^^

ppbuh

];a

bipmepbcan

helle

molocalmuf

subdoluf uitef
])u

ludibrium

barach-

fybj

fi^e

punian
^^^

rum*^^ feccare cropheum

])e

fcenc
yo^ey

feopp peapenfcopa procul amphitlieacrum

^^'

eac

fpdce

ealipunba

kynna^
generanc

cibi

nee

non

egilopia*^^

nam

ancxfumnyffe 3 fcrupulum

^KOTIKOS.
WpOCTKOTTOS.

guage of crime,
correctly
taken.

for amasius is in-

3 oLKpoCv/jLou.

Read

hlap.

Aero-

construpratiouis

Ephebion, locus puerorum imber-

zimus panis,
Isidor.

leniter fermentalus, gl.

bium,
'^

gl. Isid.

KavOrjXios.
irepicppaariKos.
&l3a^, a^aKiov,

SiSacr/caAos.

"

ajxipi^iaWos,

by
;

letter

so

Du Cange
art.

see

change Spoon and

:

^
^^

abacus.

deo\6yos.
bier.

Sparrow,

391.

Caraasus, amji-

" Baccaulum, a
'2

Du Cange.

mallus, gl. Isidor.

^

Read ne
$dpa9pov.
rpoiraiov.

sis ?

(p'q^os.
is

The

painful tale sug-

^'
'*

lxov6^da\jxos.

gested

paralleled

by a passage
p.

in
'^

the Regularis Concordia, as printed

at

the

end

of
it

Eadmer,
will

151.
'^
''

The Saxons,

he observed,

u/j.(pL6aTpov.
alyiXctiiria.

did not even understand this lan-

Ixii

PREFACE.
j-eo

jeppiSaS

j-cine

liealj-

mene
^

beophce
fcanbico
j-i^e

jolbe

uexantej- pupillas niteac anologium

obiuflif-^

mu]je laepenbej-

popbuli

])u

cpilipeobie

oiifoh
^

ore

docencif

becbna

birocum
picen paec
^

brauium
pice
fciaf
])u

accapito

paelbefcol

liapa ]?u

healp

jemec*

cbotedrum
nyte
nefci
J?e

hose

habe culleum
popepetce

diamecra
pepp

])u

ppcecfcopa

]?u

healp

J^onne

ergafcula*

Apponaf

emifcicliium
op

cum
poplrecan

ppicefc

cpa

pepp

bpmc
hba

pmpaece
^

jepuna
fuefce

fculpes

bifcica^

enoforo

laxare

mijepan lupa J>u ]>e [ap] pena hup 3 hata lotium bihge cu [xjenodochum ^ obique
'

])u

hatunje

ge^2

xelocypia
J7in

scrinpi

ppiSe

heonene
hirig
^4

ecet

pose

o'SSe

jemec
congia

hup

gacur

acecabulo
hipebe[p]
curci

feu

tuum boma

^^ fie

orceapb

pync opceapbap jebapenbc[e]

ffipplum

pomerium
peine

func pomaria

cougrua

mabf
gepeccan

puppupan fulgeac ofcrum

opeptap predia
^^

on

cipce

^^

pi

mix
oletum

peop

ec[c]lefiif

fit

longe*

fcatuauc

piban

])e

ptypian pmbap

bpmc mopeS

f
])anon

pleo

quala Cibi agitenc flabra poca

diamoron^'' uc fugiac

nebbpe peop popbyge ]?u eall pcet5m gorgon^s emmuf* fperne tu olon^^ placon^^

onil-

quatmuf

'

An

error.

rifiLffrlxiov.

dva\o'y(7ov,

lectern.

Lectrum,
legitur,
gl.

^
'"

^iarixov.
olvo(p6pov, olvotpopeiov.

analogium,
Isidor.
*

super-

quo

"
'^

^evo^ox^'^ov
^r/AoTUTTia.

hup MS.

obrussa, ofipv^ov.
fipa^fiov.

Chariot racing

is

then

*^

dufia.

discountenanced.
"^

'*

An

error.

KKijdeSpa ? or
?

what

is

the exact

^^ i

cipcipce,

MS.

form
"

Culleus,

tunica

ex

sparto

in

'^

So the MS. 5(^ fidpuv, a drink of mulberry

yopyeiv.

modum crumena facta, qua

a populo pice
gl. Isidor.
'

linehatur

juice.
'8

et hitumine, etc., etc.,

' '"

8\op.
TrAoTTjj/.

Sidixerpa.

PREFACE.
liht(S

Ixiii

pa35

]>e
^

gebeopfcipe leope
fiiipolia ^

]?u

liealp fcylh

-T^iy

]m
iioii

lufcr8c

otlon

te

uigeaf

temefou
feoli

i'l

ne milic

]'cylbln3)''

ne ne ^epite
nee
abficque
])u

pube
lucar

f fceme
quo

potef

lulbnr
j;e

flagrec

Ipichuf fpetnifle
lar

beo

jemynbij

raaBbgilban.

neccar

Cibi esco

memor

cui

^allonis.

"^

While this sheet was in proof, most happily arrived a communication from Mr. Henry Bradshaw, of Kings College, Cambridge, forwarding a copy of the same
piece,

tending

much

to the better understanding of the

words and sentences, from a MS. in the University

Library, formerly belonging to St. Augustines, Canter-

bury,
"

where
A.''

it

was distinguished
^

as

*'

Collectiones

cum

Clerice

dypticas
^^

lateri

Corcula^ labentis fugias ludi

Letetur fedus
^'i

ne deinpseris umquam fore."'^^ ne te

neque toparcha^^ quo ierarchia^^ neque cloaca.^^ Non enteca ^7 nee alogia ^^ uerum absida ^^ tecum Commaneat^o mentes acrimonia.-' ^^ non quia mordet Agonitheta 22 tuus fiat ambasilla ^3 tui mens. Ne uraneum^^ preter cromam^s legat* is quia multis
sandapila.'' ^2

Machia

sit tibi

Gl. princeps ludi.

2
^
'*

a-v/xTTocria;

gebeojifecipe,

MS.

i
^'

Gl. esse.
Gl. obscenus turpis.

rh

fi4(Tov.

See Promptorium Parvulorum,

Lucar, vectigal

''^

Gl. baccaulus.
Gl. princeps unius loci

ITavelok, 590.
^

i.

dia-

contrahitur, gl. in

Du

quod ex lucis Cange. Lucar,

bolus herebi.
'*
^^

Gl. pugna.
Gl. sacer principatus.

vectigal erogatio quae fiohat in lucis,

gl. Isidor.
^

'^

Gl. fossa tartari.

Gl. pecunia. Gl. conuiuium.

Lar

for
:

cedented
kitchen.
''

it

Lardarium is unprewill however hold for

^''

^^
19

Gl. lucida.
So,

Gallo, is then hired servant, not

it is

20
21

MS.

what
*'

called in the glossaries-

Gl. uigor animi

corporis in-

Ne

quis presbyter focariam ha.

dustria
22
2^
i.

uel ferocitas.

" beat . " monitos

'*

alioquin sciant se prius

gallonis sententia
alli-

preliator.

Gl. uenter.
Gl. celestem.
i.

gatos."
*

Statuta apud
i.

Du

Cange.

2*

Glossed

tabellas.

colorem.

e 2

Ixiv

PREFACE.
^

Esse deus solet; anodiam sectare gemellam t, Sistere sinchophanta 2 uerere Boba ^ tamen adsis. Griffia^ te tangat* carchesia*^ togaque^ crebro; Graramaton sintheca ^ frequens? sistat tibi louge; Absistat uero glaucoma.*'^ criminis ofFa*/^
.*'

'^

Bratea^^ blatta*^ deliinc encletica

'^

prosapiaque*,^-*

Militiae xpi per te nullatenus absint-,

Amphitappa
Effipiam
Effipia^j
^^

^^

laon'^

extat.-'

badanola^^ necnon*,
'^f*

diamant*^^ stragulam
22

pariterque

propomam-

21

Agagiilam

celebs aginatr^s

pecudes nee ablundam;2^

&

stragula pretexta est aulica26 cura,

Utitur anabola27 mulier' sed abutitur^s ipsa*,

Couuenit inualidis apozima'2i> necue placenta -j"^^ Cleronome^^ codrus^2 maneas^^ unaque dissertus ,^-^ Cum fisco35 teneas yppos.-^^e uxorius37 haud^^ sis-,

Nomine

limpliatici ^^ careas

crisostomus ^o ut
^2

sis;
,

Apocrisarus '^^ ades

aforismos

os tibi seruet

Basileus43 constes*^^ abstemius45 antigraphusque

40

Cosmigraphus

"^^

solumque

tiii

catascopus

^^

esto

Gl. medicinam. Gl. calumpniator, Gl.

2
-'

Gl. palatina.

Gl.
i.

ornamentum muliebre.

uehemens robustus.

^^
-^

male

i.

a malo uiro.
uariis cocta cou-

Gl. scriptura.

uasa pastoralia.
uestis poetalis.
3"

Gl.

aqua cum

dimentis.

Gl. litterarum.
3'

Gl. pultis.
Gl. clerice. Gl. poeta nobilis.

i.

compositio.
^'^

Gl. caligo oculorum.

33

Gl. massa.
3^

Gl.

sis.

Gl. auri lamina.

3''

Gl. peritus eloquens.

Gl. saccus testiculorum. Gl. equos.

Gl. purpura.
3"

Gl. iuclinatiua.
3^

Gl. humilis

nobilis.
3 3^

Gl. seruator uxoris.

Gl. non.
i.

Gl. tapete undique uillosum. Gl. laicorum populorumue.

^

dementis.

Gl. lectus itineralis. Gl.

Gl. OS

aureum habens.
i.

ornamentum decorum.

" MS.
*^3 *'

so,

minister secretorimi.

Gl. ualde amant.

Gl. uestem pictam.
-'

Gl. breues sermones.

i.

rex.
sis.

Gl. claram potionem.

Gl. ut

22
23

Gl. lenocinatorem uel lenonem.

^*
'"

sobrius.
i.

Gl. fugat.
^^

cancellarius scriptor.

^*
"^

Gl. paleam.
***

Gl.

mundi

descriptor.

Gl.

genus

uestis

puerorum.

Gl. explorator.

PREFACE.
Gimiius
ab
inlicitis

JXV
'^

'

iic

siscjuo

bioticus
^

actor

Acrizimum ^ cclobrcs
Inqiic thoro

'^

oroscopus
"^

esquc didascus
^^

'^^
,

amphiballum
fore.*'

habeas.-^ effbbus^ et absit

Cantcrius^ sed habunde tibi* sed amasius

Cerritus^^ caueas
perifrasticus
^^

absit*,
,

atque

Abbachus ^^ manui niteatqiie theologus ^^ ori , fauste ^^ uidcas *7 te ferre cloace Baccaulum
''*

-,1^

Prodigus?^^ obliquus20 monotalmus.-'''^^ subdolus22 haud^^

'^^

sis-.

tropheum -,26 Ludibrium uites baratrum ^-i scctare -^ procul tibi stent egilopia 2 nee non Amphiteatra Nam scrupulum 29 generant^^ psiche-^i uexantque^^ pupillas. Scaiidito analogium- crisis ^^ nitet ore docentis;

Dccliiia biro turn

3-1

braiiium^^
'^^

capito.-'

ac cHothedrum;'^^
,

Culleum 37 habe
Enoforo43 liba

diametra
-^^

scias

ergastula ^^ nesci
sculpes*,'*^

Apponas emistichium

cum

distica'^i

lotium^-t laxare suesce*,

^^

Dilige tu xenodochium

zelotipiamque odi

^6

Gl.

nudus

s[cilicet] sis.

-^ -^
-'

i.
i.

imitare.

Gl. secularis

mundanus.
leuiter

laudem

uictorie.

GL panem

fermenta-

Gl. loca spectaculi ubi

pugnant

tum.
^

gladiatores.
2^

Gl. frequentes. Gl.

Gl. uulnera oculorum.

^
"
^
**

horarum

inspector.

^^
^"
^^
=*2

Gl.

angorem anxietatem.

Gl. protomagister.

s[cilicet] egilopia.

Gl. birrum undique uillosum.

Gl. imberbis

Gl. anime.
Gl. allidunt.

sine barba.
sit.

"
'"

Gl. equus s[cilicet]

^^

Gl. aurum.
i.

Gl. qui ob turpitudinem

ama-

^*

currum duarum rotarum.

sellam plectibilem.

.tur.

^^

Gl. coronam.
i.

" Gl.
''^ '^

furiosus iracundus.

^'^

Gl. circumlocutiuus.
Gl. tabula pictoria. Gl. diuinus sermo.
i.

^''

Gl. uas pice oblinitum, Gl. medietatem spere [sphijcrse]

^^

lioralogium [the diaV}.

^^

'^
>*

feretrum.

Gl. loca exilii \_for

convicts'\
.

bad slaves

Gl. felicior [feliciter].

and
*"
^'

'^
'8 ^'

propri[um].
Gl. fosse.
i.

Gl.
i.

dimidium uersum.

duos uersus.

dissipator.
distortus.

^'

Gl. scribes. Gl. uase uinario.

Gl. urinam.

'"
*'

i.

^'
^'
^

Gl. luscus.
Gl. fraudulentus.

-'
'^^

Gl.

domus

in

qua pauperes

col-

pro non.
i.

liguntur (quo,

MS.)

'*

infernum.

"

i.

odia.

Ixvi

PREFACE.

Hinc acetabular doma tuum ceu coiigia'^ stringat-, Pomerium^ curti."' pomaria'^ congrua malis*,''^
Fulgeat ecclesiis ostrum.^ longe
sit

oletum-/
r*^

Predia quala^

tibi

statuant
^^

."^

agitent^ flabra

flagra*,^*

fugiat pota diametron , ut gorgon Sperne platon ^^ olon.-' ^^ simposia^^ quatenus odon*^^ Te lustret temeson ^^ uigeas si non potes insons? Lar^o tibi quo nectar flagret^^^ lucarque^^ nee absit*, Gallonis^s meraor esto tui ambro^^ timeto cieri;^^ Mulio26 strabo^'^ tuus neque sit.-' neque agason 28 inermis Abbaso 29 quo fuerit (sit hirudo ^o frequens ^^ comitata.
^^
^-^

Eminus

etc.

etc.

Lorica.

which I print next is called the Lorica of its existence in the Cambridge manuscript, I was first informed by Mr. Bradshaw, who has more than once freely discussed the subject, with the aids to the interpretation of it, for my information. It is with Mr. Bradshaws consent, and by help of books lent me by him, that I now print and annotate. The Harleian copy came in my way while engaged upon the Leech-

The

piece

The Latin part has been printed in Germany by Mone also by Daniel, with two conjectural and
doms.
;

wholly mistaken interpretations

with glosses from an

Gl. uas quo fertur acetum.

Gl. mensura.
Gl. locus uacuus.

i
j

Gl. totum.
Gl. conuiuia.

2
3
'

'^ 1^

MS.
Gl.

so, gl. uia.

Gl. uiridiaria

to the

same

ef-

'"

medius semis (somis, MS.)

ect in margin.
^

""
-1
''-

Gl. penus.
Gl. redoleat.
Gl. pecunia dicitur [e] lucis.

Gl. pomis.
Gl. purpura.
i.

'

stercus

humanum.

^
2^
'^

Gl. mercennarii.

^ "
i

Gl. corbes.
Gl. moueant.

Gl. luxuriosus dissipator.

Gl. uocari.

Gl.uente.
uiridiarii.

'^
2''

Gl. custos

mulorum.

" Gl. uirgas

12
'3
1'

Gl. luscus uuelcus. Gl. prouisor equorum. Gl.

Gl. longe.
Gl. serpentis proprium
Gl. bibe.
est.

-^ -"

domus infirma.

^"
^'

Gl. sanguisuga. Gl. assidua.

15

Gl. lutum.

PREFACE.
Irish

Ixvii

MS. by Mr. Whitley Stokes, who lias had the assistance of Dr. Wright in making out, to a good exThe tent, the Syriac or Hebrew words disguised in it. mere presence of two glossed copies now first printed will clear up some difficulties, and one or two words The Irish I may perhaps myself have rightly guessed. MS. of the Latin text declares the composition to be
wi'itten

in

hendekasyllabic

verse

but

lest

a purer

classical taste
^'

should suppose
or

that

hendecasyllabi,"

Phalaskians

been emulated, the opening lines regularity may be taken as a specimen of the rest. It will be seen that they are scanned by the accents.
Suffragare, quseso, michi possito

term the of Catullus have arranged with due

this

by

Magni maris

uelut in periculo,

Ut non secum trahat me mortalitas Huius amii neque mundi uanitas.

etc.

The
'*'

Irish

MS., " in the opinion

of

Dr.

Todd

pro-

duced in the latter part of the fourteenth century," tells us also, that " Gillas banc loricam fecit," and " Laidcend mac Buith Bannaig uenit ab eo in insolam
"
''

Hiberniam

transtulit et portauit super altare sancti

Patricii episcopi sanos nos facere, amen.''

The Latin
were

text of the Cambridge

it

MS.

is

of the eighth century

was not intended

to

be glossed;

the glosses
;

introduced afterwards in a small hand

ones marked with
the tenth
century,

the earlier

an asterisk belong to the end of

the
others
to

the eleventh.

Its

readings agree closely with those printed

eiTors

by Mone

and
C.

all.

By

one or two mistakes in the glosses

that they were a tran-

of

MS.

it

seems probable

script,

and as the newer are sometimes written above the wrong words, the same may be concluded of them

also.

Mr. Bradshaw thinks the glosses cotemporary.

Ixviii

PREFACE.

MS.

Bibl. Publ. Cantab. LI.

1.

10. fol. 43.

Pane luricam loduig cantauit tep

^emiltfa
fio

in

omne

fcie

J'pynej^

fio annej" ])a3jie

annejje jemikfa

SvFFKAGARe TRiNiTATis
ic

UNITAS

unitatis
fa3f

miseRCRe
miclej- fpa fpa

bibbe

me jefeccum

CRinicas

8u}:}:jia;5ape

quaep-o mihi popto

mapi]-2 maj^ni ueluc

on

ffiecennej-j-e j^aecte

m
J^yfep

pepiculo

Uc
ne Neque
J)am

no mib him jecio non j-ecum cjjahac

mibbanjeapbep

me me

pol *

moptalicaf
^
J)a3t

jeapef
anni

ibelnej'

ilce

huiu]ic

munbi

uanicaj-

ec

hoc ibem

bibbe

fpom
a'

peto

fubhmibu]'

hyhfcan pam hiofoncunban comppepobejcaelefcip mihciae

masgnum
uipcutibu]*

J^ylsbf

Ne

fcylbfen fo])bce

}:enbanc
j:e]7an

lam

me ppleecon to llitenne fionbum ac jeme Imquanc lacepanbum hoftibuf* 8eb bepa^pnum fcpanjum ^cec hio me fopejanjan on apmijpoptibuf et^ ilh me ppecebanc in

fasp

acie
3

hiopenhcan pepobep pij ])peatas pifbomep jej:ylner4 mibtiae. caslepcip exepcicup Chepuphm
fcjienjeo jobep
^

jobep lupan onbaepnnep

ec

pepaphm
ic

cum mihbup mihahel

j^pympeclep

ec

jabjiihel

jehcum pmnhbup*
ealbopbomap

pyfce

^a hpi^enban
uiuencep

hehenjlap

Opco
'j

thponop^
englap

Apchanjelop
Siccan *
^

buguSmihca
pocefcacep
pionba
.

ppmcipacuf
jefcylbenbe
bef enbencep
)7onan

ec

Anjelop*
ic

me J?y Uc me
f
jepyllan

beupo
iy]>j>an

pepobe

mjBje

Asmme

Inimicop

ualeam ppofcepnepe
j
]ja

cum

oSepe

cempan *

heahpaebepap
p^atpiapchap*

peopep fiSan

bembe cecepop Agonichecap*

quaccuop

'

cpimtas, H.

This interpretation

is

nearly

'^

majupponum, H.
ut,

correct.
^

='

H.
mulllplicatay
see
^

Hieronymus
ec m.
?;.,

interprets anlenles.

'

" Scicntia

St.
**

C.

llieronymiis; but

Spoou and

Opouous.
'5icc

Sparrow,

art.

1010.

''

only in older hand.

PREFACE.
j:iopcji

Ixix
*
'^

fcipej-

j-ciojuiii

quuceji

pjiophctii]
ic

Apol'tolo]'

niiuif

xpi
'])

pjjopccjij'

cc
liio

bihbc

cemi)aii *
Aclileciip^ bei.

iii{)]icyjiej'

oiiinej'

peco
^
eal

me Uc^ me

J>ujj1i

peji

illoj-

ymbfylle
jaliij'^

ypel

j-epiat

Acque omne malum

foifcnie
jrejuac

fpom me jepite* A me pepeac xpf mecum

]
J?a
^

cpume * pactum pipmum

pepe *

fpeajican pepob

cimop

tpemop
^

cetpap

tupbap

abpeje
tejijieac

50b

mib
jefcylb

]jy

un])ujihfciocenblicpe

jefcylbneppe

Deup

InpDenetpabib

cutela
*

asjhpanan

me mib mihce
potencia

mmep * bchoman
GOei

unbique
leopep *
p)epuap
"^

me
ealne

bepenbe
geppia *

pbpae

*^

Sine*

plaejpcelbai *

omnep

hbepa
]'a

tuca

^^

pelca
bioplu

^^

jefcylbenbum ppotejente

aupa jehpylc pmgula

.

fpeaptan
cecpi
^^

Uc non

basmonep

on In

minpe
lacepa

iibau

mea
^-'^

hnoll* cueccen* fpa fpa jepuniaS fcycap lacula^-^ jyjpam bbpenc nc polenc

^-i

heapubponnan * cephalem
coeS* Sennap^o

mib loccum *

;)

Sa ejan*
conap
^"

cum

lajiip^*^

ec

onbphcan* cunjan * patham ^s bganam^^*

'

xii.,

H.

inserts,

wrongly.

forehead, Irish
gl.

gl.

GiSiiajir, cojia,
b.

irpcopdras.

Cleop.,

fol.

45

Gi^jia,

fe

AXthlecap, C.

flajfc toJ>
fol.
"^St'^p

],n>0C]:tan

>one tux,
?

Id.,

Et martires omnes peto athletas, Atque adiuro et uirgines omnes, Uiduas fideles et professores,
Uti
^
.
.

46

c.

Kead syp^jiam
Scopa

for

^lech.
is,

glosses Trichilo,

that

Tpdxv^os.
is

Irish

MS.
16

etejma, H. adds.

"^y'^

conjecture

of Dr.

"
'

Cuius tremor, Irish MS.

-bilis, Irish
")5]|

Wright, as by error for

'"

Siaris.

MS., worse.
gl.

Perhaps from py
a guttural sound

giving
:

the

viri

" hominis," Irish

'''

initial

" oculos/'

""Artus," Irish MS.;

gl. ap.
'"
^

Irish gl.
latera,"
>^

Diefenbach.

The forehead,
(Dr. read

Irish gi.
os,

yl\ki
vultus,
first

cua, H.
it4\tt).

" patho,"
facics

or " patha,"

Wright).
lizanam,

The
will

^^^

Cetjiao, C.

hand
a quadrisyllable."
^^

in C. wrote onj)lice.

" iacula

is

If

be

AV.S.

Semitic; and so another

the s/iull or top

MS.

" SySJ^am,

of

the

'

Prom \^

Ixx
5a
uaej-tSyji el
^

PREFACE.
*
pijiau

-\

*
-

bpeof
cpaj-fum
^

pbaii *

leiibana*
*

Acque michmaf
Seeoh *
baclima 7

clabam

mabiauum

taliaf

mibipnan * ^

tpa *
binaj-

honba *
Ibumaf'^

mmum
OOeo

foflice

exujiam

Acque

epjo

heofulan *

cum
ejan

capillif 9 ueptici

jalea

j-alutij-

efto

Capici

j^ionci 10

bpaejene J)am j^pyp ealban nebbe *

peolupe * onpyne
labio
ii

ocuLf

et

cepebpo

cpippmi*

Rofcpo

paciei

tJunnpenjan *

cmne * beapbe opepbpuum *

GOenco

eapiim

heajoje-

timpopi

bapbae

supepcil[i]ip

Aupibup

ppinnum * j-mepum * ngepjpiptlan *

nip

nopu

fion

ejhpmjum *
pocip

buccip

Incepuappo

Napibup pupillip

bpaepan
palpebpip

opep

bpuum* toSpeomum*
^^

opoSe
aniie "-* anile ^^

ceacum
maxillip
^^

tauconibup

jmjip xmxir

^"^ ^^

ec

joman
paucibup

bencibup

Imjue

hpasctunjan* opi uuae

fpiopan

hpaecean
juctopi

Spotbollan

tunjeSpum *
et

lieapubponnan *
capicali
^^

jupjihom

publmjuas

cepuice

'

The

Irish gl. gives michinas as

fol.

116

b,

and

infra,

p.

Ixxii.

something unknown belonging to

the teeth.
-

The

glossaries

make

confusions befat

MvKTT]pas, perhaps.

Second hand j^pio^ian. Perhaps Arabic kadhalun, Syriac kedala, Chalaneck, cervix, Dr. Wright. dum, Darmstadt MS. Dequicaladum,
another
3

tween the kidneys, the them, and the intestines.

'

about

thighs or waist, Irish gl. Bo^/xo/,

TTfJSes-,

<Xi^,

Hesych.

-T

MS.

Perhaps, 0'']hn

loins

^ '"

pcapulip,

H.

Another MS. ventrem.

or

It is then.

jj>n5
^

pn
gl. D^J?)? ?

hneofulan, C.
labiae, C.
;

'-

labie,

H.
S.;

" latus," Irish

Tutonibus,

W.

Tautones,

^
^

entrails, Irish gl.

;

palpebrse, gl. Isidor.

'2

micsejmu, H. Sescmcio, gl. C. ^ihAnga vel micgejin, gl. Cleop.,

fol.

iSuip,

H.

read gingivis.

'*

34 34

a.; also
c.
;

Exigia, sefcmco,
gesanco,
fol.

Id.,
a.
^^

Read

anhelae; see
tojujue

Du

Cange.
throat,

fol.

also

84

Correct;

of

the

Micjepn it not Axungia, fat ? means fioitse of urine. For the rest, Cleop., cf. "Extis lefenco t," gl.
Is

tivula.

Somner and

others follow-

ing him are quite wrong.

'"

to the foretooth,

Irish gl.

PREFACE.
jpijmn *
ceutjio
^

Ixxi
jefcylbiiejye

i^jiifclan

])onaii

capcihijini collo clemenj-

Abefto tutamine

Deinbe'-^

pep

6ii

byjine lupica

fio

jehealbpaipce
cucippiraa

ymb
ejija

lioma

mine
epga

efto"^

membpa
Inuipibilep

mea
^

innoSap fte \m
uipcepa
na^slap

apcupe* ppom
a

Uc
^a

petpubap-*
paBpcniaS
F^S^^i^^
J>a

me me

Sa unjepepenlican

flejeap

Subum
beup

hacienban jepcylb
obibilep
"Ceje
ejijo

pcpon2,pe
popti

clauop quop

lupica

eaxla mib ^efcylbpum ^ eajima pcapulip ez bjiachia humepop cum

5a elna

'Ceje

ulnap

mib

fse^mum*
cubip
'^

Pj:pce*

honbbpyba pmjpaf mib

palmap
bijitop

cum

et manibup

pujnap
*
3

cum

])am ujEjlum

bone
tJeje

bpi ccj

^a pib mib ])am

coftap

boSum
Ajicubup

unjuibup
bcec

ppmam^
3

ec

cum

lipycj

fma
nepuop

mib 5am banum

5a hyb
^Zer^e

tepja boppumque

ec

cum

oppibup

cucem

lunbleojum *

panjumem cum
5eohjela3tum

penibup

huppbaan * eppenbu * mib ]?am catacpmap^ nacep cum

pupap
}>a

homme * ppeopubpan * genicaba* mib pam

I^ege

pemopibup

cambap

^^

pemopaba

^^

cum

cmepumi2 p^ bpioppban
jenucbp

cniopa

belan *

popbtep

ec

^enua.
pec

Teje
ilia

calop

cum
cum
i4

pconcum *
cibiip

belum *
ec calcibup

pconcan *

mib ])am

cpupa

pebep plancapum

pcaepum
bapibup
^3

cel^am emnpeaxenbe mib canum teje pamop concpepceucep beciep cum mencagpip

ceotpo, H. ; chautrmn,

gl,

E. 72.
is

the

haunches, Irish

gl.

cata-

Cleop. 26 b. al pe >]iocbolla, all the

throat; probably X'^^'Spos,
" *

Spmas blepemma mees, gl. C, \7hich

obscure.
i
^'

Domine, W.S. esto mibi, H. jaetunbap, H.

Subep, C. on erasure of the old
cubip, C.H. all for cubitis.
spinas,

gambas, W.S.
the

upper

thighs, Irish gl.

Subum.
^
^

cniepum is on an erasure of an older gloss, which may have been vpeopbanum.

'2

W.

S.
lines.

*^

the toes.

H. transposes

Ixxii

PREFACE.
Seapmjepinb *
bpioft

11035%

^F'5^^

Py^

Uiijuef binoj' quinquiej-

Ceje pectuj-

lujulani
])a

peccu)j'ambe

pone nafelan bjiioft bau masan culum mamilla)' Scomaclmm ec umbilicum. teje
3

ueiicjiein

})a

jecynblica lima

"j

lipip

pape lieopcan
copbif

lumbo]-

jeniraba
pa

ec alburn^

ec
j

pa

bflican

ppyjiealban

bppe
lecofi

py^e
iba

bujifaii"

uicaha

Ceje

cpipibum
^

ec

mappem
peabau *

lunbleo^an* j-naebelSeapm*
jieniculo]'

neccan *

fichpem
lunjenne

cum
uenaj"

obbjia.-''

Ceje

coleam^

peolu

pepS * mib

a3b[ian fma^l *

Seapmap * jeallau
fel

copacem
mib
]>y

cum puhnone
'^^Z^

pbpaj'

heopthoman *
capnem'^
*

pa fceape

mib pam

cum bucbaminfe. mi Ice meapjum

mebulbf

Injumam

^
9
.

cum
Ce^e

jebejbum *
cupcuopj'
^^

ifepnum *

Splenem

cum

Intej-cinip

papa jepoja Sa unajimieban ^a blasbpan jelynb j ealle * abipem ec pancep^^ compajmum Innumepop ueficam

eubebypbnep
opbmep.
pen
ij-

hcep

pa

oSpe

hma

poplascen

Sapa

t^S^
bepepbe

pilop

ACque
Ceje

membpa pebqua quopum

cocum me

ic

popce

ppaecepii

nomma

on^iytum
jeiifibup

cum qumque fmicpe gepophcum bupum -pee ppom

ec
0(5

cum becmi
pa^p

pabjie paccip

popibup uci

^'^

pam ilum
plantip
ic

heapbep heaneppe nasnejum

ab
uepicicem

upque

Nullo

bmo membpo

^^

popip

jeuncpumije
ejpocem.

afcupan

incup

Ne

de

meo
^

poppiC

uicam cpubepe

pecrup, C. omits.

Tonsil.

See
11.

Du Cange
omit.

v.

Tusillffi,
2

That

is,

Alvum.
is
;

Gallic word.

cajmem, C.

bujifan, purse,

written on an

^ ^

lun^mam, C,
eoj-enum, H.

for Inguina.

older gloss
as

erased

read marsem
C.

Exta

lefen,

gl.

marsupium.

See above on Exugia.

'"

The

final e in

ealle is erased,

Extales, fnabel t beapc (read

J'eajmi,
gl.
11.

bajc)
(jut.

74, the great

but legible. " TTOLvras.

'-

uc, C.

the peritonccmn.

'

meo, n. adds.

PREFACE.
polncjpefti)-

Ixxiii

pepoii
j-ebjiij-

alh*>
laiijoji

n-ji

]).iii

focSlioe
uiiii

boloji coppojie

Donee
^

bance (ko
be

j-eneam ec peccaca
ntyii\\enbe
lenjic

mea
mx%e

boni)- jractij'

beleam.

Uc

capne

ic

jefliosaii

co
et

Imij-3

capeam
mifepto beo
celnej-fa

5am liean ab aka

astliejua

^efliojaii

euolajie

ma^je

jobe milcfienbum to (5am pobeplican ab

bliSe
laecuj-

ualeam
ic

ec

po * pejen * jncej' pejni uehap4

fy fpa

peppigepia.

AMEN:

Rather than print at every word a variation, it is better to give the glosses of the Harleian MS. continuously.
seo spa

(Harl. 585,
])puiis

fol.

152.)

jepiikmije seo
])j)imiis

seo aunis 'Saspe annij-fe

jemilbsa
fses

me

jejiulcmije ic bibbe

me jesectum

micel[es]

mib lieo teo mec seo ibelnes beaSlicnes 'Seoses jeapes iie Syses mibban jeapbes bibbe fpom ]'em hyhfcum ])3ej- lieopnhcan lice ic (5a3C
spa
fpaacennijje
"fee

nalaes

comppeopobes masjenum
]-eonbum
ac jefcilben

'5y

laef

mec

poploecen

to llitenne

so'&lice
(5sep

pcepnum ftponjmn fte heo

mec popejonjen
spa job
~j

m
"^

pe^an

heoponlican peopubep pijppeatep

lypienban
]?icee

pipbomep jepylnep

^obep lupu onbepnep mjb caemppum*^ spa

ic pi fee

jobes ftpenju jelicum

^j

])pympelb

j^a

heahenjlap albopbomap
jepcylbenbe

buguS melite asnglap

*pte

mec

peopobe peonb ic masje jepyllan sy]?])an aeptep pan oSpe ea3mpan heah peebepap peopep piSan^ pitejan onb apoftolap xpep scipep fteopan ))popepap alle ic bibbe jobep caempau' ^te mec ]mph heo ]7ape ecaen haelo ymbpylle 3 aejhpylc ypel ppom me jepite cpift mib me pepe psefte

fol.

153.

tpume

jepreftiiije eje pyjihto

^a ppeaptan

peopub abpeje 50b

unpuphpceotenblicpe jepcylbneppe a35hponan mec jepcilb Sinpe

maihte mmep liehoman lepepa alle alaep jepunbum plcejpcylbe jepcylbenbum anpa jehpylc *pte nalep ^a ppeaptan beobhi m

mmpe
>

piban

lelijen

ppa

ppa

gepuniaS

r^y^^r

fl^i^^r

]>^^^

Read

adl,

with

bus,

which however H. has

in the

pactip, C. omits.

Latin.
*

p'San, glosses quateji, an error of

3 *

lens labis,
ueho]i, C.

W.S.
|

transcription.
^
I

blunder between Vibex

?

lael

This glosses militibus not mill-

^^^ Vibrare

Ixxiv
linoll

PREFACE.

Sa heapobpannan

mib

))oem

loccum

oiib

cajan onbpleo-

fol.

154.

can cunjan ce5 t5a nsefJ^jTillu fpipan hpyiic^ piban lenbenu ^yoh micjepnu onb Sa cpa honba mmum j-o]?lice mib jefcylbpum hneccaii helm liailo beo^opefco i heajrbe lieapolan eajum onb

nebbe peolupe onpeone ^unponjan cmne beapbe opepbpuuin eapum heajoppmnum pmepum becpin ]?aem n^efcjpiplan peoum eahjimjuin bpoepum bpuum toSpeoman opo'Se casnum cmbanum onb jeoman to'Sum cunjan muSe hpa^ccunjan hpacan ppocbollan ] unbepcunje'Spum

exon

])a3pe

^pypealban

ppipan

]>y

heapoblocan bpsejeue^ jpifclan ppipan appsefc aetbeo

(Su jepcylbneppe ajpcep ]7on beo 'Su me bypne peo ^ebealbpasptep^e ymb mine mno^ap ymb min[e] leomu fte 'Su afcupe ppom mec

Sa

^escylb pot51ice job

fol.

155.

bpeja neejlap 'Sa paefcnia^ laSpenbneppe fcponjpe bypnan mib jepcylbpium eaxle onb eapmap gemunbbypb elne mib Jjan elnbojan ] honbum pyfce polme pmgpap mib ]>sem. nseglum jepcylb pone hpnnjc ^a pibb mib 'Ssem liSum base hpmjc "j Sa pionpe mib 'Sasm
unjepepenlican

--I

banum

jepcylb Sa liyb blob

mib

J8em

sebpum Sa liypban Sa

eappenba mib 'Seam ])eohfconcum jepcylb

homne^

pcoclipan

'Sa

fol.

156,

peohjepealb mib Jem j^eohhpeoppau ])a hpeoppan ^ Sa cneo jemynbbypb celjan epeupexenbe tyne mib ])a3m taum na^jlap tpija pipe jefcylb Sa healan mib ))rem fceonum t pconcum j pec J>apa ila mib ]}fem fcep)iim t jonjum fj^opium pceoncan jepcylb bpeofc Seapmpmb bjieofcban tittap o'53o fponan majan 3 ])one neabulan jefcylb 'Sa pombe pa lynbenu J>a acsennenblican lyomu 3 hpip "] 'Saepe heoptan pa liplican 3 pa lyplican heoptan jefcylb pa ppiopealban lippe pypele ppeotan '^ buppe lunblajan pnaebelpeapm mib pasjie nectan jefcylb peaban pelepep^ mib 'Saepe lunjene ebpe pmselpeapmap jeallan mib py hyopthoman jefcylb pliEpc I lichoman Sa pcape mib pasm mepjum pone milce mib pasm gebaBjbum eopenum 3 poppum jepcylb blasbpan jelynb onb alle papa jepoja pa unapimbau senbebyjibneppe jefcylb hasp "] pa oppe leomu paepa ppas pen ip ic bipepbe t popleopt nonian jepcylb alne mec mib pip onbjeotum ] mib cen bupum fmicpe jepophtum ^ce ppom paem haelum o^Saep heapbep heanneppe nasnjum lime mmum

utan

mnan

ic

jeuntpumije

pylaep

op

mmum

maeje

lip

Thus MS.; read beo

"Su

X pef

^
'

To

ceotpo.

Bead homme.

To

cepebjio.

PREFACE.
aj-cupm
polej*
ic

IxXV
.TpcSon
)-o])lice

ece

ubl

fap
^

licliomfin

jobe
abiljie
t ic

fylleubiiui

^ealbi^e

mine jynne mib jobum

(5eo]-um

ic

fee

Of licliomaii

uc^eonjenbe

ueolum

ic

(Solije

mx^e je])oliau 3 co ]?a3m hean jepli^an I jeFepan ic maj^e ^ jemilpjenbum jobe co foem peaboplicum bliSe ic \y jepejen
picej'

coelneffe so^lice.
Learning of
^^^.^^^J^"^

These pieces will prove that the Saxons, in their Our own ii^o^lern way, tried to learn languages.
fashion is of
recent

invention

persons

now

living

received the first elements

of Latin from
is

Corderius;

and the whole colour of training

for those,

necessarily different

those

who are to use who must imitate

a language colloquially, and

Ovidius, Yirgilius,

Horatius,

in the several branches in

which they

excelled.

HeV.

brew and Syriac are still exceptional studies. Of the manuscript from which the text of the Her- MS. barium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus has been
taken, Bibl. Cotton, Yitellius C.
iii.,^

the reader has a

dates as a copy

specimen in the fac-simile.

those most experienced,

Opinions, gathered from

it

agree that

For myself, I only venture to believe that it was written out not earlier than A.D. It has 1000, nor later than the Conquest, 1066 A.D. been chosen as the ground work of this edition, because it is illustrated by drawings in colours of the plants, an advantage which none of the other old English, or so called Anglo-Saxon, copies possessed. While uninjured it must have been a regally magnificent book, executed at an enormous expense. It suffered from the fire at Ashburnham House, 1731, and, like the rest of the MSS., was taken out of the
ashes a shrivelled blackened
it

from about 1050 A.D.

lump of
;

leaves.

Recently

The binder first soaked the he then flattened ruins in water, to make them limp them, and for this purpose was obliged often to cut through the edges, and to stretch them by pins,
has

been rebound.

^Wanley,

p.

217

a.

Ixxvi

PREFACE.

widening all the flaws; stout pieces of cardboard were tlien prepared as a frame to carry the leo^ves, which were fixed into these paper frames by ligaments of
goldbeaters skin.

Thus once more the burnt leaves became a volume. The binder had probably some
superintendence in his task, for as long as the Latin
its guidance the folios were numbered, but beyond that they have been frequently misplaced. It is possible that on the publication of this work, the binder may be directed to rearrange the folios, in which case the references to the drawings printed in the text will no longer correspond with the numbers in the MS. Besides the serious mischief from the fire, the pages had also suffered from tlie paintings placed upon them. The green pigment used, probably sulphate of copper, has eaten away the vellum upon which it was laid, so that not only the drawings so far have perished, but also the writing at the back has gone. Thus this manuscript, taken by itself, had become in many

text of Apuleius afforded

rightly

places illegible

yet,

when a

parallel text

was

laid

by

the side of
print
richest
Foundation of
Jji

it,

the broken lines

significant,

words were again

nearly
all

the

letters

and lialf surviving and it was possible to of the book from the
is

and most beautiful copy.

editing an ancient work, the rule

now
;

recog-

Dialect.

which due consideration has suggested to print from the best MS. and supply its defects, if any, from The three best MSS. conspire in the next best. making the extravagant slip in Herbarium, art. Ixxi., and the fourth is not taken into account. But in the orthography of old English words, a certain method has prevailed, and the mode of ^Ifric, it may be, has been followed in modern grammars and by modern editors, no objection to such a course, as of a choice, being now taken yet this customary spelling has also been called " pure Saxon," and other methods
nized,
;

<

PREFACE.
li.ivc
TTiciits

Ixxvii

boeii
T

(lamnod ns

(lialocts,
1o(lg(>

to hoth of wliioh

JikIq;*-

take leave to

an appeni, wliich
occasion.
is

sliall

Ix^

pleaded to on some

Cufcure

It so liappcns,

however, that the spelling of MS. Y,

nearer to the

customary manner than that of MS. B., so that no discussion need arise out of the choice of a base for
printing.

The wasted MS. are

vanishinor

fjxinter

strokes
:

of

the

reed

in

this

scarcely visible

the accents often are

me,
a

and onlv the visit of a sunbeam revealed to that what has been printed on page 216,^ as

was really written fcsenihtum. The letters and u are scarcely distinguishable in the handwriting of this MS. MS. V. in its pristine beauty had two large paintings each filling a page. The first contains a tall figure standing on a lion, habited in loose tunic or amice, chasuble and stole ^ to all appearance an ecclesiastic of rank, holding in the right hand a crozier, the small cross bar of which is, though not easily, discerned it rests on the ground, and the lion has seized
furendicum,
; ;

Ornamental ^^ ???^ y'^

it

in his jaws.

In the

left this tall

personage holds a

heavy book. The draperies according to Saxon custom seem caught by a gust of wind. Over him waves a
baldachin or canopied curtains.
reverentially

On
full

his left approaches

a tonsured priest
soldier,

presenting a volume.
sized shield,
is

On
up

his

right a

with a

looks

for orders.

The purport

of this painting

scarcely

conveyed by the design itself: it seems, however, to represent the church dignitary for whom the work was copied the stole marking a churchman though some hesitation is produced by the presence of a soldier with a Roman air. Tliis painting was meant for this book, since the border matches that which backs the
;
:

title.

'

Line 20.

Over both shoulders

and pendent.

Ixxviii

PREFACE.
largo

explained by the inscription at the foot, as exhibiting ^sculapius, the Centaur Chiron, and Plato. iEsculapius is a tall beard-

The second

painting

is

Centaur is a Hippocentaur with bald All three head, and Plato has right shoulder bare. grasp a large volume in plain binding, with a broad tie round the middle, as if the two, the Centaur and
less figure,

the

v^
AIS^

^^"^^

were each at once receiving it from iEsculapius. The foreground is infested with snakes the background is full of, animals, of which the boar, wolf, hare, roebuck, bear, and dog are still distinguishable. On the other side of the leaf a broad ornamental fillet surrounds the title of the book, " Herbarium, etc." The owners of MS. Y. I have been unable to trace to any good purpose. No information is derivable from
Plato,
;

Sir Robert

Cottons private catalogue in manuscript,

which I have inspected. On the middle of fol. 74 a, between lines is written "Richerd Hollond this boke," for '' his boke," in a hand of the fifteenth century. There was a Richard Holland, brother of John, restored

Earl of Huntingdon

1417,

created

Duke

of

Exeter 1442, died 1447, which Richard was Admiral of England, and died 1404. Whether he were owner
of the

MS.

I shall not pretend to decide

but

know
is

of no other so likely.

On

the face of an early folio

written

" elizabeth colmore," in

a text

hand,

perhaps

of the age of Sir Robert Cotton.

Among

the books in

the old library of (the Cathedral) Christ Church, Canterbury, mentioned by Wanley in his preface, occurs " Herbarius Anglice, depictus," and as this answers to

Wanley has concluded it is perhaps the same copy. The Hollands derived their importance from a marriage with the Fair Maid of Kent, descended from Edmund Plantagenet of Woodthe description of

MS.

V.,

stock

(born 1301, Aug.

I.,

5,

beheaded 19 Marchl33:)),
second
of

son of Edwa.rd

by

his

wife

Mai-garet

of

France

whence the Earldom

Kent came into the

PREFACE.
HolLancl family,

Ixxix

and they would be within reach of a few books from Canterbury. Those who like dovetailing

may

be content to
of

splice together the probable

date

of the

MS. (10401050), Canterbury, and the

Eadsige (1038

archiepiscopate
calculations

1050)

but

such

have in them much uncertainty. The drawings may once have been likenesses of the The plants; in some cases we see that the pencils employed were capable of the work thus betonica, arum dracunculus, an orchis or satyrion, galium aparine, ery;

dra\Tings

P ^*'*

thrsea centaureum, achillea millefolium,

lilium,

atropa

mandragoras, ricinus communis, suggest to the eyes the plant intended by the artist, and with the exception
of galium aparine, that also mentioned in the
text.

authors
of the

But

it

often happened, that

when

a pattern to

be faithfully repeated was placed in the hands

limner, he regarded
it

with too
it.

artistic

an eye and

considered

how he

could improve

The

fac-simile gives

us the drawing which in MS. V. stands for saxifraga graThis plant throws out, adhering to its roots, nulata. many small bulbs of the form and colour of onions, but not bigger than the heads of large pins remove all colour from the picture, and you will see that the outline represented these characteristics of the plant an oval piece of turf suggested that the part under earths surface was delineated, and then the roots and granules were seen below it. The artist knowing nothing about this, amended, as clever fellows are always doing, his original heightened the colour of the under side of the bit of surface, and seeing no leaves, rounded and made green the granules, so as to do the duty of leaves. In many other cases some such improvements were introduced; thus the flowers of chamomile have had their white rays and yellow discs coloured alike blue. In other cases the botanical system current in the earlier cen; ;

turies of the Christian era

was the cause of our

f

discon-

tent

for in those days, the plan of relying principally

Ixxx

PREFACE.

upon the parts of fructification for the identification of a plant had not come into vogue, and tlie illustrators were content to give us some specimen, however deficient in the distinctive marks. Hence probably, Ostriago, 'Oo-Tp'jot, a tree native to the countries on the
Mediterranean,
is

Water
Erifia,

Elder,

which is the opposite leaves being found in both.

explained
LicSwort,

by

an herb now unknown, is also translated LiSWhen the wort, and the drawing is like the former. plant itself presented a very complex task to the himself with indicating the painter, he contented In many character, as in yarrow, rosemary, and carot. cases the stems are made rigid and erect, instead of In pliant and trailing, as in cinqfoil and potentilla. many cases no one can at sight recognize the plant intended, even buttercup, horsetail, marsh mallow, which may once have been a tree mallow, the botanical hibiscus, could
cress,

not be

known by
an

the drawing.

Nor could

strawberry, hop, celandine, clover, hemp, and so on.

exists
illustrated manuscript of Dios-

Vienna MS. of
Dioskorides.

At Vienna
korides,

from which, in Jacquins time, woodcuts were made, and from these one set of more than four hundred plates was sent to Sibthorp, and is now in This set, tlie library of the Botanic Garden, Oxford. by the courtesy of Dr. Daubeny, I have examined. Another set of only one hundred and forty-two plates was sent to Linnseus, and is now in possession of the Linnsean Society by the kindness of Professor Bell, I have had an opportunity of inspecting this copy. Though less extended than that at Oxford, it is more valuable, as far as it goes, by containing notes in ink by Jacquin, and others in pencil by Sir J. E. Smith Jacquin describes the colours, which are, of course, wanting in prints, and Sir J. E. Smith endeavours to The botanical world was for a determine the plants. long while in gi^eat agitation about the names in Dioskorides, and these di'awings were expected to be
;

PREFACE.
of great
assistance
till

Ixxxi
raged,

controversies
at

and

folios

were
It

publislied,
"

length

the

struggles

of the
^

learned

terminated

only

by despair
I

of

success/'

was by no means in hope that botanical knowledge that I paid a

specially
elicit,

should add to
visit

to

Oxford
to

to
I

see

these

plates,

but from

a desire

from a comparison of the Saxon drawings in the Herbarium, from art. cxxxiv. to the end, with those from the Vienna manuscript, some
if

could,

solution

of the
artist

difficulties

of

the

subject.

If

the

had altered a little here and a little there, some light would be thrown on the matter. The Vienna Greek copy might be even the original, or if not so, very near to the original of the English. But though in many cases the Vienna copy gives faithful drawings of the plants, as in sedurti arhoTeuni, which is spoiled in the English figure (art. cxlvii.), yet there was no such similarity between the drawings as to lead to any useful result. Dr. Daubeny o-"me a small book of his own publishing, running to seventeen pages, in which he has assigned modern
scientific

Saxon

equivalents

to

the old Hellenic appellations

face

of Dioskorides.

On

the

of

it

this

book

treats

rather of the figures than of the written text; yet, of

course,

the words of the

author were alwaj^s kept in

view. The Professor, then, '' characterizes the drawings " of the plants in the Vienna MS." often as *' fictitious,"
often as having
" bad,"
**

slight
''

resemblance," as

" doubtful,"

and all this in a treatise wdiere the conclusions were drawn in a good measure from the drawings. Anxious to learn more about Brittanike, the Vienna MS. gave me a drawing, showing the flowering stems of Lythrum salicaria, with leaves which must belong to a monocotyledonous
very rude,"
indifferent,"

"

plant.

Little,

therefore,

v/as

to

be gained from the

'

Sir J. E. Smith, in lleeses Cyclopaedia, art. Dioskorides.

Ixxxii

PREFACE.
representations.

Vienna
author.

The

latest

authorities

are

not agreed

upon many

questions relating to that old

These drawings of the Vienna MS. were, it is said, derived from another, which was sometimes Professor Jacquin, writing called the Neapolitan MS.^ on the copy of Amaracus thus made, utters the same language as that employed above, and says, '' pictor " arti su8e et genio nimium indulsit.'' He complains also of inaccurate drawing of umbelliferous plants, " umbellarum configuratio valde rudis in omnibus um" belliferis."
^

Drawings of
Snakes.

The Saxon drawings of the snakes are fanciful " there never were such snakes," I have been assured

by one
An
illustrated

of the best naturalists in England.

Latin cop)"', ]MiS. T.

copy of the Latin Apuleius,' which as of the twelfth century, has sometimes been here mentioned as MS. T., has been collated for assistance in determining plants. It has a few English glosses, and
illustrated

An

some of its figures like MS. V. Under Ocimum^ are " Herba Ocymum te rogo added the following words
;

'

per

summam

diuinitatem qui te iussit nasci ut cures

" ea

omnia

et succurras auxilio

maximo

quse de te fida

Another, MS. G.

remedia posco quae sunt infra scripta." I have marked MS. G. as a German MS., an illustrated Latin Apuleius, Harl. 4986 it has some German glosses thus Hierobotane is glossed fauerne o^' taubencpopf; Batrachium (art. ix.) is Wilde Eppich, Apium silvaticum, wolf wurc, (for wurz). Many figures are wholly false, as Marrubium,^ and some are monstrous, as Tithymalus.^ It has the Medicina de Qua; ;

"

drupedibus.
The same, I suppose, as the KiMS. Wenrich de Auctorum
versionibus,
p.

'

To

the same

effect, Plin.

xxv.

nuccini

Graicorum
gives an

217,

Harl. 5294.
Fol. 40 b. Fol. 16
Fol. 37
a.
a.

account of an illustrated
'

MS.
nus

of Dioskorides sent by
the

Roma^

II. to

Arab " king of Spain,"

about 960, A.D.

PREFACE.

Ixxxiii

MS. A.
17063.

is

a neat ItalLan
the
fifteenth

MS.

of the Latin Apuloius,

Anotlier,

executed in

century,

It often corresponds

MSS. with MS. V.

^^- ^ Additional,

"'

MS. Harl. 1585 is another illustrated copy of the Latin text. At fol. 20G, the work of Apvdcius, if Apuleius, is attributed to another name/ " Explicit liber Platonis de herbis masculinis feliciter." The " Liber
:

Another.

" medicina3

ex
is

animalibus

pecoribus

bestiisque

et

" avibus "

attributed as usual to Sextus Placitus.^

" Incipit liber Dioscoridis.

Part of Dioscorides follows,

"

In hoc enim libro continent ur herbse foeminese, etc."^ And by and bye, " Incipit epistola Apollinis de em" plastro podagrico satis admirabile cuidam missa
''

podagrico."

The MS.
all

is

of the early years of the

thirteenth century, largely illustrated

and

curious.

The foregoing are

vellum manuscripts.

Trinity

MS.

at

College, Cambridge, has a paper

MS. of

Apuleius,^ in

^^^^*^-

Latin, with coloured drawings of the fourteenth cenThis is followed by " Liber medicine diascoridis tury.
"

ex hebreorum scedis
eius
discipuli,

numero
There

Ixxi.
is

per singula no-

" mina." et

Sferitis occurs.''

a picture of Galenus,

and of Ypocras, et eius discipuli. There are several amusing drawings of devils, in the form nearly of bats, passing out of the possessed. The illustrated Latin manuscripts here mentioned How were of interest, chiefly as bearing on the signification From them most botanists of the Saxon drawings. would turn away in scorn, declaring them unscientific
those

applied,

only

who

take

pleasure

in investigating

the

history as well as the

modern plfkse of their favourite science, will give them any attention. In the constant difiiculties presented by these figures, I have ever gone
a gentleman well
Wen-

for advice to

known
Col. 357.

for his acquire-

'

There was, according

a Plato Medicus.
Col. 209.

to

rich,
3

O.

2, 48.

fcif,
^

MS.

Col. 303.

See Herbar., cxxxviii.

Ixxxiv

PREFACE.

ments and thorough knowledge of this subject, Dr. John Harley, of Kings College, London, and have always received from him the most friendly and zealous
aid.

MS.

B.
is

Of the Saxon

text,

MS.

B.,

a Bodleian manuscript,^
folio,

a very handsomely written

twelve inches
letters

tall,

eight broad, in double columns, the

clear

sharply marked, with vacant spaces intended for

ings
of the
plants

and draw-

and snakes, but never filled in. The Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus run from folio 68 to 130. Two folios have been cut out, as noticed here in the various readings on pages 298, 366. Competent judges make MS. B. of the same age nearly as MS. V. That they are from one origin is clear by their community of error, as in the omission of the heading Ai-temisia tagantes, and what occurs A few titles and numbers in B. are by at art. Ixxi. a later hand, which has sometimes scratched through the earlier rubricated numbers this hand may be referred to the twelfth century. Both V. and B. leave blanks for English names where the author was at
;

a
MS. H.

loss.

MS.
use
;

H.^ was never intended for

display,

it

has no

drawings,

nor

was

but for meant to have

MS.

0.

any; it omits the phrases pi'epared for the insertion of English names, is not so correctly copied, and may be dated a little later than MSS. V. and B. MS. O. is a mean manuscript written upon shreds
of vellum.

The

original

into alphabetical ord^jr.

work has been broken up The language shows signs of

be found on page 102,

change examples of foot, page 132, foot.

;

it

may

The collation of this MS. Avas not carried through, it was not desirable. For the history of our language it may some day bo required

'

Ilatton, 7G.

llarl. j85.

PREFACE.

IXXXV

that the whole should be printed for comparison with Since our text was printed this our earlier text.

MS. has recovered

eight leaves, which

way

into
;

the Cottonian collection,

it

had found their and into the fire

of 1731
afresh.

has been rebound, and of course folioed

Principles followed in

The interpretation of the English names of plants ,1 ,1 Ti as the renderrests on the same basis generally ing of any other obsolete words. But lest my duty
, -,

determining

what plants

should be misapprehended,
readers

it

is

necessary to call the

state

attention to

the true

of the

question.
is

Hitherto
in

men have been

and the

content with what

dictionaries

found

dictionaries,

do

nothing but

(juote for authorities

such a book as this Herbarium,

some glossaries. The interpretation, therefore, is sometimes probably false from the errors of such books, and sometimes contradictor}^, as glossaries disagreed. On discovering that the poisonous bryony, with its clusters of berries, is confused with the " humble," with its hop catkins and wholesome juices, it was impossible any longer blindly to follow the author
or

before us.

To

ascertain, therefore, the

signification of

any obscure English word, it was by no means proper to accept the Greek or Latin equivalent fixed on in the Herbarium, or elsewhere, and to find out what plant was intended by such a word. Thus, if the Herbarium sets down LiSpypt as Ostriago, and Ostriago proves,
probably, to be "Oorpua, a tree not
at the same time LiSpyjit
is

known here, while Dwarf Elder, by much

In
the

concurrent testimony, the conclusion must be that our

author was probably wrong in his identification.

glossaries,

and,

doubt, to some

extent

here,

authors aim was to convey as nearly as possible the sense of the foreign word to Englisli ears; his translation

was, therefore,

often

only

an

approximation.

Li&pyjit: for Ostriago,

on this

and for Erifia, may be excused ground. For Fopulu^ alha, Abeie seems, at least,

Ixxxvi

PREFACE.
" Albella,"

whether connected with the the Populus tremula was Polish bialy, white, or no the -^p]', the aspen, and in some glossaries is very reasonably called the Cpicbeam, quickheam, as always alive the Populus nigra is commonly now called the Italian poplar, and though admitted by our men of In science for indigenous is perhaps an importation. the face of those native names it seems extraordinary to find the glossaries interpreting Populus by bypc, Whatever birch, at the same time as Betulus, birch. be the solution, I cannot accept from a glossator the teaching that Populus is birch. Perhaps by an emendation we may recover another native name. In Gl. R., Only one kind of p. 45, we have Saginus, hpit haQj'el.
not Latin, not
:

Corylus

is

known
all

in

Kiysipoc, for the ^vhite

England I propose -^girus, Sometimes the glossator hazel.

;

did not at

know

his plant

which must be excused by all Sometimes the inattention of

old writer.

under a foreign name, who are not mere novices.

editors misrepresents the

In

Gl. R., p. 47, is written,

Cedrus, cebep beam.

Cedria, hiffsep, [that is hif fsep, the sap of it\

The

editors never

made

this out; yet " Hiss^epe

its

Cedria"

should not have found

way

into

any

dictionary.

No

interpretation of

significant

name can be

meaning well befits the plant. Smearwort, as mentioned above, must be a greasy Quickbeam has no sense plant, such as is Butterwort. whatever when applied to the Rowan tree, tliough and it perthe name be well rooted in our language haps belonged originally to the Aspen, as some glossaries Gl. R, p. 47, has give it.
satisfactory unless the
;

Cresis, epic tpeop,

Tremulus,

which the

have not printed. The Eglantine is the Sweetbriar with its aculei, sharp points, straight or
editors

PREFACE.
not,

IxXXVii

but some people, and among them, Milton, have

it

made

the Withywind, Convolvulus.

Through the sweetbriar and the Or the twisted eglantine.^

vine.

When

the Herbarium and the glossaries proved not

it

always trustworthy,

was necessary not to rely on them too confidently. The drawings are of no great Tradition and the consent of Englishmen are use.
most valuable, but require to be accepted with vigiand to ascertain them it has been my task to lance which are very examine all accessible glossaries numerous. Those which I have found of most importance are an unpublished gl. of two thousand entries, older than an^r in the British Museum, and of the tenth century one from Durham of the eleventh century, unpublished, a copy of which was kindly sent me by the Rev. Mr. Greenwell, Minor Canon, and MS. Laud, 567. These two last, like the Brussels have drawn from the Herbarium, and where gl., they agree with it are not to be accounted as indeTo the Rev. W. D. Macray pendent confirmations. my best thanks are tendered for the loan of a valuable MS. glossary on vellum, referred to as gl. M., and for placing in my hands such of the treasures of the
:

Bodleian as his intimate acquaintance with it suggested It may be some indication of the to his memory.
value of the
gl.

unpublished, referred to as
authoritatively clears

gl.

C,

to

mention that
translated

it

passage,

(MS. Tiberius B.

].

up the misanno 1052,

]7a

near
hjiaSe

end,)
]?8ejf

of

the Chronicle.

Gobpme
-j

jej-iclobe

\q

he

upcom

ept;

jepyjipte,
after
gl.

means,
river,

Godwin then sickened soon and again recovered, for this

which he came up

has the entry,

MS.

Harl. 585,

fol.

89, has a

tine,"

in a

hand a century older

gloss to Kvvhs
(till

fioLTos,

dog rose briar

than Milton.

Dr. Daubeny), " wilde eglan-

Ixxxviii

PREFACE.
" Conu<aliii'c, jeuaejipte."

fol.

have already written on the parallelism between the vocabulary and flexion in the old English with the Latin and Greek, I may be allowed to add with satisfaction
19
c,
'

As

that in this glossary verbs of the present terminate in

o.

first

person singular

Consulo fpijno.
Innicop onlilmjo.
Mejieo jpoeco.
etc.

From

this

glossary

it

may

Herbarium was not the first of the Latin names of trees and plants, work and in the later glossaries some
"
Sources.

be concluded that the attempt to fix the sense

since

in this

errors

of the

older one, such as " cucumis popsej,'' " apbutus ?espe/'

edepa uudupmde," have been omitted.

The Herbarium consists of two parts, a translation from the work intituled Herbarium Apuleii, with a
few extra paragraphs and a continuation, chiefly from Dioskorides. Ackerman and Sprengel, who have written on the history of medicine, and Sillig, who in his edition of Plinius ^ has printed a short fragment of Apuleius,
;

are of opinion

that

Apuleius never Avrote the book.

Sprengel is angry at the Saumaise^ thought he did. book as unphilosophical, but it is better, it is pracIts translation into English shows its popularity, tical.

and amid the

copies
still

scarcity of old English manuscripts, four

exist

of this

work, and

three glossaries

show themselves indebted to it. Nothing is less permanent than science. The English translation is now
published,

doubtless

as

giving
or
so

us better
called

what

the

AngulSeaxe

knowledge Anglo-Saxons

'

The

present occurs,

j-julce

heo

past ?;e])y)xpce answers to convalcscens,

-

?;e]m]pan mihce,

Life of iE)>elbry 5,
recover.

Bcda,

p. iiSO, line 7.

riin. ed. Sillig., vol. v. p. xvii.

MS.,

a.s

if

fihc

ini(/lif

The

'

Prol. libri de byleiatr., p. 12.

PREFACE.
thouQ*lit

Ixxxix

and for a. record of the oldoiThat tlic portion of the Saxon pai-fc of our language. Herbarium, which is originally from Dioskoridcs, had The name a Latin text for its original, seems certain. But Spreritis, Herbar. cxxxviii., is not in Dioskorides.
in

medicine,

in a Latin

MS.

of Trin. Coll., Cambridge,^ of late date,

it is

containing extracts from Dioskorides,

the following description:
" ginosa " "
"
;

found with

Habet

folia

minuta lanu-

ex

una radice
florem

terram

fusos,

multos ramos emittit per croceum, bofitalmo^ similem,

odorem murteum (so) si digitis conteratur." These Zamalentition are the very words of our Saxon text. It is therefore to is also to be found in the Trin. MS.
be concluded that the translator did not draw direct from the Botanist of Anazarba. It is, however, to his
credit

that he

drew from him

all.

at

all.

He was

not

quite unphilosophical after

The Trinity MS., immediately

:

after

the last entry

from Apuleius, indicates something of its own origin " Incipit liber medicinse diafcoridis in these words ex hebreorum fcedif" If the Saxon additions to Dioskorides and this manuscript came from a common source, we should be here taught that the Greek had filtered through a Hebrew text. But it is quite
*'

impossible that the

their original

names of the plants could retain form after being expressed by Hebrew
Sextus

characters.

No why

one knows anything about Sextus Placitus nor

he should be called Platonicus or Papyriensis. Perhaps he is a nominis umbra, a phantom name, a mediaeval bit of fun. Idpartus king of Egypt, a cotemporary of Augustus, must be a creature of imagination, a stalking horse for a bookmaker. The old English piece of the eleventh century on the Marvels

O.

2, 48.

EuvcpOdKfJLy.

xc

PREFACE.

of the East, printed in Narratiuncuhe, has a parallel in a Latin piece on the same subject by " King Premo."^

And

if

the small wit invented Idpartus,

why

not also

Sextus Placitus?
text
^

The Latin of

dicine, as printed, does

;

this Quadrupedal Menot contain as much as our

its

and

it

may

be found, besides

other editions,

among the leaves of the " Artis Medicse Principes.'' The Bodleian copy, MS. B., has bound up with it two
letters of

Euax, king of the Arabs, to Tiberius Caesar,

On the types value of forms.

;

on the virtues of stones. Whether Euax ever existed shall be for men more at leisure to inquire.^ The text has been printed in the form, as regards the shape of the characters, which they take in the
original

MSS.

Besides the

objection to

printing in

the

character of

heart of every
in

our own day, which arises in the man who dislikes to dress up antiquity
there
is

modern

clothes,
all;

one which
so

is

not sentilose
all

mental at

by a change

levelling

we

the chronological characteristics of a manuscript arising

from the form of the letters. The age of an English manuscript may be determined to half a century, for the most part, by the shape of p, f, 5, g, p, r, s, f, f, f,
y, y.
lies,

Print

all

these alike,

and you,
letter

as far as in

you

shut out from your readers the information con-

tained in those forms.

early English
to the

The

is

a mark of an

manuscript, of one belonging probably

ninth or tenth century. It may be seen in the fac-similes of the Lauderdale Orosius, of the Codex It Exoniensis, of the C.C.C. copy of the Chronicle.
occurs frequently
in

the

Leechbook, but not in the

shall

copy of a

lost chapter,
;

which we

restore to its

proper place

not because the text, but because the

'

Graff Diutiska, vol.

ii.

p. 195.

"

MS.

Ilarl.

1585, attributes the

"

quam aliqui melem vocant. Quidam vero Taxonem," Col. 205.

Placitus after this.
^

part about the badger to a different hand. " Incipit Epistola de bestiola

And

See Dr. Greenhills account.

PREFACE.

Xci

copy made of
hook.
It appears

it,

is

later

than that of the

rest of the

on Alfreds jewel to liave been known under the form ^p, where I reit is, however, found in a cognize an Hypsilon T
inscription
;

by the

manuscript of Alfreds time, as

the

yet unpublished, in
all

common form

j^.

It does
is

not occur at

in the

MS. of Csedmon, which

undotted.^

written throughout with y In saying this I do not include in the

Pseudo-Caedmon is a strong assertion), that piece on the Harrowing of Hell, which is bound up in the same volume, but written in a much closer hand, with about forty eight, instead of thirty nine letters in a line this has y dotted. The letter ^ does not occur in the Herbarium in any of
Csedmon,
if

Csedmon

(for

the MSS.

Experts in MSS. have finer and more delicate

traits

by which they distinguish the age of

so

copies

they are

minute that a traced fac-simile will scarcely reExcept these, and the ornamental produce them. letters,^ and the contractions, which are forbidden to
this
set

of publications, the present

text puts before

the reader the

letters

MS.
so

as written.

When
and

the
so

shape of
constantly

affords

discriminating

present a test of the age of manuscripts,

applied

it is

a sub-

ject of great regret to me, that editors have so freely

of modernism, wiping away all In some cases we can separate at such peculiarities. once, an interpolation from the original by watching this feature. For example, in Csedmon, if Csedmon^ MS. p. 14, line 23 = p. 17, line 18, ed. 1882, the first hand wrote peojiSan, but a corrector over that puts y, and the dot shews him much later than the first

the

sponge

There is a dotted y in page 148 MS., line 14, in the word moyfej', and one other, I think, somewhere.
^

Sometimes

a G, with

tail,

occurs,
I

XCU
scribe.
p.

PREFACE.

A
line

more
12 = p.

consicler<al)le

matter occurs at MS.

1832, where the

37,

48,

line

25, ed.

original

hand wrote
]?

hie lieajim j'ceape

hif

and the characters of the interlined interpolation

wrote
not
f.

discover their late origin, for the old scribe regularly

J'

The sense and metre

are improved

by

the omission.
]',

When
are to

the cases
used.

MS. has be excepted in which a capital S

I say that the original

The capital letters at the beginning of sentences are most unfairly omitted in the printed edition,^ and sometimes where capitals are printed the MS. has none. In Csedmon, if Caedmon, MS. p. 42, line 8 =
is p.

54s

line

21, ed. 1832,

is

perhaps the reading of the

later

hand bypjbefu

an improvement on the older

byji^be.

Towards a reliable interpretation, the first step is an adequate grammar. A few remarks shall therefore be
offered
Vocalisation.

on

this subject.

The

vocalisation

of the oldest English

MSS.

differs

from that which may be called the received standard, from the printed homilies of -^Ifric, for instance, and from the grammars which are all based on ^Ifrics It is whoUy a mistake to hold up Latin grammar.
the received method for the pure
as

West Saxon

dialect

may be

seen

by appealing

to

the authorities.

We

have a manuscript which bears upon the face of it satisfactory evidence of having been sent out of
Alfreds court

by

his

own

directions.

It spells

lajiio]>-

bom,

j'cj^le,

j'lo

the article,

leSnej'j'e ease, unt'delpieRiSlice

he,

as well as untselpj^jiSlice, bion

jielpe,

boenbum facientihus,
peopSen fiant,
cuivis,

pien

sint,

popjiejzaS,

anjietaS,

cibbep^

chidedst,

jiemenne,

hpsem

"Syncen,

'P. 81, line

2,

ed.

1832, 8pilee

is spelt "with

a capital in the MS., as

the sense requires.

PREFACE.
vldeantur, fc^iM^j mon in English
lu'jen

XL'lll

Mocsogotliic
for

spelling
fuse

not uncomj'ua3,

MSS.

frmje,

Ino,

je-

credant,

'Ssem,

biejlan, Sj^ncet initant,

j-comat5, lieifuan,
C])i]'c5

jeciejijieb,
jrojibijieS

aepprej'S,

lelbej'Se,

liopnobc, picyieaS,
pastores,

tolevat,

hiejibaj'

jecniopon,
evidence,

Christus, and so on without end.

tliis

The

which

not a convenient place for discussing, is sufiicient that in this vocalisation, whether of terminations
is

or other syllables,
court.

we have

the dialect of

King Alfreds
of three

One

editor of Orosius has furnished us, at the

expense of Mr.

Tollemache, with f;ic-similes

pages of the Lauderdale MS.

superior value of this

Of the antiquity and

MS. there can be no doubt.

well as ea, hsett
jzopun,
ccdls,

We

there
source,

see le river, as
pijijieyt,

sejnelme

jiet,

and hiopa, hopj'c for hop]\ from current notions, the editor who had access to " a it has, says he, this good MS. did not use it northerly aspect." Tliis expression were true, had it
;

ypam, hiejux Just as was to be expected

jzpom
for

'*

been used of a manuscript of the eleventh century but the Lauderdale MS. is older, and agrees in spelling with others of nearly the same age. If the book called Caedmon, be his, which I neither assert nor deny, tlie copy we have is much later than his times; but it exhibits proofs of having been transcribed from iin earlier book in which the same method of vocalisimx
p>revailed.

The penman altered, as was customary, tlie but at page 55 of the MS., line spelling as he went 3,^ he came to a slip of the earlier pen, which he was it had been meant for unable to understand
;
:

];onne ic jropS

j'ciol.

meaning luhen I
20,^ the

shall

away.
for

On
a

page 18 MS., line

to
alter

penman

forgot

moment

the

ancient orthography, and he put jieman ]>^\ jpunbe]-;

r. 67, line 20, cd. Thorpe.

l\ 22, line 31, ed. Tliorpe.

XCIV
the reading
page, line
j^tybe,

PREFACE.

jyman
25/
the

is

by

correction.

On
1"]'

the

same

fii'st

writing
is

was

y^y ^enja

and the printed text

that of

the corrector.

page 37, line 15,^ jiet is from the older copy. page 39, line 6f mob is the old spelling, and by some accident it has been read as mob and an accent has been given to it. Enough of this for the present. Of the C.C.C.C. MS. of the Chronicle the age has been thrown perhaps too far back; it contains, as appears,

On On

some of these

spellings

cieppe, fipbe, lelbstan, hiepbon,'*

like;

hiepa, jionjne,

and the
is

these are here given on

is

the presumption that the printed text

faithful.

The
it re-

Codex Exoniensis
tains

of the tenth century,^ and

traces of the

ancient method

as

bpim

jiej'ta

bpeahtm, noise of ocean gusts,^ V^^y^> biepeS.^ The thought dawns upon us, that when our early manuscripts are put fairly before us, the Holland itself

may
Accents.

belong to this island.

only partly true that the accentual

I^ i^

mark

of

MSS. denotes a long vowel. Of this I shall mention what I believe to be a decisive proof; but must first say that Mr. Thorpe wholly deceived himself when he
supposed the accentuation of his edition of Ca^dmon, if Csedmon, to be like his original. He says, " In the

which confirms in almost every case the theory of Professor Kask, I have followed the autho" rity of manuscripts, and except in a very few instances " that of the manuscript of Csedmon itself." I add
"

" accentuation,

testimony to that of others, that the accentuation has been much altered. In the original MS. at page 14,
line

my

ll=page
;

17, line 8, ed. Thorpe, the

:

cented

the words are written tlius

word f him com.

is

ac-

It is

'

P. 23, line

9, ed.

Thorpe.
p.

'

And
a.

this is

Wanley's opinion,

2 3
*

P. 48, line 32, ed. Thorpe. P. 51, line 32, ed. Thorpe.

280
"
'

P. 384,

9,

not guests.
1,

Seep. 190,

ed. 1861.

Fol. 93 b, line

from transcript.

PREFACE.

XCV

evident that it was the emphatic sense and not any long vowel which brought the accent down on that
word.

The

syllable

frequently accented,

un- with the privative sense is as marking a change of meaning,

Csedmon, if Csedmon, MS.)^ often obtains the accent, but the vowel is certainly not an omega. In the old MSS. the affix bom is accented, indicating here a long vowel,^ as in the German equivalent -thum, but our language has a tendency to throw back accents, and pTjfbom must have before long become Wisdom. Some have thought that two concurrent syllables in English cannot take accents at once but our utterance of Rich man, Poor man, as compared with Chapman, Helmsman, is irreconcileable with The page of Csedmon cited above,^ gives that theory. us hit htm, onjan htm, ahoj:. My Itc, with concurrent
(except
in
;

popbum

accents, in the original

all

MS.

These, observe, were not

vowels long of themselves.

syllable -urn,
it

The Leechbook accents

be presumed, this vowel

the inflexive
long.

as hattim, o)?pum, jobiim,

pyptiim, pronouncing,

may

This pronunciation must have disappeared before

the

MSS. could confuse such forms as ]?am ilcan with j^am ileum, mmum, mmon, which they very frequently
do.

Saxons accented Latin words as a guide to the thus in MS. H., fol. 94, mcantationibup, reader jpanbmef tempefcatep, ommpotentip napfci these are not all long vowels, though they be all long syllables. On fol. 96 b, hilapip is an erroneous pronunciation. In some instances an accent appears over a consonant, and though it may always be asserted that it has been intended for the vowel, it will in the text
;
:

here be found as written.

'

The

printed accents in this case

We
53
a.

find

cyneboom,

gl.

C,

are Yolunteered

by the

editor.

fol.

P. 17 ed. Thorpe.

g 2

XCVl
Indifference of vowels.

PREFACE.
syllables with

Final
e,
1,

short vowels are Avritten with

in

Final vowels dropped.

-obon became, on dropping the N, -obe in its termination and paej'tmaj', dropping the s, might become psej'tme. The general analogies of the oldest English with the Latin and Greek would lead us to expect the neuters plural to end in a short vowel as a so that pojiba should represent verba and this is so. But the English also loses the vowel, and the plural becomes popb. This is the case with most of our neuters. And not so only. Other terminations lose the vowels we expect to find. The adverbs ending in -on, and like -6sy, meaning from, are often found to, and did, doubtless, originally, end in -one, as heonon, heonone,
o,

or

u.^

Hence a verb ending

hence.

The

omission

of

a final short
:

vowel

affects

the

thus Kemble says, on orthography of nominatives " In later times the final e was sometimes serende, '' omitted, but should not have been so." peopc, tuark, 2^ainJ (a masculine, and not to be confounded with peo]ic, luovh, neuter,) is written in the nominative peojice The forms jybene, twice in the MS. of Csedmon.^ goddess, j^ynenu,'* leads us to suppose that the language had a feminine -ne for names of the offices of women,

The St. Dime, old-germ. Diorna, famula, jpuella. Johns Oxon MS. gl. for monacha o'S'Se monialis has mynecenu, which, and not mynecen, is the true form of the nominative.^ So that piln was perhaps once pilne, pilene, and J^ejnen, ];inen, has lost a vowel. See Pppaec
as
for fpp^ece. Cod. Exon., p. 421, line 3, ed.

vowel is omitted in many instances to the grammarians dismay. The accusative of yy]\^ is very
final

'

Sec the note Cod. Exon.,

p. GO,

'

ed., p. 31, line 3, ed.

-

'

See also Lye. Genesis xxxviii, 28.

See

Bite as
occurs

Kenible wrote
in

it,

not
;

''

Volume

of Vocabularies,

Bic,
'Slice

these

volumes

p. 71.

also ends in a vowel.

PREFACE.
often
editor,

XCvii

in

tlicse

medical
pnjV(Sa(S

l)ook,s
];in

j'yjit

not

pyjVce,

Tlio

on ponne

MS.
"

p.

cai;an ]'pa Icoht, Crodni. ? 27, line 10, observes that it " grammatically
J^nie
p.

should be

eajan ppa
82,
;

leolite.''
is

jepceop,

ibid.,

line

4,

8e J>aj' populb no more grammatical

so p. 106,
ibid.

than pyjit for pyji^e

p.

so line 9, also;

13;

107,

12,
;

opep
p.

]7ap

piban
26,
fell

jej-ceapt,

Feollon
Fujlaj-

pepjenb
blobij
I
id.

id.

92,

the

defenders.
p.

pittaS,

the

fowls
alter

sit bloody, id.

"j

98, line 20.

would however
p.

bebobu

pillaS

mm

pullian,

106,

line

10,

by writing
}>a

on account

of

tlie
id.

rhythm mtne.
p.

Ymb

lime j^aejon* pijenb unpojdite,

ba);u

151, line

13.

p?e]i

psepon hat on

hjie]?pc,

Cod. Exon.,

p. 478, line 15, ed.

In m_anuscripts, which are late Saxon, the nomina- Article, tive masculine and feminine singular of the article are thus in the Cambridge copy of part of the J>e, J?eo homily De Auguriis,^ these forms are used constantly and throughout. Editors of late manuscripts have often brought back these changed words to their earlier shape but that produces an anachronism. The nominative of the AN declension could end in Declension AN, so that the ordinary final vowel seems formed by -an. The oblique cases sometimes drop dropping the N. his dethe N if liif eapopan nu lieapb hep cumen scendant, a hardy one, is now come here, Beowulf, Again, pi|?]7an 747, where Kemble would put eapojia. tolej-eS lipppuman beaj^ep benb after deaths bond lifes author shall unbind {shall have unbound), Cod. Ex., p. 64, line 24, ed., where the editor has removed
; ;
; ;

in

the

Again, in a riddle. Cod. Exon.,

p.

499, line

1,

o]7)?8et

him

)?one jleapfcol

jmjpan

bpopoji

mm

ajnabe,

till

for himself

my

younger brother acquired the stool

Again,

of cleverness,

where the note says read jmjpa.

As

the

MS. De

Auoruriis has
it

well to say,
publication.

it is

in preparation for

been often mentioned,

may

b?

XCVIU
j-'opfioii

PREFACE.
ic

jej^encan

lipan

mob pepan

mm

ne msej jeonb J?a]- pojiulb jroji ne jefpeopce therefore I cannot

;

think

mood
ult.,

throughout this world, for why my minds turns not all dark, when, etc.. Cod. Ex., p. 289,

where the editor reads

Smith,
in
his

mmne
Beda,

and makes
p.

j-epan

accusative.

538,

38,

prints

and he says that such readings as are in brackets have been amended on the authority of some MS.^ Again, ac ne ma pilnobe 'Seappan jaj'te puman pauper spiritu. The examBeda, p. 579, line 22=:p. 153, 35, Latin. 8o ples in Spelmans Psalter are very numerous.
jeleapan as a nominative in
brackets,
;

bjiibban (read ^pibban) bsel is a nominative,

I.

Leech book,

In the Pseudo Csedmon, Harrowing of Hell, MS. p. 228, line 2,^ )?u eapt hsele^a helm* ^^ heopen beman* enjla opb ppuman. The last letter has been The erased, and Thorpe has turned beman into bema. two MSS. in Cfedm. ? MS. p. 191, ult., have, one j'umia funne 'j monan the genitive plural j mona, the other is quite inappropriate, and on the hypothesis here suggested, the readings agree well enough, as nominatives
XV.
3.
:

singular.

N dropped.

As

the nominatives of the forms piteja, eop^e, eaje,

be supposed to have once terminated in -an, but to have lost the final N, so the oblique cases, which customarily have N, occasionally lose it. Thus Caedmon (if Csedmon), MS. p. 151, line 1, ponn pselceapeja- pulpap j'unjon, the

may

wan

slainchoosers the wolves

sang their

loathly

evening
papp

lay,

termination and
unjemetpsepta,

sense,

Leechbook, 10

lib.

Csedmon

p.

237, line 25,

p.

ed.,

with the definite hatan omihtan majan II. contents xvi. In leoma for leoman. In

Cod. Exon., MS.

b, line 23, tip

ppuma

is

a geni-

'

*'

MSS.ti

alicujus

fide

emeii-

''
I

P. 306, line

4, ed.

Thorpe.

" dari."

Preface.

PREFACE.
tive
singular.
is

XCix
21, in

Name,
laid,

Mattli.

i.

the

published

Hatfcon text,

accusative.

The
all

inflexions

down
as

in

grammars
in

are, or

ought
the

to be, the usual forms

observed

the
to

language.
wit,

In less known common grammars

these
inflexions

languages, in Greek
are often

In the oldest written English, abusively called Anglo-Saxon,

in error.

much

are

less

certain,

since

the

writings

few students; and it cannot be expected that we should take law from the grammars. Yet it would not be reasonable to favour a reading merely on the ground of its being exceptional we dare only go so far, as to accept more readily those less usual, less sanctioned, forms, which fall in with the tendency of the time, and that was to drop terminations, as is seen in the English of the twelfth and thirteenth " centuries, the " Semi Saxon " and the " Early English
:

have had

of the artificial phraseology. X^piv

sldsvon,

The

infinitive ]?anc pitan,

found in the Exeter book, written without the N, )7anc pita.^ These two passages have more force of testimony than two concurring manuscripts and it follows, that in the tenth century,^
savoir gre,
is
;

infinitives

had begun and

so

to drop N.
|?a

The Hatton Gospels^

read

J7a

gastlice Jjearfan,*

sibsume,^ J>anne ytemeste

fer]?yng,^

on
to

moderate partisan
the
"

and it is too much for any assume to limit closely in time

a
falling
off"

commencement
soldiers."
s

of such

of

" the

marching

The
-ap
in
is

nominative and accusative plural in as sometimes, at least in the MSS., wanting

of the
;

s dropped.

Csedmon,

if

Csedmon, MS.

p.

42,

line

17,

abame

P. 67, line 24,

ed., p. 74, line 31.

^
'

As

printed.
V. S

For the idiom compare

-

p. 85, line 5,

Matth.

p. 90, line 15, p. 91, line 29.

Id. V. 9.
Id. V. 26.

Putting the Lindisfarne glosses

later.

PREFACE.
j'calbej't

pjBj'tme
;

)>a

mc

prejion ))oj\bum
(javest fruits,

mmum

j:?eyte

pojibobene
tivo
id.,

line

wJdch to you were by ony vjords firmly forbidden. Nearly so, eopSan preptma; id., p. 74, p. 119, line 11, MS. PseudoCsedmon, Harrowing of 23, lieojzon pujla.
to

Adam

thou

Hell,

MS.

p.

223,
*

7,

pulbjie

lisepbe

'J

pitep

clomma
cla^nips

peonbu
lib.
I.,

o8pej'teb

to

his

glory he

had

of

"punishment
cap.
]?a

on
v.,

his

erieonies

fastened.

Leeclibook,
the lips.

leje on pa peolojie, lay

;

upon
II.,

Pylle
"

faepfpone on cu meolce

boil the sap chips (of

lib.

oak rind) in coivs milk, Leeclibook,

2.

cap. Ixv.,

Pliadas sibun steppi,"

p.

gl.

C,
;

for seofon steoppas.

Cod. Ex.,
7, line

476, line 9

429, 30

Lorica, p. Ixxi. line.

15.

Feminine
genitives

Some feminines made

the

genitives in

perhaps

s.

and from a desire in the writer to find some mode of marking the genitive distinctly thus ea, a river, makes eap emnihtep is of the equinox in the treatise de Temporibus bicep occurs in the
ii^i-egularly,
; ;

charters.-

Of concurrent consonant?.

The early manuscripts, representing sounds, more than modern fashionable spelling does, often omitted some one of many concurring consonants. Thus they wrote pyptpuma, where derivation required pyjittjmma,
so fcjienSu^ for
for nemnpt.^

fcpenjSu, pilbeoji for pilb

beoji,

nerapt

This suppression of consonants often, to a modern

eye,

grammatical inflexions; hie habba^ me to heappan jecopene, C?edm. ? MS. p. 15, line 15, they have chosen me to be chief; instead of jecojienne, which is the true syntax. iJej^peoh Se peapme wi^ap
confounded
;

thyself

up warm,

Leeclibook,

lib.

I.

cap.

xlvii.

1,

2.

'

Fac-simile of page 14 of Lau-

2
^
^

No. 730.
Cod. Exon.,
Matth.
i.

derdale

Ms. Also

Chron., p. 190.

p.

65

a, line 2.

C.C.C.MS.,p. 19., Cott. Tiber. B.l, which MS. I hr^e examined.

21, edd. IMarshall

and

Cambridge Univ., 1858.

PREFACE.

CI

by coctts in the Hellenic and otluT slvai, constantly occurring Wipe the table dry/' where an adverb is languages 8e J^e ajan j^ceal on pam j'lS fate quite out of place. who must have on the journey a mind hf-^e j-unbe sounds Cod. Exon., p. 430, line 10, ed., for j'unbne. The it makes editor rightly supposes hyje to be masculine (Paris Psalter, Ixviii. 6,) has the masgenitive hyjej^
So
as to be

warm, the predicate

explaiiiaLle

''

culine

adjective
p.

holbne
19, line

in

Beowulf,
in the

5^^

mmne

in

Cc^dm.? MS.
Ixxviii. 88.

21; and hatne, Paris Psalter,

same Paris Psalter, Ixi. 8, n, may be explained in more ways than one. This disguise of a masculine termination is very common in participles since the syllables -enbne contain a combination, which no one but an elocution master Hence explain will fling from his lips with comfort. Thus renne bpuj^enbe hyje, Cod. Exon., p. 165, 25, ed. laman on bebbe licjenbe, Matth. ix. 2, where the Linbejie, and the Hatton disfarne MS. has liccenbe thus again, he jej-eah aenne cuts off the final vowel
;

The passages

man

pittenbe,
the

Matth.

ix.

9.

Beheolb

....

byjinenbe
?

beam,

people

beheld

a burning beam, Csedm.

MS. p. 148, line 4. I shall not multiply citations, for Kemble has already remarked, Beowulf, 92, Appendix, " umborwesende is the ace. sing. Participles not unfrequently have this anomaly and omit the n."
. . .

*'

Any
the

combination of sound, however, which rendered

of the accusative
indistinct

on the teeth gave occasion to a neglect of the unsounded letter by the penman. Deojzol is masculine in the Gospels there;

fore unclaene beopol,

Luke

iv.

"

mme

jehypa'S

anjzealbne

On 33, is for unclaenne. " Beowulf, 508, jepoht,

So
5pene
for

Kemble says we must read mmne.^

'

See the uncalled for alteration.

p.

Hatton
Matth.

Gospels,
V. 43.

(as

printed),

Cod. Ex.,
2

442, line 30, ed.

So,

Hne

nextan,

\>me

feond,

Cll

PREFACE.
art. cxi.
/

jpenne, the reading of MS. H. in Herbarium,

ane, the reading of

Herbarium, xxvi.^ A vacillation in the spelling of that form of the infinitive wliicli follows to, as to monianne, to moniane, mooiendi,

MS.

V.,

is

observed in a MS.
eopejijie,

of the ninth

century.

On

the

same
not

principle are constructed

the usual forms eopejie

a reading

upe not uppe, oSpe not oSeppe.

explanation of
alteration.
is

A
Adjectives in the feminine.

reasonable

always

better than

an

The feminine nominative

the Latin
forms,
]Z)ep
:

singular of adjectives ended,

in remote times, in a short vowel, in full analogy with

this
is

and

found occasionally with all not confined to such words as ymsel.

is

vowel

tp psemne

ppeolecu msej, Csedmon

MS.

p.

101,

20; here is a virgin, a ladylike may; htm bpihtlicu msej on plite mob^um msenejum Suhte, id. p. 89, line 15 to them a ladylike may in beauty to many pi^oud ones she seemed : lupu lanjpumu, id. p. 91, line 4, long some love : open mec hpilum hpit loccebu honb onlejeS, Cod. Exon., p. 489, line 7, ed.
lines 19,

;

Ic
p.

eom punbeplicu
400, line 16
septep
;

pilit,

id.

p.
;

399,
p.

line

17,
7.

ed.

p. 406, line 15
id.

407, line

pdit
;

com
)78epa

peje ppsetlicu,

p.

415, line 28, ed.

an

Definite form of adjective.

nunnena \e y^^Y ^VY\^ F^5P^? Dial. Greg. MS., one of the nuns who was very fair ; naeniju fme)7nep, In the Leechbook will be found jobe,^ ppecenlico, ibid. Nuhpite, J^yplicu, lytelu, seniju, o);epu, cneopehte. merous examples occur in Rawlinsons Boethius, and he had no theories nor pledged opinions to defend.'* The definite form of the adjective is sometimes used, in poetry at least, where the definite sense requires it, without following either " the definite article, any

'

V. L.

15.

XXXV.,

but

possibly

otherwise

commodo

esse possit.
p. 44, 17,

2V. L.
3

31.
'

See Boet.,

with the

msese him sobe beon,

lib.

II.

collation.

PREFACE.
" other

cm

" or

demonstrative pronoun, or possessive pronoun Thus, him ret hcoptan ytob genitive case."
opb
;

[CtJtepne
"point ;

at

his

heart stood fast

the

venomed
pic
;

Death of Byrhtno^.
pelb, the
jepcajzt:,

So pulboppseptan

the
;

glorious abode, Cpedm. (if CfBdm.)

ppejl

MS.

p.

1,

line 21

tophtan
^

blazing

seats, ib. p.

5, line 13,

MS.
id.

beojihte

the bright creation, ibid, p. 6,

line 13, line

MS.;14.

bgej sepej^ta:^ jej'eah, the first

is

day saw,
these

It

not necessary to

continue

proofs.

An

adjective

placed immediately in juxta position

Adjectives
,^

with a substantive or another adjective could dispense 7^^Jj|^^^lj Tlie examples are very with its case inflexion. numerous, but most of them have been disposed of by the hyphen system, making them half compounds; in that treatment there is some truth, for a termination doing duty for two consecutive words, makes them draw very close to each other, and we have something of the same kind in such words as /jusXay^oxiot. We shall therefore have to rely on instances, which do not admit of this explanation. Examine
therefore jzpam
jeleajran,
'piy

pijplejan,
p.

Csedm. MS.,

Death of Byrhtno^ j'oS 106, 16;^ to ]?e an jel/pa^.

;

120 b, line 16 Ic jejzpsejn pep h8elej>um hpmjenbe an tophtne butan tunjan tila, ibid., p. 113 a, line 1, where hpmjenbe is for hpmjenbne; On ]7if ylcan jeape, Chron,, annis 1042, 1056. Mib
Cod. Exon., transcript,
fol.
;

|?ip

pepobe,

Csedm.

MS.
;

p.

19, line 11.

"

Hopno

J;ip

" 5epe," Gl.

p.

C,

twice

eal

Sa eappe^u.

Cod. Exon.,

74,

5, ed.

In some of these cases the emendator

override

may

perhaps

the written record, as in p eo

boc be ^ly ylcum pej^,

Homily on

St.

Mark,

MS.,

P.

6, line

27, ed. Thorpe,

where

hand

in

p,

19, line

2,

MS. had

fpegel is printed,

alpalban.
;

Sej-ceap:

Thorpe where Old MSSoften write simple a. So the old

2

P.

8, line 28, ed.

is

printed.

P. 140, line 10, ed. Thorpe,

who

has put his accents.

CIV

PREFACE.
);i}^um

where another manuscript gives be

the examples of
all sorts

ylcum

but

together

may

be counted by
adjective
as

thousands.

But

for

myself,

the

representation
its

of an

standing immediately before

substantive,

being

more truly an approximation to a compound word, than an epithet, is tolerable only in some examples, as in j-msel J^eapmaj', small guts, paepneb C}^nne]', and these cases are distinguishable in spoken language by their having only one full accent on the group of
Other instances, as hpeap eejpu,^ raw eggs, 50b apenbe j'py^e mycel pen, God sent a heavy rain, do not commend themselves on this principle to my judgment. Even such phrases as c/ninj alpihua,^ are better sense, if treated as eall for ealpa, than if considered as compounds. I have before^ observed that the case ending -um, becomes by loss of the final consonant -e. Eask ^ had remarked this of adjectives, but the translator ^ struck out his words. The change however is seen in substantives, and in short, it is a mere decay of terminasyllables.
tion.
Plural verbs
in -e.

In former treatises^ I have observed that by the loss of N, verbs plural in -on, come to end in -e. By this simple explanation, harmonizing with other changes in our early language, we fully understand what has been called "a verb with a singular termi^'

nation joined to a plural nominative,''''

Adjectives become substantives,

^'a

singular

" for plural."

Substantives out of adjectives.

and are sometimes

masculine, sometime feminine, sometimes neuter.^

'

Leechbook, Lib.
Cod. Exon.,p.
St.

I.

xxxix.

3.

St.

Marharete,

p. 80, "No.

13;

43, 11, ed.

Narratiunculffi, p. 73.
^

Note

to Cffidmon, p. 95.

Oroto

3
^

Marharete, pp. 79, 80.

p. 57, ed.

sius, ed. Thorpe, note to p. 4G8.

"

Grammar,
Pajje 49.

1817.

Neuter

only,

according
art. 12(1.

Thorpes Grammar,

PllEFACE.

CV
used partitively, so in
I'artltivc
^^'"*
'^^'*

As

vddTog,

some

tvater,

is

An Saxon English the genitive denotes some of. example occurs in Med. de Quad., viii. G. In that passage, observe also, ppetpe agrees either with apulbjie, which is feminine,^ or with jnnbe, whereas it is the apple that is sweet, and appel is masculine. The Lecchbook takes a large licence of careless construction.

Apposition,

In a

list

of the ingredients of a receipt

it

commonly
should

uses nominatives,

though a verb requi ring-

accusatives had preceded.

sa}^,

It often constructs as if

we

medicinam, ieiunus either because it is equivalent to Bibat segrotus hanc medicinam ieiunus, or from simple carelessness, or on
sogroto

Dato

hanc

the principle remarked above, that a termination

was

of supererogation.
Eelacnia'S for jelacna^, p. 322, line
for ajzanbab,
script,
p.
7,

and apanban

374,

line 19, are errors of the

manu-

not of the types.

There are some other points to be noticed, but for the present my tether allows not to speak of them. I must gratefully acknowledge the privilege of access to the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the especial kindness of two gentlemen, who gave me the means of complying with the rules, at the
sacrifice of their

own

convenience.

Cod. Dip!., No. 624.

But

in Icelandic

Apaldr

is

given as masculine.

ADDITIONS AND COKRECTIONS.

Page

xlii.

The

office

books of the

Roman

ledge the efficacy of these knots.

Thus from a

church sometimes acknow" Sacerdotale ad consue-

" tudinem Romanse ecclesiaj, etc." printed at Venice, 1567, J)e Signis

quibus cognoscitur quis esse maleficiatus (bewitched)

"

one

is

thus stated*

Quibusdam ligata est vena generationis." Page xlvi. note 1. Fepht occurs in this sense
pomjrephccjienia'S

in the gloss, Ariolormii

fol.

J>a "^

salboji^alepa. gl. Cleop.,

c.

Lye

in carry-

ing to his dictionary

logical idea.
jienia^.

]'om):e]iht;, iniustus

pavor, followed a false etymojjomjjiehc

At fol. 100 d. the same words are thus given, "Sa ^ The page cited should be 162. Page Iviii. note 4. "Read fceda. For jrpaete, see Cod. Exon.
316, 14."

p.

84, 15;

p.

Page Page Page Page Page Page

Sonne
;

14, line 15. nosu, overstroke not to

be read.

30, line 12. yeyo]\. 60, line 9. afcypi^enne. 66, line 23.

sopgomon.

78, line 24. pyll, pyle.

80, line 4. bej-oben, the
line 16.
j?8&t:.

MS.

is

creased

line 9. ace

line

1 1.

Page 94, line 22. ge j-ap. Page 96, ult. ne aetj-ieon, (so dotted). Page 100, line 3. j.eopma'S. Page 112, line 16. ticca. Page 138, line 19. punbum. Page 148, line 10. hyc. Page 1 74, line 1 8. bsege or l>d&y. Page 184, line 19. tpa line 23. jiojmajum. Page 188, line 6. trip Page 204, line 15. pypce. Page 216, line 20. fcsenihcum. Page 268, line 10. pypce. MS. V. Page 272, line 6. seli'Sisa>. Page 287, line 15. Strike out " ad mensuram." Page 310, line 21. }?am. Page 314, art. clxxx. The text requires emendation. co]m that is. Milium Solis. Page 318, note 16. Strike out "twice." Page 326, line 13. V. omits oy. Page 330, line 9. eop'San. Page 350, line 21. ^eleb. Page 359, line 16. phlegms (as note). Page 378, strike out the top line.
;

Read funnan

A fainting with figures

ESCOLAPIVS.

thus explained.

PLATO.
-oO^efc

CENTAVRVS.

HERBARIVM
APVLEII PLATONIEI QVOD AEEEPIT AB E
SEOLAPIO
ET EHIRONE

EENTAVRO MAEIZRO
AEHILLIS
:

7054.

HERBARIVM.
INCIPIVNT CAPITVLI LIBEI MEDICINALIS.^
JSTOMEN hepbe^ betomca f
1.

ly bij'coppyji'c.
'j

piS
-j

unhypum nihtjenjum^
jfpepnum.

piS ejeylicum^ je-

]fyh]?um
2.
3.

Ijyp

mannep heapob tobpocen

py.

piS eajena pape. piS eapena pape. piS eajena bymnyppe.^

piS typenbe eajan.

4.
5.
6.

7.
8. 9.

PiS ppySlicne blobpyne op nopum. piS to^ ece.

Pi6 piban pape. 10. piS lenben^ bpsebena pape. 11. piS pambe pape.
12. 13. 14.

pi8

mannep mnoS to psept py. piS f men^ blob upp pealle^ J^uph hip mu5.
Jpser

piS ^ man nelle beon bpuncen.^ 15. pi5 ^^^ man piUe pppmj onjepittan.
16.

piS f man py mnan abpocen.^^ 17. PiS f ^^ man on mycelpe pabe

peopfie jeteopeb.^^

o]>]>e

on myclum

janjum

'

The

title

in

V. is partly

illegible,

mon, H., which makes the verb

^

the rubric not standing.

in -which the herbs

The
is

order

active.
**

come

not in

pealle up, B.

H.
'^

as in V.

"
'

bpuc, V.

bjiuncen,

H. B.

hepba, H.
nihcsaensil, B.

^
'

H. " cobp-, H. B.

>e,

esrl-

B.

'2 |>8et
'='

sir,

H.
;

-uejje, B,
laeuben, II.

-pab, K.

-pob, B.

'

HERBARIUM.
HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE
MEDICINAL BOOK.
I.

Name

of wort betonica, that

is,

bishop wort.

B.

officinalis.

For monstrous nocturnal visitors and frightful sights and dreams. 2. If a mans head be broken. 3. For sore of eyes. 4. For sore of ears. 5. For dimness of eyes. 6. For bleared eyes. 7. For strong blood-running from the nose. 8. For tooth ache. 9. For sore of side. 10. For sore of the broad of the loins. 11. For sore of belly. 12. In case a mans inwards be too costive. 13. In case blood gush up through a mans mouth. 14. In case a man have a mind not to be drunken. 15. In case a pustule^ is going to settle on a man. 16. In case a man be inwardly ruptured. 17. In case a man become tired with much riding
1.

or walking.

Or

carbuncle.

4
18. 19.

HEREARIVM.
piS ^^

man yy

imhal

ol)]^e

Inne platije.

Pi^ f mannep mece ea];elice jemylte.'"^ 20. pi6 ^) man ne maeje hij' mete ^ehealban. 21. pi6 inno)?e]'^ yaj\e o]>\)e ^ip lie aj^unben^ yy.
22. pitS attop Jjijene.^
23.

piS naebpan^

ylite.

24. 6pt: piS nsebjian plite.

25. prS poben'

26.

hunbep

plite.
j^aji

piS
bsel.

]>^

mannep

J^jiotii

j^y

o];);e

hip

ppypan

hpylc
27.

PiS lenbena^ pajie 'j jip hip 28. piS pone hatan peopop.^'
29. piS pot able.

J;eoh acen.'*^

]Depba ajimjlopa p yp pejbjiseb.'^

1.

ii.

pi(S lieapob ece.

pi)j
pi})

2. 8.

pambe pape. mnopep pajie.

pi(5

4.
5.

6pt
pi J?

J)on

pon pe

man on pambe poppeaxen^^ p5'. mon ];iiph hip apjan^ blobe ut

j)e

ypne.
0.

PI'S ^^*

7.
8.
9.

PiS pr6 nsebpan

man poppunbub^^ py. f man pylle mannep pambe

plite.

p)pDenan.^

Gpt
yi])

piS nsebpan plite.

10.

mpypmap.

'

S'V,
13.

H.
omits.

^
'"
^'

laenbena, II.

laeii-,

B,

Se,

acan,

II.

^ *

inno|>e,

V.

fejoji,

B.
;

al>unben, B.

''^

bjiabe, II.
jiexen,

bjisebe,

B.

' i'lSe,

B.

H. B.
iisir,n.
;

-bbpan, B. pebe, H. B.

'^tKB.;
'^

j;e]Hinbab,

1^ Si>-,

H.

'

"^

bi'inan,

H. H.

j;epuubob,

CONTENTS.
8.

In case a man l)e out of liealtli or feel nausea. 19. That a mans meat may easily digest. 20. In case a man cannot retain his meat. 21. For sore of inwards, or if they be swollen. 22. For taking of poison. 23. For bite of snake. 24. Again, for bite of snake.
"J

25.

26.

For bite of mad dog. In case a mans throat be sore or any part of For sore of loins, and For the hot fever. For foot disease.
if

his neck.
27. 28. 29.

mans thighs

ache.

II.

The herb

upv6y\(;i(r(7ov,

that

is,

waybread.

Plantago
maior.

1.

2.
o.

For head ache. For sore of wamb or For sore of inwards.

xigain, in case a

belly,

4.
5.

man

be

ill

grown

in

wamb.

In case a

man have

a running of blood from

his anus.
6.

7.
8.
9.

10.

In case a man is badly wounded. In case one wishes to make a mans wamb dwindle. For rend of adder. Again, for rend of adder. For inward worms.

As

distinguished from the cold fever or ague.

HERBARIVM.
11. pij?

f^ manne]' liclioma^ fy aheajibob.

12.

piS f^
])i]>

men yj
*j

paj'

jreoppan baejey

j:ej:op.

13.
14.

por able

piS j'lna yape.

J;e

pi5 J^am^ jzepope

]>y

ppibban baeje

ejlej).

Pi5 f)am pejzope })e J>y septjian bseje to cymj?.^ IG. piS punba hatrunjse.^
15. 17. PiS ]3^
18.

mannep pet on yySe

tybpien.

piS ^^

men

peajijebpsebe peaxe^ on J^am noj'uni

o68e on f)am hleope.^^ 19. Be aejhpylcum uncuj)um blaebpum

)?e

on mannep

nebbe
20. 21.

pittaS.

piS muSep punbe.

Pi6 pebe liunbep flite. 22. piS selcep baejep mannejp tybbepnyyjpe innepeapbep.

JDepba
1.

qumquefolmm ^
Iy})u

ip pifleape.

III.

2.
3.

mannep piS pambe pape.

piS
J>^^

acen

oJ)J)e

on ^eplojen

py.

pi}>

muj^ep ece

'j

tunjan

'j

J^potan.

4.
5.

pij?
Pi}> pij?

heapbep pape.
f^^ ^^*

men

blob ut op nojfum ypne^^ to

ace.^^

fpyj?e.

6.

mannep mibpip
plite.

7.
8.
9.

Pi}>
]}!])

nsobpan

f man
}>u

Ijyp

pojibsepneb py. pylle cancep^^ ablenban.^''

'

hleope, B.

*
''

'

'

-hama, B. p sij: man, H. i>y, H. omits. cymet?, H. -se, H. B. )>Eet Siy, H.

"
'-

Sir,

H.
meen, H.

psdt: 51):

'^

yj^n*', I^-

i^ '^

>aer

513-,

H.

"^
1^

H. -cop, H.
acen, ablsenban, II. B.

^
"

j:;ij

muen,

II.

])exen, li.

CONTENTS.
Jl.

12.
13.

14.
15.

16.

17.
18.

In case a mans body be hardened. In case a man hath a quartan fever. For foot disease and for sore of sinews. For tertian fever. For the fever that cometh on the second day. For heating of wounds. In case a mans feet on a journey are tender. In case a spreading wart wax upon a mans

nose or cheek.
19.
face.

Of

all

strange bladders which

sit

on a mans

20.
21. 22.

For wound of mouth. For rend of mad dog. For chronic internal tenderness.

III.

The herb quinquefolium, that

is,

fiveleaf.

PotentUla rep tans.

1.

2. 3.

4.
5.

6.

7. 8.

9.

In case a mans limbs ache or have been beaten. For sore of wamb. For ache of mouth and of tongue and of throat. For sore of head. In case blood run too strong out of a mans nose. In case a mans midriff acheth. For bite of adder. In case a man be badly burnt. If thou wilt blind a cancer.^

'

That

is,

prevent suppuration.

HERBARIVM.

1.

JDejiba

uepmenaca f
-j

ly 3ycfijio'cii.

IV.

2.

Pi6 punba

beabypfimjap

'j

cypnlu.

S.
4.

6j:t piS c5'pnlu.

piS pa

J)e

liabbaS setrj^tanbene yebpan ppa

J?3eu

blob ne msej^ hip jecynblican- pyne

J^yjne jehealban ne rnajon.
5. G.

habban

-j

f bypa^

piS lippe pap.

PiS
}?a*

untpumnyppe

J>e

j^tanap peaxej?^

on

blseb-

jian.
7.
8.
9.

PiS lieapob pap. pi5 naebpan plite. piS attopcoppan bite.

10. piS pebe

11.

hunbep

plite.

piS nipe punbela.^

12. piS nsebpan^ plite.

1.

JDepba py mphoniacam
pi})

*^

'f

ip

lienne^ belle.

V.

eapena pap. 3. piS cneopa jeppelP^ oJ));e pceancena^^ hpaep^" ]'pa on licliaman^^ jeppell py. 4. pij) topa pape.
2.

oS6e fpa

5.
6.

pi6
pij?
pij?

J;8epa^*

jepealba pap

oj'f'e

jeppell.

pijj^^ paet pijrep

bpeoft pape^^ syn.^^

7.
8.

fota ]fap.^ lunjen able.

'

msese, B.

" rcanc-, II. B.

'-

'^

-cynbe-, H, B.
lieojia ^iSent",

hj>a],

B.

H. B,

* \>a,

B. omits.

^
^

jiexaS,

H. B.

-hom-, H. " hapa, H. B.

'

'^

-bbii-, B.

m,

H.

punba, H,
-ca,

'*

rajS H.

**

V. almost faded. hsenne, H. B. '" -rrcl, B,, and so often, but not

H.

ryn, B.

'" )-a]ie,

B.

always.

CONTENTS.

IV.

1.

The herb vermenaca, that

is,

ashthroat.

officinalis.

^^,^^^"f.

For wounds and carbuncles and glandular swellings. 3. Again, for kernels or glandular swellings. 4. For those that have obstructed veins so that the blood cannot have its natural course, and for those
2.

ivho

may

not retain their food.

5. 6.

For sore of liver. For the infirmity in which stones grow in the
For head sore. For bite of snake. For bite of attorcop, dratvn as a flying moth.

bladder.
7. 8.
9.

10.
11.

12.

For bite of mad dog. For new wounds. For bite of adder.
1.

V.

The herb symphoniaca, that

is,

henbane.

Hyoscyamus
niger.^

For sore of ears. 8. For swelling of knees, or of shanks, or wheresoever on the body a swelling may be. 4. For sore of teeth. 5. For sore or swelling of the privities. G. In case a womans breasts are sore. 7. For sore of feet. 8. For lung disease.
2.

'

Hyoscyamus albus

is

described in the text, but that

is

not our henbane.

10

HERBARIVM.

1.

JDejiba iiipepma

ip n^ebjie'

pypt.

vi.

2.

pij?

nsebpan

ylite.

1.

JDeji

biS^ uenepia ^ yp beo pyjit.

vii.

2. Pi]? paet
3.

pij?^ jpset

beon ne set jzleon. man jemijan ne mseje.

1.
2.

IDepba

pejf leonip

j5

ip leonpot.

vill.

pij?^ ]?8et

man

sy

cijf.*

JDepba pcelepata ^
2.

ip

clupSunj.^

ix.

pi6 punbela^ ^ beab pppmjay.

pi)?'^

3.

rPy^^r

'J

peajitan.

1.

JOepba batpacion ^

ly clufpypt.

x.

2.
3.

pij)

monoS^

peoce.^
bolh.
10

pij? J?a

ppeaptan

1.

JDepba ajitemejfia

f'aet

ip

mujcpyjit.

xi.

2.

3.

piS innoJ?ep pape. Pi6 pota pap."

!Depba aptremipia tajantep f yp oJ>pep cynnep mucjpypt:. Xll.

1. 2.

pi^ blsebpan^^ fape.

pi)? J>eona^^

pape.

H. B. H. writes hepba all along, and I would here emend accordingly. ' f m; H. ^ to C1J-, H. clu"SunK, V. " jmnba, H. ^ T pi, H.
'

naebbeja,

>

reocne, H.,

fol.

121

a.

'^

(From H.) V. omits all wort by mistake, and makes

numbering
next wort.
"
'2
''

this

the

faulty.

H.

writes
in the

ajitenepa here, but with

'^

inno'S. B.

B. -bbp-, B. heona, B.
j*ajie,

CONTENTS.

11

VI.
2.

1.

The herb

viperina, that

is,

adderwort.

Polygonum
bislorla.

For
VII.

bite of adder.

1.

The herb

veneria, that
fly off.

is,

beewort.

Acorus
calamus.

2.
3.

Tliat bees

In case

may not a man is

unable to pass water from

the bladder.
VIII.
2.
1.

The herb pes

leonis, that

is,

lions foot.
diet.

Alchemilla
vulgaris.

That a
IX.
1.

man may

not be choice in
is,

The herb

Scelerata, that

cloffing.

Banunculus
sceleratus.^

2. 3.

For wounds and dead ulcers. For swellings and warts.

X. 1.

The herb

(Sarpaxiov, that

is,

clovewort.

Ranunculus
acris.

2.

3.

For lunatics. For the black

XI.
1.

scars.

The herb

artemisia, that

is,

mugwort.

Artemisia
vulgaris.

2.

3.

For sore of inwards. For sore of feet.

XII.

The herb artemisia tagantes; that

of another kind.

is,

mugwort

Artemisia
dracunculus.

1.

2.

For sore of bladder. For sore of thighs.

'

Perhaps better Scelerata

botanical

names are

often historical identifi-

cations.

HERBARIVM.
3.
]}\]>

fina

j'ajie

"j

jeppell.^

4.
5.

Ijy]: Zryj:

hpa mib

j-Cc

aMe

(pype jeppenceb
jebpeht:.

j'y

hpa

j'y

mib yepepum'^

!Depba aptemipia leptepillop ^ yp ]7]ubban cynnep

mucjpypt.
2. 3.

XIII.

pif) ];a3p

majan

pape.

pij?

p8Dpa fina bipunje.

JOepba lapatium f yp bocce.*

2.

xiiii.

pi6 cyjmlu

J?e

on pealbe^

peaxej?.

JOepba bpacontea f yp bpacentpe.

2.

XV.

pij?

ealpa njebpena^ plite.

3.

pi]>

banbpyce.

JOepba patyjiion
2y
3.

]5

yf pepnep^

leac.

XVl.

pi6 eappoSlice punbela.

pij?

eagena pape.
lOepba jentiana

]5

yp pelbpypt.

XVI l.

2.

pi6 ntebjian

plite.

JOepba opbiculapip* ^ yp phte.

2.
3.
4.

XVIII.

piS
pij) pij?

]5

mannep pex^
fajie.

pealle.

innoSep^^ ptypunja.
iniltan

'

Serpelle

H.
a
contraction
as

Serpwnceb, H. B.
B.,

'
|

^yejju,

'^
i

spoken.
*

'^

bocce, B.
Sepealbe,

cf.

xxxiv.

H. B. H. B. hjiaeyncf H. hpeynej*, B. yeax, H. B. '" mno^, B., making a compound

j'cxe'S,

-bbji-,

TI.

B.

substantive.
i

CONTENTS.
3. 4.

13

5.

For sore and swelling of sinews. If one be much troubled with foot If one be vexed with fevers.
1
.

disease.

xiir.

The herb artemisia

Asttto^uAAoj,

that

is,

mug-

Artemisia
^'^"""'^

wort of a third kind.

2.
3.

For sore of the stomach. For quivering of sinews.

XIV.

The herb

XxttuDov,

that

is,

dock.

Itumex
obtusifuUus.

2.

For churnels which wax in the

XV.
1.

groin.

The herb

^paxovTeia, that

is,

dragons.

Arum
ctilus.

(JracuTi'

2. 3.

For rend of all snakes. For bonebreach.

XVI.
1.

The herb

(ruTvpiov,

that

is,

ravens leek.

Orchis.

2.

3.

For difficult wounds. For sore of eyes.

XVII.
1.

The herb gentiana, that

is,

field wort.

Erythrcea pule ella.

2.

For bite of adder.

XVIII.
1.

The herb

orbicularis, that

is,

slite.

Cyclamen
hedercefolitim.

2.

3. 4.

In case a mans hair fall off. For disturbances in the inwards. For sore of milt or spleen.

14

HEREARIVM.

Depba ppoj^eppmaca^ f y^
2.
3.

unpojitjiehhe.

XVITTT.

pi J? f^ man blob fpipe. pij> piban pape.

pij? bjiefca^ pi); pi)?

4.
5.

j'ape.

6.

eajena eapena

Tape.
j^ape.

7.

Pi)? utsihte.

JDepba apifcolochia* f jy j^mepo pypt.

2. 3.
4. 5. 6.

xx.

piS attpep fcpencSe.*

pij; ]?a ftJij^uptan ^

pepopap.

pij? n8epj)upla^ pape.

pij?
pi)?

^"^hpa mib cyle jepseht p}\ nsebpan^ flite.

fy.

7.
8.

Ijyp cylb hpylc^ ahpseneb

pij?

f psephbpebe^^ on nosum"

pexe.

IDepba naptujitmm f yp cseppe.

1.

xxi.

pi))^^

feu mannes

pex^^pealle.
"j^* ^icj^an.

2. pij?
3.
])i]>

heapob sape f ys piS pcupp

licep papnyppe.^^
fpylap.

4.
5.

piJ)

pi J) peaptan.
pyptr.

JDepba hiepibulbup ^^ f yp jpeate

2.

xxii.

piJ? lijia

Tape.

3.

Eip nebcopn on pipmannep nebbe pexen.^^

-bbp-, H. B.
hpylc
J)8et

'

pr^p-, V. B., a compendium

scripturae.
'

"

cilb,

H. B.

better.

Sir,

H.
is

1"

Sip

i^ejih,

H.

'
*

bpeofca, H. B., as
-Se, B.

usual.

11 ''

nora, H. B.
-p

-bej-can, B.

fcij^olTcaj',

H.
'^

m,

H. H.
H.

jjycla,
'

B.; |>yplu, H.

peax, B.
T pi,

SiK,

H- In

the text of B.

two
for,

''

drawings of cress are provided

'*
'"

-neffe, B.
Sejiibulbii,

and

this

makes the numbers of the

diflFer

paragraphs in the contents

"

peaxen, B.

from those

in B.'s text.

CONTENTS.
XIX.
2.
3.

15

The herb

proserpinaca, that

is,

untrodden to death.

Polyyonum
avicularc.

In case a

man spew

blood.

4.
5. 6.

7.

For For For For For

1.

sore of side. sore of breasts.

sore of eyes.

sore of ears.
diarrhoea.

XX.
2.
3. 4.
5. 6. 7.

The herb

upia-Tohoxiocp

that

is,

smearwort.^

For strength of poison. For the stiffest fevers. For sore of nostrils.
In case one be troubled with the
cold.

8.

For bite of adder. If any child be in sorrow. In case a warty eruption grow on the
XXI. The herb nasturtium, that
is,

nose.

cress.

N.

officinale.

1.

2.

3.

4.
5.

In case a mans hair fall off. For head sore, that is, for scurf and For soreness of the body. For swellings. For warts.
1.

itch.

XXII.
2. 3.

The herb

Ispo/SoA/So?,

that

is,

great wort.

Colchicum autumnale.

For sore of
If pimples

joints.

wax on

womans

face.

The Latin was

Aristolochia rotunda, but

the English

name

is

A.

clematitis.

HERBARIVM.
JOejiba apollmaju]^.
2.

ip jlop p}^p'c.

xxiii.

piS hanba

]\a]ie.

J)epba camemelon*
1.

]>

ip

majej^e.

xxilii.

piS eajena^ yape.

JOepba chamebjny f
ly heopt: claeppe.

XXV.

2. 3. 4.

Iryj:

hpa tobpyj'eb yy,

flite.

piS^ neebpan'^
pij?

fotable.

JOepba chameselese f
1.

ly

pulyey camb.

xxvi.

PiJ) liyep

yeocnyyye.

2.
3.

pij? attrjiey
PiJ>

bpenc*

pserep yeocnyfTe.
ly

JOepba chamepitliyy p
1.

henep.^

XXVII.

Pi)j
pij?

punbela.

2.

mnopey

yape.

JOepba chamebayne f ly pseyney^ yot. 1. piS mnoj) to afuypijenne.

JZ)epba ofrpiajo
2.

xxviii.

pi]?

ealle

J^injc

f ly liSpypt. xxviili. )je on men uo sape mnan^

acen-

nebe^ beoS.
JOepba bpirannice
1.

]>

ly

hsepen hybele.^

xxx.

pif)

muSey

sape.

2.

6yt

pi6 muj)ey sajie.

eajene, V.
r.yr,

"
' ^ "

hjiepief , B.

hjisevne)-, IF,

'
"
*

V.

mnon, B.
acsennebe,
II.

-bbp-, H. B.
bpynce, H,
nepce,
;

B.
huybebe, B.;
but

hybela, V.;

B.,

but hsenep in

the

in the text itself hybele.

text

hsenep, H.

CONTENTS.

17
is,

XXIII.
2.

1.

The herb

apollinaris, that

glove wort.

Convallaria
vialulis.

For sore of hands.

XXIV.

The herb

^aix.uiiJ.yiKov,

that

is,

inaythe.

Antliemis
no/tilis.

1.

For sore of

eyes.

XXV. The herb

2.

x^ijioii^pug^

that

is,

hart clover.^

If one be bruised badly.

3. 4.

For bite of snake. For foot disease.

XXVI.
1.

The herb yaiLaikKma^ that

is,

wolfs comb.

Dipsacus
vestn's'.

sil-

2.

8.

For liver sickness. For drink of poison. For water sickness, dropsy.
XXVII.

The herb

x^i/.ai'niTus,

that

is,

liemp

(?).

A/u(/(i
pilfjs.

chamcE-

1.

2.

For wounds. For sore of inwards.

XXVIII.
1.

The herb

;i^a|aaiBa^vy3,

that

is,

ravens

foot.'

For the inwards, to

1.

stir

them.
is,

XXIX.
2.

The herb

ostriago, that

lit he wort.

Sambucus

For

all

things which are formed in a

man

as a

sore inwardly.

XXX. The herb Brittanica, that

1.
2.

is,

bridit-coloured hydele.

Cochlear la

For sore of mouth.

Again, for sore of mouth.

'

The

Ilellenic
;

Teucrium C.
-

Germander, the English is Meis

The
;

Hellenic

is

liuscus raccmo-

sus
ria.

the English Rammciilus fica-

ilicayo macidata, Avith officinalis.

The Saxon understood

this

as

18
3.
4.
5.

HERBARIVM.
pi)? toJ)a fajie.
]}i])

yseytne iiinoS to afryjiijeDne.^

j'ajie.

pi (5 yiban

JDejiba lactuca j'lluatica

2.

]5

ly

pubu

lectjiic.

XXXI.

"pip

eajena bymnepj^e.^
pi J)

3.

Gft

eajena^

bymny ffe.*
ly japclipe.

JDepba
1.

a^pimoma f

xxxii.

2.
3.

piS eajena pape. pi6 mnoSe]" pape.

Pi}>

cancop

-j

piS punbela.
ylite.

4.
5.
6.

pij?
pi}>

nsebpan^
peaptan.

piS miltan pape.

Ijyp
}>u

7.
pille.

hpilce^ pi^^jc on J^am liclioman

''

ceojijran

8.

Pi}>

yleje ipepnejf.

JJepba aptula pe^ia f

1.

ip

pubu pope,

xxxiii.

piS pceancena^ pape.

pi]? lippe sape.

2.

JDepba lapatium
1.

ip

pubu

bocce.

XXXIIII.

Iryp hp5dc fcijinep on liclioman^ becume.

J^epba centaupia maiop

1.

ip

cupmelle peo mape. XXXV.

2.

piS lipep able. piS punba -j cancop.

'

-juaiine, IJ.

'

In V,

pille,

with

erased and
:

^ j-ajie,
'

V.

II.

h
B.

prefixed,

produced hpile

hpilce,

V. Short vowels not much thought of.

ea?;ene,
*
*

H.
'

-nefj'e, B.

^
"

-bbp-, H. B.

-haman, B. pcau-, B. -haman, B.

CONTENTS.
3.
4.
5.

19

For sore of teetli. For costive bowels, to For sore of side.

1.

stir tliem.

xxxr.
1.

The herb lactuca

silvatica, that

is,

wood

lettuce. ^-

scariola.

2.

For dimness of eyes. Again, for dimness of

XXXII.

eyes.

The herb agrimonia, that

is,

garclive.

A. eupatorla.

1.

2.

3.
4.

5. 6.
7.

For For For For For For

If

sore of eyes. sore of inwards.

cancer and for wounds.

bite of snake.

warts.
sore of milt.

thou

wilt

carve

away

anything

on

the

body.
8.

For blow of

iron.

XXXIII.
1.

The herb hastula

regin, that

is,

woodruff.

Asfodelus ramosus.

2.

For sore of shanks. For sore of liver.

XXXIV. The herb
AaTraOov,

that

is,

wood

dock.

Rumex
tosa.

Ace-

1.

If there

come any

stiffness

on the body.
is,

XXXV. The herb centaurea maior, that

greater.
1.

churmel the Chhra perfo'" ^'

2.

For liver disease. For wounds and

cancer.

B 2

20

HERBARIVM.

J^ejiba

centaupia mmoji

]>

ij'

cujimelle ]'eo

Lneyj^e.'

XXXVI.
2. 5.

pr6 na?bjian^
Pi(S

ylite.
yajie.

eajena^

4.
.5.

6pt
pip

pi5 port* ylcon.''

yma

rojunje.^

6.

pip arcpej" onbyji^mje.

Pip^ p8e~

7.

pypmay ymb napolan

f

bejiijep.^

JOejiba pejij'onacia^
1. 2.

ly bete,

xxxvii.

pi 8 ealle punba
.

'j

pip naebpan^^ flitap.

11

"j

pip pefopa)'.

3.

4.
5.
6.

piS f^^ cancoji on punbe pexe.^^ pip innoSep sajie. piS pebe hunbep
pip nipe punba.^^
plite.

IDepba ppaja p
2.

ip

ptpeabepje.'"*

xxxvill.

piS miltan pape.

pip nyppyt.^5 pip mnopep
pajie.

3.

3.

JOepba Inbipcup ^
2.

ip

meppe

mealpe.^^

xxxix.

piS por

able.

Pip selce jejabepunja pe on nebe^^ beop.

3.

pam

liclioman^^ acen-

'

leef,
;

v., a

compendium
15.

scrip-

"

pf-, V. B., a compendious

way

turac
2 ^
*

Isej-fe,

H.

of writing, or shorthand.
"

-bbp-, H. B.
egena,
J>am,
II.

-bb]i-,
i>Ki]-,

II.

B.

"
'''

H.
B,

H.
II.

))eaxe,
il.

ilcan, B.

omits.
II.

tob-,

" fcpeap,
'

-j'et, II.
-hij)e,

'^

bepian,

II.;

bepi?;an,

B.

Oni'

'"

n.

B.

leechcraft

is

here omitted in V. B.

'"

-ham-, B.
acaennebe, B.; acaenne,
II.,

H.

an

unfini.shed Avord.

CONTKNTS.

21

xxxvi. Tlio

lierl)

centaurea

minor,

that

is,

cliurinel ^r'/'/"f^

ctvi-

tlie Jess.
2.
S.

For bite of* snake. For sore of eyes.

Again, for the same.

4.

0.
G.

For spasm of sinews. For tasting of poison.

In case worms about the navel annoy.
is,

7.

xxxvii. Tiie herb personacia, that

1.

beet

beta.

For

all

wounds, and

for rendings

by snakes.

2.
3. 4.
5. 6.

And

for fevers.

In case a cancer

wax upon

a wound.

For sore of inwards. For tear by mad dog. For new wounds.
1.

XXXVIII.

The herb

fraga[ria],

tliat

is,

strawberry

[plant].
2. 3.

For sore of milt. For oppression on the

1.

chest,

and
is,

sore of inwards.

XXXIX.
2.

The herb

hibiscus, that

marsh mallow.

Althea
nalis.

offici-

3.

For foot disease. For any gatherings which are produced on the

body.

22

HERBARIVM.
JDejiba ippipuf
1.

if

sequiyeia.

XL.

pij?

utyiht.

2.

pi J; f

man

blob fpyj^e^ psece.

JDepba malpa
2.

eppatica f

ly

bocleaj:.

XLI.

piS blyebpan-

sajie.

3.

4. 5.

Pi6 sma fape. pi6 siban ]'ape.

Pi6 nipe punba.

]^epba bujloppa
]5

ip

hunbep tunje.
peep ppibban

XLii.

2.

Jj}^}:

hpylcum men py

bgejep

j-'cpop'*^

oS'Se J^gep peopj^an.

5.

Pi5 nyppyt.*
!Depba bulbipcillatica p
ip

jlaebene.

XLIII.

1.

pi6 psetep peocn}^ppe.^

pij? liSa
pij>
pij?
J?a
]^

2.

pape.
able
J)e

3. 4.

jpecap papamchiap nemneS.

psetejipeocep

man ne mseje

mannep

})upfu

jecelan/

IDepba cotilebon f jy umbilicup uenepip.

2.

XLIV.

piS ppylap.

Depba
2.

jalli cjiup
flite.

ip

attoplaSe.^

XLV.

piS hunbep

]Oepba ppappion
1.

]5

ip

hape hune.

XLVI.

piS jepopu

-j

pi6

]5

he hepelice hpaece.

2.

piS majan pape.

B,,

f])y,

an unfinished word

'
;

-nefj'e, II.

j-pijje
2
'^

T hjisece, H., spits and.

'

hoec

Si}-,

H.
his Dictionary, prints

-bbji-,

H. B.
nyjjjJCc, II.;

K^c-, B.

reye]^, II.

"

Lye, in

'

So B.

omitted in

Sacropla'c^e,

which

is

not justified

V.

by the MS. B.

CONTENTS.

23
equi seta.
Horsetail

XL.
1.
2.

The herb

tWou^i,c,

that

is,

For diarrhoea.' In case a man hreak up blood much.

1.

XLI.
2.
3.

The herb malva

sore of bladder. sore of sinews. sore of side.

erratica, that

is,

hock

leaf.

Malva
vestris.

sil-

4.
5.

For For For For

1.

new wounds.
The herb
/SoJyAaxra-ov,

XLII.
2.

that

is,

hounds tongue.
fever.

Cynoghssum
officinale.

If

any man have a tertian or quartan

chest.

5.

For oppression on the

XLIII.
1. 2.

The herb

/SoAjSo?

(tkiXKyitikos,^

"that

is,

glsidden.'' Iris pseudacorus.

3.

4.

For water sickness. For sore of joints. For the disease which the Greeks name Trugoowx^ocs.^ In case a man be not able to cool a dropsical
thirst.

mans
XLIV.
2.

1.

The herb

xoruXrjScov,

that

is,

umbilicus Veneris,

v. cotyledon.

Against swellings.
1,

XLV.
2.

The herb

galli crus, that

is,

attorlothe.

Panicumcrus
gain.

For rend by hound.

XLVI.

The herb

Troixa-iov,

that

is,

horehound.

Marrubium
vulgar e.

1.

2.

For poses, and in case the patient hreak heavily. For sore of maw.

'

In this

art.,

and

in art. liii,

the text has a different phrase.

Bulb of scilla maritima. Whitlows.

24
3.

HERBARIVM.
])i6
]}i])

penjpypmap^ abiiran~ napolan.

li]?a

4.
5.
6.

pajie

'j

pr6 jef'inb.^

pi(5
]}i]>

attpep
pceb^
'j

J^i^ne."*

fetep.
able.

7. S.

PiS lunjen

pib ealle fuiSnepya psep lichoman.

lOejiba xipion

ip

poxep pt.

XLVII.

1.

])i\)

iincuSe fppinjaf

])e

on

liclioman^

acennebe^

beoS.
2.

pij?

heapob bpyce
jalli "cpicup

^j

iBtjuje ban.^

JOepba
1.

ip

psetep pypt.

XLViii.

Eyp
]h]>^^

fpylap ptBinnum bepien.^

2.

fer mannep pex

'^

pealle.

JOepba temolup* f
2.

ip

pmjjiene.

XMX.

piS cpiSan'^ sape.

JOepba leliotpophiip* f
ip pijelhpeojifa,
L.

2.

pij>

ealle attpu.

3,

piS pleppan.
IDepba jpyap
]5

ip

niasbejiu.^^

LI.

2.
3.

Pij?

ban ece
sap

*j

pij>
);e

ban bpyce.^*
liclioman
ip
'^

Pi'b aelc

pam

bepej;.

JDejiba poliojucup
2.

hymele.^^

Lll.

piS mnoSep pape

^j

piS

p pex^^ pexe.
"

pyn-

IT.

m,

H.
II.,

"
^

ymbutan,
r;i;\>ynb,

II.;

onbuton, B.

'

3eax, B.
chj^an,

B.

'-

which

produces

'

J>isene,
j'creb,

H.

nonsense.
'

'

B.

-bene

II.

"
'

-ham-, B.
acainnehe, B.; acainbe,
II.

II.

" bjicce, J I. " -liam-, B.

humelc, B. " }cax, B.
'"

"
'

omits three Avords.

bejiian, B.

CONTENTS.
3.
4. 5.
6.

25

7.
8.

For For For For For For

tapeworms about tlio navel. sore of joints, and for i)ulling taking of venom. scab and tetter.
lung disease.
all stiffnesses

u[).

of the body.
f/^iov,

XLVII.
1.

The herb

that

is,

foxes foot.

Sparyanium
simplex.

For strange pustules which are produced on the

body.
2.

For head breach and poisonous

legs.

XLVlii.
1.

The herb

xuX^lrpix^c,

that

is,

water wort.

CalUtriche
vcrna.

If swellings

2.

annoy maidens. In case a mans hair fell off.

].

XLIX.
2.

The herb

/xwAu,^

that

is,

singreen.

Sempervivum
tecforum.

For sore of matrix.

L.

1.

The herb
flux.

yi>

iorpoTnov,

that

is,

solwherf

Achillea tomentusa here.-

2. 3.

For For
LI.

all poisons.

1.

The herb

grias, that

is,

madder.

Rtibia tunciorum.

2.

3.

For bone ache and for bone breach. For every sore, which vexeth the body.
Lii.
T-1

1.

The herb
p

^oXurpi^o^,^ that
1
1

is,
^

humble.^

TrifoUum procumbens.

2.

For sore of inwards, and

case hair fall

off.

'

Now

believed allium moly.

art.

" like swine bristles

"

but not so

'

Compare

cxxxvii.

drawn, nor yet as a

trefoil.

JS'ow believed hair moss.

De-

Hop

trefoil.

scribed in the text as a liair moss,

26

HEIICARIVM.

JOejiba

maloclim

ajjiia

ly pubupojze.^

Lili.

2.

pij?

innoSey pleppan.
ip

JDepba metopia^ f
2. 3.

hpit popij.

LIIII.

pij>

J^unponja* pape.

piS plaepleafce.^
JDepba oenantep.
LV.

1.

piS ^^

man jemijan ne

meej.^

2.

Iryp hpa fpyf'e bpsece.^

IDepba napcipup'
1.

]5

ip balj-pyjit.

LVI.

pij?

pa punba

J>e

on men beo5 acenneb.^

JDepba fplenion
1.

ip

bpune

^^

pypt.

LVii.

piS miltan fape.

IDepba pohon.
LVTII.

2.

piS mono6 peoce.

JOepba uictopiola f
ip

cneopbolen.

LVIIII.

1.

pij?

Sone bpopan

-j

J^sep

majan
ip

pape.

Dejiba conpipma f
2. 3.

jalluc.

LX.

pij)

pipa pleppan.

Iryp hpa

mnan

tobopfren

^^

sy.

4.

pi6 majan pape.

'

pubuhjioje, II.

'
^

t> siy,

n.
II.

2
3

ucphce, H.

msese,
jifcce,

B.

So V.
j'an^a,

B., plainly

mcfcojiia,

H.

^ " '

V.

Read
^

ixrjKwuia,

or

/irj/cwfa,

or

fnJKcov.

acaenneb, B.; acsennebe, H.

H,
;

b|umt, H.

J*liicplyj*t:e, 13.

-lefce,

H.

" bpocen, H.

CONTENTS.

27

Liil.
1.

The herb

[xoiXoi^Yi

uyplcc,^

that

is,

wooclrufi'.

As/hdelus rumosus.

2.

For diarrhoea. For flux of inwards.

Liv.

1.

The herb meconia,

For sore of temples. For sleeplessness.
LV.

ii.r]y.viv,

that

is,

white poppy,

p. somniferum.

2.
3.

The herb

oIvuvQy)

now

dropwort.

1. 2.

In case a man is not able to pass urine. If one break strongly.

LVI.

The herb

vupKKra-oc,^

that

is,

halswort.*

].

For the wounds which come out in a man.

LVii.
1.

The herb splenium, asplenium, that

For sore of
milt.

is,

brownwort.*^

LViiT.
2.

1.

The herb

ttoAiov.

Teucrium
polium.

For a
Lix.

lunatic.

The herb

victoriola, that

is,

kneeholm.

Rusciis aculeatus.

1.

For the palsy and sore of the maw.

1.

LX.
2. 3.

The herb confirm a, comfrey, that

is,

galluc.

Symphytum
qfficmae,

4.

For womens flux. If one be inwardly bursten. For sore of maw.

Wild mallow, malva

silvestris.

'

Presumed properly campanula

Usually
scrofularia

As

art. xxxiii.,

and text here.

irachelium.
^

Not

certainly identified, perhaps

aquatica.
gl.

narcissus poeticiis.

See

text, translation,

and

28

HERBARIVM.
J^ejiba afcejuon.

LXI.

8.

pi])

yyWe

j'eociiyf j'c.~

JDejiba lepojuj^ pej'

J.

j3

ij'

hajuin

Ijyne.'^

LXll.

picS

mnoScf

}:tiifi:n\^pj'e.

Dejiba bicramnuj\
2.

LXiii.

pi6*
pij?
])i]>
]}i])

feet;

pip luiebbe

on hyye muoSc^ beab bojien

tubbup.^
3.
4. 5.

punha.
n^ebjian
^

plire.

attoji pijene.

7.

6pr

piS nipe puiiba.

JOepba polajo maiop p

J.

ly helioj'coppion.

LXIIII.

6]:r piS

ni^bpan^

slite.

JOepba polajo lumop p

Pi'S

ip
^^

iBliotpopion.
najrolan.

LXV,

penjpyjuiiap

abutan

JOepba peonia.
2.

LXV[.

pip"

monoS
^^

^^

peocnypj'e.^^
ece.

3.

pi]> liype

ban

JDejiba pepifcepion*^^
2. 3.

]>

yp bcjibena.

LXVII.

pi J) hunbep beopc.'^

PiS ealle atrpu.

lOejiba

bpyonia

]5

ip hyniele.^'^

LXVIII.

1.

piS milran sape.

'

jelle,

H.
;

"
'"

j.yn-,

H.

'

-neffe, B.

-ron, B.
-neffe, H.

Head luse
r>

hij, II.

" innoS, B., but right in text.

'-

'

Sir,

H.
;

'

mno'Se

B. omits.

" ype, V.
" pi, V. B,, by shorthand.

'

"
'

-boj), II.

-bbji- H.
-tb]^-,
II.

Kcb-, H. B.
huniele, B.

B.

"^

CONTENTS.
LXI.
3.

29

The herb

ao-j/tiov.'

For the

falling sickness.

LXII.
1.

The herb

leporis pes, that

is,

liares

Iiie.

T/i/yium
vense.

or-

For costiveness of inwards.

LXIII.
1.

The herb

S/xrajavo;.

Dipiamnus

2.

In case a
fcetus.

woman have

in

her

womb

dead

borne
3.

4.
5.

7.

For wounds. For bite of snake. For taking poison. Again, for new wounds.

LXIV.
1.

The herb solago maior, that

is,

riXio^xcmiog.

rielioOopium

Again, for bite of snake.

ijXior^oVjov.

LXV. The herb solago minor, that

is,

Croion Unctonus.

For tape worms about the navel.

Lxvi.
2.

The herb

irui^yAu.

^T-''\-

3.

For lunacy. For hipbone ache.

1.

LXVII.
2.
3.

The herb

nsqiaTcq-.o^v,

that

is,

verbena.

V. officinalis.

Against bark of hound. Against all poisons.

LXViii.

The herb
milt.

^gvc^viot,^

that

is,

liumble.

Ilnmnius

1.

For sore of

Unknown.

Bryonia

dioica.

30

HERBAllIVM.

lOejiba nymjrete.
J.

LXIX.

pi(S utyilit.

2.

6j:t piS utjnh'c. 6j:t piS mnojpey

8.

pajie.

]Depba
1.

cjiijfion

ly clsepjie.

LXX.

pi J?

jomena

pajie.

JDejiba lysLtiy.
2.

Lxxi}

pi5 nsebbpan

plite.

JOepba ycopbea.
1.

Lxxii.

Gpt
piS

piS naebpan^

flite.

2.

pma

pape.
.

3.

PiS pepo

lOepba uepbapcup f
1. 2.

ip pelb^ pyp"^J)ap

LXXiii.

Be pam
piS
PiS pot

J^e

mepcupiup

pyji'ce

uilixe pealbe

ealle ypele
able.

jencymap.*

3.

JDepba hepaclea.

LXXiiii.
'j

PiS^ Jjset man pylle opeplanjne pej pepau pceaSan^ onbpseban.

lOepba cselibonia f ip pi); eajena^ bymnyppe^^
cylef'inie.^
-j

him na

Lxxv.

1.

papnj'^ppe.^"

2. 3. 4.
5.

Bpt
pij>

piS

bymjenbum eajum.
ece.

cypnlu.

pij)

heapub^^

pij) J;8Rt^^

man
article

jebsepneb yy.
lxxi.;
?>e]iba
^
*'

V.

omits
it

here
has,

\>xt

Si]-,

H.
H.

IT.

differs:

xciii.

fca'San, B.
yca\>2L

ifacij'.

]>epba
j*hte.
all,
2
'

pi5 naebbpan fhce. xciiii. Cjz pi'S naebbpan ifacij*. The text had been faulty in

'

onbjiaebe,

^ " '"

-J>enie,

B. ; -inije, H.

eat;en,

V.
twice.
II.

-nej'j'e, B.,

_bb)i-, B.

" -rob,
'"

B.
II

r.ead iclr.

h?ec

f.\r,

Sean,

11.

CONTENTS.
LXIX.
1.

:n
Niivifmt uJha}

The

lierb

vuix,(puia.

2. 3.

For dysentery. For dysentery. For sore of inwards.

LXX. The herb
^lq(TioVy^

that

is,

clover.

Trifolium

pj alense.
1.

For sore of
Lxxi.

fauces.
1.

The herb

Wur^s,

woad.

Isatis tinctoria.

2.

For bite of adder.

LXXII.

The herb

crycog^m.

Teucrium
scordium.

Again^ for bite of snake.

2.
3.

For For

sore of sinews.
fever.

LXXiii.
1.

The herb verbascum, that

this
all evil

is,

feltwort.

V. thapsus.

Of how Mercurius gave

Against

wort to Vlixes.

2.
3.

gaincomers.

For

foot disease.

Lxxiv. The herb

YjguKKela, heraclea.

In case a man wish to travel an overlong way and dread no robber.

Lxxv. The herb
1.

p^eAiSov/a,

that

is,

celandine.

Chelidonium

2.
8.

4.
5.

For dimness and soreness of eyes. Again, for dim eyes. For churnels, glandular hard swellings. For head ache. In case a man is burnt.

mams.

'

With, niifar lutea

?.

Carduus parvijlorns.

/
3-

HERBARUTM.
JOejiba j'olata

\)

ly

yoloj^ece.

LXXVI.

1.

pip jej^el. ^\\ eapena^ pij> toS ece.

pi)?
j^ajie.

2.
3. 4.

blob jiyne op iioyum.

JOejiba yenecio
2.

]5

ij-

jimnhe

fjn li^c.

Lxxvii.

3.

pi6 punba J;eah hy ealbe PiJ? ipejmep pleje.

pij; pot: ahle.
pip)

j-yn.

4.
5.

lenbena-

pajie.

JOejiba pilix
J.

ip

peapn.

LXXVIII.

PiJ)
pi)>'^

punba.
I

2.

yet

jeonj

man
]5

heal}'be
ip

ss^

J^epba
Pi}>

jpamen

cpice.

Lxxviiri.

milran pape.
ip jhiebene.
)5

lOepba jlabiolum p
1.

Lxxx.

Pi);

blpebpan pape

*j

[piS

he]

"^

jemijjaii ne mfPi;e.

2. 3.

pi)> pi))

miltan

pajie.
-j

mnocSep pajie

pyepa
]>

bjieofca.

lOepba pop
2.

mapinum
-j

ip bo'6en.

LXXXI.

pi))
4.

toS

ece.

3,
5.
C.

pi))

ablijenbe

pi5 jicSan.^
^j

pi)) lipeji pi)>

peocnyppe

peep

mnoSep.

nipe punba.
ip pelb

JOepba paptinaca piluuatica ^

2.

mojui.

Lxxxri.

pi);

j/set

pipmen eappoSlice cennan.^

3.

Pij)

pipa apeojununje.^
but V, does not alfect that form of
expression.
I

'

easena, V.
Isenbena, H. B.

5,3.

H.

)>ajm,

H. B.
crennen,
li.

'-lebe,ir.B.
=^

'

;-''"'^caennan, B.
;
.,

[ ]

Omitted

in

V. B.;

si]-,

II.;

_^

,.

CONTENTS.
Lxxvr. The liorb solatn, that
1. 2. 3.

is,

solsecle.

Mm
hut

jiijold, (j!.,

)i(>(

so,

4.

For For For For

swelling.

sore of ears.

tooth ache.

blood-running from the nose.

1.

Lxxvii.
2.

The herb
iron.

senecio, that

is,

groundsel.

S. vvlqaris.

3.
4.
6.

For For For For

wounds, though they be

old.

blow of

foot disease, gout. sore of loins, lumbago.

Lxxviii.
1

The herb

filix,

that, is fern,

AspiiUum,
Poll/podium,
etc.

For wounds.
In case a young

2.

man

be ruptured.
is,

Lxxix. The herb gramen, that

1.

quitch.

Triticum
repens.

For sore of

milt.
is,

LXXX. The herb gladiolus, that

1.
2.

gladden.

Iris psciulacorns.

3.

For sore of bladder, and in case a For sore of milt. For sore of inwards and of the
1.

man

cannot mie.

breasts.
is,

Lxxxi.
2.

The herb

ros marinus, that

botheuc

Ji. officwaJis,

3, 5.
0.

For tooth ache. 4. For the sickly, and for itch. For liver sickness, and of the For new wounds.

inw\ards.

LXXXii.

L The

herb pastinaca
fieldmore.^

silvatica, that

is,

2.
3.

In case

women with

difficulty

bring forth.

For womens

cleansinQ:s.

Pastinaca saliva (with,

it

seems) Jauciis carota.

34

IIERBArvIVM.

lOepba pepbicali)'
2.

ly

bollijiune.

Lxxxiii.

pij;

pot able

'j

piS cancop.
ly cebelc.

JDejiba mejicupialif
1.

LXXXIIII.

piS
pij>

))9ey

mnoSejf heajibnyj^ye.^
ynjxe
"j

2.
3.

eajena

jeppelle.
]"y.

Iryp paeteji on eapan fpyj^e ^epijen^

jDepba jiabiola* f ly epop jzeapn.

Lxxxv.

2.

piS heajzob

ece.

J^ejiba fpapajia ajpefciy

1.

ly

pubu

cejiuille.'^

LXXXVI.

pij?

blsebpan^ pajie

oJ^J^e

jefpelle.

2.
3. 4.

pij)
pi}>
pij?

toS

ece.

sebbpena pape.
)783t''

ypel

man

})uph

eepj^ancan^

oj^epne

bejale.

IDepba
1.

pabma
ece.

ip papinse.^
''

Lxxxvil.
pota ^eppell.

pij? pij> pi]>

tojunja^^
heapob

]?8epa

pma

*j

pi]:>

2.

3.

beab pppmjap.

]Oepba camp caput

Pif>

f
'j

ip liunbep lieapob.

Lxxxvill.

eajena pape

jefpel.^^

JDepba ejiupti
1.

]>

ip

bpemelj^

LXXXix.

pij;

eapena pape.

2.
3.

pip pipep pleppan.

pij^

heopt

ece.

'

forpe]i,V.B.,and tfor
B.
II.

lir,

V.

'^

-hacan, V.
-ne, H.; j'auine, B.

-nej-j-e,

"
'^

"

-Seb,

-unse,

II.

-lura, II.
ct')iplle,

' >a]ia, B.

'

B.

''^

-rpelle, II.
bjK'bel,

"

-bh)i-, B.
|?aec Sir, II.

H.

CONTENTS.

35
dolhrunc.
Parietaria
officinalis.

LXXXiil.
2.

1.

The herb

perdicalis, that

is,

For foot disease and

for cancer.

Lxxxiv. The herb mercurialis, that

1.

is,

cheadle.

M.pcrennis.

2.

3.

For hardness of tlie inwards. For sore and swelling of eyes. If water is gone deep down into the
LXXXV. The herb
radiolus, that
is,

ears.

evcrfcrn.

Poh/podium
vidgare.

2.

For head ache.

ua-wdgotyog agrestis, that
is,

Lxxxvi. The herb

1.

wood chervil.

A. ncutifoUus.

2.

8. 4.

For sore or swelling of bladder. For tooth ache. For sore of kidneys. In case an evil man through

spite

enchant

another.

Lxxxvir. The herb sabina, that

1.
2. 3.

is,

savine.

lunipems
'

For spasms of the sinews, and For head acheFor carbuncles.

for swelling of feet.

Lxxxviii. The herb canis caput, that

1.

is,

hounds

head.^

Antirrhinum
QlfQfl tlllTfl

For sore of eyes and

swelling.

Lxxxix. The herb eruscus, that

1.

is,

bramble.

Buhus
fruticosus.

2.
3.

For sore of ears. For a womans flux. For heart ache.

Snapdragon.

'

c 2

3G
4.
5.
C.

IIERBARIVM.
nipe punba.
li))a
]\a]K'.
^

pi))
])i])

Pi)^

na^bpan

plite.

JOepba millefolium
1.

]>

\y

jeappc.-

xc.

pi]; ipejuiep

fleje

^)

acliillcp )>ap p5'P*^e piinbe.

2.
8.

]}i]>

to^

ece.

pi);
pi);

punba.
jeppell.
];

4.
5. 6.

pi);

man
^

eappoSlice

"^

jemijan
^

mre;5e.

Ijyp punb on

men

'"'

acolob

s5^

7.

Iryp

men
pi);

p heajzob
ylcan.

bepfte^

o5Se

uncuS

ppyle

onjepytte.
8. 9.

6pt

pam

Iryp hpylcum

men
nylle.

a3b]ian

alieajibobe

pyn

o]>\^e

hip mete jemyltan

10. pi); );9Bpa }>eapma ece 11. pi^^*^

);{Bt:

-j

a?]'

mnocSep.

men pojoSa

ejlije.

12. pi); lieapob ece.

13. pi);

);am

ncebbejicynne

pe

man

fpalanjiup

hateS."
14. Gy.t piS nsebpan^"*
1 5.

plitre.

pip yebe hunbep

plite.

16. pip

n?ebbpan
JOejiba

plite.

puta f

ip

pube.^'^

xci.

1.

pi5 pfBt

^^

blob op

nopum

plope.

2. 3.

piS ropimbenneppe.

PiS pa3p majan pape.

-bbp-, B.
\>a,

"
'"

-bbp-, B.
f>

B.
SI]-, 11.

Sir,

n.

^ * *
"

\)KZ

" hate'b; B.
''^

eaj-,

V.
II.
is

-bbp-, B,

mrcn,

(From B.

II.)

The
V.

article

Rue

aeo-, B.
ninen, II.

^vholly omitted in

^'hsersir, ".

rob-, B.

CUJSTENTS.

37

L For new wouDtls. 5. For sore of joints. G. For bite of udder.

XC.
1.

The herb

niillefoHuni, that

is,

yarrow.

Achilk
'^^:,ff:

For blow of

iron,

and

to tell that Achilles

found

this wort.

fix

For tooth ache. 3. For wounds. 4. For swelling. 0. In case a man with difficulty can mie. G. If a wound on a man be chilled. burst, or a strange swelling 7. If a mans head upon it.
2.
8.

Again, for the same.

If

9.

any

mans

veins

be hardened, or his meat

will not digest.

10.
11.

12. 13.

For ache of the guts, and of the inwards. In case spasmodic hiccup ail a man. For head ache.
Against the poisonous creatures called (^aXayyia,

tarantulas.
14. Again, for bite of adder.
15.
]

6.

For For

bite of

mad

hound.

bite of adder.
xci.

The herb

ruta, that is rue.

li ma
olcns.

grave

1.

In case blood flow from the nose,

2.
3.

For a puffing up. For sore of the maw.

88
4.
5.
6.

HEllBARIV^L

pi6 eajena yape ^ jeypelle. piS ofejijitulnepye.^

PicS

eajena bymnej'j'e.
lieajzob

7.

Pi^

ece.

JOepba mentafc]iu)\~
1.
pi]:>

xcii.

eapena

jpajie.

2.

pij? lipeojzlan.

IDepba ebulup f
1,

ip

peal

pyp""^.

xciii.

pij^^ pset fuinap

pip>
]^i\>

on blsebpan^ pexen.

2,
3,

nsebpan^

plite.

psetep peocnyppe.^

JDejiba pollejion
2.
3.

ip

bpeopje^ bpople.

XCIV.

piS
pi]?
pi}>

])sey

innoJ?ep sape.

psep

majan
J>8ep

pape.
'"^

4.

jicfiaii );pe]ia
pi(S

pceapa.^^

5.
6.

6pt
pi]?

mnocSep pape.
pe
J?y

p'am

pejzojie

J^jnbban ba35e

^'

ejlej?.

7.
8.
9.

Erip beab

Irip
pi]?

bopen cilb py on pifep mnoSe. hpa on pcipe plrectan J^olije.

^'^

blsebpan

^^

pape ^

]?

pranaf peejiou
hip heoptan

^^

pexen.

10. Iryp

hpa

^^

onbutan

^^

o(3Se

on hip

bpeoptan yap J^ohje. 11. Hyp hpilcum men

12.
pij>

hpamma

bejue.^'^
-j

Ssep

majan aSunbeimyppe

}^yep

mnoj^ep.

-toi-,

n.
11.

"

?;erc-, It.
bjc?;,

^
'

p 1)' minte, H. adds. cbulu j? If ellenpyjic,

i^

"
'-

H.
B.

hj.a,

m, H.
B.

'3

-bbp-^ B.
hj'a,

^
^
'*

-bb]i-, B.
-hbji-, B.
-nej-j-e,
bj'cCJ'lc,

" kii,B.
'^

B.

'"
'"

-ton, B.
-juse, B*

H.

"

hajia,

B.

CONTENTS.
4.
5. G.

:VJ

7.

For For For For

sore

and swelling of

eyes.

unconsciousness.

dimness of eyes. head ache.

[that
is,

xcii.
1.

The herb mentastruin

ears.

horsemint].

Mentha
siloestris.

2.

For sore of For leprosy.

xciii.

The herb ebulus/ that

is,

wall wort.

SamJmcus
ebulus.

L
2.
o.

In case stones wax in the bladder. For bite of snake. For water sickness, dropsy.
1.

XCIV.
2.

The herb pulegium, that

is,

dwarf dwostle.^ Mentha

pulegium.

3.
4.
5.

For sore of the inwards, For sore of the maw. For itching of the shapes,

uMola.

Again, for sore of the inwards.

G.
7.

8.
9.

For the fever which aileth on the third day. If a dead borne child be in a womans matrix. If one on shipboard suffer sea sickness. For sore of bladder, and in case stones wax
one suffer sore about
his
heart,

therein.
10. If

or

in

his

breast.
11. If
12.

spasm vex any man. For swelling of the maw, and of the inwards.

Authority, such as

it is,

reads ebuiumj hut the ebulus of the botanists

is

agreeable to the analogies*

-

Pennyroyal.

40
13. pi J;
14.
pij;

HKrvliAUlVM.

milran

ytijie.
"j

lenden^ ece
lOejiba

piS J>eona'~ yajie.

nepitamoii ^
^

ly nepte.'^

xcv.

2.

pi)?

iicebpan

ylire.

JOejiba peiicebana
3.

ly

cammoc.

xcvi.

Gyx: piS naebjian* ylire.

])i]>

4.

jepitleapte

ptep mobe]\

J>^ejiba

hiimula campana
yape.
-j

'p

yy ppepe^

pyj^^-

xcvii.

L
2.
3.

pij; blrobjuin''

pi]; toj^a PiJ?

pape

pajunje/
yi^^^
^^

penjpypmaC^

jone napolan.
ip jubbe.

J^epba cynojloppa
2.
3.

]5

xcvill.

pij) PiJ?

noebpan
]

^^

plite.
j;e

am
^^

pepopc

J;y

peop])aii

b^eje

^'^

on

man

becyme]^^^
4.

pij;

man

pell

jehypan ne masje.
p
ip punbcojin.^'^
^^

JOejiba paxipjiajiam
2.

xcviiil.

pip f

^^

ptanap on bla3bpan
ip

pexen.
eopSipij.

JOepba hebepa ni^pa p

1.

c.

Gpt

pitS

]3

^^

j'tanap
ece.

on bla3bpan pexen.

2.

pij; lieapob

'

laenben, IL; la;-, B.

jjcoua, B.

-bbji-, B. H.
-

^
'

bffis,

n.,

fol.

120, b.
120,
b.,

nejce, H.

" becynVS, B.
as V. in
fol.

II., fol.

but

-bb]i- B.
-lyfcc, B.
j^n,

126,

a.

^
'"

H.
'5

v., compendiously,

Soil.; V. B. omit the rubric,

text.

'

-bb]i-, B.

but insert in the

'^

'

Kas-,

II.

'"

jiyii-, II.

-bbji-, II. B.
j>,

ymbucan,

II.

'^

B. omits.

CONTENTS.
13.
14.

41

For sore of For ache of

1.

milt,

loins

and buttock, and

sore of thighs.
nepcta.'

xcv.
2.

The herb nepitamon, that

is,

For bite of adder.

1, 2.

XCVI.
3. 4.

The herb

Trsuxt'oavoc,

that

is,

cammock.

P-

officinale.

Again, for bite of snake.

For witlessness of the mind.

XCVII.
1.

The herb

inuhi carapana,'-^ that

is,

spear wort.

2.

3.

For sore of bladder, For sore and wagging of teeth. For tapeworms about the navel

XCVIII.
2.

The herb

jcuvoyAwcra-ov;'^

that

is,

rib;

rihwort

Pl^mtago
lanceolata.

3.

For bite of snake. For the fever which cometh on a man the fourth
In case a
XCIX.

day.
4.

man

is

not able to hear well.

is,

The herb

saxifraga, that

sundcorn.

S. (jmnulata.

2.

In case stones

wax

in the bladder.

c.

The

her!)

hedera nigra,* that

is,

earth ivy.

Gkchoma
hederacea,

1.

Again, in case stones

wax

in the bladder.

2.

For head

ache.

'

Cattaria, catsmint.

'^

Read

as apvoyXwacrov,
helix.

'

Inula helenium.

*
J

No^y H.

42
0.

HERBAllIVM.
Pi];

milran
];a3]ui^

]\a]ie.

4.

yi])

pyj^iiif^

J'lite

];e

man

fpalanjionep

nemne];.
5. G. 6j:t: pi]?

};a]ia

puiiba lacnunje.

Pi}> ]>^?et^ n3eyS}^|ilu

PiJ? ];8et^

jyale

fcmcen.

7.
S.

pij? ]5^

mseje pel jehypan. heapob ne ace pop punnan hsetan;'^

ip

man ne

pij;

!Depba pejipiUuf f heapbep ^ pape.

pi(S

opjana.^

CI.

2.
3.

6pt:

heapob

ece.
^

Ijyp lipa popbejmeb

s}^

JDepba abpinthiup*
2.
3.

'p

ip

j^epmob.

cil.

pij? Isela

'j

piS

o];]ie

pap.

pi^ jienjpypmas.^
IDepba
salpia.

cm.

1.

PiJ; 5ic]?an J?a3jia

jepceapa.^^
j'ctlep.

2.

6po

piS jicpan

J;a3p

JDepba cohanbjia
1.

]^

ip^^

ciiii.

piS penjpyjunap.^^
Pi]?
]?

2.

pip lijiijoblice cennaii

^^

inaejc.

JiDejiba pojiclaca.

CV.

Pi J? )'pyl?licne pleppan pa3p psebep.

JDejiba cejiepolia
]3

ip ceppille.^^

CVI.

Pip pc^p ma^aii pape.

}>ajia,
^^

B.

8
'

-bajjin-, B.
)iyn,

l?sec Sir,
]>

S'r,

H. n.

H.
II.

'"

-j'capa, B.

'

ji

he, II.

" Blank also in B.

'''

'
**

hjccan, B.
0]sane, B. II.

lyn,

H.
II.

csennan,
cejiuille,

B.
II.

'

hea>ob, II.

"

B.J cyjiuiUe,

CONTENTS.
eS.

43

4.

For sore of milt. For bite of the creeping things

tliat

are called

5.
C. 7. 8.

Again, for healing of those wounds.

In case the nostrils smell ill. In case a man is not able to hear well. That the head may not ache for heat of the sun.
CI.

The herb

serpyllus, that

is,

marjoram.

Orijauum
vuhjare.

L
2.
3.

For sore of head. Again, for head ache. If one be badly burnt.
Cll.

The herb

a\[//v^;ov,

that
sores.

is,

wormwood.

Artemisia abs.

2.

3.

For weals and other For tapeworms.

Ciil.

The herb
seat.

salvia.

1.

2.

For itching of the For itching of the

CIV.

virilia.

The herb

nopiavvov.

Coriandrum
sativum.

1.

2.

For tape worms. That a woman may bring forth

CV.

easily.

The herb

portulaca.
seed, gonorrhoea.

Sativa.

1.

For a strong flux of the

cvi.

The herb

cerefolium, that

is,

chervil.

Anthriscus

c.

1.

For sore of the maw.

44

HERB Alii VM.

JDej\La j'lyimbjiiuy.
]}i]>

CVll.

blsebjian pajie

-j

'

ne majje jemijan.
CVIII.

]-Dejiba

olipatpa.
-j

6]:t pr6 blfebjian~ yape

j^a^y

micjan.
cix.

JOejiba lilium
2.

]3

ij-

hlie.^

pi]? na3b]ian
\>iy

ylite.

3.

serpen.

JOejiba "cyrynialluy calaricey

2.
3.
]}i])

p yy lactcjuba.

ex.

psepa

mnopa

yajic.'^

pij)
pi];

peaptan.
lipeojrlaii.

4.

1/Dejiba
2.
3.

cajibuuy

jnluaticuy
pape.
yF^-^^*

ly ])ubu J;ifrel.

cxi.

pij? p8ey
]}i])

majan
nane

])\i

jencymay

J^e

ne
cxil.

oiibjiiube.

JOepba
2. 3.
])i])

lupmmn montanum.

pi}>

f pypmas ymb J^one naplaii f ^ cilbum f yylpt' bepije.

ly
^i\)

bepjeii.^

JDepba lact5^piba f
Pi)? ]^9ey

copn.

ex ill.

mnoSey heapbnyyye.^
lepopma p
ly lactuca.

JOejiba lacruca
2.

exiill.

piS yepopjenbe."

'

\>i^

j3

fcquircs, are omitted iu

man, which the bentencc V. B. II.

^ "
'

Sean-,

II.

B.

bt'jiijan,
t'

B.; bepien, H.

for the sake of brevity in the index.

=

siy,

H.
II. II.

-bh]i-, B.

'^

-nerve,

hhse,

II.

'

-genbne,

'

>ajia, II.

B.

CONTENTS.

4.5

CVTl. TliC lievb

o-iG-uixftgcov.

Menlhuhirsuia.

For sore of bladder, and in

OVIII.
1.

caf^c

a onan cannot mie.

Stiif/rnium

The herb

oliisatrum.

Aa^'iiii

for sore of the

bladder and of the mie.

is,

oJtisatrum,

cix.

The herb

lilinm, that

lily.

For bite of snake. For swelling.

ex.
2.
1.

The herb

rj5u>aAAoc yaXaxr/rv]?, that

is,

lacterida.^

hth^lf^

3.
4.

For sore of the inwards. For warts. For leprosy.

CXI.

The herb carduus

silvaticiis,

that

is,

wood

thistle. Cnicus
hiriceohifus.

For sore of the maw. That thou may dread no

cxii.

evil gaincomers.

The herb Inpinus montanns.

L. luteus.

In case worms abont the navel anno}^ In case that same should vex children.
cxill.
1.

The herb

lacterida, that

is,

gitli corn.~

Dafnc hmeola,

For hardness of the inwards.

1.

CXTV.

The herb

lactiica leporina, that

is,

hares

Frenanthcf; ^'"""^"

lettuce.
2.

For the fevered.

Spurge.

The

berries.

46

IIEI113AIII\^L

Dejiba cucumejiij' jnlucatica f

2.
3.

ly lipejilipette.

cxv.

pi]; })re]ia^

yma

yape

*j

potable.

Iryp

cilb

miybojien sy.
pilj:atica.

JOepba cannaue^
2.

CXVI.

pi J) J)a3pa^ bjieofua
pij; cile

pajie.

0.

bpepnettey,

JDepba puta
2. 3.
])i]>

montana

ip ]n\he.

cxvii.

catena bymnyppe. 6pt; pi5 bpeoPca j'ape.

pij> lipeji

4.
5.
6.

pape.

J)i]>

j5

man jemijan

ne mseje.

pij? nsebjian^ plite.

JOejiba eptapilon
2. PiJ>

ip peoponleape.^

CXVITI.

pot able. IDepba ocimiip

ip

miftel.

cxix.

1.

pi]; lieapob

ece.

2.
8.

6ft
pij;

piS eajena pape

*j

jeppelle.^

sobpena pajie/
JOejiba

apmm
'j

]?

ip

mepce.

cxx.

2.

])i]>

eajena pape

jefpelle.

IDepba liebejia cpypocantep f

2.

ip ipij.

cxxi.

pi J? peetep peocnyppe.

J^epba
1,
2.
Pi]?

menta
'j

ip

mmte.
lie.

cxxii.

tetep

piS
'J

pypyljenbe^
P^]^

pi];

yp^^^ ^^^^

punba.^

'

]>apa,

B.
II.

-rpel, II.

canane,
J>a])a,

Omitted in
pepel-,

11.

B.

^
1

B.

H.

-hhji-, II. B.

B. omits this line.

'*

feojan, B,

CONTENTS.
cxv. The herb cucumis silvaticus, that
2.
3.

47
is,

wlicrwliet.

For

sore of the sinews,

and

foot disease.

If a child be an abortion.
cxvi.

The herb cannabis

silvatica.

C scftiva?
J^upatorium

2.
3.

For sore of the breasts. For a burning, that is hlistering, by

CXVII.

cannahlnum
cold.

The herb ruta montana, that

is,

rue.

2.

3. 4.
5. G.

For dimness of eyes. Again for sore of breasts. For liver sore. In case a man be not able to mie. For bite of snake.
CXVIII.

The herb

svrTacpvKXov,

that

is,

seven leaf

Tormentilla.

2.

For

foot disease.

CXix. The herb

1.

ajyuf/^ov,

that

is,

mistel, basil.

2.
o.

For head ache. For sore and swelling of For sore of kidneys.

Clinopodium vulgar e.

eyes.

CXX. The herb apium, that

2.

is,

marche.

Apium petrO'
selinon ?

For sore and swelling of

eyes.

A. graveolens

cxxi.
2.

The herb hedera

;y;pu(7oxa^7ro?,

that

is,

ivy.

H.

helix.

For water
cxxii.

sickness, dropsy.

The herb mentha, that

tetter,

is,

mint.

1.
2.

Against

For

evil cuts,

and a pimply body. and for wounds.

48

IlERBARIVM.

]^e]\ba
1.

anetum f
piS yap

ly

h\\e.

cxxiii.

pi]; 3ic]?an

2.
8,

j^jiepa jepceapa.^ Jjyp ];onne pipmen hptet: fpilcep^ bepije.'^

"j

Pic5 bea}:ob

ece.

JOejiba
1.

opijanum p
bpopan
^-j

ip

ojijane.
-j

CXXHII.
nyppytte.'*

]h]} ]70iie

lipep able

2.

Pi];

jebpfeceo.'"'

lOepba pempe]\uiiuip^ f jy pinpulle.

])i]}

cxxv.

ealle

jejabepimja

J^nsp

y pel an'' pgeran.

cxxvi.

1.

IDepba peniciilup p 5'^^ pmub pip jebp^eceo^ ^ pi(5 n}'^]ip}^t.^'^

2.

pip bbebpan^^ pape.

Depba
2.

epipion p ip lyp

p}'!^"^.

cxxvii.

pip lunjen able.

IDepba pmpitup

albiip.

cxxviil.

pip pipep pleppan. ]^epba petjiopelmum p

2.

ip

peteppilie.^-

CXXIX.

pip nrebpan^^

plite.
pajie.

3.

pip p?Dpa^*

pma

JDepba bjiappica p
1.

ip

mcbbcji

pyjit.^'"'

cxxx.

pip ealle jeppell.

2.
8.

pip piban pape. pip

pot: able.

'

j;efcapa, 11.

'"

-ce,

H.
11.
II.

hpylhcef,

II.

-pet,

^
'

B. omits the
-pette,
-ce, II.
]'epumin]',
-Ic)*, II.,

line.

" -bhp-,
''"

B.

II.

tpiannem, H.
-bhji-, B.
11.
t'

>

'
"

V. B.
yf,

"I'apa,

against the lanpjnago.

;

'So

v.;

ir

caul, B. II.; cab-

V^nuenhir, V.

V. omi(P.

Ikkjc, rightly.

CONTENTS.

49

cxxiii.
1.

The herb

av>](3ov,
,

that
.

is,

dill.

Ancihum
fjntvco/ens.

2.
3.

and for sore ot the privities. If further any such thing trouble a woman. For head ache.
For
itch,

cxxiv.
1.

The herb
wrist

opsiyuvov,

that

is,

marjoram.
diseases,

O.vulgarc.

For

the

drop,

and

liver

and

oppression of the chest.

2.

For cough.
cxxv. The herb sempervivum, that
is

sinful!.^

S. (cclorimi.

For

all cratherinofs

of the evil humour.

is,

CXXVI. The herb foeniculum, that

1.

fennel.
chest.

Anefhumf.

2.

For cough, and for oppression of the For sore of bladder.

cxxvii.
1.

The herb
disease.

l^/^/a,^

that

is,

lithewort.

.fXt^'T

2.

For lung

CXXVIII.

The herb

crujX(purov

album.

(?)

For flux of woman.

cxxix. The herb
2. 3.
Trsrgoa-sXivov,

that

is,

parsle}^

Aplumpetr.

For bite of snake. For sore of the sinews,

cxxx. The herb brassica, that
is,

cole.

B. napus.

1.

2. 3.

For all swellings. For sore of side. For foot disease.

Houseleek.

Unknown.

3>

50

ITERBARIVM.

JDepba

baj-ilij'ca

ly

na>bbe]i pypt:.^

ex XX I.

PiJ? eall^ njebbeji

cyn.

lOepba manbpajopa.
2.
3.

CXXXII.

pij?
]}i])

heapob
)?8epa^

ece.

eapena pape.

4. 5.
6.

piS pot

able.

pij> jepitleafre.'*

Bpt
Ijyj:

pij?

jnna pape.^
lipylce

7.

hpa

hepje ypelnyppe^ on

hip hope'

jepeo.

IDepba lychamip Pcephamce

CXXXIII.
Pi})

f yp^

laece pypt.^

eal Nsebbep cyn.

'

JOepba action,
-j

cxxxiiii.

2. 3.

pij?

f man blob

poppm^^ ^emanj hpaece.

pij) ]?8epa^^

liSa pape.

lOepba abpotanup ^
PyJ> nyppyt^'^ jemijan mseje.^*
2. 3.
'j

ip

pu)7epne puba.^^
-j

cxxxv.
eajipoj^lice

ban ece

piS paGt

man

Pi)7 pi);

piban pape.

4. 5.
6.

attpu

-j

piS naebpena^'^

flite.

6pt
pij>

piS naebpena plite.

eajena pape.

'

H. omits
ealle,

this wort.

^^
''

pojimf, B.

2
^

B. B.

>apa, B.
II.;

]>apa,

-lyfce,

H.
II.
;

So name.
^-

V. B. omit the English

*
"
'

cosunse,
hpoje, H.
yy,

13

-pec,
II.

II.

-nej'j-e, II.

hejisnejya, B.

1'

omits the

last

clause

pitS

ban, B.
'^

^
''

V.

omits.

nsebbjian, II.;

of a snake.

H. omits two worts.

CONTENTS.

51

CXXXT. The herb

1.

^ao-ikla-xYj,

that

is,

adderwort.

For

all

adder kind.
1.

cxxxii.
2. 3. 4.
5.

The herb

fj^otvdpuyopas

mandrake.

Aimpa

m.

For head ache. For sore of the ears. For foot disease. For loss of wits.
Again, for sore of sinews.
If one see

6.

7.

some heavy mischief in

herb
Xuvv/j ^

his

home.
^^''""^^^^^^^

CXXXIIL

The

o-Ts(Z5avjx>5,
'

that

is,

leech-

coronarivm.

wort?
For
all

adder kind.

cxxxiv.
2.
3.

1.

The herb

a^^^nov}

In case a man break up blood and matter mixt. For sore of the joints.
1.

CXXXV.
2.

The herb

a/3poVavov,

that

is,

southern WOOd.^ Artenmia

ahr.

For oppression of the chest and leg ache, and in case a man mie with difficulty. 3. For sore of side. 4. For venoms and for bite of snakes.
5.

Again, for bite of snakes.

6.

For sore of

eyes.

Now
The

read as arctium lappa

true equivalent

but

j^epraob, southern

not so drawn.
2

the Lib, Med., and

wormwood, as in MS. H. gives a

was j-uj^epne

more modern phrase.

D 2

52

HERBAKIVM.
]Oejiba jnon

]3

ij-

labep.^

cxxxvi.

2.
3.

]h]> ]7aet
Ipi]}

yranaj' on blaebpan pexen.^

fryjiimjfc.'^

utpihr ^ mnoSep

JDepba eliotpopup
2.
3. 4.

ip

pijil hpeojipa.*

cxxxvir.

pi]; pi]? pi]?

ealpa na3bbe]\^ cynna plitap.

p pypmap
peapL:an7

ymb

]?one

napolan bepijen.^

JOepba
2.

fpjiepitip.^

cxxxviil.

pi]?

j^one colan pepop.

3.
4.

pi]? pasbe^
pi]?

Imnbep

plite.

milcan pape.
lOepba aizop mmoji.

cxxxix.
-j

2.
3.

pi]?

Oman ^^
heapob
]?8epa
^^

'j

eajena

]'a]ie

]:ot able.

pi]?

ece.

4.

pi]?

pyj^nia

plite

]?e

man

fpalanjionep

hate]?.^^
5.
]?e

pi]?

utpilit

"j

pi]?

inno]?ep }:leppan

^j

pi]?

pvjimap

on ]?am mnoSe
6.

bepia]?.
]?a3]ia ^^

Gpt

pi8 jehpylce untjiumnypj'e

cajena.^*

!Dejiba ellebopup albup

1.

ip

tunpm^; pypt.

CXL.

Be
Pi}?

]?yppe

pypte m^ejenum.^^
piS ealle ypelu.

2.
3.

pi]? utpihtr.

abla

'j

'

11.

omits this wort.

='

pebe, B.

3
'

peaxen, B.
-unse, B.

'"

homan, V.
haca-S, B.
]>a)ia,

" 'Sapa, B.
'-

V. omits two words.

neebbpena,
-piSe, B.
II.

'*

B.
folio
is

'

" In the index of B. a

this leeclidoni.

V. omits

wanting.
'*

"

H. omits two worts.

n. omits two

leechcrafts.

CONTENTS.

53

cxxxvi.
2.

1.

The

licrl)

a-lov,

that

is,

laver.

S. nnyustiju'

In case stones

wax

Hum.

in

tlie

bladder.

8.

For diarrhoea and disturbance of the inwards.

].

cxxxvii.
2. 3.

The herb

>jA<oTpo7riov,

that

is,

solwherf.

Scorpiurus

h.

4.

For bites of all adder kinds. In case that worms about the navel annoy. For warts.
cxxxviiT.
1.

The herb

Anagallis

spreritis.

arvcnsis ?

2.
3. 4.

Against the cold fever, ague. Against bite of wood hound,

mad

dog.

For sore of
CXXXIX.

milt.

1.

The herb

asl^aooy

[Xi>ipov.

Sempervivum
sediforme.

2.

3.
4.

For erysipelas, and sore of eyes, and fool disease. For head ache. For the bite of the insects which hight (puXuyyia.
for

For diarrhoea, and for flux of the bowels, and )rms which give trouble in the bowels. 6. For every ailment of the eyes.
5.

cx]..
1.

The herb helleborus

albus, that

is,

tunsing wort. Veratrum

Of the

virtues of this wort.

2.
3.

For diarrhoea. For diseases and

for all evils.

54

HERBARIVM.
JOejiba
1.
])i]>

buoptalmon.^

CXLI.

jelipylce jyele

rppm^af.
hclioman.

2.

pi]?

aepypblan

)?8ey

JOejiba "cjiibuluy
2.

ij"

jop^''^-

CXLII.

pi]?
pi]?

mycele
]7ae]"

hsetan
"j

J?8ej"

licliaman.^

3.

mu8ep

]?aejia

joinena

jzulnyj'ye

*j

poji-

potubnyj^jfe.*
4.
5.

pij? pi]? pij?

]5

j^'cana]'

on blsebpan pexeN.^
j'lite.

nsebpan*^

6.

attpep bpmc.

7.

PiS flean.
JDepba coniza7
CXLiii.
pitS

1.

pi]? naebjian plite

'j

micjeap
2,

piS plean

'j

aflijennypye ^ punba.
-j

jnadtcaj'

"j

3.

Pi]? pipep

cpi]?aii

to

jreopmienne

'j

piS

]?

pip

cennan ne maeje.
4.
5.

Pi]? ]?a
pi}?

colan pepopap.
ece.

heapob

JOepba tpicnop
1.

manicop f
lie.

ip

poxep

clope.^

CXLIIII.

pi]?
pi]?

oman.^

2.
3.

pypeljenbe
^^

Pi]? lieapobep

pape

"j

]?yep

majan

liaetan

-j

piS

cypnlu.
4.

pi]?

eapena pape.^^
JDerba jlycypiba.

CXLV.

1.
2.

pi]? ]?one
pi]?

bpijean pepop.
pajie
]?8ep

bpeopta
leahtpap

*j

]?8ejie

lipjie

'j

]?ae]ie

bltebjian.

3.

pi]?

mu]?ep.

'

IL omits

this wort.

mycelpe, H.; V.'s text has

my

celne.
'

V. omits two
II,

last

words.

'

omits this leechcraft.

II.

-bb]i-, n. H. omits this wort. ^ ?;lo)a, H. " homan, V. '" -]"b-, II., and omits seven words.
"
^

-bbjian ])exa'5,

"

II.

omits fom' worts.

CONTENTS.
CXLI.
^
-.^

55

The herb
.1
I

j5Q6(pQaX[j.ov,

ox

eye.

Aiukcmis
valentina.

1.

2.

ior all evil ulcers. For damage of the body.

1.

CXLII.
2.
8.

The herb

rpll^oXog,

tribulus, that

is

gorse.

^J!^-'^

For mickle heat of the body. For foulness and rottenness of the mouth and
In case stones grow in the bladder. For bite of adder. For drink of venom. Against fleas.
CXLIII.

fauces.
4.
5. 6.

7.

The herb

xovu^a,

conyza

For bite and driving off of snake, and against gnats, and midges, and fleas, and wounds. et si mulier 2, 3. Ad mulieris matricem purgandam
1.
;

parere nequit.
4.
5.

For the cold fevers, agues. For head ache.

CXLIV.
1.

The herb

arpuxvoc

[/.ocvixo^j^

that

is,

fox glove.

Di<jitalis pur-

i^or erysipelas.

2.
3.

For a pimply body. For sore of head, and heat of the maw, and For sore of
ears.
y\vx,6ppi^(x,

for

churnels.
4.

CXLV. The herb

1.

liquorice.

2.

For the dry fever. For sore of the breasts, and of the

liver,

and of

the bladder.
3.

For blotches of the mouth.

'

S. nux vomica.

50

IlEllCAllIVM.

JOejiba pputni)'.
1

CXLVI.

pij? pi];
'j

];a3t:

man jemijan
'j

ne mrejc.

2.

lipep j^eocnyppe
^

nyppytte

'j

pi];

ypyblicne

hpacan
3.

iNnoJ^ep "cojotennypj^e.

pij>

]3

ptanay on bl?ebpan pexen.

4.
0.

pi]? lipeoplan.
pi]?

ypele jejabepiinje.

JOepba aizon.
1.

CXLVII.
'j

pi]?
"j

trobopfuen
j

pape
3.

hgetan

j poppotubnyppe popbgepnebnyppe.
lie

piG

cajena

Pif> naebjian plite. ])ip utpilit

4.

^ pi6

pypmap on

innoJ>e

-j

pij?

ppyS-

licne cyle.

lOepba pampuchon
1.
j

]5
"j

ip

ellen.^

CXLVIII.
]70ep

pi]?

psetep peocnyppe

unmihtilicnyppe

mijSan

mno]?a afcyjmnje.^
2.

pi]? pi]? pi]?

pppmjap
mycele
^

'j

piS tobopfuen

lie.

3. 4.

pcoppionep ptmej.^
liaetan
-j

jeppel ]?8epa eajena.

CXLVilii.

JOepba frecap.^
2.

pi]?

]?^pa bpeopta pape.

J)5epba tliyappip.
CL.
]?yep

5T^^^ pipa monoSlican.^

2.

pi]?

ealle

jejabepunga

inno]?ep

'j

pi(S

lOepba poliop
2.

]?

ip

omnimopbia.

CLI.

Pi}?

nrobpan

plite.

'

-},

V. omits.
is

-eljie,

II.,

making the prepo-

'

V.
II.

here. burnt away.

sition
"
'

govern two cases at once.

five worts.

omits seven words.

H. omits

'

(bene, II.

no'Shcan, V.

CONTENTS.

57

CXLVT. Tlie herb

1.

a-TpouOtov.

(>yps<>f,la

strulhium.

In case a man cannot mie. 2. For liver sickness, and oppression of the chest, and strong hreaking, and effusion on the inwards.
3. 4.
5.

In case stones grow in the bladder. For leprosy.

For

evil gatherings.

CXLVir. TllC herb

1.

ae/?a;ov

orpine.

Scdum Tde-

For bursten body, and rottenness, and sore of eyes, and heat, and burn. 2. For head ache.^ 3. For bite of snake. 4. For diarrhoea, and worms in the bowels, and extreme
cold.

CXLViii.
1.

The herb

a-uix^uxoc, that

is,

elder.

S. nigra.

For water sickness and non-retinence of the mie,

stirring of the inwards.

and
2.

3.
4.

For ulcers and bursten body. For sting of scorpion. For mickle heat and swelling of the
CXLIX.

eyes.

The herb

(niy(^cic.

Lavandula
^^^^^'^-

2.

For

sore of the breasts.

CL.
1.

The herb

5Aao-7r*.

Thymus cam-

2.

For

all evil

gatherings of the inwards,

courses.

and

for

^^^^ ^^^'

womens monthly
CLi.
2.

The herb

ttoAiov,^

that

is,

omnimorbia.

For bite of snake.

'

This

article is

omitted in the table of contents, but occurs in the

text.

Unkno^yn.

58
3.

HERBARIVM.
PiJ> pi)?

psetep j'eocnyj'j^e.

4.

miltan
punba.

j-ape

-j

piS

nsebpan to aplijenne

*j

piS

mpe

JOepba hypepicon
1.

]3

yp copion.

CLII.

pi];

mijj'an

-j

monoSlican afcypmje.
]?y

2.
3.

pi]?

pepop

J?e

peop]?an bae^e
^j

ejle]?.

pi]? ]?8epa

pceancena jeppel

ece.

JDepba acanta leuca.

2.

CLiii.

pij?

f man blobe hpsGce

'j

)?aep

majan

pape.

3.
4.

Pi]? ]7p
pi]? ]?aepa

mijSan afcypunje.

5.

pij?

to6a pape "j ypele loela. hpamman -j nsebpan plite.

ip

!Depba acanton f
2.

beopypt.
j

CLiiii.

pi)? inno]?ep Pi]?

aptypunje
-j

]?aep

mijSan.

3.

lunjen able
IDepba

jehpylce ypelu.^

1.
2. 3. 4.

pi)? )?sep
piJ?
pi)?'*
pi);>

quimmon f majan pape.

-j

ip

cymen.

CLV.

nyppyt^

naebpan

plite.
'j

mnoSa toSunbennyppe

haetan.^

blobpyne op naep]?yplon.^

Bepba camiUeon alba f ip pulpep tsepl.'^ CLVi. mnoSe ymb )?one naplan 2. pi)? ]? pypmap on )?am
bejijen.
3.

pi)?

pseuep

peocnyppe

^j

)?8ep

micSan eappoSlic-

nyppe.^
^ta, H., dropping
-lu,

J^ser,
'^

H. adds.
H., and omits the latter

'
j

n.

II.

omits the latter clause.

'

H.
bejiisen,

'

-]'cc,

caej'el, II.

**

clause.
'

on )?am naj-olan
II.

H.

l^ana, 11.

adds.

"

omits words.

CONTENTS.

59

For water sickness, dro2ysy. 4. For sore of milt, and to put snakes to for new wounds.
3.

flight,

and

CLii.
1.

The herb

uTrepjxov,

that

is

xopiov.

II. coris.

2. 3.

For stirring of mie, and monthly courses. For the fever which aileth on the fourth day. For swelling and ache of the shanks.
CLIII.
1.

The herb ukuvQu

Aeuxvj.

Carduus
(jraphus,

leuco-

2.

Ill

case a

man

break blood, and for sore of the

maw.
3.
4.

For

stirring of the mie.

5.

For sore of the teeth, and evil weals. For cramp, and bite of snake.
CLiv. 1.

The herb

axavSjov,

that

is,

beewort.^

2. 3.

For stirring of the inwards and of the mie. For lung disease, and several evils.
CLV.

The herb

xuju,ivov,

that

is,

cummin.

c. cyminum.

1.

2.
3. 4.

For For For For

sore of the

maw.

oppression on the chest, and bite of snake.

swelling

up and heat of the inwards.

nostrils.

blood-running from

CLVI.
2.

The herb

;)(^ajw.ajXga;v

Xsvxos,'^

that

is,

wolfs teazel. Dipsacm

silvesLris.

In case worms in the

bowels about the

difficultv of urine.

navel

annoy.
3.

For water

sickness,

and

Figured

as

Stellaria

holostea.

yet published in the original Hellenic.

-

But cixavQiov is Cnicus erioforus, as proved by Oribasius, 407. d. in

" Medieaj Artis Principes ;" never

Carlina acaulis.

60
JOejiba

HEUBAllIVM.

]'coliiiibo]'J

CLVII.

[8e iinbjiabe
1.

J^iftcl

he

liauat: Jnylcce

hauob.]
);tey

pi]>

jzulne

fuenc

J^aepa

oxim

"j

callej^

liclio-

man.
2.

pij^ pill

fumcenbne mijSan.
JDepba
ijiip

yl^jpica.
^j

CLVlii.

2.

pi]?
])i])

micelne hpacan
iisebjian ylite.

mnoSa afcypunje.

o. 4.
5. 6.

pi]; pipa
pi];

monoSlican uo apyjujennc. cypnla -j ealle JT^^^ ^ cumlu.

pi];

heapbey pape.
]Z)epba ellebojiup albus.

CLVliii.

]7i];

lipep

yeocnypye

-j

ealle attrpu.

JOepba belpmion.
pi];

CLX.
bseje on

J7am

pepojie

];e

]>y

peop];an

man

be-

cyme];,

JDepba aciop.
2.

CLXi.

pi];

naebpena ylitap

-j

lenbena* yape.
CLXii.
'j

JOepba centimopbia.
Pi];
];

hojip

on hpycje on ];am bo^um apj^pb py

hyt; open s^^

JOejiba pcojibiop.
2,
3.
'j

CLXlii.
"j

pi];

yody

mij'^an
-j

aPuj^jiunje

pi'5

najbjiena

plirap
4.
5.

ealle

atrpu

ma^an
]7a^p

pape.

pi]; ];a

jeji^'nnmcje

pojimpep

ym

J^a

bpeofc.

pi]; pot; able.

pi];

G.

nipe punba.

'

II,

omits eight worts.

xii.

'

v] c'lo,

by hand of

xii.

century,

In a later

century hand.

'

lenbenena, V.

CONTENTS.
CLVII.

61

The
:

licrb (TKoKuii.oc.
it

Cnicns
^""/^""''^^

[The imbroad
1.

thistle

liath

a thistly head.]
of
all

For

foul stench

of the

armpits, and

the

body.
2.

For foul stinking mie.

CLViii.
1.

The herb

iris

illyrica.

2.

3. 4.
5. G.

For For For For For

mucli breaking and disturbance of bowels.

bite of snake.

womens monthly
churnels and
sore of head.
all

courses, to stir them.

evil lumps.

CLIX.

The herb helleborus

and
all poisons.

albus.

Veratrum
album.

For

liver sickness

CLX.

The herb

hx<^ivio-j

larkspur,

D.

consoiuia.

For the fever which cometh on a man the fourth

day.
CLXI.
2.

The herb

e%<ov.

-E.

ruhrum.

For

bites of snakes,

and sore of

loins.

CLXii.

The herb centimorbia.

its

Lysimackia

If a horse be hurt on
luoitnd be open.

back or shoulders, and the

CLXTII. 1.
2.

The herb

arxopdlOV.

Teurrium

For stirring of the urine, and 3. for bites of snakes, and for all poisons, and for sore of the maw. 4. For the running of matter about the breast. 5. For foot disease. 6. For new wounds.

62

HERBARIVM.

IDejiba
1.

PiJ? ysey
'j

ami f ly milumm. CLXIIII. mnoSej' aptypunje 'j eapjzoSlicnj^j'j-e

])sey

])?ef

mijSan
1.

pilbeopa riita)\

Pi]7
pi]7

pommay

lichoman.
-j

2.

aeblsecnyppe

?eliipnyppe

])?ey

lichoman.

JOepba uiola
2.

f yp ban pypt.
"j

CLXV.

pi J?
pij?

]79ep

cpiSan pape

piS ]?one hsetan.^

]?8ep

3.
4.

mipenlice^ lealitrpap

brecj^eapmef.

pi]?

cancop

]??epa

toSa.*

5.
6.

pi)7 )7a

Pi);

monoSlican to aPcypijenne. miltan Tape.

]Oepba uiola puppupea.^
CLXVi.

1.

piS nipe punbela

'j

eac piS ealbe.

2.

piS

]?gep

majan heapbnj^pe/'
zama
lentition.

JDepba
2.
3.

CLXVir.

pij?

ealle punbela.

pij?

punba cancop.
JDepba ancupa.
CLXVIII.

2.

pij?

popbaepnebnyppe^
JDepba ppilliop.
CLXViiii.

2.

pij? pi]?

cypnlu

'j
'^

ealle ypela^

jejabepunja.

3.

heapobep

pape.

IDepba cynopbatup.
2.

CLXX.

pi]?

milran pape.

'

H. omits the
mij'enb-, B.
hajia,

latter clause.

"
I

-nejje, B.

^ ^

^
i

-neffe, B.

B.
j I

^ ijrele, "

B.

on J'ani co)>an, II, H. omits six worts.

-yb-, B.

CONTENTS.

63

CLXIV.
1.

The herb

afx^yA,

that

is,

milvium.

Ainvii copti-

cum.

For

stirring of the bowels,

and

difficulty of urine,

and rents by wild beasts. 1. For blemishes of the body. 2. For paleness and discoloration of the body.
CLXV. The herb viola, that
2. 8.
is,

bonewort, pansy.

V. Ivtea.

4.
5.
6.

For For For For For

sore

and heat of the matrix.

various disorders of the anus.

canker of the teeth.

the catamenia, to
sore of milt.

move them.

CLXVI.
1.

The herb

viola purpurea.
for old.

V. odornta.

2.

For new wounds, and eke For hardness of the maw.

CLXVii.
].

The herb zamalentition.

2.
o.

For all wounds. For cancer of wounds.

CLXVIII.

The herb

otyxoua-a.

Anchusa
toria.

tinc-

2.

For a bad burn.

CLXix. The herb ^Cxkiov.

Plantago
livm.

psi/l-

2.
3.

For churnels, and For sore of head.

all evil

gatherings.

CLXX. The herb Kwog

2.

(Suroc.

JRosa canina.

For sore of

milt.

G4

IIERBARIVM.

IDejiba ajlaojionp
2.

CLXXI.
-j

pi); J7one jrepop }?e j^jiibban ba^je J>y

J;}'

peojij^an

on

man
3. 4.

becymeS.^
~

Eij: lipa hjieolmyj^ye

pi);

on jiepytue

J^olije.

lipamman

"j

pi];

bijzunje.

j^ejiba cappajiif
1,

];

ij'

pubu benb.^

CLXXTI.

Pi);

mi Iran

pajie.

Dejiba ejiynjiu]'.^
2.
]>iB\'

CLXXIII.
])icS

pi);

y^y mijcSan aPc^^punje ^

lealitjiap );ep

]>a

irionoSbcan

*j

inno];ep aprypiinje.

5.
4.

PiS mssnijpealbe
pi); ];?ejui^ pi); ]'co]ipioaep

inno);ej\'''

bjieopta jeppell.

5.
j

Tuynj

-j

ealjui

na^bbejicynna plrcnp

pi(5

pebe Imiibep
pi);

flite.
picS

G.

Oman

*j

yoc able.
CLXXiiii,
]?nopa*'

Dejiba philantpopop.
2. pi);

n?ebpena^ plitap
eajiena pape.

'j

pi'S

pypma

]>e

man

j'palanjionep hare];.
3.

Ipip

]Oe]iba achillea.
2.

CLXXV.

pi);

nipe punba.

3.

Irip pip op

Sam

jecynbelican

'-^

limon );one

jileppin

);a)p pferan Solije.

4.

pi6 nrpihr.
IDejiba jucmuy.

CLXXVI.

])\]>

hajol

-j

piS lijieohnyppe to apenbenne.'^

'

becymtl, B.
-nerre, B.
beb,
II.

" J?a]aa,
'

B.

-bb]\-, B.
K^i^a,

3 ^ ^

H.
'

B.

omits five

^volts.
"

inn()l>i')'

has the terminalion in

'"

-hcon, B.
-])aenb-,

short,

V.

CONTENTS.

65

CLXXI. The herb ayXuofc^rls. ' '

I

^r'"^officinalis.
the third

2.

For the fever which cometh on a

man

day,
3.

and the

fourth.

If one suffer rough weather in rowing.

4.

For cramps and quivering. CLXXIL The herb

^ocirTrapK,'

that

is,

wood

bind.

^elZm'cmd
"''^'^^''"

For

sore of milt.

CLXXIII.
2.

The herb

y)p6yyiov.
'I
'

Eryngivm
campesire and
^''''^"''-

'

For stirring of the mie, and for the catamenia,

stirrino* of

and
o.

the bowels.

For manifold disorders of the inwards. 4. For swelling of the breasts. 5. For sting of scorpion, and bites of all snakes, and for bite of mad dog. 6. For erysipelas, and for foot disease.
CLXXIV. The herb
2.

sorts

of

(piXuv^pcoTroc.

GaVmm
ap (trine.

For

bites of adders

and of the

insects

which are

hight
3.

i^uXoiyyia,.

For sore of

ears.

CLXXV. The herb 'kx^Wslu, yarrotu.

2.

A.

millefolium.

For new wounds.

Si de naturalibus

3.

fluxum humoris mulier

patitur.

4.

For diarrhoea.
CLXXVI. The herb ricinus.
Tt.commvuis.

For hail and rough weather, to avert them.

C. spinosa.

66

HERBARIVM.

Depba polloten f yy pojipum nijpum.

2.
3.

CLXXVII.

piJ7 pi]?

hunbep^
punba.

plite.

Depba uptica f
1.

ly netele.

CLXXVITI.

pij> jzopcillebe

punba.

2.
3. 4.
5.
6.

pi8

jeppell.

Jjryj: ^

semj

bsel ]?fep

liclioman

jeplejon

y}''-

pij? ly)?a pape. pi)7

pule punbe

'j

poppotube.

Pi)? pipep flepyan.'^ Pi)? )?8et

7.

Su

cile

ne

)?oli5e.

JDejiba ppiapipci

ip

uicappuica7

CLXXViiii.

PiS beopul yeocnyy ya -j pi6 nsebpan ^ -j piS pilbeop piS jehpylce beliatu 'j piS aiiban 'j piS attpu 'j

piS
*j

ojan

'j

)?u

jipe hsebbe

-j

piS

]?u

^eyseli^

beo

jecpeme.
JOepba litofpepimoii.^
2.

CLXXX.

piS ^ ycanay on blaebbpan pexen.

JOepba ytaiuy ajpia.

CLXXXI.
lichoman.^^

2.

pi)? )?one
pi)?

ypelan psetan
-j

"peey

3. 4.

ycjmy

piS yceab.^^
'j

piS toSa yape

toS peomena.
CLXXXII.

JOepba jopjoncon.
2.

pi]?

jehpylce yyele yotypaSu.

'

hunbe, V.
omits two leechcrafts.

"
^

flepfan,

V.
V.
B., shorthand,

2 II.
^
'
'^

for pejj,

-ham-, B.
-sen, B.

**

-bbp~, B.

'

jmnba, B.

pjjj

jnmbe,

II.,

and
'"

V. omits

this wort.

its

table of contents ends here, per-

hom, v.; haman, B.

haps imperfect.

" fcajb, B,

CONTENTS.

67
in,

CLXXVIT.
2.

1.

The herb

(3u\Xmty),^ tliat

porrum nigrum.

Milium niyrum.

3.

For bite of hound. For wounds.

CLXXViii.

The herb

vrtica, that

is,

nettle.

V. urens.

1.

2. 3.

4.
5. 6.

7.

For chilled wounds. For swelling. If any part of the body have been For sore of joints. For foul and rotten wounds. For a womans flux. That you may not suffer by cold.
is,

struck.

CLXXIX. The herb priapiscus, that

vinca pervinca.

V. maior.

For devil sickness, and snakes, and wild beasts, and poisons, and any vows and spite and awe, and to have grace, and to be happy and comfortable.

CLXXX. The herb

2.

\iSo(T7rspi/.ov.

L.

officinale.

In case stones

wax

in the bladder.

CLXXXI. The herb

2.
3.

(rTu(fig

kyploc.

Delfinium
stafis agria

For the

evil

humour

of the body.

Against scurf and scab.

4.

For sore of teeth and gums.

CLXXXII. The herb yopymov.

2.

For any

evil foot track.

Ballota nigra.

E 2

GS

nEIlBArvTVM.

lOejiba miloti]\
1. 2.

CLXXXiii.

pi]?

pi]7

eajena bymnyj^pe. pma tojunje.

JDepba bulbuy.
CLXXXiiir.

2.

pi)7 jej^pel

picS

potable

*j

picS

jehpylce jebejieb-

neppe.^
3.
8.

piS
pi)?

paeteji peocneppe.

liunba

plitap

^j

piS

J^set

man

ppsete

-j

piS

];8ep
4.
o.

m'ajan pape.
pi]?

punbela

-j

pcuppe

'j

nebcopne.
^
"j

PiJ? };9epa^

inno]?a

coSunbennyppe

to bojipten-

nyj^pe.

JDepba colocyntliip ajjna

2.

j3

ip

cucupbita.

CLXXXV.

pi5 innoJ>ep

Cu^^puiije.'^

'

Sebepebne
bajia,

ye,

V.

sebjieceb-

nejre, B.
-

B.

}>unbennej')*e,
afci,

B.
of the word
scrawls

B.

tlie rest

have been erased, and the pumice Of the has reached this word. scribbler there remains abed, c-tc, and falue maunb a frere wacer be breomiobe cente cmcquance milleef.

T\ot visible.

Some marginal

CO]S TENTS.

GO
Mdiintus
ojjicirialis ?

CLXXXTTL The herb

1.

milotis.

2.

For dimness of eyes. For tugging of sinews.

CLXXXIV. The herb ^oK^o:.
Dhscoiea
alula ?

2.

For swelling, and

foot

disease,

and

all

annoyin case

ance.

For water sickness, bites of hounds, and a man sweat, and for sore of the maw.
3.

4.
5.

For w^ounds, and scurf, and granules on the For puffing and bursting of tlie inwards.

face.

CLXXXV. The herb

2.

KoXoycvvQ]g

aypluy

that

is,

cucurbita. Cucumis

col

For stirring of the inwards.

70

HERBARIVM

[A FIGURE OF BeTONICA OFFICINALIS.]

Deos pyRT ]7e man on cenneb on msebum

I.
*j

betonicam nemne5 heo

clsenuin
^

hi]?

bunlanbum
liyne

"j

on
piS
*j

jefpij^ebum.

ptopum
hip

peo beah jehpaej^ep je

hio^
pi6

]>sey

man-

nep

paple

je

lichoman'*
-j

pcylbe]?

unhypum niht^enjum
fpepnum
111 ^

ejeplicum^
baliju

jepiliSum
-j

-^

*j

peo p^^pt

by)?

ITJ}'^

J^up

J>u

niman on a^uptep monSe butan ^^ ipepne jenumene ^^ hsebbe ahpype ^^ )7a mol'j )?onne fn hi ^^ ^^ on ne clypie ^^ ban ^^ op ^ hype nanpiht 'j )7onne bpi5 hi on pceabe ^^ fpyp'e )?eaple ^^ 'j mib pypttpuman mib ealle jepypc to bupte bpuc hype jjonne -^^ hype bypij ]?onne 6u bej>uppe. j Irip niannep heapob tobpocen py ^^ jenim )7a ^^ ylcan pyptre betonican pceappa hy )?onne ^^ *j jnib fp5']?e pmale to bufue jenim J^onne ^^ tpeja tpymeppa pseje ^^
fcealo

^'^

jTije ^^

on hatum be ope |?onne f heapob fpySe hpaSe septep )?am bpmce.^^

hit
)7onne
^^

halaS

'

O.

fol.

34

b.

=5
'

also.
'

The Latin
O.

^ sen^yhebu, B. ^ clsenum, B. b. omits a line. " opacis " has been misread or misunderstood ; \>af, O.

-ham-, O.
hif,

)>eo,

O.

"

ibuton,B.
'^

-lice, O. " genuman, O.

'

fpefenu, 0.

!=

hulisu,

V.
B.

>"^ahpyra,B.
>'

molba, O.
j-cabe,

"
'*'

jnht, O. omits.
]>eaclice,

cliuiSe, 0.

^^

>anne, O.
"^

big, O.
-'

^^

O.

^^

t>anne, O., omitting three words.

-'
'^^

fig,

O.

)>eor

p.,

O.
'^^

^^

)>anne, O.

l^anue, O.

sej^ese, O.
|>an brence,

-^

bpj^nce, B.; )>ese,

O.

t>anne, O.

l^anne,

0.

^"

O.

APVLEII.

71

The only Saxon MS. which contains the figure, MS, V., has lost a portion of it by decay, hut there has been a sufficient representation of the plant.

BeTONY.
1.^

I.

Betonica
cinalis,

offi-

JBot.

produced in meadows, and on clean downlands, and in shady places it is good whether for the mans soul or for his shields him against monstrous nocturnal it body
is

This wort, which

named

betony,

is

and against frightful visions and dream.s and the wort is very wholesome, and thus thou shalt gather it, in the month of August without {use of) and when thou have gathered it, shake the iron mold, tillb nought of it cleave thereon, and then dry it in the shade very thoroughly, and with its roots altogether reduce it to dust; then use it, and taste of it when thou needest. 2. If a mans head be broken, take the same wort betony, scrape it then and rub it very small to dust, then take by two drachms weight, and swallow it^ in hot beer, then the head healeth very quickly after the
visitors
;
:

drink.

The
])agt,

figures

in

MSS. V. and A.
o]? f^et, is

are

intended for the

plant.
^
it

in the sense of

very
jjset.

common

but perhaps

had been intended

^

to give op- of

buft

is

neuter.

72
PiS eajena )a)\ tjiuman yeo5^ on
piTBtejie
^

HERBARIVM

jemm
pajtejie

)7?e]\e"

ylcan

pyp"^^

PyP"^"

to J^jubban

baele

'j

op ]?am

be]?a
*j

J^a

eaja

*^
'j

pypte leap
Pi(S

bpyc

hy^

^ jemm J?3p3e^ yyljran'^ leje opep ]>a^^ eajan on

j7one anbplatan.

eapena pap ^enim ]?onne^^ lieo jpenofc ^* beo

pos
j^^
*j

]?8epe^^

ylcan

pyj\te^^

leap

pij7]7an

hyt

pyl^^ on p^etepe^^ ^ PP'^^S f ^eptanben^'' beo bo hit ept peapm^^

)?upli pulle bjiype^^

on f eape.

pi^ ejena^^ bymnej-j-e jenim ])dd]\e^^ ylcan pypte betonican anpe tjiemesse pseje -j pyl on pa?te]ie *j fyle hjimcan^^ pseptendum ^^ ponne^^ jepana^ liiu pone^^ bael
fsep blobep 'Se^^ peo bj^mnys'^^ op Gym's.

Pi^ typenbe eajan^^ jenim pa ylcan pypte betonican -j pyle pijccean^^ heo^^ jejoba^ -j onliht psejia^^ eajena^^ pceappnyffe.^*
PiJ)

ppyplicne^^

blobpyne^^ op
'j

nosiim
^^

ylcan
pcBpto'*^

pypte betonican

cniica
*^
-j

pumne
ppa

bael ^^

pealtep

jenim pa^*^ hy ^^ 'j jeinenj ^^ jenim ponne ^^ ppa

^'^

J?u mseje mib p5^pc hit fmepealt ^ bo on pip to^ece jenim pa pyl on ealban pme oppe ^^

my eel

tpam"*^

pmjpmn
pypte ^^

jeniman'*^

pa n?eppypki.^^
ylcan

betonican

-]

hit hselp

on ecebe to ppibban ba^le punbuplice^^ poepa^^ to^a pap^^ ^ jeppell.

pape^^

^^

pip

piban

jenim

psepe

^^

ylcan ^^

pyjite

^^

ppeopa^^ tpymessa pseje* peo^ on ealbum ^^pme

'j

jnib

'

for,

O.

2 ]>a]ie,

B.
^

>eof j'yrc j'serrruman, O.

"

'

"j,
''

B. O. add;

B. omits seven words.

b|iyc, B.; hyr, O.
3
'*

easan, B. O.

hajie,

B.

().

y.,

O. omits.
yyrt, O.

MiiK, O.
'*'

""San,
'^ j'el,

().
"^

" ^ajie, B. O.
pac-, O.
'

'-

]>anne, O.

" Sjion-, B.
~i

O.
'^"

l?ec
-'

ftonben, O.

pyrman, O.
\>a]^e,

mib, O.
-'

brupe, O.
-^ ^

ea?;ena, B. O.
-"

"
2'
^'

B.

-^

-cen, O.
-'^

-tmben, O.
-'^

haune, 0.

honne, O.

jteo for Se,

O.

-nej-,
='-

B.
3

ea^ene, O.

J>icsan, B.; hijean,

"'*

O.

heo SeSobaS, B.
^5

]>ajia,

B.; O. omits.
nine,
().
^'

"

esenan, O.
/

-nen'e,
)).,

B. O.
''''

rjMlcnc, B.
'"

nofa

O.

="
'-

heoP
^aji,

().

cnoca, B.

hig,

13. (J.

" scmseng, B.; mens, O.

B. O.

APVLEll.

73

o.

For sore of

eyes, tcake tlie roots of the

same wort,

Betonv,

seethe

them

in water to the

third part, {evaporating

of the ivater), and with the water bathe the eyes, and take leaves of the same wort and bruise tliem and lay them over the eyes upon the face.
tiuo thirds
4.

For sore of
it

ears,
:

when

greenest be

take leaves of the same wort boil in water and wring the
it

wash, and

when

it

be stood, make
it

a.gain

warm and

by means
5.

of wool drip

on the

ear.

For dimness of eyes, take of this same root betony, by weight of one drachm, and give (the patient) to drink fasting, then it * {the remedy) diminishes the part of the blood from which the dimness cometh. G. For blear eyes, take the same wort betony, and give {the patient) to swallow, it will do good, and
will clear the sharpness of the eyes.

For extreme flow of blood from the nostrils, take the same wort betony, and knock (pound) it and mix thereto some portion of salt, and take then as mucli as thou mayest take up in two fingers, work it to roundness, and put it in the nostrils.
7.

8.

boil

For tooth ache, take the same wort betony, and it (doivn) in old wine or in vinegar to the third
wonderfully heal the soreness of the teeth
the swelling.

part, it will

and
9.

same wort by weight of three drachms, seethe in old wine, and rub down
sore of side, take of the

For

Since pyjic

is

feminine, hit

may be

conveniently referred

to the action.

bal,

O.

^* feltref,

O.

''

>anne, O.
^'

'

cj)a fingre,
^"

O.
^^

^'

s.,

O. omits.
^'

'^noy-, B.;

-hyrle, O.
-lica,
^'

ryrc,

O.

otS^er,

O.
for,

bale.

O. O.

^--bop-, B. O.;
'^'^

O.

^M'apa, B. O.
^^

O.
^^

"fore,
)>reo,

}>are,

O.

y-,

O. omits.

j'yrr,

0.

O.

-ban,

13.

O.

74
^sepro^ xxvii.

HERBARIVM
pipop copn^ jebpmc
bpsebena
pyll
hij*

)70iine

on niht
ylcan

niftij ppeo full fulle.

^pij;

IsenbeD

pape

jenim

J78epa*

betonican
3111b

)7peopa

to

pomne

tpymeppa pseje xvii, pipop copn on ealbum^ pine pyle him ppa

peapm on niht niftij )?peo jzull jzulle. piS pambe pape*^ jenim J^sepe'^ ylcan pypte tpe^a^ t]i}'inessa^ yee'^e pyl^^ on psetepe syle hyt )7onne him peapm bpmcan Sonne ^^ biS J>8ep^^ mnoSep^^ pap pet

tenbe^*
Irip

*j

li^i^enbe f hit pona ngenij laS ne bi6.

mannep
j^yp"^^

ylcan

mnoS to ^^ peapmum

jiaept^^

py anbypje^^ J^ap psetepe on niht niptij

J/onne^"^
])ip

bi5 pe
);on

6e

man hal on men blob

];peopa nihte pyppte.^^

npppealle^^

J>uph
^^ ^^

hip

muS
-j

^enim

];8epe-^ y^^^i^ Pyp*^^ }>peopa^^

tpymeppa
Sonne

pseje^^

cole jate^*

meolc

]?peo jzulP^ jiulle*

biS he fpype

paSe hal. Eip man nelle beon bpuncen^^ nime ponne sepept^

onbyp^e betonican fepe^^ PJP''^^Iiip men pylle Tppinj on ^epittan^^ ^enime ponne'^^ anep tpymepep jepseje**^^ cnucije'^^ pi'6 ealb'^"* pmeopu^^ lecje on Sone'^^ ptebe ]?e pe pppmj on jepittan polbe

J^onne^^ by); hit pona^^ hal.

Iiip
O. condenses,

j-gp

jebpocen oJ?J;e him pe^^ lichoma ^y jenime )?onne betonican paepe^^ pyp'^e peopep

mon py mnan

'

Jjaji,

B.

'^

cojm, V., but u added by a captious reader

so,

a genitive
iii.

plural

was wanted, and

O.
'

copna, B.
line.

See three lines lower,

^

yul,

B.
^

So below.
B.

omits the

O.
'

omits

the paragraph.
^

J>ape,

-ban, B.
O.
'^

for,

O.
j.

]>a]ie,
It

B.

rpe^pa, B.
'^

='

tp-, drachma. Apul.

'^ \>Sif,

'" pill,

B.;

o. y.
'

brmcan hic pearm, O.

faft,

" hane, O.

-)>af,

O.
j^e

fencenbe, O.

O.

'"on-, B.; bnca, 0., for brinca:

brica
''

yyiT j;efobe on perma petsera

'

on
2"
2>

mh
|>ape,

nichfis, O., carelessly.

>ane, O.

-fca, O.
;

'

>ur, O.

B. ; a few
22

letters in

V. have been eaten away

^^ J'sege,

g.

)>eor pyrr,
-^

O.
yul,

B.,

Keo, C). and so

cyrmefa, O.
^e

B.

2'

c61e ^ace, B.
^9

often.

jj^np^

27

_can, O.

^^

aryfe, O.

|,ape,

B.

APVLEII.

75
Betony.

and add
it

thereto

twenty-seven pepper-corns, drink of

then at night fasting, three cups full. 10. For sore of loins, take of the same betony, by

weight of three drachms, rub together {with it) seventeen pepper- corns, boil in old wine, give to him (the patient) warm at night fasting, three cups full.

For sore of wamb {belli/), take of the same wort by three drachms weight, boil in water, then give it him warm to drink, then will the sore of the inwards be settling (abating) and growing lithe (gentle), so that soon it will be no loath (annoyance). 12. If a mans inwards be too fast (costive), let him then taste this same wort in warm water fasting
11.
;

the

man

will be hole (whole) in three nights space.

In case that to a man blood well up through his mouth, take of the same wort by three drachms weight and cool ^ goats milk, three cups full then will he be very soon hole (ivhole). 14. If a man will not to be drunk, let him take erst,^ and taste of betony the wort. 15. If on a man a spring (a pustule) will settle, let him take then by weight of one drachm; let him knock ("pound) it with old lard ^ let him lay it on the stead (place) on which the spring {pustule) would settle then will it<^ soon be well. 16. If a man be inwardly broken, or to him his body be sore, let him take then of betony the wort
18.
;
;
;

^
^

The Latin of 1528 has recentis, also cyathos, Before he sets to drinking.

p.

This was sold in the apothecaries shops at the time. pit may refer to the mascuhne rpjim^, see St. Marharete, 89, or be a kind of impersonal construction.

-rce.-'

O,

=*!

l^ane,

O.
^

^^

ge, B. omits.
^7

^^

cnoc- B.
ss

si

^^^^

35
^"^

j-mejia,
J)e,

B. ; fmeru, O,
'"

>an, 0.

y^^^^

)^q^^^ f^^, ^,^^^^

q q

O.

i>a]ie,

B.

76
tpymefr'T-n
J^onne^
liclioma.^

llERBARIVM
jepgeje
pyll^
nij^cij

on

pine

rpyj^e

bjiince

on

mlit

Jonne^
o])])e

leolitaS

liim

yc

on miclum janjiim jeteopab^ nime J?onne betonican )7aepe'^ PYP"^^' people ane tpymessan pnlle yeob on jejppetrum pme^ bjunce J/^onne^ on niht: niPcij^'^ J^peo jrull ]:ulle J;onne bi5 lie yona unpepij.
Jjiy

mon on

m5^celpe

pabe

'^

riip
O. condenses,

man yy innan
^"^

iinlial

o}pe^^

hyne platije^-

^enim^^ Su betonican ]?sepe^^ Pyp"^^ "^P^^ ""^P}'" liumjey anpe ynbyan ^epreje 'j meyyan jepoeje
poiine
pylle jponne^^ on beope ypyj'e peaple bpmce^^ Speo
yulle on^^
}iil

mhr

niytij

]?onne^^ puma'S^^

him yona ye
jemyltc-^

mnaS.^^
Irip ]?u^^ Sonne^^ pyll^

^m mete

ea'Selice

ponne betonican paepe pypte~^]7peo tpymeyyan jepgeje -j hunijey ane ynbyan yeob ]7onne^^ }-a pyjite-^ oS f heo heapbije '^^ bpmc hy^^ J>onne^^ on poetepe^^
tpa pull
Pi]?

jemm

yulle.
l:e

O. condenses,

mete jehabban 'j lie he hyne jeSijebne^^ hsebbe ^enim ]7onne fpipe'^^ Sonne ilil. tpymeyan jepseje '^^ -j betonican peepe pypte apylleb huni^ ^^^ PyP^ J^onne^^ lytle poylmjay yeopep ete J^onne^^ senne *j renne on hatum psetejie^^ )78ep^^ oy on pme to yomne jeSicje Sonne ^^ jysey p^etan*^ ]7peo j
Son^^
hiy
'^^

man ne m^eje

yull yulle.

mnofiey yape*^** oSSe^^ jiy he apunben^^ s}' betonican ]m pypf*^ jmb on pme fyy^e yniale jenim

PiS

'

j'elle,

O.

2 j,jine,

O.

nih, O.

-hama, B. O.
]Mne, B.
j,r,na
'^

"

jmjiSe,

' -to-, B. B. > " o'5er, 0. nihrciK, V. '" J>ane, O. Kej'age, O.

'"'

hajie,
'^
'^

B.
_^^^^

|>6nne,
'*

B.

i3

nime, O.
on,

>ajie, B.
'"

brinca, O.
;

a, O., for

]>ane,

0.

^^

-meS, O.

2'

innoS, B.
-'

dac

Ino"??,

O.

See
^^

St. ]\f arharete )>e

meiben "t martyr, " 2-mul-, O.

2

p. 89.

Ini,

V. omits.
O.
^'

^onne, O. omits.
-'
=*-

J>ape, B.; s. b. haj'irc,

"

Kme, O.

yyvz, O.

hcajib-, B.

''">

his, B. O.

^" l^aii,

O.

y^c-, U.

forj^ac,

U.

APVLEII.

77
it

by

woiglit

four

draclims

boil

in

wine

much

Ef.toxt.
^^'^'

then drink at night fasting; then the body Cfrows lioht for him. 17. If a man become tired in mickle riding or in mickle goings (walking s), let him take then of betony
let liini

seethe it in sweetened wort one full drachm wine; let him then drink at night fasting, three cups^ full; then will he be soon un weary.

the

be inwardly unhole (out of health), or have nausea, then take thou of betony the wort two drachms by weight, and of honey by weight of one let him boil then in beer very thoroughly ounce then the drink three cups full at night fasting
18. If a
; ;
;

man

inwards soon
19.

.q^et

clear for him.

thou will that thy meat easily melt (digest), take then of betony the wort three drachms by w^eight, and of honey one ounce seethe then the wort till it harden drink them then in water two
If then
; ;

cups
20.

full.

In case that one may not have (^retaiii) his meat, and he spew it up, when he have swallowed drachms by weight, it, take of betony the wort four and boiled honey, work (form) then four little pills thereof; let him eat then one, and swallow one in hot then of the wet (liquid) water and wine together
;

three cups
21.

full.

For sore of inwards, or if he (the sick man) be rub it in wine very swollen, take betony the wort
;

Cjathos, ed. 1528.

33 fpijie, 3s

B.

3'

|>an,

O.
B, O.
*^

^-^

SeMs- B.
^"

^fi

gep^se, B.

^^ "^

hu- B.
]>an,

}>an,

O.

^3 hail,

J>an,

O.

-era, O.
^

O.

"
"

pjttcan,

B.; paece,

for,

O.

"

oS-Ser, O.

a>uu-, B.

vpptr. so

V. B.

78
leje
J>onne^

HERBARIVM
abutan^
)7a

pambe
to bote.

'j

J^y^e

hy.^ J>onne*

eac hjiaSe^ cyme}>'^

J^set

Irip'^

]7onne
J^aepe^

bpylc

man

attoji

jej'ycje

jenime^
bpmce^^
jenime^'^

Sonne
'j

ylcan pypte )?peo tpymeppan jepseje*^^

-j

puUe pmep pylle to pomne Jjonne^^ appipeS he p attop.

peopep puP^
Irip
]??epe^^

hpylcne^^

man
llli.

nsebpe^^

to

plite^^

on pme jnib ppyj^e pmale bo ]?onne^^ 5ehp8eJ?ep^^ je on Sa 'j punbe^^ leje ^ eac bjimc ppyf'e )7eaple Sonne ^^ meaht^* Su aejhpylcepe nsebpan^^ plite ppa jehselan.^^ 6pt piS nsebpan plite jenim |?epe^^ y^^^^ PyP"^ ane^ tjrymepan jepaeje^^ jecnib^^ on peab^^ ptn jebo J?onne fet J?8ep pmep pyn^^ ]?peo pnl pulle pmype^^ Sonne ^* mib |?am pyptum^^ Sa punbe^^ "j mib^'' ]?y pme ];onne^ byS hio^^ pona lial. PiS pebe^^ hunbep plite jenim betonican Sa pypte jecnuca^^ hy ppy}>e smale "j leje on ]pa punbe.'*^
pypte

'^^

tpymepan

jepseje

pyll

Eip
O. omits words,

]7e

Sm

)?potu
J>a

hpylc

bsdl

jenim

pmale pypc to cly)?an clsenpaS heo hit sejhpaep^^ je innan ^e utan.^^

py oSSe^^ )?inep fpypan^^ ilcan pypte 'j jecnuca*^ fpj^Se*^ '^^ leje on J70ne*^ fpypan Sonne
Tap

PiS laenbena ^^ pape -j jip men ^^ hip Seoh acen jenim )?8ejie^^ ylcan pypte tpejpa^^ tpymepa^^ jepseje

pill

on beope pile him bpmcan.^^ Dip he Sonne py pebjii^ 'j he py mycelpe haetan^^ Spopienbe^^ fyle Sonne ]?a pypte on peapmum paetepie
J

J>an,

O.

2
^

_toii^

B.
m., 0.

hig,
^
:

B.
O.

Hn, O.
^

'
]?.

pae, B.
pyre, O.
)>an,
'^

**

cumej>, O.
5e, O. omits.
h.,

G.

am
"

mm,
>

>ape, B. O.
brican, O.

'^

pil,

O. omits
^o

error,
Ilite,
^i

'^

O-

"
^

omits.

'5_^bjie, B.
'^

B.; llite^, O.
^e^ar, O., either.

'"

gemm, O.
22

t>are,

O.

pyrt, O.
-^

jj^n^
2'

o.

_^a, O.,

also condenses.

J>an,
;

O.

mihc, 0.
-*

"
='"

-bbji-, B.,

and so com;

^' l^ajie, B. O. -hal-, O. nab-, O. monly, but not always -^ -page, O. segnib, B. O. 28^ne^B.; anne, 0. O.

>. pyre,
^^

jie&b^

APVLEII.

79
^'^^'^'

small;

let

and let cometh to boot {cimends). 22. If then any man swallow poison, let him then take of the same wort three drachms by weight, and four cups full of wine let him boil them together and drink then he will spew up the poison. 23. If an adder wound any man, let him take of the wort four drachms by weight boil them in wine, and rub them very small; do then either (both), lay them on the wound, and also drink very largely; then mayest thou so heal the bite of any adder. 24. Again for bite of adder, take of this same wort one drachm by weight rub it into red wine contrive then that there be of the wine three cups full smear then the wound with the worts and with the wine
;
; ; ;
;

him lay it then about the wamb (belly), him swallow it; then also rathe {soon) it

wound) be soon hole (whole). 25. For the bite of a wood (mad) hound, take betony the wort; knock (pound) it very small, and
then will
it

(the

lay

on the wound. 26. If for thee thy throat be sore, or any part of thy swere (neck), take the same wort and knock (pound) it very small work it to a poultice lay it on the swere then it will cleanse it, both within and
it
;
;

without.

and if a mans thighs ache, take of the same wort by weight of two drachms give to him to drink. boil in beer 28. If he (the pitient) then be feverish, and if he be throing (in throes) by mickle heat, give him then
27.

For

sore

of loins,

B.
33

nbe, O.
O.

^^

jynbjaiS, B.;
35 j,a
''

fi,

0.,

and omits >on,

^s

^3 ^'
*'

fmepa, B.

fmira, O.
)?an,

^^han, O.
3'

pyrte, O.

p^nba, O.

mib H, O.
-cnoca, B.
b.

heo, B.

pobe, O., and condenses.

^*

*2

puba, O.

^3 o'StJer,

O.
O.

Tpypan, B.;
^^ cli-Se,
^^

J>ine fpyra, 0.,

*

omitting hp.
"

Secnoca, B.
*<>

Ppy^a, O.

pi-S

mne
*

ge

pib utan,

O. lenbena, V.

|>ane,
^2

0.

seghpaji, B.
^^

manna, 0.
-^^

hflTer

pyrt, O.

^^cpesa, V. 0.

^^crymefan, O.

-ca, O.

" haecan,

B.

-Senbe, B.

80

TIEREARI\rM

na
j

liBy

on

beojie

-^

Sonne

jobiaS pa^pa

lenbena^

j^aji

J>iBjia'^

tSeona"* fp}^Se lipseSe.^

PiJ;
0)7

potable
J78ep

jenim
psetejiey
J?a

J^a

ylcan

pypte

seocS

on

psetejie

fet
'^

sy
'j

Spibban

b?el

on
*j

bipoben^
pteji

cnuca

Sonne

pypte

leje on pa pet

fmipe
set

mib

"j

bpmc f pop

J?onne pinbept

Su

J>a?]i

bote

-j

elteope^^ bselo.

Psejbpsebe.^^
Irip

11.

mannep

lieapob

sece^^ oSSe^^
*j

pap py

jenime^*
fpypan*^^

pejbjiiBban^^

pyptpalan
]5

bmbe^^
paji~^

liim

on

bonne ^ jepiteS^^
Ijip

pap"^^ op pam'^^

heapbe.^^

men

liip

pamb

py

^enime

pejbpaeban

peap^^ fepe p5pte ^ebo p hio^'^ blacu py 'j ]>y^e by^^ Sonne^^ mib micelpe^ platunje^^ jepitep ^ pap on pej
jip

hyt ponne^^ sy
^*

pset

pio^^

pamb
*j

py^^

apunbeno^^

pceappa bonne

pa pypte Sonne ^^ popbpmeS heo pona.

^^

leje^^

on pa

pambe

peap^ bo on pumep cynnep calb picje hyu ppySe ponne *j -j^^ batap he inne peapb clsenpaS pone magan *j pa pmsel pypmap ppype punbjium pell.
PiS
p3ep

mnoSep sape jenim

.^^

pejbjiseban

Gpf*^ piS pon

pe

man on

pambe"*^ pojipeaxen*^^ py

'

beojie, B.

-'

l>a]ia
'

Isenfe-,

B. B.

)>ajia,

B.

'

heona, B.

patSe,

B.

be, B.

cnoca, B. This
selraepe,

manner of writing throughout.

"

" )jaji,

B.

" Jjaji,

B.
O.

"*

The

spaces in B.

left for

the drawings have the

''
-'"

names
='

filled in.

Here
'^

j'eib'^obe,

by a
'* ' -^

later

hand.

heajob ace, B.
binbe, B.
for,
;

o'5er,

O.
'-"-

nima, O.
l^anne, 0.

-bjiseb-, B.
-pice's,
for,

-ban, O.
'-'

" fjmran, O.
iuf.
;

'

B.
O.

O.
is

raannef, O.

heafeben,

O.
-^

j)ambe
'^
3'

-'

jvap in B.
>aiic,
fis,

glossed

"
^i

heo, B.
='

his, ^'

Jeanne, O.
r<^o, V,.
'"'

-"
=>-

B.
''

-^

liead placu

jUsec-, B.
jj^ne,

|>anne,
^'

O.

O. B.

O.

-ben, B.

O.

j-yrc, ().

lege,

APVLETI.

81
in beer

the wort in
it

warm water

by no means

then

Bktow
^^'
''

goodcth Q)cnefits) tlie sore of the loins and of the tliiglis very rathely (quicJdy). the same wort, 29. For foot addle (gout), take seethe it in water, till of the water down to a third part be sodden muay;''^ pound then the wort and lay
it

on

the

feet,

and
then

smear
wilt

(them)

therewith,
therein

and
boot

drink the wash;

thou find

{amends), and perfect healing.

WAYBREAD.b
1.

n.
^^^^^^^^^^^^

If a

mans head ache

or be sore, let

waybread, and bind them {neck) then the sore will depart from the head. 2. If to a man his wamb (belly) be sore, let him
roots

of

him take the on his swere

^"^""'-

^^^'

take the juice

that
it

waybread the wot^t, and contrive be lukewarm,^ and swallow it; then with
of
(iiausea) the sore will depart away.
If

much loathing
then
wort,
it

be that the
it

wamb
on the

be swollen, then scrape the

and lay

wamb

then

it

soon will

dwindle away.

For sore of the inwards, take juice of waybread put it on cold of some kind {sort), and swallow it largely then it mends the inwards, and clears the maw {stomach), and the small guts very wondrous well. Again, in case that a man be overgrown in 4.
3.
;

^^

The Latin so jjpibban bael is governed by on. Properly Waybroad its leaves are broad, and it quents waysides. The figm'e in MS. V. is meant for
^
:

fre-

this

herb.
'^

blacu
Lat.

is

an error in

MS.
:

for placu, lukeivarm.

hio, h}%

refer to
^^

the wort,

not the juice,

for

j-eap

is

neuter.
that.

Ad

dysentericos

jioppeaxen cannot

mean

3^ *-

t'ane,

O.
'=*

='"

reap, B.

>

ealo,

B.

'">

V. so ?

^'

t, O.

-ba, O.

-]'ex-, O.

82
seoS J>onne'
J?a

HERBARIVM

pejbpseban^ YVJ]^^ Sonne bpmej? peo pamb f ona.

"j

^'^^

J?onne* TPyl^^

Gpc pi6 l?on J?e* man Jjuph utypne^ ^emm pejbpaeban"^ j'eap
)?onne^ biS hit j'ona o'Sj^tiUeb.

hyj*
j^yle

apjanj

blobe

him bjnncan^

Irip

man

jepunbub^^

py
on

jenim
j?a

pejbpaeban^^

j"?eb

punbe heo biS yona^^ 'j hal jip ye hchoma hpsep mib hepijhcpe hfeco^^ yy jebypjob jecnuca Sa yylpan pypte *j leje J?8Bpon^^
jnib^^

to bupte

j'ceab^^

Sonne colaS ye hchoma ^'^

Ijip

'j

halaS.

Su ]?onne pylle mannejp pambe ppsenan f)onne mm Su }>a pypte pyll on ecebe bo J?onne f yoy ^ pypte ppa apyllebe on ptn bjunce J>onne on niht J)a nihptij yjmle an f ul to pyllej'.

nsebpe.
pi^S

naebpan
'j

yhte^^ jenim pejbptBban Sa pypt ^nib

on pine

ete hy.^^
Scojipio,

Pi|7

pcojipionejf

flite

jenim
yr

pejbpseban
"^^

pyjitpalan

bmb^^
Ijif

o)?one

man

)?onne
ape.^^

^elypenne^^ f

hyt
P^5"
'j

cume him to jobpe

men^^
bpeban^ peap

mnan^
cnuca

pyjimap^^
'j

ejlen^^ jenim^
-j

ppmj^^

pyle

him supan
|?one^^

mm
j

Sa pylpan^^ VYV^^ jecnuca leje on

naplan^^

ppiS )?8apto^^ fpy^e peepte.

'

)jane,

0.
'"

gebrabe, O., roast: froni haste.

'^

^\>.,
'

O. omits.
* '^

O,

arfgange, O.
rcab, B.
Serl-, B.

blobe ucypne, B.

-be, O.

-ca, O.

\\>m, O.
'"^

-bob, B. O.
1'

roiia,

B.

'

his,
^^

B. 0.

" pebreabe, O., and so below. le '^ jj^^^^ ^ j,ap, B. 20 |3^n5 21 _ijj-_^ b. ^^^ g,
25

'^

gnib, B. -hama, B.
22

^jj^^

^^

23
'-'

manne, 0. me, 0. 28 cnuca fa pypt, O.

}psene,

p^^m^f^

q
29

2c

gj^i^gn^

g
^o

_a,n,

O.

bjis^ban,

B.
B. O.

j,pins, B.

f^f^^

=^

O.

^^

nsefelen, O.

jjaji,

APVLEII.

83
largely,

wamb,
eat

seethe then the

it)

way bread

and

let

him W^i'^^ad.

then (of

largely;

then soon will the

wamb

dwindle.

outrun (liave a discharge) through his anus with blood; take the juice of waybread, give it him to drink; then it (the
5.
-'^

Again, in case that a

man

hcemorrhage) will soon be stilled. be wounded, take seed of waybread, 6. If a man rub (it) to dust, and shed (it) on the wound; it will soon be hole (whole). If the body be busied (troubled)

anywhere with heavy heat (infiammation), pound the same wort and lay (it) thereon then the body will cool and heal.
;

7.

^^

If thou
(belly),

then wilt
then
take

reduce

the
the

size of

mans

wamb

wort; boil in vinegar; put then the juice and the wort so boiled into wine let him drink (this) then at night fasting, always one cup for a discharge.
;

thou

8.

Against adders
it

rub

Fainting of a snake. bite, take waybread the wort, into wine, and let (the patient) eat it.

Painting of a scorpion. 9. For scorpions wound, take roots of waybread, bind on the man then it is to be believed that it may come to be of good service to him. 10. If worms within ail a man, take the juice of waybread, pound and wring (the wort), and give it him to sup; and take the same wort, pound it, lay (it) on tbe navel, and wreathe it thereto very fast.
;

*Lat.

Ad

eos

qui

The Englishman

purulentum excreant cum sanguine. seems to have confused exscreare, with

Lat.

excrementura, excernere.
^ Ad ventrem stringendura, means make to dwindle.

The Saxon-English

F 2

84
Iri}:

HERBARIVM
hp^dcej'

manney^
-j

lichoma

yy'^

ahcapbob^
pi5

mm
];a3ji^

)7onne

pe^bjiaeban
pealtre

pa pyjite

-j

jecnuca
bata]?.

ymepii"'

butan^

pypc fpa to clame'^ leje J;onne on

'j

hit lieapbije^ hnepcaj? h}'t j'omx

Ijip lipylcmn

men py
Sonne

paep peojiSan

bse^ey

pepep jepastejie

tenje^^
pyle
^^^

jemm

J^sepe

pypte peap^' cnib'^ on

him bpmcan tpam tibum rep hj'^m^^ J>8ep pepepep pene )?onne yp pen -p hyt him cume to myceljic
ppeme.

Pi5 potable* 'j piS bjuBban leap jmb'^ piS

j

pma
"^

sape'^ jenim

)?onne
J?a

paej-

pealt^''

pete Sonne on

pet^^

on
])i6

J?a

pyna ]7onne ys
]?e

jepipplice^^ laecebom.

pam pepope

Sy

j?pibban

baeje

on

man

be-

cymeS jenim pejbpseban^^ }*py^^ cySap cnib^^ on paetepe on pme fiyle him bpmcan a^p j^on pe pepop him oJ?]7e to cume on niht nihftij.^^
Pi];

Sy pepope
)?ap

cnuca

j^lcan

Sy ceptjian bseje to cymeS jepypte ppyj^e pmale pyle him on ealoS

J;e

bpmcan^* f yp to jelypenne^^ f hit byje.

PiS punba hatum^^ jenim )7onne pejbpseban^^ J>a p)' jit cnuca on pmaejipe butan^*^ pealte leje on )?a punbe~'^
J>onne biS he pona hal.^^
Ijip

mannep
-j

pet

on

py}>c

tybpieii"

^enim

ponne
pa^ji-

pejbpseben^^ Sa p}'pt jnib^^ on ecebe bepe Sa pet

mib*^'''^

pmyjie*^^ Sonne

ppmep

hy^'^ pona.

'

manne, O.
"

-hama,

B, O.
'

'

hany,
**

* '"

fmepa, B. O.
-taenje, B.

buton, B.
"
|>a]ae

clame, B.

O. J^aji, B.
j;nib,

-beb^

O.

hoapb-, B.
'^

jiyptan poap, B.
j-ejiej'

'-

B.
B.

bjiincan
^nib, B.
3,^,^5^ 15

rjJEC
'^

tibu aep he, B.

'

"

pene, B.

'^

fore,

O.

"
21

-ce, O.

Ft, B.
''

Sej'irlice,

B.

^o

_bj,tiib-,
-'

"

snib, B.
alters.

nihfnx;
-"

= ieiuuuR.

Apul,
B.

bpiuc-, B.
-"

"

-Hj-^

B.; O.

hacmise

ni,

-'

-bjiceb-, B.

fmeppe

APVLEII.
li.

85

mans body be liardened, take then way- WAvmcKAD. ^^"^bread the wort, and knock {pound) it with Lird without salt, and so work (it) to clam ^ {ci clmmny
If liny
^'

substance)
will

lay
it

(it)

tlien

make

nesh

{soft),

on where it is hard and amend (it).

it

soon
inci-

12. If

to

any man there be a quartan fever

dent, take then the worts juice, rub in water, give to

him
then

to drink
is

two hours before he expects the fever; hope that it may come to much benefit.
foot addle
(gout),

13.

For
then

and

for

sore

of sinews,
salt;

take
(it)

leaves

of waybread,
feet,

crush

with
;

set
tliat

then on the

and on the sinews

then

is

a sure leechdom.
14.

For the fever which cometh on a man on the third day {tertian), take three sprouts of waybread, crush them in water or in wine give it him {the jxdient) to drink ere the fever come to him, at night,
;

fasting.

For the fever that comes the second day, knock (pound) this same wort very small give it
15.
;

'^

him

in

ale to drink.

It

is

to be believed

that

it

may
IG.

benefit.

For heats of wounds, take waybread the wort, pound it on lard without salt, lay it on the v/ound
then will he (the patient) be soon hole. 17. If a mans feet in a journey swell,^ take then waj^bread the wort, pound in vinegar, bathe the feet
therewith, and smear
(the

them

then they soon dwindle

swelling abates).

Malagma, Lat. 1528.

^
^

Ad secitndarurti
it

dolor em.

Lat. 1528.
prefers tenescere (tenerescere),

iumuerint, Lat. 1528.

is

Lye

but

better not to

hold to opinions against evidence.

buton, B.

-*

j'unbe, B.

=^

hal,

B.

^i

_bjiaib-, B.

^2

g^j^^

>a]i,

B.

'

fmejia, B.

^5

ju^^

tSG

HEKBARIVM
Ijij:

lipylcum
oil

peapjbpsebe^

peaxe

on
last

J^am
licjan

uoyum
j-eap

oS8e

];am

lileope^

jenim Sonne pejbjueban

ppinj^ on linepce pulle leje paepon**

nilit ]7onne liala];'^ liyt lipase ^ septeji

nijon

6am. Be sejhpylcum uncu)?um blsebpum Se on mannep pejbpaeban^ pseb ^ bpij to bupte*^ nebbe pittaS ^nib^^ menj^^ piS pmeopu ^^ bo lytel pealtep to "j pepc^^ mib pme fmype^^ f neb mib );onne lme];aS liyt

mm

*j

halaS.^^
Jfip

peap^^

mupey punbe jnib topomne

-j

jenim pejbpseban leap -j liyjie liapa Sonne ppi]?e lanje on J>miim

muSe
Ijip

et Sone pyptpalan.

yebe
'j

hunb
'^^

man
"j

toplite

pypte^''
lial.

jejnib

leje

on*

jenim ]7ap ylcan Sonne biS hit pona

^^

PiJ?

elcep baejep

mannep tybbepnyppe
on
piii
'j

mnepeajibej^

nime

Jjonne

pejbpoeban bo

et^^ ]7a

pejbpseban

Sonne

pup^^ f pop -j. beah hit piS sejhpylcpe m-

nancunbpe unhaelo.
Fipleape.^^
Irip
III.

men ^^
^*

hip leoSu acen oSSe onjeplojen sy

jenim

pipleape

Sa pypt

leje Ssejion^'^
PiJ>

cnuca on fmeoppe spy];e fmale butan^^ pealte Sonne halaS hyt pona.
PJJ^'^^

^^

pambe pape jenim pipleapan seap^^ ]?3epe^^ jcppmj tpejen cuculepas ^^ pulle syle him pupan

];onne

cla^npa)? hit
Pi];

on pej ^ pap
ece

eall.

tunjan* 'j piS j^potan jenim pipleapan pyjitpalan pyll on psetejie* syle him pupan
*j

muSep

piS

'

peajilibraebe,
'

B.
^'^

'^

hlco]e, B.

J')ins,

B.

'

\>a]i,

B.

hala|>,

B.

pa-Se, B.

-bjJKb-, B.
jTmepa, B.
>^

reb,
'^

B.

bufce, B.

'"

snib, B.

" msenKc, B.
'5

y^y, B. O.

"
2.
'^i

-jia,

B.; fmure, O.

hala^, B.

'"

fcap, B.
'"

pyi^t, B.,

omitting the case termination.

^,-6,

'

-snib, B.

-nerre, B.
later hand.

^
^s

fup, B.

O.
-"

22

gf.

leauf,

MS.

B.,

by a
'^^

man, 0.
^^

pjleapn, B.
B.

The
B.

reading of V. seems careless graimnar.

2^

j-mejipe,
jo

i>a]ion,

buton, B.

yCay,

B.

"^o

^,3^^,^

15,

.^ef,

0.

APVLEIl.
18. If to

87
the nose or on the Wayhuead.
;

any an
;

ulcer

^^

wax on
juice
;

cheek, take then

{soft)

way breads
(it)

wring
it

(it)

on nesh
nights

wool

lay

thereon
it heals.

let

lie

nine

then after that soon

19.

which sit on a mans neb (face), take seed of waybread, dry (it) to dust, and pound it mix with hogs grease, put a little of salt to (it), wash (it) with wine, smear the neb with it then it smootheth and healeth. 20. For wound of mouth, take leaves of waybread and its juice pound together, have (it) then very long in thy mouth, and eat the root. 21. If a wood hound (mad dog) rend a man, take this same wort, and rub it fine and lay it on then For any uncouth
;

blisters

be hole (whole). 22. For every days tenderness of a man inwardly, let him take then waybread, put it in wine, and sip
the juice

will it (the siDot) soon

and eat the waybread any inward unheal (infirmity).

then

it

is

good

for

FiVELEAF, or CinquefoiL^
1.

III.

PotentUla
reptans.

Bot,

have been struck take fiveleaf the wort, pound it on grease very small, lay it thereon without salt then it soon healeth.
If for a
his joints ache, or
;

man

For sore of wamb (belly), take juice of fiveleaf the wort, wring out two spoons full, give it him to sip then it (the remedy) cleanseth away all that sore.
2.
;

3.

For mouths

ache,

and

for

tongues ache, and for

throats ache, take the roots

of fiveleaf, boil in water.

Ulcus, Latin, 1528.

The drawing
It is

in

MS. V.

is

meant

for a

cinquefoih but
fig. is

five-lobed leaves stand on long upright footstalks, rising from

a root.

much
It

the same in

MS. A.

The

probably
to

traditional.

include the potentillas

would not be according to early notions whose leaves are not quinate.

88

HERBAllIVM
cken^aS
hit

Sonne

Cone

muS mnan

"j

biS

ye

ece

litlienbe.^
Pi)?

heapbep
J^pipa
aliejre
*j

yape^ ]7am

jenim
Isejxan
oj:
]5

pifleapan
l-'injjie

Sa
j

pyj\^

bepjiit

mib

mib J7am
*j

Suman^
rpyj^e

,];onne

upp

fejie^ eojiSan

jejnib
j'e

ymale

bmb on
ut^
oj:

lieapob

Sonne

bi]>

ece

lytlienbe.^
Eij:

men

blob

nopum yp^^ ^^

fpiSe

py^e

him bjnncan

pipleapan

on pme* j fmype^ ^ heapub"

mib pam Sonne oSptanbe]? pe blob^yte pona. Eip

peap^^

mannep
mencj^^

mibpipe
to

^^
'j

ace

pme
"j

jenime pipleapan ^^ bpmce^'* Sonne J^peo }:iil

niftij.^^

pulle^^ ]^py^^

mojijenas

on niht

])i]y

noebpan^^

plite

jenim
fpiSe

pijzleapan

]7a

pypte^"
]3

jnib on
bote.
Ifip

pme

"j

bpmce^^

Sonne cymeS him

ppleapan

to

man

popbaepneb

sy jenime

)>a

pyjit
j3

bepe on him Sonne jobe^^ cume.

Irip
]7U

cpc]:aS cji^ptije

men ^

liim

to

pille

canceji

ablenban^^

jenim

Sonne

pip-

leapan Sa pyjite

seoS

on pme
^^

pypLe butan^* pealte mencj clySan 'j leje .Sonne on ];a

pona.

on ealbep beajijep'^'^ eall tosomne py]ic to punbe ]?onne halaS heo

^j

Du

pcealt Sonne eac jepypcean^^

Npfibpe.

];a

pyjit^^

on

aju]*-

tup monSe.

'

-iSenfbe, B.
'

cajic,

V.
^

yiy,

B.

'

human, B.
heajob, B.

'^

|>a]ie,
'"

B.

-iScnbe, B.

uc, B.

j-mejm,
'-

B. B.
''

"

nubjuj

in contents.

"

fiy,

B. O.

K'a]>,

" mjcnsc, B.
nilifns, V.,

" -can,
-'

O.
"^

'^fulle fulle,

0.

'"^nS, B.
''

a false spelling.
boce.

na:bb]ian, B.,

and so generally.

j'vjit,

B.

-"

-can, 0.

APVLEII.

89
^

give

him {the patient) to sip the mouth within, and the ache
it 4.

then

it

will cleanse

Fivklkaf,
"^' ^ ^^'

will be diminishing.

For heads sore, take fiveleaf the wort, scratch it thrice with the least finger and with the thumb heave it then up from the earth, and rub it very then the ache will small, and bind it on the head
;

be diminishing.
5.

If for a

man

blood run out of his

nostrils too

much, give to him to drink fiveleaf in wine, and smear the head with it; then the blood gout will
soon staunch.
6.

If a

fiveleaf,

mans midriff ache, let him take juice of mix it with v/ine, and let him drink then
full

three

cups

for

three

mornings,

and at

night,

fasting.
7.

For

bite of adder,

take fiveleaf the wort, crush

;

it

in wine,

will
8.

and let him drink it freely come to him for a boot {remedy).
If a
;

then that

man
let

be badly burnt,

let
;

him take

fiveleaf

the wort

him bear it on him then aver men that that may come to him to good.
9.

crafty

If thou will

blind a cancer,

or prevent

its

dis-

it in wine, and in an old barrow pigs grease without salt;

charging,
all

take

then fiveleaf the wort,

seethe

mix
10.

together,
;

work
it

to a

plaister,

and then lay

it

on the wound

then

soon will heal.

further

Thou shalt also the month August. A painting of a snake

*

work up the wort

space.

in

fills

a vacant

318, V.

Gargarizet. Lat.

B.,
-'

amendment.
-'6

^-

-blsenb-, B.

23

berchef, O.

^i^yj-o^^

meens, B.

_jican, B.

"

jjyjit,

B.,

by

a slip, omits.

90

HERBARIVM
j6j'c]7pote.^
IV.

Deoy
aBycpjiote

pyj^'c

]ye

man uepmenacam
biS

oSjiuin

nainau
fmej^um

nemneS
-j

cenneb^

jehpseji

on

lanbum
]}i\>

on punba
"j

ptfitum.

piS

beabyppinjaj^

^j

pi6

cypnlu jcnim
abiitan* Sone

l^aejie^

ylcan pypte pyjitpalan

*j

jeppiS

ppyjian ]?onne fpemaS^ hit healice,

Gyc piS cypnlu jenim 6a j^ylfan pypte uepmenacam jecnuca liy^ "j leje Ssepto'' lieo Iia3l5 punbop

lice.

habbaS setftanbene^ aebpan fpa ]5 J^aet; blob ne maej hyp jecynbehcan pyne habban 'j heopa pijne mm J78epe^ ylcan pypte peap^^ jehealban ne majon pyle bpincan 'j py86an jenim pm^^ -j hunij -j pteteji j mencj^^ ro pomne ^j hyt pona hael^^'^ )?a untpum]}i]>

6a

]7e

nyppe.^^

Pi6 lippe ylcan pypte

sap
*j

jenim on mibbe

pumepep
J>onne
j:ip

bsej

]7a

^ejnib to bupte

mm

cuculejiap

puUe Ssep buptep 'j )?py pcenceap ^^ jobep pmep mencj ^^ to pomne pyle bpincan hyt ppemaS miclum^^ eac fpa pame ^ manejum oSpum untjiumnypyum,^^
Pif> J>a

untpumnyppe

^enim

]?8epe^^

ptanap peaxaS on bl?eb]ian ylcan pyp'ce pyptpalan -j ^^ cnuca liy ^^

];e

pyll ]7onne

on hatan pme syle bpincan hyt ha3l6 pa untpumnyppe punboplicum jemete* -j na ^ an ac eac hyt hpa?blice ~^ fpa hpset ppa ]78Gne ^^ mijSan jelet jepymS^^ 'j fopS jelseboj?.^^ PiS heajrob pap jenim J>a ylcan pyjite *j jebinb to pam heapbe^^ *j heo jepanaS f pap fep heapbep:*
~'^

'

beo])urt, B., in margin.

'^

aceenneb, B.
''

ijajie,
^

B.

onbuton, B.
is

'^

-at, B.
is

^ hi?;,

B.
heel's,

)>aji,
"
'

B.
^aiie, B.

The Latin
"

induratas.

MS. V.
'"^

much

dan^aged here.
'^

feajs B.
''^

" jnn, B.
fcjenca)-, B.

rascngc, B.

B.

-nerr*^, B.

)>iii

APVLEIl.

91
Asuthhoat.
Art.
iv.

AsHTHKOAT, that
1.

is,

Vervain,

iv.

This wort, which one nameth verbenaca, and by another name ashthroat, is produced everywhere in

smooth lands and on wet on^s. 2. For woimds, and for dead springs (ulcers), and for kernels (strumous siuellings), take roots of the same wort, and wreathe about the swere (necJc) then it
;

will benefit highly.

Again for kernels (struraous swellings), take the same wort verbenaca; knock (pound) it, and lay it
3.

thereto
4.

it will

heal wonderfully.

For those that have stopped veins, so that the blood may not have its kindly (natural) run (course), and are not able to retain their food, take juice of the same wort, and give to drink, and afterward take wine and honey and water, mix them together, and it (the remedy) will soon heal the infirmity. 5. For sore of liver, take on Midsummers day the same wort, and rub it to dust take then five spoons full of the dust, and three draughts of good wine mix them together give (this to the sick man) to drink it will benefit much also in like manner for
;
;

many
6.

other infirmities.

For the infirmity by which stones wax in tlie bladder, take roots of the same wort, and pound them boil ther)i then in hot wine give to drink it
;
; ;

will heal the infirmities in a wonderful

manner, and

not that only

it

also

whatsoever

lets (hinders) the urine,

soon makes
7.

away
it

with, and leads forth.

For a head to the head, and

head.

sore,

take the same wort, and bind will make to wane the sore of the

1"
21

msensc, B.
;),

^^

mice- B.
hig, B.
'-'

^^

rome, B.
-^

^^

-nejj-, B.
-'

""
-^

hajie,
jiseb-,

B. B.

B. omits.

" cnoca

ac,
'^

Seiiym'S, B.

-Iseb-, B.

V. omits. heybe V.

|>one,

B.

S2

IIERBAlilVM
Nsebjie.

pi8

naebjian

j^lite
^

ppa

hpylc
'j

uejimenacam
lia3]:(S

inib

liype leajrum

man spa paj* pyjit: pyptpumum on liim

pi'S

eallum naebpuin he biS

Attojicoppe.

tpuiii.

attopcoppan biue jenim j^aepe ^ ylcan pypte leap peoS on pme jecnucobe jip liyt mib jeppelle on popbopen byS jeleje J^septo ^ peo punb pceal pona beon jeopenub * "j pySSan heo jeopenub * beo ]7onne jecnuca )7a pypt mib hunije 'j leje J?a3pto ^ o)7S9et liy
Pi]?

hal

YY^f

biS ppiSe

hjioeblice.''

]}i]>

pebe hunbep p]ite

'j

jemm

J^a

ylcan pyjite

uep'-^

menacam
jmnbe
^^

hpsetene copn fpa jehale

*j

leje to

]?8ejie

Sa copn )?uph Sone psetan^^ jehnehpobe syuppa toSunbene ^^ J^onne Sa copn 'j jepupp to 'j pumum henpu^ule*^^ ^ip he hy ^^ J^onne etan nelle Sonne
oJ?p

mm

mm

Su oJ>pe cojm "j mencj to ]?iejie ^^ pyp'ce J^am jemete J^e ]?u jbji bybept "j leje to S?epe ^^ punbe fpa ^^ oj^fet ]?u onjite ]^ peo ppecn}' p ^^ opanumen sy -j ut ^^
^'^

atojen.

Pi)?

nipe punbela^^
-j

jenmi

j^a

ylcan
punbe.

pypte

'j

cnuca

mib butepan

leje to

)78ejie^^

Nsebpe.

PiS naebpan phte jenim pa ^^ ylcan pypte tpiju^^ j*^ peo6 on pme j cnuca pyppan jyp pe slyte bhnb biS j mib pam jeppelle unjeheapbub '^^ ponne leje Su ]7a

pypte ^^ pJBpto ^^ pona hyt pceal openian -j pySSan Su Sa ylcan pypte liyt jeopenub^^ beo ponne unjepobene *j cnuca mib hunije leje to psepe ^^ punbe

mm

'

hi mib,

13.

'

|?a]ie,

B.
^

l^ajico,
.

B.

-nob, B., twice.

^aji,

B.

"

j-y,

B.
'"

'

jiaeb-,

B. B.

)>a]je

leaj",

B., but

B.

])unbe

rj'a,

"

jiaiiran,

B.

"his, B.

'^majuc, B.

^ajie,

B.

-cam, not -cae. '- -jmnb-, B. " 'Sajxe, B.

" )>ajie,
'^
'"

hsen,
1',

B. B.

rpa

APVLEII.

03
ASIITIITIOAT.

S.

this

Draiving of a snake, MS. F., fol. 10 h. For bite of adder, whatsoever man liath on him, wort verhenaca, with its leaves and roots, lie will
all

Art.

iv.

be firm against
Ttvo

snakes.
attorcops, like
v., fol.

drawings of

two horned

locusts.

MS.
.

19

c.

For poisonous spiders bite, take leaves of the if tlic same wort seethe them in wine, pounded venom be retained in the body, with swellings, lay tlien thereto the wound shall soon be opened, and when it be opened, then pound the wort with honey,
9.
;

and lay
10.

it

thereto,

till

that

it

be hole (whole); that

will be very quickly.

For wood (mad) hounds bite, take the same wort verbenaca, and wheaten corns hole, and lay to the wound, till that the corns are neshed (made soft) Take then through the wet, and so are swollen up. the corns, and cast them to some cock or hen fowl if he then will not eat them, then take thou other corns, and mix them with the wort in the manner in which thou ere didst, and lay to the wound until thou understand that the mischief be taken away and

drawn
11.

out.

For
it

pound
]

new wounds, take with butter, and lay

of a S7iahe.

the
it to

same wort, the wound.

19
d.

and

Drawing
2.

MS.

V., fol.

For bite of adder, take twigs of the same wort, and seethe them in wine, and afterwards pound them if the scratch is blind, and with the swelling not come to a head, then lay thou the wort thereto; soon it shall open, and after it be opened, then take thou the same wort unsodden, and pound it with honey, and

19

jrpsecner,

B.

20

^^^ g.

21

MS.
;

Harl. 585 begins here.

see St. Marherete.
20 24
27

22

^^pe, B.

23 J?8epe,

H., a different construction

25

tpi^a^

h.

with a gloss bowef.

omits.
28

^^

jj omits.
29

_feob,
30

B.
B.

^^ pyjice, H.

j,apt6,

B.

_^q^^

-gajie,

94
oS]5
lieo
^

HERBARIVM
hal
^

hy

Jjypjfum

yf ^ f jemete

TPy)^^ lijifBblice J^aepto ^ alejS.^

^F

jj'F

^^^

IJenne

belle.^

symphoniacam*^^ [. f. jufquiamum]" nemneS oSjium naman^^ belone 'j eac pume men^^ liennebelle^^ hataS pihpt on bejanum^^ lanbum j on j^anbijum^'^ lanbum -j on pyjittunum. J?onne yy oSep jpippe ylcan pypte fpeapt on Inpe*^^ ^j friSpan leapum -j eac setpijum. ponne y)" yeo sepjie hpitpe^*^ *j heo hsdy^ );ay msejnu. Pi6 eapena^^ pap jenim j^ypfe ylcan pypte j^eap^^ lilt bpype^^ on j pypm f eape hyt punboplicum jemete J^sepa^^ eapena pap ajzlijS "j eac^* ppa pame J?eali }>8ep^^ pypmap on beon liyt hy^^ ^cpelleS. PiS cneopa jeppell oSSe pceancena^^ oS6e fpa hp?8p~^ rpa on liclioman^^ jeppelP^ sy^^ J7a ylcan pyjite pimpliomacan^^ "j cnuca hy^'^ leje^* J^septo^^ f jefpell heo ofanimeS.^^ Pi}? toSa pape^^ jenim J^sepe^^ ylcan pypte pyptpalan
pyp'c
J?e

Deoy

man

-j^^

mm

peoS on ptpanjum^^

pme

jfupe hit ppa

J?apa

peapm

-j

liealbe

on hip mu^e^^ pona hit jehaelS

PiS
p8epe^^
]?eo^^

to6a

yap.^^

p8epa*^

jepealba

jeyap

oS6e
-j

jeypell^^

ylcan*^

je

pypte pyptpalan yap je f jeppell

jeppiS

jenim to Sam^^
hio*^

}?apa

jepalba*^

opammeS.^^

'

hyo, H.

h^l yf, B.

l^iruni,

H.
'5

' )>a)i, B. B. " Overlined in V.

" pseb-, B. V. B. omit. " O. adds belone. ley, H. ' nama, O. 'on, H.

" ly,

his,

B.

'"

rymj'-,

~i

" man, H.
ylcan
hipe,

hainne, B. H.

>

beganu, B.

j-anb-,
JjifTe

B.

^^

Jjou yj-^sejie
;

pypte n>eajat on
B.
2'^

hijje,

H.

}>anne if o]?er

ylcan plitan pyrt, O.

'

sejie

hpitcpe, H.; hjnttjie, B.

is

It

has been
^^

said

that a long
*'

vowel before two consonants

bpipe, B.
st'ri't'lle
23

impossible.
2

earane, O.
^s

K'^JN B.
j^j^^

|,apa,

B.
II.;
-'''

edc,

H.
^8

j,ap,

b.
^o
^*

^e

b.

2'

o^Stlfc

rcancena,
'

pcanc-, B.

1^^,^^^

B.

_ham-, B.
mib,

Serpel, II.

ry, B.

-am,

II.

^^

his, B.

bej>e i>ar

APVLEII.

95
AsuTniioAT.

wound, till that it be hole {whole) that it will be very quickly, if a man layeth it thereto in this manner.
lay
it

to the

Henbane.
1.

v.

Hyoscyamm
niger.

Dot,

This
call

Kuafxog,

named a-v[^(pcoviuKY}, or vog and by another name belene, and also some
wort,

which

is

men

it

henbell

(noiv henbane),

is

produced

in

and in sandy lands, and in gardens. Then there is another (sort) ^ of this same wort, swart in hue, and with stiffer leaves, and poisonous also. The former is white,^ and it has these virtues. 2. For sore of ears, take juice of this same wort, and warm it drop it into the ear it in a wonderful manner puts to flight the sore of the ears; and also, likewise, though there be worms in it, it kills them. 3. For swelling of knees and of shanks, or wheresoever on the body a swelling be, take the same wort lay (it) thereto it will take (Tui^(^miOLKYi, and pound it
cultivated places,
;
;

away the
4.

swelling.
teeth, take roots of the
;

For sore of

same wort
it

seethe (them) in strong wine

so

let (the sufferer) sip it

;

warm, and hold

5.

it

in his

mouth

soon

will heal

the sore of teeth.

For sore or swelling of the inguinal parts, take roots of the same wort, and wreathe to the thigh it
;

will

take

away the

sore

or

the

swelling

of

the

inguinal parts.

Supply cynn ? This is Hyoscyamus albus, but our henbane

is JET.

niger.

K., in margin.
3

^5

^^

^-^^ jj^

^^^^

-q

sg

j^ape,

B.

39

fcrange, O.

^ moe, O.

palan,
^^

*^ }>apa, B. pme, mu-Se, H. *^ rylyan, B. H. * jSaem, H., and a stop at palan. s" "^ -peal-, B. a stop. ^^ heo, B. ojrojimme'Sy H.

^7 H. ^.^p, H. r^p, healb, and stops at " ^eyyel, H. "' )>ape, B.

ojrhanyme'S,

I>eo,

B., with

^^
Irip yiyey bjieofc

HERBARIVM

yape j^ien^ jenim bonne ]?fej\e^ ylcan pypte peap pyjic To b]\ence^ *j fyle hyjie bpmcan -j ymype* Sa bjieopt J^sepmib^ ponne by 6 hype yona ])e^'
rei.

PiS pota paji jenim J?a jdcan pypte mib liyjie pyptjmraan^ -j cnuca^ to yomne^ leje opeji Sa pet^^ -j
psejito^^

jebmb

hyt;

ligelj)^^

punbuplice^'*^

'j

jeppell

opanimS.^'*

lunjen able jenim J?9epe j'ylp^n pyj^te peap syle bjimcan mib healicpe punbpnnje he bi5 jehieleb.
])i])

Nsebpe

pyjit.^"*
'j

vi.

Beop pypt J)e man uipejimam ocSpum naman nnobbeppypt nemneS bicS cenneb^'^ on p^etepe 'j on fecejuim heo bi5 hnepceum^^ leapum *j bitteppe^ on bypjmjce.

piS n?ebbpan phte jenim Sap pylpan uipejnnam cnuca hy menjc^^ mib pine syle bpmcan heo hselS punbojilice one plyte -j j5 attoji tobpipS "j pap pj^pte 6u pcealr niman on Sam monSe )?e man appeliC nemneS.
]

Beopypt.

VII.

on upc jej^eobe beopypt nemneS heo biS cenneb^^ on bejanum^^ fropum "j on pyptbebbum *j on m?ebum^^ *j J)ap pyjite ]m pcealc niman on ]>am. monSe J?e man anjuptum nemneS. ]}i]> Saet beon^* set ne pleon^^ jenim );ap ylcan pypte
pyjit
J;e

Deop

man on

leben-^

uenepiam

'j

'

pn,
;

11.;

ryn>I^-;

f'N

0.
^

'-t>aiie,

B.
j-mejia,

j^pgence,

H.; bpynce,
^ J'aji,

B.
^

brincan,
;

O.

j-mepe,

II.

B.

B. O.

' -ccjiB., more exactly. H. omits J'e = jjy, instrumental here. '" )oc, B. " cnoca, ''A note in II. explains cum polenta. B. H. '^ ncbbre ' oyamme^, II. -bop-, B. '2hylp, II. "Kap, B. '" biceji, B. '" csenneb, B. " -cum, B. pnrt, B., later characters.

]>e,

>=

APVLEII.
G.

97
IIknuani:
'

{womans) breasts*'^ be sore, take then j uice of the same wort, work it to a drink, and give it to her to drink, and smear the breasts therewith then it will soon be the better with her. 7. For sore of feet, take the same wort, with its roots, and pound together lay over the feet, and bind thereto it will heal wonderfully, and will take
If a wifes
;
;

^"

away the
8.

swelling.
(disease)^
;

For lungs addle

(it)

wort, give

to drink

take juice of the same with high wondering he will

be healed.

Adder WOBT.
1.

VI.

Pdygonvm
bistoria.

This

wort,

which
of nesh

is

named
is

viperina,

another

name adder
;

wort,

produced in
leaves,

by water, and
and

in arables
taste.

it

is

{soft)

and

bitterish to

Drawing of a
2.

snake.

MS.
;

V., fol.

20

b.

For bite of adder, take the same viperina, pound it, mix with wine, give to drink it healeth wondrously the rent, and driveth away the poison; and this wort thou slialt take in the month which is called Apiil.

Bee wort.
1.

VII.
is

^.om, mlacalled veneria,

This wort, which in Latin

is

and

""'^'

''

in

our language bee wort,

produced in cultivated
;

and in wort beds, and in meads and this wort thou shalt take in the month which is called
places,

August.
2.

That bees may not

fly ofF,^

take this same wort

Apul. 1528, has pectinum, not pectorum nor Orris root is used for this purpose now.

mammarum.

'"his maenc, B.
-^

-"

laeben,

B.
25 j-i^^^u,

^i

caenneb, B.

^^

beganu, B.

maebu, B.

2'

Ij^-.q^^

B.

98
]?e

HERBARIVM
pe

uenepiam nembon -j jehoh hy^ to Ssejie hype^ J?onne beo6 hy punjynbe ^ *j naappe ne ]fpica6 ac him jelicaS f)eo]f pypt byS j^elbon jzunben ne hy man jecnapan ne maej buton Sonne heo jpepS -j blepS.^
Ifip

hpa ne mseje jemijan^

]?y]ffe

-j

se

micjSa
'j

set j^tanben

YY nime
tepe to

ylcan pyjite pyjitpalan

bsele

yeo)?e

on

pse-

J?j\ibban

]fylle

bpmcan

J?onne

bmnan*^

)?pym bajum he msej )?one mijjpan fopS apenban*^ hyt haelS punbophce )?a untpumnyppe.

Leon

pot.^

viii.

Deop
leonpot
bicon

pyjit

J?e

man pebem
biS

leonip

-j

oSjium

naman
*j

nemneS heo
"j

cenneb^

on pelbon

on

on hpieobbebbon.^^ Iryp hpa^^ on |?8epe^^ untjiumnyppe py^^ ^ he py^^ cip^^ J?onne meaht^*^ Su hme unbmban jenim pyppe pypte }?e^^ pe leon pot nembon pip Sypelap^^ butan^^ ^pypttpuman peoS on paetepe on panpsejenbum monan^^ tit op j^am hupe^^ on popan 'j Speah hme J^sepmib^^ 'j Iseb nihte -j ptep^^ hyne mib psepe^* yJY^^ ]>^ nian apiptolochiam NemneS 'j J?onne he utja^^ ne beseo he hyne nu on bsec J?up Su hme meaht^^ op J^aepe untpum

nyppe^^ unbmban.^^

ElupJ)un3e,^^

IX.
'j

Deop

pyp^

J?e

man

pcelepatam

clupj^unje^^

nemneS heo biS cenneb^^

oSpum naman on puhtum ^ on

paetepejum^^ fuopum fpa hpylc

tenbe
JjijS

man

fpa pap pypte paep-

hhhhenbe he fet hp

poplaeteS.^^

>

hy, B.

2 |,ajie

hj^e, B.

-i^enbe, B.
'

Sjicj)5 i blopS,
^

B.

-mis-, B. csenneb, B. "* cir, B.

-non, B.

aj-aenb-, B.
'-'

leonef foe, B.
B.
'"

^^
'

peob-, B.

'^

h])a,

B.

>aje,
^

B.
-lef,

'='

fy,

"

yy,

B.

miht, B.

t, O., quam.

0.

buton, B.

APVLEII.

99
it

which we called veneria, and hang

in

the

hive

Bre wort.
^^'^-

then will they be content to stay, and will never depart ; but it will like them well this wort is
;

^"

seldom found, nor may a man know it, except when it groweth and bloweth. 3. If one may not pass water, and the water be at a standstill, let him take roots of this same wort, and let him seethe (them) in water to a third part; give to drink then within three days he may send forth the urine it healeth wondrously the infirmity.
; ;

Lion foot.
1.

VIII.

AlchemUh
vulgaris.

This wort,

which

is

called

another
dikes,
2.

name

lion foot, is

and by produced in fields, and in

pes
leonis,

Bot.

and in reed beds. If any one be in

(in

such

infirmity

that

he

be
him.

choice

eating),

then mayest thou

unbind

which we named lion foot, ^yq plants without roots, seethe in water while the moon is on the wane, and wash him therewith, and lead

Take of

this wort,

him out of the house in the early part of the night, and purify him with the wort which is called aristolochia, and when he goes out, let him not look behind him thou mayest unbind him from the in;

firmity.

ClOFTHING, or
1.

Cloffing,

IX.

Ranunculus
SCBlCTO/tHS

This

wort,

which
clofthing

is

called

scelerata,
is

and

by

BoU

another

name

or doffing,
;

produced in

damp and watery

places

whatsoever

man

fasting

eats this wort, leaves his life laughing.

2"

raonan, B.

^i

|,ap,

B.
^^

22

^^j^e,

B. B.
^^

23 f^^^p,

b.

24

j,ape,
2''

B.

'-^iicsa,

B.
;

26i^ihj.^B_

27-nerre, B.
cloy\>\xnw,

''^-hmb-,B.
ceenneb, B,
^2

clof-

J>ung,
^'^^

B.

clufNnca, 0.

-pig- B.

lc-, B.

G 2

00
pic3

HERBARIVM
punbela
'j 'j

piS

beabj^ppinjay

jenim

J^aj'

54can

pyjite

leje
Sa?]!^

jecnuca^ hy^ n^ib fmejiupe* butan'^ yealrc to f'sepe'^ punbe Sonne yt lieo j paeopmaS jyp ac ne 5e]?apa f beo lenjc hpset hoppep on biS

jaep^ set

bcje J?onne byt

J;eapp

sy

}>y

loep

beo

))one

balan^"
J^ippep

bcboman pojinime jyp J)onne mib opj^ance Smjep punbian^^ piUe jecnuca Sa pyjite "j ppiS
)7inpe^^

by to
PiS pypte

balan^^

banba pona
peaptan^^

beo yt^^

pone^''

hcbaman.^^
ppylap
"j

piS

jemm
^^

J?a^^

rY^F'*^^^

^ope le^e to })am 'j ppylum -j to ]?am peajitum bmnan~^ peajum^^ tibum beo bpifS ^ JYel *j f pojipm^^ ut atybS.

jecnuca by mib ppmenum

Elup pypt.^^

X.

Deop
'j

pyjt'c

t>e

man

batpacion

'j^*

oj^pum
^"^

naman
^''

cluppypt nemneS biS cenneb^^ on panbi^um

lanbum

on pelbum beo biS peapum leapum

PiS

-j

))ynnum.
"j

^epjuS monoS peoce^^ jennn pap pypte ^^ raib anum peabum pjisebe^^ onbutan^^ psep monnep^fpypan on panpejenbum ^^ monan on ]?am monpe*^* Se man appebp nemneS oN octobpe popepeapbum^^ pona
j

be bi5
PiJ?

jebagleb.

pa^^

ppeajitan

bolb
-j

jenmi

pap
^"^

ylcan

pypte
^^

myb bype

jecmica by men^c eceb psepto^^ leje to^^ Sam bolcbum^^ pona byt popmmS^by^^ 'j jebeS pam oppum bee jebce.
pyptpalan

'

bcab, B.

'^

secnoca, B., and this

his,
1^'

mode of
]?ap,

spelling prevails through^

out

MS. B.
B.
**

O^mejiupe, V.
"

-con, B.
'"

'^

hajie,

B.

' |>aji,

horief, O.

lengc
>

B.
;

hselne, O., neglecting

the definite construction.

" jranbian, B.

fonbian,
'^

O.
B.
^i

'-

'Muilan hanbn, B.;

'^pirtan, O.
'

hsele,

O.
B.

hyc, 0.

hane, O.

'

Hn-, B. -me, O.
^'

haf,
^-

'''

n'lnII.

B.
-^

-"-non,
clofpurt, B.

yvayu,

B.; feapen tibe, O.

pojimp, B.

-j

on enghf

APVLEII.

101
Cloftiung
Art. ix.

For wounds and for running sores, take this same wort, and pound it witli grease without salt lay (it) to the wound, then eat it, and it purifies if there be anything of foulness but allow it not to lie then longer than there be occasion, lest it consume the sound body. If then thou will to try this thing by experiment, pound the wort, and wreathe it to thy sound hand soon it eateth (into) the body.
2.
;

and against warts, take the same wort and pound it with swine dung lay (it) to the swellings and to the warts within a few hours it will drive away the evil, and draAv out the pus.
3.

Against swellings

Clove wort.
1.

X.

Ranunculus
acris.

Bat,

This

wort, which
of

is

called
is

batrachion, and

by

another

name
fields
;

clove wort,
it
is

produced on sandy lands,

leaves,

and on
2.

few

and

(those) thin.
it

For a

lunatic,

take

this

wort,

and wreathe

with a red thread about the mans swere (neck) when the moon is on the wane, in the month which is called April, in the early part of October, soon he will be healed.
3.

its

For the swart roots, and pound

scars
;

scars,
it
;

take this same wort, with

;

the

soon

it

mix vinegar thereto lay to takes them away, and it makes

them

like the rest of the body.

cluffja-c heece'S

heo byrbfeape, O.

"
H.
O.

caenneb, H. B.
^s

^o

j.^n5_^

O.
'^

alters, fol.

30=7.
=5"

-~

fi:o]mm,

^gQ^.^^.^
^'^

^.

pyrt,

O.
^^

>r8ebu,

-bucon, B.;

men, 0. adds. abutan, O.

^'

'-man-, B. O.
^^
3

paegenbu, H.;
^'^

sepaenienbe mona, O.

-))a,

O.

-rbe, O.

]pan,

O. adds.
^^
^^

>>an, O.,

and condenses.
"'

^'

hi^, B.

maensc,

11.

B.; menK, O.
^-

)>ap,

B. O.

on, O.

" bolhum, H.;

bolsu, B. 0.

for'5,

O.

big, B. O.

L5L?t?/'^rP>

^'^N^

102

HERBARIVM
O^ujcpypt.^
XI.
'j

Deoy
j

pyp'c

]>e

man

ajitemepiam

oSjuim

naman

mucjpj^jit^

NemneS

bi8 cenneb^ on jptanijum fropum

]7onne hpa* yiSpset on panbijum onjmnan pille ^ ]?ap pypte aptemipiam Sonne jenime he him on hanb mib him Sonne ne onjyt he na mycel zo j hsebbe ^ }7sep piSep eac jeppynce 'j heo aph jS beopnlpeocnyppa^ *j on ]7am hupe ]7e he hy^*^ mne haepS heo pojibyt ypele lacnunja *j eac heo apenbeS^^ yF^^lj^a
"^

manna
Pi];

eajan.^^

mnoSep pap jenim

'j

J^ap

ylcan

pypte^^

'j

je-

cnuca hy^* to buPce

syle
pap.^^
pi]?

bpmcan^^
pota pap

pona

jemenjc^^ hy^^ piS nipe^'' beop jehSejaS )?8ep inno];ep heo^^

]?ap

jenim

ylcan pypte

'j

jecnuca
Ssejia^'

hy mib pmejmpe
pota opjemmS.
XII.

leje to ]?am

potum heo f pap

IDepba aptemepia tpajanthep ^

blaebpan pap
)?yppe^^
y^p
'j

ip

mujcpypt.-^

piS

piS

^ man ne mseje jemtjan

)7e

jenim

pyp'^^

peap^^

man
'j

eac^^
'j

mv^pyjit

nemneS peo

fpa ]7eah oj^pep

cynnep

jepylP'^ hy^'^

on hatan^^ paetepe oSSe on pine

pyle bpmcan.^^

'

mugpurt, B.
"
pe

^
^

"
'"

-fjunce, B.
his, B.
}>e

mug-, B. eac, H.
(blotted)

csenneb,
^ )"^i?;^>

H. B. H.

hj^a,

B.
IT.;

hanb, B.
B.

-nyj^e,
'^

-nej-j-a,

a]i8enbe>, H.; so B.,

without accent.

e^an, H.

" >a
mugjij^jxc

])irte

cj'eban
*

arcemefia

%
"^^

oSriini

nauian

nemne'S, O.

semeng, O. his, B. " nij'e, B. '" he, O. '^ bjiincan, B. O. omits two paragraphs, but inserts as follows: tif man on j'eise gon j^ille / "Sanne Senime he him on hanbe ]>af jnrte artemefiam "l habbe mib him t>ane ne be|> he j^eri on Seie. Anb eac heo aflish beoful feocnefTe. Anb on }>an hufe fe he hmne hsef'S." heo forbyc yfele lacnunga 1 eac heo apenbe)? yfelra manna ^t jm'S }>an man s^niisan ne msese |7i'S blaebran fare s^^nim J)a easan. ylcan yyrt "t s^ cnuca hi mib fmerupe 't s^rylle hi on haran j'atcre oJ>(Ser on pme.-* "t fyle bnncan. oy, interlined before hsejia, H. ^' J>apa, B. 22 From II., which reads tasantep. The original text of B. had run on, as did that of V., but in B. the more recent penman has drawn a

his, B.

O.

^*

gemaensc, B.

II.;

.'

APVLEII.

103
(MidgeiVOrt)
Artemisia
vuhjaris.

MUGWORT.''^
1.

XI.

Bot,

which is called artemisia, and by another name mugwort, is produced in stony places and in sandy ones. Then if any propose a journey, then let him take to him in hand this wort artemisia, and let him have it with him, then he will not feel
This wort,

much
devil

toil

in his journey.

And

it also
;

puts to flight

and in the {demoniac possession) house in which he, the onan of the house, hath it within, it forbiddeth evil leechcrafts, and also it turneth away the evil eyes of evil men. 2. For sore of inwards, take the same wort, and pound it to dust, and mix it with new beer; give it
sickness
to drink, soon it relieves the sore of the inwards.

3. it

For

sore of feet, take the

with

lard, lay it to

the feet

same wort, and pound it removes the soreness

of the feet.

1.

For sore

MuGWORT.b XII. fiiTT T oi bladder, and m

;

case that a

ni

man

Artemisia dracunculus

bol

cannot pass water, take juice of this wort, which is it is, however, of another sort, also called mugwort

and

boil it in hot water, or in wine,

and give

it

to

drink.

The

painting,

vulg. (so also

is

MS. V., fol. 21 c, is clearly meant for A. H.) The figure in MS. Add. 17063, fol. 11 a,

of the same cast, but the draughtsmen have not thought

^

fidelity their

duty so much as ornamentation. The heading having been omitted in MS. painting. The species is foreign.

V., there is no

line
2^
29

of

distinction

reaj',

B. B.

25

edc,

and H.

-written
^

mugpurt tagantef.
pyl,

^^

\>^YT^>

H.

^r

hig, B.

^s

hatan, B.

bjii-,

104

HERBAKIVM

PiS j?eona^ yaji jenim ];a]' ylcan py)ite j jecnuca liy^ mib jrnejmpe "j jepaepc^ liy pel"* mib ecebe^

jebmb
pel.^

)"y)7]?an

to

$am yape Sy
'j

)7yiibban

baje him biS

ylcan pyjite^

Pi5

pma

pape

piS

jeppel

jemm

)?a

aptemepiam cnuca hy^ mib ele pel jepylbe^ leje psepto^^ hyt hselS punboplice. Iryp hpa mib potable ^^ fpy)^e ^j hepelice jefpenceb^^ py ponne jenim Su J>yppe ylcan pypte pyptpalan pyle etan on liumje *j ept'^ pona he biS jehseleb *j aclsenpob fpa f'aet Su ne penft f heo masje fpa my eel mse^en habban. jebjieht jenime^^ Iryp hpa^"* sy mib pepepum ^^ peap mib ele "j fmype^^ hyt ]?onne Syppe ylcan pypte pona heo J?one^ pepep ppam abej?.

XIII.

Mucj

pypt.

Deop pypt
abuton bicum

fpibbe^^

}>e

pe aptemepiam leptepilop
nembon*^*^ heo biS

-j

oSpum naman mncjpypt

'j

cenneb*^

on ealbum beopjum jyp 6u hype blofSman^^ bpyteft he haepS fpsec ppylce ellen. PiS ]?8ep majan pape jenim J>ap pypte -j cnuca liy pel mib amijbalep ele J^am jemete 6e ];u j jepyll hy cly)?an pypce bo J?onne on anne^^ clsenne claS 'j leje jip pj^ppe J^septo bmnan^* pip bajum he biS hal 'j pypte pypttpuma byS ahanjen opep hpylcep^^ hupep'^ bupu )7onne ne msej senij man pam hupe bepian.^'' p.

Pi6 J^apa pina

bipunje jenim^^ J^YPP^ ylcan pypte

-Scona, B.
^
-),

hig,

B
"

'

geper,

H.

13.;
'

yef,

O.

pel,

O.

omits.
"

O. adds.

f el, B.

yyrt, O.

his, B.

Sepyllebe, 0.
T
eye,

J'apto, B.; J>ar, 0.

'^

once was written

'^

in

II.,

" -ab-, B. ^'-ry^nc-,B. but has been erased. O. omits

'^ '
21

the paragraph.
'^

" hpa, B.
>ofi,

senim, O.
22

l-mepa, B.

H.;

)>an,
II.

is still faulty.

^^

nemne-S,
is

O. B.

)>jiibbe j'ypt, B.,

p}rc, O. but the sense

'"

csenneb, H. B.

biopSman,
-^

II.

also
2*

blopman, B., which

etymologically correct.
20 iiuj-ep,

senne, II. B.
'^

-non, B.

"

j-pyices, II.

B.

-^

bejiisean, II,

?;^nim, II.

APVLEII.

105
Mugwort.
^^^' ^"*

For sore of thighs, take this same woit, and pound it with lard, and wash it well with vinegar bind it next to the sore; on the third day it will be
2.

well with them.

For sore of sinews and same wort artemisia pound

3.
;

for
it

swelling,
oil

take

the

with

well boiled

lay
4.

it

thereto;

it

heals wonderfully.

If one be

much and

heavily troubled with gout,

then take thou roots of this same wort, give them to eat in honey, and soon after he will be healed and
cleansed,

so

that

thou

wilt

not think that

it

(the

wort) has so great

5.

efficacy.

If one be afflicted with fevers, let

of this
;

him take then

it

juice

same wort with

oil,

and smear

(on

him)

it

soon will do

away

the fever.
XIII.

Mugwort. a
rm
1.

This wort,

the third which

(now)

XsTTTocpuAXo^,

we called artemisia and by another name mugwort, is

Artemisia Pontica. Bot.

produced about ditches, and on old barrows. If thou breakest its blossoms, it has a flavour as elder. 2. For sore of the maw (stomach), take this wort,

and pound it, and boil it well with oil of almond, in the manner as thou wouldst work a plaister; put it then on a clean cloth, and lay it thereto within five days he will be hole. And if a root of this wort be hung over the door of any house, then may not any
;

man damage
3.

the house. ^
this

For quaking c of the sinews, take juice of

This species is not English, hence has no English In MS. V., fol. 22 a, the drawing is nearly like name. that of Anthemis, art. xxiv., and the plants are closely
*

allied.

In the

text, p. for

pypt

is

out of place, for no drawing was

wanted
c

here.
text,

The

1528, of Apuleius has

tumorem

our author

must have read tremorem.

106

HERBAKIVM
Sonne psepmib^ hyt ealne Sone leahtoji
liy*

feap^ jemencjeb- mib ele fmype^

hy

jeppicaS

paepe^

bipunje^

-j

jenimeS/
Pitoblice
flap

}>peo pyp'^a

])e

pe aptemepiay
'j

nembon

yp
j

pa^b

f biana hy pmban pcolbe^

cliijioni

heopa maejemi^^

centaupo pyllan se repept op Jjyppum pyptum laecnunje^^ jepette *j lie J)ap pypta op naman fepe^^ bianan JJ ip ajitemepiap jenemnebe.
laecebom

XIV. Doccae.'^

Deop pypt pe man lapatmm 'j oSpum naman boccse^* nemneS bi5 cenneb^^ on panbijum fcopum ^ on ealbum myxenum.^^ PiS cypnlu ]?e on jepealbe pexeS^'' jemm ]?ap pyj^tre lapatium 'j cnnca hy^^ mib ealbum pyple buton pealte fpa f fep pmejiupep^^ sy tpam bselum mape J?onne
J?sepe^^
]>y]^'^e
-j

TpyJ^e

pel

jemenjeb^^

bo
'j

hyt:

pyntprenbel ^^

bepealb on canlep^'^ leape

ponne bepec^^ on
]7a

hatum

alipum^^ ^ ]?onne hit liat^^ py leje opeji cypnlu -j ^eppiS Ssepto^^ ]?yp ip selept^ piS cypnlu.

Dpacentfe.^^

XV.
-j

Deop

pypt

pe

man

bpacontea
^^^^

oSpum

naman

^T ^pa^can blobe acenneb^^ beon pceolbe*^^ lieo bi5 cenneb^^ on upej^eapbjiacentpe

nemneS yr T^^ f
)?8Bp^'^

bum muntum
fuopum'j

bseppap^^ beoS ppypofu on lialijum

on pam lanbe pe

man

apulia

nemneS

heo^^

'

]-6ap,

B.
''

^emsensc,
B.
"^

II.

5;em?en?;eb,
II.

B.
^

''

ymejiz, B.
"

hi^, B.

\>Si]\,

B,

|>a]ie,

senime'5,
'i'

pnban, B.
'^
'"

fceolbe,

H.
II.

'"

msej^nu, B.

" lacn-, B.

hapa, B.
'"

bocke, B., by later

" bocce, B. hand. ' hi^, " peaxe-S, B. B.

2'

crenneb, TI.
j-mejiuj'e,
bael,

myxennum,
^o

H.
V.;

j,ape,

B.

semsenseb, B.
caj)ler,

II.

"So
H.

B.;

pnetjum

pi^etpum bd, H.

^3

H.

2' bejiffic,

ahj-um,

H.

axpim, B.

hat, B.

APVLEII.

107
MlJGWOUT.
Art.
xiii.

same wort, mixed with oil, smear them then therethey will cease the quaking, and it will take with
;

away
4.

all

the mischief.
of these
it
is

Verily

three

worts,

which we named

Diana should find {found) them, and delivered their powers and leech dom to Chiron, the centaur, who first from these worts set forth a leechdom, and he named these worts from the
artemisias,

said

that

name

of Diana, "Aprefjug, that

is

Artemisias.
Itumex
foUus.

DoCK.a
1.

XIV.
called

ohtusi-

Bot.

This

wort,

which
is

is

lapatium,

and

another

name

dock,

produced in sandy places,

by and

on old mixens. 2. For kernels or sivelled glands, which wax on the groin, take this wort lapatium, and pound it with old grease without salt, so that of the grease there he by two parts more than of the wort make it very well mixed into a ball, and fold it in the leaf of a cabbage, and make it smoke on hot ashes, and when it be hot, lay it over the kernels, and wreathe (hind) it
;

thereto.

This

is

best for kernels.

Dragons.^
1.

xv.

Ai'um dracuncuhis.

Of

this

wort,

which

is

named
It
is

dpaxovTiov,

and

by another name
the tops

dragons,

it is

said that it should be

(was) produced of dragons blood.

of mountains,

produced on
be,

holy places,

where bowers and on the land which is

drawn

mostly in
Apulia.

called

A dock

is

in its early stage before the stalk in

is

MS. V. Fiddle dock ^ See Glossary.

drawn

in

MSS. G.

T.

"(Sap,
^^ ^*

B.

3-elorc,
31

B.

bragance, B.,
csenneb, B.

in

later

hand.

acsenneb, B.
beajipaj*,

3'colbe,

B.

32

H.

^3 ^r^^^^ i^

H.

''^

he,

H.

108

HEKBARIVM
luinijiiiu

on
'j

lanbe pyx'S' Jieo

yj'

linej'ce

on tethpine
fpylce

pepebpe
-j

on
ye

byjiincje^

"j

on

fpsece

5]iene

cyj'tel*^
lieapob.^

pyjitpuma

neoSepeapb*

fpylce

bpacan

Nasbpe.
pi'6 eajiJa na^bjiena plite

jenim
'j

}>yrr^

VYV^^ bpaconrea
syle b]\inccan^

pyjirtpuman cnuca mib pme call f arcop liyt topejieS.

pypm hyt

PiSban bpyce jenim J>yfpe ylcan pypte pypttpuman^ j^ cnuca mib pmeppe J?am jelice J?e Su clypan pypce Sonne atyhS hyt^ op );am lichoman^^ j^a tobpocenan ban Sap pyp^e J?u pcealt: Niman on J^am monSe )?e

man

lulium nemneS.

JOpeapnef leacJ^

XVI.

^6 man patypion 'j oSpum naraan py'P^ hpsepnep^^ leac^^ nemneS heo biS cenneb^* on hean^^

Deop

bunum on heapbura fcopum on on bejanum lanban^^

*j "j
^j

*j

fpa pome^^

on maebum^^

panbijum.^^
)?yppe

PiS

eappoSlice
J?e

punbela

jenim

pypte ^^

Pyj^"^-

tpuman^^
pjuapipci

pe

patypion
j

liataS^^
'j

nembon *j eac pume men cnuca topomne hyt j^a punba^^

aclaenpaS
PiJ;

Sa bolh ^elycS.

eajena pap f ip J^onne ^ hpa topnije^ py jenim"^ pmype^^ Sa eajan^^ ]?yppe ylcan yy]Xce^^ peap~^ *j ];9ppmib^^ butan^^ ylbmcje hyt opjenumS f pa]i.

'

jnxfc, n.

byjjismcse,
''

II.; bi)uj;inse, II.

'

B.

'

cyfcen, II.

'

ny'Se-, B.

'

heajob, B.

bjucan,
'"

iiyjarjniraan,

" refnef lee, -haman, B. ^^ hean, B. ''^ caenneb, II. B. ' fame, '^ loac, H. jisej-ner, B. "" >^ ' msebu, B. lanbum, II. B. PyP^^'^i^j ^' r^n^- ^' B. "^ '" " liara'S, B. O. adds afermajj, purycs. ]'yicjuman, V. - j'ypt, " mm, II. H. ^' tojian (termination blurred) eaj^e, B.
"

hyc, H. omits.

H. omits. B., by a later penman.

"

V.

i,

'**

APVLEII.

100
Dragons.

nosh (soft) to the touch, and sweetish to the taste, and in flavour as a green chestnut, and the netherward root is as a
It

waxetli

in

stony land,

it

is

dragons head.

Figures of a snake and dog in fol 22 d.

2.

hostility.

MS.

F.,

For wound of

all

snakes, take roots of this wort

dracontium, with wine, and

it

warm

it

give

it to

drink

will
3.

remove

all

the poison.

For broken bone, take roots of this same wort, and pound them with lard, as if thou wouldst work a poultice then it draweth from the body the broken This wort thou shalt take up on the month bones. which is called July.
;

KAVENS
1.

LEEK.^is

XVI.
c-urupiov,

Orchis.

Bot.

This

wort,

which

called

another

name ravens
places,

leek, is

and in hard
tivated lands,
2.

and also and in sandy ones.

and by produced on high downs in meadows, and in cul-

For difficult wounds, take roots of this wort which we named satyrion, and (which) also some men and knock (pound) together it priapiscus, call cleanseth the wounds, and cures the scars.
;

3.

For sore of

eyes,

that

is,

when that one be

removes the
sore.

tearful,

take juice of this same wort, and smear the

;

eyes therewith

without delay

it

An

orchis

is

figured,

(Satyrium of Linnaeus).
less

marked

in

MS.

A.,

MS. V., fol. 23 a, not a Hahenaria The orchidaceous character is much fol. 13 a. MS. Gr. draws an orchis.

2'
''

hums, H.

j-mepa, B.

^9

eagene, 0.

^o

|,a^,^

33

but on, B.

110

HERBAEIV]!iI

Felb

yf]\X:?

xvii.
*j

Deoy
pyjit

pyjit

J?e

man jentianam
heo
biS

nemnej?
to

oSjmm naman cenneb^ on bunum

heo
biS

jrelb-

-j

heo

fpamaS^

eallum

bjienceom^

hnepce

on

setbjune ^ bittejie on byjijmjce^

Nsebpe.

Pi6

nsebpan phte

jemm

)?y]f]fe

ylcan pypte

jen-

tianam pypttpuman *j ^ebjiije hme^ cnuca Sonne to bupte anpe tpemepe'' jepibte syle bjiincan on pme J?py pcenceap^ hit ppemaS^^ miclum.^^
8hte.
XVIII.

Deop pyp'c Se man opbiculapip -j oJ)pum naman shte nemneS heo biS cenneb^^ on bejanum ftopum^^ j on bunlanbum. PiJ? f Sset^* mannep pex^^ pealle jenim J?ap ylcan pypte 'j bo on pa nseppyplu.^^ PiS mnopep ptypuni^a^'' jenim pap ylcan pypte pypc to palpe^ leje to Saep mnoSep pape eac heo piS
heoptece^^ pell ppemaS.^^

PiS miltan^^ pajie jenim pypj'e ylcan pypte peap anne^^ pcenc^^ *j pip fciccan pulle^^ ecebep pyle bpmcan^^
bajap pu punbjiapS^^ fepe^^ jeppemmmcje jenim eac^^ Ssepe^^ ylcan pypte pyptpuman^^ *j ahoh^^ abutan^^
.IX ^^

p8ep

mannep ppypan^^

ppa^^

f he

hanjie^*^ pojme^^

jean

Sa^^ miltan hpeeblice^^ he

biS jehseleb

'j

fpa*^ lipylc

'

Not

jrelpypc.
^

B.
'

biceji

tpymese, H.
'^

^ jjiema'S, B. ^ csenneb, H. B. on bipginse, B. byjnsmsce, H. ^ l^pi?; j-csencaj', B. ^ gepaese, H.

;

bjiyncum,
B., her.

"

hig,

'

jrpama'S,

H.

" mice-, B.
nemne'S.

'2

ceenneb, II. B.; 0.,

^'

fol.

15 b, breaks the sentence at

^^

j-tojmm, B.
^^

(Ssec i^e,

B.

)'eax,

B.
^^
^^^

"^

noj--,

B.
2"

1^

fcypunse, H.
;

gealye, H. B. ; fealue, O.
^i

-meS, O.

j-pama'S,

H.
fix.

u^iice,
^5
^7

O.

senne, B.
;

heorce ece, O. rcsenc, H.;

^e ^9

with accent, B. H. has been altered to

8" l^ajie,

2' fiillu,

O.

hjiincan, B.

bjnncan,
^s

H.
also

j^ in

_aft, q.
;

|,ape,

B.

^dc, II.

B.

^^

jjypttpuman, H.

j)urcume, 0.,

which

condenses.

APVLEII.

Ill

Field wort.
1.

XVII.

Erythraa
pulcclla.

Bol.

This

wort,

which
wort,
all

is
is

called

gentian,

and

by

another name
it
is

field

beneficial

for

produced on downs, and it is nesh drinks {antidotes)

;

(soft) to the touch,

and bitter to the

taste.

Dratuing of a snake. MS. V., fol. 23 h. 2. For bite of snake, take a root of this same wort gentian, and dry it knock it then to dust by weight of one drachm; give to drink in wine three cups; it benefits much.
;

Sowbread,^
1.

XVIII.

Cyclamen
hedercpfolium.

This wort,

which
is

is

called

orbicularis,

and by Bot
places,

another

name

slite,

produced in cultivated

and on downlands. 2. In case that a mans hair fall ofi*, take this same wort, and put it into the nostrils. 3. For stirring of the inwards, take this same wort,

work
4.

it

to a salve; lay

it

to the sore of the inwards.

It also is well beneficial for heartache.

For sore of milt (spleen), take juice of this same wort one cup, and five spoonsful of vinegar give (this) to drink for nine days; thou wilt wonder at the benefit. Take also a root of the same wort, and hang it about the mans swere (neck), so that it may hang in front against the milt (spleen) soon he will
;

In the

figures,

MS.

V.,

fol.

23

c,

MS.

A.,
:

fol.

14

a,

we

see that Ct/cl. hed. had once been the model but the tuber has become a disk and the flowers strawberries. In MS. T. Cyclamen is well drawn, and is glossed Aswote. MS. G-. is

nearer the herb than

MS. V.
fpeopan, H.

^-

ahoh, B.
36

^^

bucon, B.

^^

fpuran, O.
^r

^^

)ja,
^'^

O., for
|>ar,

j-pa.
39

hansiSe, H.; hansige, B.

'<'

aforne, O.

0.

pseb-, B.; hreel-, 0.

man

fpa,

O.

112

HERBARIVM
]^yf f e

man
he

pypte
pciep

j^eap J^ijeS

punbojilicjie hppobnj^ppe
p>ap

onjit

mnoSey liSunje

pyjite

man moDj

nnnan on

relcne pael.^

Unpojitpsebbe.^

xix.

Deop pypt Se man pjiopeppmacam* -j oSjium naman unpojitp ebbe nemneS heo biS cenneb^ jehpsep on^ bejanum ptopum ^ on beojijum Sap pypte^ Su

pcealt on pumejia nimen.^

jenim pyiT^^^ PYP"^^ peap^^ ppopeppmace *j butan pmice^* S^PY^ ^^ ppiSe jobum ptjian^um pme bpmce ponne pseptenbe^^ nijon *j bajaf^^ bmnan^'' pam paece f>u onjytft: on Sam^^ punPi(S
j;5^

man

blob^^ ppipe^^

bo]ilic^^
PiJ?

Smjc.^^

ele

*j

pyban pa)ie^^ jenim }?yppe ylcan pypte peap mib fmype^^ jelomlice^^ hit jenimS f pap.
f>e

beo6 melee *j toSunbene^^ cnuca hy^^ *j mib^'' butejian jeliSja^^ leje Sonne J^sejito^^ heo tobpipS punboplice Sa
PiS tittia pap pipa^* jenmi Sa ylcan pypce 'j
toSunbennj^ppe^^
'j

]3

pap.

piS eajena pape sep punnan upjanje oS6e hpene

seji

heo pullice jepijan^^ onjmne ja to fejie^^ y^^^^^ Pyp"^^' ppopeppmacam *j beppit hy abutan^^ mib anum jylbenan^* hpmje^^ "j cpeS f ])Vi h}^^'' to eajena laecebome

niman^^ pylls *j septep Spim bajum ja ept J^sejito ^^ seji punnan ^^ upjanje^^ *j jemm liy"*^ ^ hoh on butan
'^^^

pSGp

mannep

fpyjian lieo pjiemaS'^^

pel.

'

-lice jjjeb-,

B.

'^

o alee tima, O.
''

un, O. omits.
^

for-

trobbe,

'

O., rubric.

proserpinam, O.

caenneb,

If.

B.

on,

H.
B.
II.

'

j'yjic,
>'

B.

mman, H.
'2

B.; -me, O.

he, B.
j^

blob, B.
3'mice,

rpipe,
)

B.
"

iican,
'

B. adds.
'"

'^ j.^.^^,^

"

'^

ajf-cnbe, 11.
-lice,
''
j

bagef, O.
^o

bmnou, B.
21

ou am,

omits.
"'

O.
ij'a,

y^^^Q^ jj
25

f^pa,

O.

23

rnietia, B.

-16m-, B.

O.

.jn'mb-, B.

^c

h,j^

APVLEir.

11 J]

be
of
at

licaled.
tliis

And whatsoever man

inwards.

swallows the

juico

Sowiiueai).

wort, witli wondrous quickness he will perceive

relief of the

This wort a

man may

collect

any

period.

Untrodden to
1.

pieces, Knotgrass,
is

xix.

Polygonum
aviculare. But.

This wort, which

called proserpinaca,''^
is

produced in cultivated places, and on barrows. This wort thou shalt gather in summer. 2. In case that a man spew blood, take juice of this wort proserpinaca, and boil it without smoke in very good and strong wine let (the sick) drink it then fasting for nine days, within the period of which thou wilt perceive a wondrous thing (effect).
;

another

name unfor trodden,

and by everywhere

For sore of side, take juice of this same wort, with oil, and smear (the sides) frequently it will remove the sore. 4. For sore of titties of women, which be in milk and swollen, take the same wort, and knock (^pound) it, and lithe it with butter ^ (add butter as a lenitive)
3.
; ;

then thereto it will drive away wonderfully the swoUenness and the soreness. 5. For sore of eyes, before sunrise, or shortly before it begin fully to set, go to the same Avort proserpinaca, and scratch it round about with a golden ring, and say that thou wilt take it for leechdom of thereto before e}'es, and after three days go again
lay
it
;

rising

of sun,

and take
;

it,

and hang

it

about the

mans swere
^

{neck)

it

will profit well.

^ Latin,

Lat. Polygonum=Sanguiiiaria=Proserpinaca. " cum butyro subacta."

-'

hy mib,
tSape,

II.

-^
^^
^-

-^Sesa, B.

^9

|,ap,
^'

B.

so

.nej-j-e,

B.
^^

''

-ps- B.
B. O,

^="=

B.

onbucon, B.
^^ \>a]i,
^'

un

gilbene, O.
=*"

h]iinj5e,
'

his, B.

-men, O.
hit;,

B. O.

fune, O.
''

Sancge, H.,

without up.

B.

=-

-ton, B.

jpamaiS,

II.

114
Pi6
tojzepeS
ben*^
Ccajiena
j'aji

HERBARIVM
jeiiim
J^yffe

ylcan

pypte
hit

yeap*

jeplseht^

bjiype^
-j

on f

eajie

punbojilice
*j

j^ap

eac* pe

fylpe

epenlice
*j

jlseplice^ onjiun-

habba6 f f>83jia^ eapena paji

hit

ppemaS^

eac

pitoblice

utene

jehselS.

PiS utpihte jemm j^yppe ylcan pypte leapa peap^^ *j pylP^ on psetepe syle bpmcan })am ^emete ]7e Se ];ince he ht6 hal jepopben.

8mejio pypt.^^

xx.

^^Deop pypt J7e man apiptolochiam -j oSpum naman pmepopypt^* nemneS heo biS cenneb^^ on bunlanbum j on pseptum^^ ptopum:-^^
pi6 attjiep ptjienSe^^ jenim
'j

cnuca^^ pyle

bpmcan ^^

pypte apiftolochiam on pine heo opepfpiS ealle

])B>y

ftjienSe^^ paep attpep.

^^Pi]? J>a^^ fti)?uptan^^
-j

pepepap jenim Sap pylpan pyjite

aplijS

^ebpi^e hy^^ fmoca ponne^^ J?9epmib^^ heo

na

Isep^ ]7one

pepep eac^^ PPylce beopul peocnyppa.^^

PiS nsQj'Sypla

pajie

jenim

}>yppe

ylcan pypte pypthpaeblice

h^'t
hi^^

puman
laeceap^*

-j

bo
'j

on
to

]?a

naepSyplu^^
jelsebeS.

apeojimeS^^

hsgle

pitoblice

ne niajon

naht mycel hselan

biitan/'^ J?ippe pypte.

PiS J)8et^^ hpa^'' mib cyle jepseht^^ py jenim^^ J?ap ylcan pypte ^^ 'j ele -j fpmen*^ fmepo*^ bo tosomne

peaj),

B.

j;ej)leht,
''

H. B.
^^

brupe, O.
^

'

eac,

"
""

yfunben, O.
j-eap,

V. omits

three words.

eac,

H. H.
'*

Sleaji-,
^ J^ajia,

B. B.

B.

" pyl, n.
csenneb, H. B.

forjec^epupt, B., in later hand.

the paragraph, giving the equivalent names in the next.

O. omits fmenepyrt,
'^^

O.
-'

fafte,
'"

O.

'"

r^op-, B.
-"

'

j^paen-Se,

II.; j-cpen^tSe,

B.; rtrenge, O.
II.;

fcjifcns'Se,

enuca hi- t, O. fcpensK B.; ftrense, O., with ]> added.

^i
^7

brencan, O.
22

o^^j^g

-^ \>ai, H. two paragraphs. '"' msengc hi pnioca hy jjoii, H. T

-epc-, B.
as

" S^^J^S
jxteld&Yi

hiS,

j^^p^ 13

B.

nselap,

B. H.

APVLEII.

115

For sore of ears, take juice of this same wort untrodden i'uxks. make lukewarm, drip it on the ear wonderfully it Art. XIX, removes the sore; and also we ourselves have tried it fairly and cleverly. And also, further, externally it healeth an ulcer of the ear.
6.
; ;

'^'^

7.

For

diarrhoea,^ take

juice

of the leaves of this

;

same wort, and boil it in water give it to drink in \ .^ the manner which may seem good to theej he wilL-^
be recovered.

^^'>^

Smear wort.
1.

XX.
ocpia-Tokoxioi,

AristohcUa
clemalitis.

Bot.

This wort, which

is

named
is

and by

another

name smear
solid places.

wort,

produced on downlands,

and on
2.

Against strength of poison, take this wort aristolochia, and pound it it give to drink in wine
;
;

overcometh
3.

all

the strength of the poison.

For the stiffest fevers, take the same wort and dry it smoke (the sick) then therewith it puts to
;

flight

not

only the

fever,

but

also

devil

sickness

{demoniacal possession).
4.

For sore of

nostrils,^

take root of this same wort,

;

and introduce it into the nostrils quickly it purges them, and leadeth to health. Verily, leeches may not
Ileal
5.

much without
In
this

this wort.

case

that

one

be
oil

afflicted

with
;

chill,

take

same wort, and

and swine grease

put

Ad

dysentericos.

^ Latin,

Ad fistulas,

and

fistulis inserta.

2"eac,
='

K. -maS, H. B.
fmere, O.

^^''-nerre,
''
=^^

H.; -nerra, B. ^5 _^q^^ Isecar, B.

^"^

^'

-\>y]ila,

B.

'"

lug, B.
b])a,

^
O.

3.

p^^
^^

-^ ^if^

O.

='"

B.

^^
*-

Sej'ehc, B.

nime, O.

jnrc,

rpynej-, H.; vpmen, B.

nC
J?onne^
lia?).cS
liit:

IIERr.ARTVM
fcjirenjSe^

(Sa

hyne

to

jepyjun-

Noebpan.*

piS

niBbjian

j^lite

jenim

J^yfye

yl<^^n

yyV^^

pyj^"^"

tjmman tyn

peiieja^
syle

Z^V^Z^

liealjrne

fefceji pinej^
cojic-

^eyeyc^ toyorane

bpmcan jelomlice ponne

)^y

]ieS^ hit ]?set attoji.

Ijyy

hpylc cylb
'j

ahp^eneb^

)7onne

jenim
jebept

]7ii

]\ap

ylcan^ PYP"^^ Se jl?eb]ie.

T^^oca hit mib

]?onne

Sii

hit

PiS ]> pea]ihbp?ebe hpam on nopa^^ pexe^^ jenim ])a y^can p^'P^e -j cyppeppum^^ 'j bpacentpan ^j hnni;^ cnuca topomne^^ leje J^sejito^'^ Sonne biS hit pona^^

jebet.

Ea3ppe.^^
Pi(S^^

XXI.

^ mannep pex^^ pealle jenim J)?cjie'^ PYP"^^ yea]) oSpum naman c^eppe^^ nemnet) \)e man naftujicmm 'j bo on ]^a nopa f pex^^ pceal yexen.^^

Deop

pyp''^"

i^e

biS

papen

ac

heo^^ op

hype

pylj^P*^

on pyllon 'j on bpocen^^ eac^^ hit apjiiten yp ^ heo on pumum lanbon^^ piS pajap peaxen-'-^
cenneb^'* biS^^
pylle.

PiS heapob pap f yp piS pcupp^^ 'j pi*8 jicSan jenim pypte^^ paeb^- "j S^pc fmejiu'*^^ cnuca J^yppe ylcan

' - rr]ieu?;'v5e, B.; ftrenjqe, Kine, O. O., with \> added. -purm-, O. Here in B. a blank is left, and karfe is written, as ^ paenega, II. B. a heading or guide to rubricator. See Contents.
'

"
'"

Sej)es,

II.

B.

'^

-jiaS,

B.

noj-an, B.;

nop,
'^

Latin.
'

with n added. cofomna, O.

IT.,

ahjineb, B. " j'eaxc, B.

"

Sa
''^

)"yl>an,

If.

"cypcro,"
().
'

"

\>a]^,

B. 0.
O.,
--

fona hal,
yeax,

karfe,

B.,

in later
-"

writing.

"

Gif,

fol. 15.

B.

"' JjifTe,

O.

cej))v,

B.

'^^

yeax, B. O.

j'exan, II.; jeaxan, B. O.

-^

O. thus: heof

j'yit jiexa)>

on jwlle
'-'

''t

on paetere
B.
-" "'

1 eac on lanbu
-' bi'S,

"t
-"

by

pajjaf .
II.

''t

by
-'

ftanef.
-'"

cajnneb,

11.

omits.

bpoeon,

B.

ac, II.

-^
--

lanbc, II.

pexen, B.

^"

Tca]\y, II.;

O. condenses.

jMrc,

O.

sece, for

j-aeb, If.

pni'iia,

B.; -\\\ O.

APVLKJ;.
th6r)i
liiin.

1J7
the
strciigtli

together

then

hath

it

to warn: Sme vu woirr.

^^'^- '^^

Tivo snakes intertwined.

0.

iMS. V., fol. 24

c.

For bite of adder, take roots of this same wort, by weight of ten pennies and half a sextarius, wash them together give to drink (J innt) of wine frequently then will it remove the poison. 7. If any child be vexed/^ then take thou the same wort, and smoke it with this; then wilt thou render
;

it

the gladder.
8.

In case that to any one an ulcer

take the same wort,
togetlier,

nose,

grow on his and cypress, and dragons,

*^

and honey, pound pvepavatwi) then

\

lay

thereto

(ctirply

the

will it be soon

amended.
xxi.
JVastxrtinm
officinale.

Chess, WatevcressP
1.

In case that a mans Lair fall ofF,^ take juice of the wort which one nameth nasturtium, and by another name cress put it on the nose the hair
;
;

shall
2.

wax

(grotv).
is

This wort
that

itself in

but it is produced of wylls {springs^ and in brooks; also it is

not sown,
in

written,
walls.

some

lands

it

will

grow against
for itch,

For sore of head, that is for scurf and take seed of this same wort and goose
3.

grease

'^

Latin, contristatus.

^ LatiD,
c

carcinomata.
arc rudely like the
like

The drawings

plant.

'

The drawing

in
d
^

MS. V.
Latin,

is

most

Euphorbia

lathyris, caper spurge," PI.

Ad

caput depilandum.

Latin, circa parietes imos.

The

interpreter has wilfully

altered the sense.

118
toj'omne
hit
J;a

HERBARIVM
hpitnefye^
j)8ef^

j'cuppej"

op

Sam

heajzbe at^^liS.

Pi6 hcey^ j^apnypjfe* jenim tu]\cium 'j poUeian^ jfeoS on

)?a]"

ylcan pypte nafsyle

'j

p?etepe

bjimcan

ponne jebetft;^ 6u
topsejiS.^

]?8ep

lichoman^ yajinyppe^
ylcan pyjite

f yF^^
liy
raib

Pi6 ypylay jenim

ele

]?ay

cnuca

leje

opej\
'j

]?a

fpylay
]?8ejit:o.^^

mm

Sonne

^^

)?8e]\e^^

ylcan

pyjite^^ leap

leje

cnuca toyomne^^ leje fsepto^^ hy beoS pona popnumene.

]?ap

PiS peajitan jenim

ylcan pyjite

"j

syf'^^*

Irpeate pypt.

xxii.

Deop pypt ]?e man hiepiibulbum 'j oSpum naman jjieate pypt nemne]? heo bi]? cenneb^^ abutan^ heojan^^ fcopum. j on pulum PiS liSa pape jenim f'yppe ylcan pypite ]?e pe hiepibulbum nembun^^ pyx yntpan^^ 'j jsetenep pmepupep

Sam be
pomne
je
pel

jelicon*^^

'j

op
elep

cypjieppo^'^
'j

}^am

tjieopcynne

anep punbep jepihte

)?8epa^^ liSa.

tpejea^^ yntpa

cnuca to

jemenjceb^^ hit jenimS f pap je psep mnoSej'

pipmannep nebbe pexen^'' jenim J?yppe pylpan^^ yjV^^ pyptpuman^^ 'j jemenjc^^ piS ele })pea^^ pySSan ]?8epmib^^ hit apeopimaS op ealle pa
Irip

nebcopn

on

nebcojm.

hpic, B.

1'aefcujijej',

H.
it
^

^ licej*,

B.

"

Ad
^

cruclitalein,^'

indigestion.
"

The

translator took

j?one sebetfcu, H.; ]>an, O.

B.

coyepetS,

H.
^*

"

j?ap,

B. O.

"

Ad

for "rawness." poUeglau, O. ^ -neffe, -haman, B. H.; -mef, O. ' ^' " J'ajae, B. O. i>me, 0. ryrt, O. strumas " cum lomento. Apuleius. That is, a

'^ comixture of bean meal and rice kneaded together. But 'gyk=i/east. '^ '" >apc6, B.; '^ csenneb, H. B. gabere, O. -ton, BJ>ar, O. '

heson,

II.

B.
;

-",-bon, B.

21

gnj-an, IJ.

^--^ehcan,
tye'gpa, B.
-^ j-ylj-jan,

H.

-^s

Qy

ci/prini, Lat.

oil

of privet ;

cypiiefTa,

H.

'

-^

semaengceb,

^7 j^eaxan, B. )>a]ia, B. H.; -Seb, B. ^i 30 gemeensc, H.; -g, B. B. H. ),p^a^

-'^

H.
b.

pyjitt]i-,

32

^^^^^

APVLEII.

119
off

pound
4.

together

it

draws
body/^

from
take

the

head the

Ckess.
^^^"^-

whiteness of the scurf.

^^'

same wort nasturtimn, and penny royal; seethe them in water; give to drink then amendest thou the soreness of the body, and the evil departs. swellings, take this same wort, and 5. Against pound it with oil lay over the swellings then take leaves of the same wort, and lay them thereta 6. Against warts,^ take this same wort and yeast pound together, lay thereto they be soon taken away.
For
soreness

of

this

Great wort.
1.

xxii.
Upo^oK^os,

CokMcum
(lutumnale
?

This wort, which

man nameth
is

and by Bot

another

name

great wort,

produced about hedges

this

same wort, which we named hierobulbus, six ounces, and of goats grease by the same (measure), and of oil^ of cypress, the tree genus, by weight of one pound, and two pound together when well mixed, it will ounces take away the disease, either of the inwards or of the
;
;

and in foul places. 2. For sore of joints, take of

limbs.
8.

If granulations

(pimples)

face,
oil;^^

take roots of this

grow on a womans same wort, and mingle with

it

then wash afterwards therewith;

all

will

purge

away

the face kernels (pi/inples).

Latin,

^ Latin,
c

Ad cruditatem, Ad furunculos,
pound
tioo

indigestion,
boils.

Latin,

Cyprinum oleum, ad libram

ounces.

et unci as dnas

oil

of
his

privet,

one

The

interpreter

had

difficulties.
^

Latin,

Cum

linimento lupinacio, that

is,

hrewis, used as a

wash

for the face.

120

lIEKBARIVIir

JjIoj:

pyjit.^

XXIII.
^j

Deo]"
jlofpyjit

pypit

];e

man

apollmajiem
]5

oSjmm naman
aejicyt^ jrinban*^

nemne]? yy ygeb
^ hj^

apollo
l^Gce

hy

yceolbe^

epculapio

];am

j^jdlan

J^anon

he

h^j-pe ]7sene^
])\b

naman ^ on

ayerte.

hanba^ j^ape jenim ];ap ylcan pyptre apollmajiem cnuca hy^ mib ealbum^^ fmeppe butan^^ pealre bo )7a3pt(3^^ anne^^ pcsenc^* ealbep^^ pmep 'j ^ sy^^ jehset butan^^ fmice '^^ *j ]78ep smeppey*^^ py anep punbep
jcpilite^^

pypce

'j

cnuca to pomne j^am jemete leje to ]?aepe^' hanba.^^

J^e

6u

c]y]?an

Ma^ej^e.''^'^

xxiv.

piS eajena pape jenime man^*

Sap pS^pte
]?e
'j

nemne'O
pille piS

-j

man camemelon ]7onne~^ liy man nime*^

-j

^p punnan^^ upjanje oSpum naman maje] e

cpej^e

p he

h}'"^

plean

piS eajena pape nnnan^^

nyme pySSan

f pop

'j

fmypije^^ Sa eajan fejimib.^^

IDeojit cla?ppe.'^^

XXV.
heojit*j

Deop pypt pe man chamebjnp 'j oSpum naman clteppe nemneS heo biS cenneb^^ on bmium^^
fseftum lanbum.

on

'

clofj'urc, B., in later writing.

-ofr, B.; areft, O.

'

finben, O,

'

j'colbe,

B.

hi,
^

B.

*^

l^one,

B.

fella
;

]>a

he hyre
;

Kman
^^^^^

naman, O.
hi?;,

Ad

vulnera chironia, Latin

hanba, B,

hanba, O.
13
>'

B. O.
1*

'

ealbe, O.
'=

" -con, B. O.
selbef,

'^ '

j,ap^

r q
-'

II.
"* --

B.

fenc, O.
'"

O.
^o

j-mice,

B.

fmerepef, O.
impones,
Latin.
fol.

yy, B. jjej^hice, O.
^'

-ton, B.

hape, B. O.
later hand.
-g

Chironio vulneri
scniiii,

mei'Se, B.,
25 fnj-,a^

by
^^

2'

O., without man,

^s
]jj^^^

2^

nimen, O.
cainncb,
II.

j^
^"

38 = 10. 29 nime, O.,

B.
^-

q
by

|,an,

O.

infinitive.

rmypv;e, 11.;
later pen.

pncjU'se, B.; fmyre, O.

^^

haji,

licc^t clourc, B.,

B.

^'

bane, O.

APVLEII.

121
XXIII.
Convaltaria
maialis.

GLOVEWOKT, Lily of
1.

the valley.

Of

this wort,

which

is

named

Apollinaris,

and

by another name glove wort, it is said that Apollo should first find it, and give it to ^sculapius, the leech, whence he set on it the name. 2. For sore of hands,'*^ take this same wort Apollinaris, ponnd it with old lard without salt, add thereto a cup of old wine, and let that be heated without sinoke,^ and of the lard let there be by weight of one knock {^poiind) together in the manner in pound which thou mightest work a plaister, and lay to the
;

hand.

M.AYTHE.
1.

XXIV.

Anthcmis

For sore of

eyes, let a

man
is

take ere the upgoing

;^aju,a/ja>3Aov,

of the sun, the wort which

called

and

by another name maythe, and when a man taketli let him say that he will take it against white it, specks, and against sore of eyes let him next take
;

the ooze, and smear the eyes therewith.

Hart
1.

clover.
is

XXV.
^oi[xcci^pvcj

Medkago. BoL

This wort, which

named

and by another name hart downs and on solid lands.

<^

clover,

is

Germander,^ produced on

Ad

vuliiera
is

cyrpnia.

By

Celsiis (v. xxviii.

5.)

vlcus

chironium

denned as " quod et

xe)p is

magnum
hand.

est,

et habit oriis

" duras, callosas, tumentes."

But the

interpreter

knew some

Greek, and in that language

Vinum vetus know that the Romans

^ Latin,

sine fumo.

The

interpreter did not

evaporated some watery particles of the must before fermentation. The words " be heated," are
his interpolation.
^
''

Tcucrium chanicedrys^ Bot.

Latin, SabulosiL-, sandy.

122
Jjfji

HERBARIVM

hpa tohpyfeb py jenim^ f^aj- pypte^ ]>e ye camebpiy nembon cnuca hy'^ on tjiypenum* psete syle

bpmcan on pme

eac^ fpylce to plite heo jehseleS.

piS n^ebpan plite jennn

fpy]7e
)7ea]ile

J>ap

ylcan pypte cnuca hy^

fmael on

bupte'' Yjle

bpmcan on ealbum^ pme

pypte
J?e

hyt

]5

attop tobpepS.^
)?ap

Pi^ potable jennn

cpsebon

ylcan

pyle

bpmcan
J>a

on peapmum^^ pme ]?am jemete

punboplice hyt f pap

pe brep^^ bepopan
*j

jeliJjejaS

beele

jejeappaS

]?ap

monSe
See the glossary on e}0]ireapn.

]?e

man

pypte ^^ ]>u pcealt niman^^ aujuftuf nemneS.

pulpep camb.^*
.

on

J7am

XXVI.
.

J/io lipep

peocnyppe jenim pyppe pypte peap pe

*j

man

naman^^ pulpep camb nemne^ syle bpmcan on pme* "j pepepjmbum mib peapmum^^ psetepe punbuplice^^ byt ppemaS.^^ Pi5 attjiep bpmc jenim ]?ap ylcan pypte cnuca by
chameselese

oSjium

^'-^

to bufte pyle bpmcan on

pme eaP^
jenim

^p

attop topsepS.
ylcan

Pi5
pypta^*

paetep

peocnyppe
-j

)7ap
"j

pypte
liy'^^

-j

bjiaepnep pot^^
jelice

lieopt^^ clseppan

henep^^ ealpa Sippa

mycel be
*j

jepibte

cnuca

to

fmalon^^ bufte pyle J^ycjean^'' on ptne

cucelepap
pulle

jmjpum

^eonjum men pip untpumum^^ pipum

"j

)7py~^ cuculepap

litlum*^^

cilbum anne

^^^

punbuplice^^

be

j5

psetep )?upb micjSan poplsete^.^^

'

mme, O.
H. V.
;
'

^ "

cac,

pyp^j O., which condenses. ' co hit;, B. fy. fm. b., 0.

'S,

'

hig,
^

B.

'

tjieoj*-,

O.

-ban, B.; selban, O.

'"

tobjiey,

cobjase]
'^ '"

II.

B.

sel

J>

a.

to

brej^f,
'^

0.

pyi"T^^>

OB.

" hep, B.
^'

pyi'*5

^' O.
B.

'^

nime, O.
'^

jmluef comb, B., but

'^

later.

naraa, O.

j'>'rme,

-bop-, B.
-^

jpama'S,
-^

II.

'"

hi?;,
-'

2 eel,

O.

-'

p3e)-ne)' )oc,
^s
jjij;,

hoit, O.
^

haenep, II. B.
-le,.

ealle

hlTe pyicc,

0.

B.

ftnalan,

B.;

O.

='

hicKan,

H. B.

-uncpupu, B.

-"'

h^yS, B.;

iiij,

O.

=*Mitle,

O.

APVLEII.

123
IIakt clovkr.

take this wort, which we named charasedrys, pound it in a treen (wooden) fat
2.

If one

be

bruised,''^

{vessel); give to

drink in wine;

it also

healeth for an

incised

wound.

Figure of a snake. MS. V., fol. 26 d. 3. For bite of adder, take this same wort, pound it very small to dust; give to drink in old wine;
thoroughly will
4. it

drive off the poison.

(gout), take this

to

same wort; give drink in warm wine, in the manner in which we

For foot addle
before
said;

wonderfully it alleviates the sore, and prepares the cure. This wort thou shalt take in the month which is named August.
here

Wolfs
1.

comb.

xxvi.

nipsacus
silvcfiti'is.

Bot.

For

liver sickness, take juice of this wort,

^aiJi^alsXcuu,^

which

man nameth
comb; give
with
2.

it

to drink in

and by another name wolfs wine, and to the feverish

it benefits.

warm

water; wonderfully
give
it

For drink of

poison, take this

same wort; knock

all

it

to dust;

to drink in wine;

the poison

departs.

For water sickness, take this same wort, and ravens foot and heart clover and ground pine, of all these worts equally much by weight; pound them to small dust; give them to swallow in wine; to young men five spoonsfuU^ and to younger, and to the infirm, and to wives {women), three spoons (full); to little
3.

children one

wonderfully

it

letteth

off

the

water

through urine.

Latin, Convulsos, and

Etiam ruptos

sanat.

The English

text has mistaken yjx^aikUv for %a/>iaieXata,

in art. clit.,

and translated the former, as

and incorrectly.

^^

senne, B.

H.

anne, O.

ane,
^^

V.
0.

^-

I"ive

words omitted

in

H.

pubelice, 0., woundily.

-Iset,

124
KathtT ground
pine.

IIEIIBAIUVM

JOenep.^

xxvii.

Pi5 punbela jenim

j

J^aj'

VYV^^
yeo

]'g

man
ciiiica

chamepitliyf
j''^

oSjiiim

naman

lienep^
J'onne

nemneS
punba.''
J>ap

leje

to

'Sicpe^

punbe*^

55'F

punb^
ylcan

^yj]^^

beop sy
pyle

jenim f pop "j pjmij on Sa mnoSep sajie jenim ])\])

bjuncan
lieo
]5

pyjite

yap jenimS,^

JOpejznep^^ pot.
Pi'S inno'S

XXVIII.

to afcypijenne jennn Sap pypte 6e jpecap

*j

cliamebapne
linpelon^^

enjle hpsepnep^' pot nemnaS^^ cnuca to

pyle

bupte
'^

bpmcan^* on peapmum^^ p^etepe

hit Sone

innoS aptypeS.

LySpypt.

XXIX.
-j

Deop pypt

]?e^^

man

oftpiajo

oSpum naman

lyS-

pypt nemneS^^ biS cenneb^^ abutan^^ b^^pjenne^^ 'j on beopjnm^^ "j on pajum psepa^^ hupa J?e pi6 buna
fcanbaS.
Pi]?

ealle^*

Smjc

Se on men^^ to pape^ ^^acennebe^^

O. condenses.

beo5 jenim ];ap pypte J^e pe optpiajo nembon -j cnuca hy^^ leje to Sam pajie^^ ealle ]?a J^nicj ppa pe {fip cptebon }'e on 'Ssep mannep lichoman^' to laSe acennebe^^ beoS^-^ heo Sujih^^ heeleS.^^

In the parahsenep, H.; nepte, B., by later hand and in index. graph next preceding henep, hsenep, in all the MSS., answered to chamae^ hsenep, H. B. on eglis henep heece'S, O. ^ an for ^, O., pitys. ^ jmba, O. " l^an \>e j)uba, O. following the sound. hape, B.
' ; ''t
'

punbe,

11.

" i'5'rc,

O.

"

j^ennvS,

V.
'-

'"

hiiseynes, II.; refnef

'^ '"

foe, B.,

by

later

hand.
O.

" poeyne)-, B.

nenna'S, O,
'^
'^

fmaelan,

II.; j-malan, B.; -le,

'

t>,

O.

Sec
II.
;

St.

" bnnca, O. Marh., Meiden & M., p. 89.

'"

pemie, O.
=

han,

O,

O. breaks the sentence,

-ton, B.
-'
=^'

fol. IG,

at " ncnme'5."
"-

caenneb, IL B.
^3 jiajia,

byji.

?;enum,

byjiSinii, B.
**'

B.
"),

O. adds ha.
-^

"
O.

niJKn, II.
;

manne, 0.
II.

fore,

0.
^''

'-'

yy

II.

B. add.
^'

-neb,

acxnucbe,

B.

-'

his, B.

San

fora,

O.

lichaniaii,

B.

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125

Hemp.
1.

XXVII.
this

^ '"!/''
pih/s.

cliamcr'
li(,t.

which is called knock (j)outul\ XcifJi-ciiTriTuc^ and by another name hemp and lay it to the wound if then the wound be very deep, take the ooze, and wring it on the wound. 2. For sore of inwards, take the same wort, give

For

wounds,

take

wort

(it) to

drink

it

will take

away

the sore.

Ravens
1.

foot.''^

xxviii.

For to stir the inwards, take the wort which Greeks name ;\^a/^a<5^4)v)j, and the Engles ravens foot knock (pound) to small dust give to drink in warm
;

water;

it

will stir the inwards.

LiTHEWORT.
1.

XXIX.
hostriago,

Sambucvs

This wort, which

is

named
is

and by
burial

"'^

another
places

name

lithewort,

produced

about

and on barrows, and on walls of houses, which

all

stand against downs.

2.

For
of

things which are generated on a

wort, which
it
;

man by
to

way
sore.

disease, take this

we

called hosit

triago,

and knock

(jjouncl)

then lay
it

the

All the things, as

we

ere (before) said,

which

are generated on mans body

will heal.

to loathe,

thoroughly

Ravens

liuscus racemosus.
in

MS.

JRanunculus Jicaria. Bot. Chamreclafne is ranunculus, but not ficaria, is drawn v.; a Ruscus in MS. G.
foot
is

^-

-neb, O.

acsennebe, B.

^^

monne)' liclioman

bi'S

-]

inserted, acaenneb

126
Irij:
*j

HERBARIVM
6u
seji

J^af

pypte^ niman^ pylle

(5u j^cealr

claene

beon

eac^

j^unnan* upjanje

]?u liy^

pcealr

mman -^

on

Sam

monSe'^ 6e^

man

lulmy nemneS.

JDaepen^ hybele.^^

XXX.
pyp'^^e
J?e^^

PiS

muSej"^^
-j

sajie^^

jenim
hsepen^^

J?aj"

SJ^ecay

bjiitrcamce

enjle^^
'j

hybele

nemneS cnuca
-j

hy^^ ypa jpene^''

ypa on
hi]f

ppmj f

muSe

pof syle bjimcan^ ^ )?eah man hpylcne bsel

healbe

j^aepoj:^^

fpelje jelice hit pjiemaS.^*'

6]:t

pi6

mu)7ep

j^ape^^

jemm

)?a^^

ylcan

pypte^^

jyp Su hy'^* SP^i^^ nsebbe jenim hy mib pme on liumjep ];icnyppe Sonne ^^ ]?am pylpan jemete 'pe pe ?ep^'' cpsebon heo hsepS J>a^^

bpyttanicam

bjiyje^^ cnuca

mm

syljzan jepjiemmmcje.^^

PiS

to)?a j^ape

'j

jyp

liy

pajejen^^ jenim

f>ap

ylcan

pypte^^ heo
hyjie pop
-j

op pumjie punbuphcpe^^ mihte^^ helped

hj'-pe

bupt yp to jehealbenne^^ on pintpe^"^ poji Sam ]?e heo selcon timan ne atypeS '^^ hype pop }7U pcealt on pammep^'' hopne^^ jehealban bpi^e^^ eac f bupt 'j^^ jehealb pitobhce eac hyt pceajiphce ppemaS

mib pme onbypjeb. PiS pseptne mnoS to ftypijenne^^ jenim )?ippe ylcan p}^pte seap^^ fyle bpmcan be )?ae]ie*^ mihte |7e^^ hpa mseje Jjuph hit selp*^ butan^^ ppecneppe* hit apeojimaS punbuplice*^ Sone^^ mnoS.
to
sylpan^^ bpyce

Sam

'

pyre, O.

'^

nime, O.
^

eac,

H.

Ainne, O.

his, B.
*"

**

-men, O.
|>a,

mon'Sa, 0.

fol.
^*
'^ 2

36 =

7.

senile,

H.

f, O. '^ /-qj,^ '^ " mno>er, H. q.; saji, H. '^ hsepen corrected to hsejieneu, H.
^
'

hsepen corrected to hsepenen, H.

hubela, O.,

mm

j,^

pyre
'

O.

his

K O.
H.
O.

Sjiene, B.
fore,

supan,

li.
;

B. O.
)>ar,
^r

'"

>aja,
^3

B. O.

jjiama'S,
2

O.

22

|,a,
26

V. B.
),an,

H.
^^,^ -q

j,^r^^
28

q
O.
2"
=
''^

his, B. 0.

"

bjiisse,

H. B.

O.
^"

j,^,

-muncse, H.
t>af pyiT,

jmsisan, B.; pasion, O. -mse, B.; -unge, O. ^^ heefl? fume ^2 jmaboplicjie, H. B. j'. m., 0^^ pincjia, H. cyp^, B. O. In B. the stop is

S^> B. omits.
j^oj-.

after

37

APVLEII.
If thou

127

3.

will

to

take this wort, thou shalt bo Ltttiewort.

of sun,

clean,

and

also, ere rising

is

thou shalt take

it

in the

month which

named

July.

Bright-coloured hydele.
1.

xxx.

Cochkaria
Avglica.

Bot.

For sore of mouth, take this wort Greeks name ^psTTuvncYj, and the Engles hydele; knock (pound) it so green, and ooze; give to sip, and let (the sufferer) in his mouth, and though a man swallow
(part) thereof,
2.

which the dark hued wring the

hold
it

so

some dole

it

will alike benefit.

Again, for sore of mouth,^ take the same wort

brittannica;

pound

it

thou have it not green, take it dry, with wine to the thickness of honey take
if
;

it then in the same manner as we before said it will have the same good effect. 3. For sore of teeth, and if they wag, take the same wort; it out of some wonderlike virtue will help its ooze and its dust is to be preserved in
;
;

winter,

since

it

does

not appear at every time;

;

its

thou shalt hold in a rams horn dry also the Verily, also, it sharply benefits dust, and keep it. towards the same use, swallowed with wine. 4. For fast (costive) inwards, to stir them, take the juice of this same wort give it to drink by the might, which each one may (according to a mans strength), through itself without danger, it purges wonderfully the inwards.
ooze
;

Latin,

Ad

oscitudinem, yb/* yawning.

uase abietiuo, Lat.

here arietino; jiamnej-, V.; hpamef, B.

'0

^^

hopne,
^^
'^

B.
' fil>-,
'^^

39

bpisse, B.
^'^

H. omits six words.

^8

*'

fylfe,

O.

f-y^,

Senne, H. B.
'

y^^^'^-', O. alters.

" >ape, B. O.
*

O.

buton, B.

H^aec- B.

punboiiliee,

H. B. O.

J>ane,

O.

128

HERBARTVM

PiS yiban yajic f specay papalipy nemnaS^ jcnim ])ay ylcan pyjite~ j'pa jjiene^ mib pyjittjiuinum^ cnuca hy^ syle bpincan on pine tpejen ycenceay^
oSSe^ ^py*^
liy"'^

^r

6^1yF^^^ f

^^^^

punbuphce^^

pjie-

Pubu
Deop
fropuni
Pi(S

lectpic.^-

XXXI.
yiljzaticam
cenneb^'^
"j

pyp'c

]>e

man lactucam
nemneS biS

oSjium

naman^'^ pubu
-j

lectpic^"^

on bejanuni

on yanbijum.

eajena bymnepj*e yy yaeb ]5 pe eajm )?onne lie upfleon^^ pille to ])y ]3 lie py beojitup jepeon maeje^^ f^^ he pj'lle mib );am peape liip eajan^^ hpeppaii 'j
paetan
neppe.
'j

he

];u]ili

onpeliS*^

];a

msej'tan

beojihr-

Gpt
peap
pine
j

pi6 eajena

J>e

pe

bymnyppe jenim )^}'ppe ylcan yfV^^ lactucam pilpaticam nembon mib ealbon
'j

mib hunije jemencjeb^^

J>yp

^epomnub-'^ p br6 selupt^"* f fpa pe (Jeji cp?ebon "j pm -j

much
away.
ea'ten

man

py butaii^~ fmice ]>yj*pe pyp'^e peap

somne
J?onne

*j

on

anjie jlaij'enpe^^
J^eapp
p}^

hunij jemencje^^ toampullan jelojie^^ bpuce^^

J7U

him

op

'Sam

healicne

Isecebom

onjitft.

>

nemne'S,
.-'

II.

B.

vyrc, O.,

and
''

alters.

?;i^'U<?> I^-

-man, B.
'

purcruman
^ \>]u'^,

O.

' hi?;,

B. O.

pcasnca)',

B.; fcencef, O.
;

obtJir, (),

B.

o)')j]n% II.,
"

with a later attempt to alter

'"

but the penman meant

B.
" j-jiamige,
II.

what he -wrote.
'-

geliyeb, B.

punbojihce,

II.

In

II.

a later gloss gives Scauolo, Scairolo, understand Scariola, (/arleafe,

(hn endive, or broad

'^

(Florio)
'^

jmbe
caenneb,

lefcric,
II.

B.,

by
'"

later

hand.
B., hut

namon, B.
}leon, B.
II.

'^

lectjux, B.

B.

up

jnlle )leon,

II.;

"
'^

mat;, V., the last letler (e) gone.

-"
-^

"* )>i,

V.

omit.
22

ea^on, B.

ayehS,

II.
II.

-'

j;cm8enseb, B.
-'

jjemacnc-

Seb,

11.

buton, B.

sej-omnob,

B.

selefc, II.; -loir, V,.

APVLETT.

129

coloi ki:d

5.

For soro of

Aycrij

Greeks name tcudu{palsy), take this same wort so green, with (its)
side,

wliich

tlie

roots;

pound

it;
;

give
it is

it

to

drink

in
it

wine,

draughts or three
fully benefit.

believed that

will

two wonder-

"rrxxx

Wood
1.

or wild lettuce
is

xxxi.

Lactuca
scariola.

Hot.

This wort, which

named

lactuca silvatica, and

in culti-

by another name wood lettuce, is produced vated places, and on sandy ones.
2.

For dimness of

eyes,

it

is

said

that the

earn
see

{eagle), v/hen lie will upfly, in order that

he

may

the more brightly, will touch his eyes with the juice,

and
3.

wet

them,

and

he

through

that

obtains

the

greatest brightness.

Again, for dimness of eyes, take juice of this

same wort, which we named lactuca silvatica, mixed with old wine and with honey, and let this be
collected

without

smoke.

It

is

best

that

man

mingle together juice of this wort, which we before named, and wine and honey, and lay them up in a glass ampulla (vessel) from this use when need be
;

you

will observe a

wondrous

cure.

The drawing is nearly remain. MS. Add. 17063,

^

gone, but traces

fol.

of
tall

lettuce

19 h,

has a

himrh of

leaves.

-^

Sema&Tise, B,

jnu ^ hiinis gema&nsce,

j^ls&yenpe
;

11.

-^

anpe
-^

slaej*enne,
;

paler ink had

illegible
;

made

V.

is illegible.

S^^^S^^? H.

H. a V. is
;

Selosi^e, B.

bpoce, H.

130

HERBARIVM

Eapclipe.^

XXXII.
]?ay

piS eajena pape jenim

pypte

]?e

man

apjimo-

niam^

"j

oSjium

ppa 5pene* ]?uph

naman japclipe nemneS cnuca hy^ hy pelpe ^^ jyp ^^ ^7 f'Oiine^ SP^i^^

hy bpije^ *j bype^^ on peapmum^^ fmj^pa^^ psetepe ppa ]?u ea)7elicopt hy bpycan^^ mseje )?onne^* ]?aepmib^^ opPchce heo ^a tale 'j^^ ^ pap op ]?am
naebbe^ jenim
eajan^^ abpipS.

PiS mnoSep pape

jemm

}>yppe ylcan pypte^

pyptpu-

man^^ J?e pe apjimomam nembon^^ pyle bpmcan^^ hyt ppemaS^^ punbophce.^^

PiS cancop^* 'j piS punbela jemm J?ap ylcan pj^pte^^ ppa jpene cnuca hy leje to J?am pape^^ jecpemlice^^ ^^ peo heo ]7one leahtop jehselan^ msej jyp 'Sonne

pypt bpijje^^ py bype hy on peapmum paetepe

yp jelypeb^^
'^^PiS
j5

hyt

heo to Sam ylcan ppemije.^^

naebpan plite jenim

}>}^ppe

ylcan pypte tpejea

syle

tpymesa jepihte 'j^* tpejen^^ pcenceap^^ pmep bpmcan punbuplice^^ hyt f attop topepeS.^^

PiS peaptan jenim J?ap ylcan pypte cnuca on ecebc leje )78ept6^^ heo jenimS^^ ]?a peaptan. piS miltan^^ pape jenim J?ap ylcan pypte^^ sjde
l^icjean^^
Irip

on pme heo f pap popnimS^^

hpilce ]?in5C*^ op

J?8epe^^

miltan.

Su

Sam

lichoraan*^ ceoppan pylle

go'^.fclif,

B.,
;

by

later hand.
is
'"

The

corrector altered in H.
^

to

acpimoniam
^
^

dpyefxdopr]

not agrimony.
^

hig, B.
**

'

Spene, B.

j-ylre,

H. B. 0. bjnsse, H. B.
'^

>aue, O.
bjiype,

nabbe, 0.
'

hig, B., twice.

H.
'^

" permun, O.
)>ane,

'-bpycan, H,;
B.
'^ '^

bpytan, B.
'^ -"
^^

smype, H.; fmejia, B.

'^

l>ap,

B. O.

1,

O. omits.
^'

eagon, B.

J'yj^ce,

0. omits.
^s
^''

pypccpuman, H.
^'^

nembe, O.
cancre, O.

brican, O.
^'^
^i'

" yjiama^, H.
-"^

punbelice, O., wonndily.

inrt,
J^an,

O.
0.
^'

fore,
^^

0.

-cpem-, B.
^i

leahcer

Sehalan, O.
^^

bri^en, O.

_i^j,_

g
^*

gei,fe^

q.

miclan j-pamige, H.

0. omits the paragraph.

Four words

APVLEII.

131

GARCLIVE.a
1.

XXXII.

Agrimonia
eupatoria.

For

sore of eyes, take this wort,

which
;

agrimony, and by another name garclive green by itself; if then thou have it not green, take
it

named pound it so
is

Tint

dry and dip

use
it

it
;

in

warm

water, so as thou mayest

easiliest

smear
fault

then

therewith

hastily
eyes.

it

driveth

away the

and the sore from the

For sore of inwards, take roots of this same it wort, which we named agrimony give to drink
2.
;
;

benefits wonderfully.
3.

Against cancer,
;

same so green
veniently;
that
it

and against wounds, take this pound it lay it to the sore con;

can

cure
it

the

disorder.

If
;

then

the

wort be dry, dip

it

in

warm
MS.

water

it

is

believed

may

profit to the

same purpose.
V., fol.

Figure of snake.
4.

27

d.

Against bite of snake, take this same wort, by weight of two drachms, and two draughts of wine give this to drink (to the bitten) wonderfully it re;

moves the poison, 5. For warts, take

vinegar
6.
;

this
;

same wort, pound

takes

it

with

lay

it

thereto

it

away

the warts.

For sore of spleen, take this same wort, give to swallow in wine; it removes the sore of the spleen. to cut any things from off the 7. If thou will

no flowers remain, the leaves are ovate serrated. Enough, however, may be seen, especially the long spike, to satisfy the doubter. MS. Add. 17063, fol. 20 a, has made the flowers droop.
^

In the drawing,

MS.

V,,

fol.

27

c,

omitted in V.
^^

^*

tpegpa, B.
3"

'^'^

j'cs&ncaj',
"

B.

''"

jmnboplice, H.
'^

he benimb, 0. " benimb, O. ^3 j,ic5an, H. B.; bicsau, O. '-^Sufpirc, O. B. O. " Mnc, H. " -haman, B.
toye]ia,
}>ap,

H. B.

B.

milte, O.
"^ l^ajae,

lo2
'j

JIERBARIVM
];onne^

"tSe

]nnoe

]>

Su

iic

mrejc- jenim
lieo^

]?n]'

ylcan
'j

pypte**^

jecnucabc'*

le;^e

J^a^pto''

hyt
]?eop

;^eopcna'S

Pi(5

j'leje
*j

ij^ejmep

o^Se ytenjej'^

ylce

pj'pt^

jecnucub^^

to^elfeb^^

heo punbuplice'-

;t;ehselep'.''^

Pubu
pi5 pceancena^'^
peap
]>e^^

po}:e.^'*

xxxiii.

pajie oSc5e

pota jenim }>yppe^^ pypte^'

*j

man
hj^t

aptula

pejia

o'Spium
ele

nainan

pubii-

jiope^^
pa]i^~

nemneS mib
py
l)iS

amijbalep

fmype''^'^
-j

]?ae]\^^

punbojilice-^

jelireleb*'^

jyp

liyt

jeppell-^ sy cnuca

hy

'j

pel jeliSe^obe leje );aepro.^^

^enim ]?y^ppe*^ pylpan^^ pypte*^^ P}']^"^pnman'^^ pyde bpmcan on jefpetton^^ pTetepc*'^^ hit \>
PiS lippe
pajie-"
YSi]\^^

punboplice^'' op^^enim^/'^"

Pubu^^

bocce.^

XXXIV.
|;ap

Iryp hpylc f-iSnep^^ on liclioman'*^ becurae jenim

p}'pte
]?e

man lapatium
*j

*j

oSjuim
^j

naman pubu
iSone

bocce

nemneS

ealb

ppj^nen

pmepu'*^

cjiuman^^ op

openbacenum^^ hlape cnuca topomne pam jemete ^e Su clySan pyjice le^e^* to Sam pape hyt jeliselS punbojilice.

i'ane,

O.
'"

mihce, commonly.
'

y\rc,

'=

O.

-cobe,

I>,

O.

'^'Sar,
">

O.

"he, V.
-cob, O.
'^
'

^thxl^, O.
" -leb, H. O.

fctenser, H.; jrouser, B.

().

jiyrce,

0.

jmnbojilice, IL; -ber-,

''

'^ '"

SehaelS, IT. O.

j)uberoua, B.,
'^

by

later hand.
"

j-canc-,
'"

B.

hHera, O.
Sehaleb, O.
ilcan,

]))ptan, B.
*'

ha, O.

jniberofe, O.
'^"^

fmejia,

B.; fmere, 0.
^*
*'

)>ap,

B. O.
O.
^' ]'"-,

for,

0.

juinbelice, O., woundihj.

"'

Kefpelleb, O.
^^ jiuitre,

- )>a)i,
^'

B. 0.
^^

fore,

O.
;

-^

hifTer,

6.
(),

-" ^'"

B.

jiypttrjniman,
for,

H. B.

jnrtrume,

-ttu, B.; -tun, O.

O.
\i

O.

^^

punbelice, O.
fi.'

Here
"t

().

inserts as follows:

J^yS

man on
It

jiambe

forjiexi

?;eniiu

J-ille

j)yrcrunan he grecaf malochni

cnglifc
bifi'e

agria-

romane
file

aftula regia

nem)'u

me't)

jniberofe hata'S.-'

cnuca mib june

p'lN

bnncan

fona

onjifr

j'urre

frenfulneOe.

innoJ>ef flepfan

jqenim hifle ]urte

APVLEII.

133
tluit
;

body, rtnd

ifc

then seem to

tliee,

thou luayest not,

;

Gaiki-ivk.

take this same Avort pounded lay it thereto it openeth and healeth. blow of iron or of pole, this same wort, 8. For pounded and applied, wonderfully liealeth.

xxxu.

WOODKOFFE.^'
1.

XXXIII.

AsfoikUs
ramosus.

hot.

For

sore of shanks, or of feet, take juiee of this

same

wort,

which
;

is

called

hastula regia,
oil

another

name

woodrofte, with

and by of almond smear

;

be wonderfully healed, where the sore is it will and if it be a swelling, pound it and lay it made
well lithe thereto.

For disease of liver, take roots of this same wort give to drink in sweetened water it Avill wonderfully remove the disorder.
2.
;

Wood
1.

dock, Sorrel}^

xxxiv.

Rumex Acetosa. BgL

any stiffness come upon the body, take this wort, which is called lapatium, and by another name wood dock, and old swine lard, and the crumb of an oven-baked loaf; pound together in the manner in which one makes a poultice, lay it to the sore, it
If

healeth wonderfully.

The drawings
for

all

intend an asphodel

llicy

cannot be
is

meant
^
'<

an asperula.
draAvings all

See

art. liii.
;

The

intend sorrel

in

MS. T.

a gloss

Surdocke."

f^b
^'

jnibe, B.,

gemencg co ftij^un by later hand,

v., but the
ji
'^

brenclie
^^

bnnca hic
it.
'"

."

hit Sejjn}?
-^

)'aiie

inno]>.

Oxylapatium, Latin.

friSne)-, II.;

fciSjicf,
^'-

has a dot below

on man, B.

" fmejui, B.

cjxuman, B.

baceuau, H.

"

le, 11,,

corrected to lege.

134

HERBARIVM
GojiS jealla vel cupmelle.

xxxv.
jpecap centaupia
-j

]?iS
"j

lifeji

able

jenim

j^aj'

pyptre

]>e

maiop

anjle'^

cupmelle
jeallan

^^

sume men
bo
]?ip

eopS

mape nemnaS'* hataS^ seoS on pme

peo
-j

eac'
syle

bpincan* punboplice heo jeptpanjaS*

sylpe.
"j

piS miltan'^ pape

PiS punba cnuca hy leje

piS

"co

jenun ]7ap ilcan^ VfV^^ )?am pape Ne jeJjapaS heo ^ Sset paji
cancop

pupSup pexe.^ Deos yflye pypt centaupia yp spyj^e pceapp numuP" nipe punba *j pibe to jehselenne^^ ppa J) )?a punba lipgeblice uojsebepe jaS. 'j eac^^ ppa pome^^ hio jebe]; ^ plaspc tojsebepe jeclipaS jyp hyt man on ]?am pgetepe jepyjS ]7e heo on biS.
Lupmelle pepeppuje.
xxxvi.

Deop pypt

)?e

man centaupiam mmojiem

seo l^eppse^*

naman cupmelle

nemneS

-j

eac^^

oSpum pume men

"j

pebpipujam hataS*^^ heo bi6 cenneb^^ on paeftum Ianbum 'j on ptjianjum eac^ yp pseb p chj^pon^^ centaupup pmban pceolbe^^ )?ap pyp'ca 'pe ye -dep centaujnam maiopem^^ 'j nu centaupiam mmojiem nembun^^ Sanan^^

hy^^ eac^^ );one

naman
plite

healbaS centaupiap.

piS

naebpan

jemm

]?yppe

ylcan

pypte bulb
ealbuni'^

oSSe hy^^ YJ^Y^ jecnucube^^ syle bpmcan on pme hyt ppemaS^^ ppy Slice.

eajena pajie jeniin J^yppe ylcan pypte peap pmypa'^^ Sa eajan'^^ J^sep'^^^ mib hit jehaelS )7a )?ynnyppe^'''
piS
)?8epe'^*

jepihSe

jemaencj

eac^^

hunij

];?ept6 -^^

hyt

'

O. condenses,

fol.

'58= 10

b,

engle, B. O.
''

''

cu]imealle,
"

13.

neune^, O., a pronunciation, not an error. ' haca'S, B. O. inserts feo lifer.
'

eac,

**

illan,

H. V.

hateS, H.;
^

peaxe, B.
'^

' '^

numel, B.
eac,

" -hwl-, B.
'

'^

^4^,

H.
'"

''

j-ame, B.

" Iwjje, H. B.
eac,

H.

hata, B.; hate, H.

csenneb, H. B.

H.

APVLEII.

135

Earth
1.

gall, or Curmel.

xxxv.

Chbra perfo-

J or liver disease, take the wort which the Greeks

name centaurea
greater,

and the Engle churmell the and which also some men call earth gall
maior,
in
;

seethe

it

wine,

give

to

drink;

wonderfully

it

and for sore of spleen do the same, For wounds and for cancer, take this same wort, pound it, lay it to the sore it alloweth not that the sore further wax. 3. This same wort centaurea is very efficacious to heal new and wide wounds, so that the wounds soon come together and so also similarly it has effect so that flesh shall cleave toejether if it be soaked in the water in which the wort is.
strengtheneth
2.
;
;

Fever fuge,
1.

or the lesser Ourmel.

is

xxxvi.

This wort, which

named centaurea minor, and

Erythrcea centmireum. B"^-

by another name the lesser churmel, and which also some men call feverfuge, is produced on solid lands and on strong ones. Also it is said that Chiron the centaur should find {found) these worts which we before named centaurea maior, and now centaurea minor whence they also obtain the name centaureae. Figure of a snake. MS. V., fol. 28 d. take dust of this same wort, 2. For bite of snake, or itself pounded administer this to the patient in old
;
;

wine;
3.

it

will produce

much

benefit.

For sore of eyes, take this same worts juice smear the eyes therewith; it heals the thinness of the Mingle also honey sight {the weakness of the vision).

^^

chyjiou, H.
;

"'*

ycolbe, B.
'^

-*

H. omits four words.

-^

-^

nenbun,
^^^^ jj^

V.
2^ ^^

neinbon, B.
''

>anon, B.; 'Sanuu, H.

-^
^'-

hig, B.
^^

^5

his, S-

Secnocobe, B.
eagon, B.
=^'

cealban,
^^

H.
^^

ypama'S, H.

pmejia, B.

^'

l^ap,

B.

bymnefpe, but the Latin

eac,

has " aciem extenuant."

J^ajie,

B.; ^sepa, H.

H.

^'^

j^aji,

B,

136
yjiemati
])y
]3
^

HERBARIVM
yyii

some'^ pitoblice

bimjenbum ca^uiu to

j^eo

beojihtnyp ajypen^ sy.

on pay fpecnyfye^ bejiealle jenmi ylcan^ ]>y]\^e jobne ^jiipan seoS on pine oSSe l^yJT^ on ealo^ ppa ]3 ]?8ep pniep sy an ambuji^ pull liet;
Jjyy hpa ponne

Iranban
Seajip

J^ii^'

bajap

mm

sy healpne

pefreji

fonne aejhp^dce breje ponne menjc^ mib hunije^ bpmce

]7ap

t3onne p?eprenbe.

ykan^^ VYV^^ Yeo>6 on pa3tepe to ]?pibban bsele pyle bpmcan fpa mycel fpa he ];onne maje^^ *j ]7eapp py he biS jehajleb.
PiS
Pi6 attjiep onbyppnjce jemm cnuca on ecebe syle bpmcan pona
bpepS
'^'^

pma tojunje^ jenim

J^ap

ilcan^^

pyp'^6

hit ^ attoji to-

eac^"*

f^epe^^ pylpan pyjite pyjiupuman^^

jemm
))j\y

tyn

peneja^^ jejnhte

bo

on

pme

syle

bjiincan

j'cenceap.^^

Pi^ j> jjyjnnap ymh napolan'^ bejijen-^ bo eal Ipa pe hep bepojian epaebon.

tojunje ylcan pj'P^e peoS on

pi'cS

pyna

j3

yp Sonne

Ji

Su jenime"^

]>ap

pa^tejie

to Spibban ba^le heo Sa

]}yjimap tit apeopS.^^

Bete,
Personaca, however,
otherwise

xxxvii.

pr6 ealie ]ninba

.

'j

piS na^bbpan ilita)'-^

jennn
x

J'yj'pc'-^

VyV^^

T^^P

1'

^^^^

pepponaciaui

'j

oojium

naman

'

jjiania'S, II.

fame, B.

=*

agv}

e,

H.

'

)>aj*

jjiaecnyjje,
'

H.;
B.

}]isccnef]-e,
'

B.

'

jlciln,
"
''

H. V.

'^

ambe]i,H. B.

msensc,
'"

II.

Ju'ini^e,

B.

Ad

aurigiuem, Lat., jaundice.

'^

ylea,

H.
B.

1'

ma5?;e,

H. B.
'"

illcan,

robpsej'S, II. B.

>*

eac, II.

'' ]ja]ie,
'"

B.

]yjitt]iuman, II. B.
-"
-'-

'^

paenega,
'-'

II.

B.

'^

fcsenca]-,

najelan, B.

be]i?;ean, B.
ura])yiipcS, II,

Seni,

V.

B., against the con-

struction.

B.
:

Perhaps V. may have rejected

it

a
-=*

letter

to

make
-'

the utterance easy

ilcan,

may

then stand in the text.

(hces, II.

B. adds.

APVLKll. thereto
l)enefits

137

it

similarly
is

dim

eyes,

so that

the Fkveu

wge

brightness (of vision)

4.

restored (to them).

into this mischief, take a good
it

If one

then

fall

wine or in ale, so that of the wine there be an ambur or jug full have it stand three days take then every day when there may be occasion, a half sextarius, mix with honey then let him drink this fasting. 5. For spasm of sinews,''^ take this same wort, seethe administer (to the patient) in water to a third part to drink as much as he then is able, and as may be needful he will be healed. 6. For tasting of poison, take this same wort, pound it with vinegar, give to drink it will soon drive off the poison. Take also roots of the same wort by weight of ten pennies, throw it into wine give to drink three draughts. 7. In case that worms vex about the navel, do as
handful of this same wort, seethe
in
;

we

before said.

For tugging (sjMSVi) of sinews, it is needs then that thou take this same wort, seethe it in water to a third part it will cast out the worms. ^
8.
;

BeET.c
1.

XXXVII.

Beta.

Bot.

Against

all

wounds, and against bites of snake,

is

take juice of this wort, which

called personaca.,

and

'^^

The Latin has Ad aurigiuem, for jaundice.

was ignorant of that word. This receipt does not match the Latin
from
text.

The
The

trans-

lator
^

transet

lator passed

"Ad

auriginem"
V., fol.

to

"Ad
MS.
also,

lumbricos
A.,
fol.

tineas."
c

The drawdngs, MS.

tlie

29

b,

and
130,

22

a,

furnish

plant with a small globular tnber, and the leaves

arc beet

leaves.

In

MS.

Bodley,

Personata

is

glossed in the margin Bete, and the drawing with the fructiiication is faithful.

138
Persolata,
is

HERBARIVM

boete^

nemneS
Ilitaj'

syle

bpmcan

on

ealbon^

pme

ealle

burdock
clarc.

npebpan

liyt punbujilice^ jehaeleS/

)?yppe ylcan pypte leap bejypb to |7am pepepjenban^ pona^ hyt punboplice Sone pepeji

PiS

pejrepap

jenim

aplijeS.''

Pi6^ cancoji on punbe pexe^ jenim

)7ap

pyjite pyll^^

on psetepe bej^e J)a^^ punbe fepmib s}^66an jenim )7a j^ypte 'j papan 'j pmepu^^ cnuca mib ecebe bo )7onne on claS leje to fepe^^ punbe.
Pi6 innoSep sajie jemm J?yppe ylcan pypte peapep anne pcenc^^ 'j hunijep tpejen pyle bpmcan^^ F^F^" enbum. PiS yt^Q^^ hunbep plite jenim f'yppe ilcan^^ Pyp"^^ pyptpuman^^ cnuca mib jjieatan pealte leje to Sam
plite.

MS. V. is here much

eatea out.

PiS nipe ylcan Jnfle

8e^)?pep

punba pypte

]?e

]70ne

p^etaN jepypcea)?^^ jenim

epen

pypttpuman^^ -j haejSopnei' leap my eel cnuca tosomne leje to Sam

unbum.^^
Stpeopbepian^^
pipe,

xxxviii.

Deop pypt Se man ppaja *j oSpum naman frjieapbepjean^^ nemneS biS cenneb^* on bihjlum^^ ftopum -j on clsenum "j eac^^ on bunum. PiS miltan pape jenim J^yppe ylcan pjqite pea]> ]7e pe ppajan nembon ^ hunij syle bpmcan hyt ppemaS^^
punbuplice.^

Dyppe ylcan
'

py]ite peap

piS

hunij jemenjceb-^ mib

'

bece, H.; bece, B.

" yon-di,

''

-ban, B.
'

-boj- B.

'

sehselS,
pi's

H.
t,

-bum, H.
pmeiia, B.
ylca,

against V. H. B.
''^

H. omits.
'

a>iise,

B.

'^

Read
"
' -"

peaxe, B.; peaxaS, H.

pceenc, B.

pyl,

H.

>aji,

B.

'

ajie, B.
'^

-ca, O.

pobe, O.

^
-'

H.
punba, O.

pyjitrjiuniau,
22

H.
24

'^

rypca'S, B.

-me, O.
later

-San

g^-p^ap

bepse, H.; ftreabene, B.,

csenneb, H. B.
-5

by the
20

hand.
26

^
H.

hejigan, B.
27

^jjium, H. B.

eac.

ypamalS, H.

28

jmnbophce, H. B.

gemsensceb,

H.; -niaenseb, B.

APVLEII.

139
it

bv another name
wonderfully heals
2.

beet

give to drink in old wine

of snake.

^^^t.
.

Art, xxxvii.

all bites

Against
it

fevers,

take

a leaf of this same

;

gird
fully

to

the fevered

patient

soon

it

wort; will wonder-

put to flight the fever. 3. In case that a cancer wax upon a wound, take bathe the wound therethis wort, boil it in water with afterwards take the wort and soap and grease, })0und them with vinegar, place them on a cloth, lay them to the wound. 4. For sore of inwards, take a draught of the juice of this same wort, and of honey two draughts; give (this to the sick) to drink fasting. 5. For bite of mad dog, take a root of this same pound with coarse salt,^ lay that to the wound. wort,
;
;

For new wounds which work up the wet or hmnoitr, take root of this same wort and hawthorns leaves, of either an equal quantity pound them to6.
;

gether

lay to the wounds.

STEAWBERRY.b
1.

XXXVIII.

is named fraga (fragaria), and by another name strawberry, is produced in secret places and in clean ones, and also on downs. 2. For sore of milt (spleen),^ take juice of this ;-ame wort, which we named fragaria, and honey give

This wort, which

Lo

drink
8.

it

benefits wonderfully.

Juice

of this

same wort, mingled with

honey,

Latin,

^
^

cum sale marino. Named in V., Stpeopbepian

splenis

piye.

Strawberry -plant.

Latin, opacis, shady,

Latin, penis
;

was perhaps

read.

140
pipejie
j

IIERBAIUVM
hit:

j-jiemacS'

mj^clum''^

jcbjiiincen

pi5

nyppyc^

piS inno5ej' yajie.

Mepyc mealupe.
Deof
pelbum.
j^ypt
)?e

xxxix.
-j

man
bi'5

mealpe* nemneS

oSpum Naman mejipc cenneb^ on fuhtum fcopum on

hibipcura
'j

Pi5 potable jenim ];aj'^ Pyp"^^ J^^ pe hibipcum nenibon' cnuca mib ealbum pyple leje to (5am pape fy pjiybban baje Leo liyt jelia^lS ^ J'yppe pypte onpunbel-

nyppe maneja
]}\]>

ealbjiap jepe'SaS.

jejabepunja )7e on ]7am lichoman^ acenneb^'^ beoS jenim ];ap ylcan pyjite seo'6 mib j^ylle Ccieppan^^ "j mib Impsebe 'j mib melpe^^ leje to )7am pajie hit topepeS ealle J^a ptiSnyppa.^^
a^jhpylce

Horsetail.

XL.

Equisetum.

mon^^ on pambe poppexen p}> jenim J^yppe py-pte peap J?e jjiecap ippipum 'j itah iequipeiam nemnaS^^ on jeppettum pme pyle bpmcan tj^ejen pcenceap*^^ pel yp jel^'peb ]3 hyt ^ ypel jehsele.
Pi6
]?

}]iama'S,

H.
^ ^

-'

mice-, B.
B.
'
'^
^

nyjipet,
.

II.

B.
II.

'

mealupe, B.
SeliceleS,

csenneb,

II.

}>KJ', II.

"

nembun,
'*

*
'-

B. B.

-hamon, B.
'^

acsenneb, B.

" cejifan, B.
-ne'5,

nielej'c, II.

-nej-j-e,

B.

man, B.

B.

"^ j-caenca)',

29 d, is no representation of marsh mallow, nor of any English kind of the Malva nor Alihcea of the botanists. In MS. A. is a figure neither like But MS. T. marsh mallow nor like the English drawing. the wort known to the mediieval botanists, csi)eciully draws
^

The drawing, MS. V.,

Ibl.

APVLEir.

141
for S'lnAwnrRny

along with
oppression of

pepper,
tlie

benefits

much when dnink,

chest and sore of inwards.

it.xxwm.

Marsh
1.

mallow.--^
is

xxxix.

^^{('^ '^p;'Hot. ludis.

This wort, which

called hibiscus,

name marsh mallow,

in fields.
2.

is

produced in

and by another moist places, and

For gout, take this wort, which we named hibisby the cus, pound it with old lard, lay it to the sore Many authorities affirm the third day it will heal it. approved worth of this wort. 3. For the several gatherings which are produced on the body, take this same wort, seethe it with cress ^ from a spring, and with linseed, and with meal, lay it to the sore it removes all the stiffnesses.
; ;

HORSETAIL.c
1.

XL.

In case that a man be overwaxen*^^ in wamb (belly), take juice of this wort, which the Greeks name 'iTnrovpic, and the Italians equisetum, in sweetened It is confidently wine give to drink two draughts.
;

believed that

it

will heal that

ill.

to Fuchsius,

as

Malva

silvestris pumila,

our dwarf mallow,

Malva
c

rotundifolia of Hooker, 31. pusllla of Sir J. E. Smith.

^ Latin,

cum

foeno grasco,
in

which
fol.

is

trigonella.
is

The drawing
is

MS.

V.,

30 a,

incorrect

it

has a

straight stem and rising branches as in

Bot., but
as in

Equisetum

fluviatile,

E.

furnished with secondary verticil) ate branchlets sihmticum, and has no catkin. The drawino- in

MS.
^

A.,

fol.

23

b, is

evidently the same tradition

but

MSS.

Gr. T. clearly intend Hippnris, with simple stem.

See the

table of contents

foppexen,

however, cannot

mean

diarrhoic.

See

ltit. 1.

142
Lyj:
lipa
]'eap

HERBARIVM
blob
j^eoSe
fj)ij;e

pypte

on

jenime Sy]")'e ytjianjum pme butan

hppece

ylcan
fmice

bpmce

]70nne jrsepuenbe porta

hyt ^ blob

jepjiiS.^

IJocleap.

XLI.

Deop

pypt:

)?e

man

maluae

eppaticae*
cenneb*''

'j

oSpum
on

naman hocleap nemneS bejanum fcopum.

byS

iejhpseji*

PiS blsebjian pape jenim )?yppe pyp'c:e ]?e pe maluam epjiaticam nembon mib hype pj^ptpuman^ anep punbep
jepilite peoS

on paetepe
pefcep pul

J>eaple

to healpan^ bsele

'j

Saep

p?etepep
)?]inn

py

oSSe

mape

-j

py bmnan'

b?ele

bajum jepylleb fpa pe 8ep cpsebon to healpan pyle bpmcan pseftenbum hyt hyne jehseleS.^

PiS

pma

sape

jenim

|?ap

ilcan

pypte cnuca mib

ealbun pyple hyt J>8epa^

pma pap

pundoplice jehaeleS.^^

PiS piban pap^^ jenim )?ap ylcan pypte peo^ on ele ^ pySSan )?u hy^^ jepoben^^ haebbe tojoebejie jebon^"^ jemm^^ ]?onne J^a leap cnuca on anum moptejie bo
);onne on anne^^ claS leje |78epto^'' ppa

f Su hyt

)7]\im

bajum ne unbmbe

]>u

f pap

jebetft.

PiS nipe punba jenim j^yppe ylcan pypte pypttpuman beepn to bufte bo on J?a punba. ^^

'

restringet,

MS. 17063
aeshjiffiji, II.
^

cjxpacice,

H.

'

caenneb, B.

'

feslijniji,

B. B.

jiyjicrimman, H.

"In H. the
"

corrector

^'^

made

to >eajie liealyan,
"
'^

very -wrongly.
'"

-non, B.
j-ajie,

Sehsel-S,

hic >a]xa, B.

sehs&l'S,

H. B.
"^ "*

"

B.

his, B.
'"

sepban, B.

" Sebon, B.
'"

V.

is

here

much

in holes.

senne, II. B.

l^aji,

B.

i)unbe, B.

Plural as

before

APVLEII.
2.

43
Horsetail.
^^'

up blood much, let him take juice of this same wort let him seethe it in strong wine without smoke let him drink it then fasting soon it
If one hreak
; ;
;

stanches the blood.

HOCKLEAF.'-''
1.

XLI.

Mahm

silves-

which one nameth malva erratica, and by another name hock leaf, is produced everywhere in cultivated places. 2. For sore of bladder, take this wort which we named malva erratica, with its root, by weight of one pound seethe in water thoroughly to the half part, and let there be of the water a sextarius (1^ pint) full or more, and let that be boiled within three days, as
riiis

wort,

we
3.

before said, to a half part; give

it

it

(to the patient)

to drink fasting;

will heal him.

it

For sore of sinews, take this same wort, pound with old lard; it wonderfully healeth the sore of For sore of
after
side,

the sinews.
4.

take this same wort, seethe

it,

up together; then take the leaves and pound them in a mortar then put them on a cloth lay thereto, that is to the sore, so that thou for three days unbind it not; thou
;

and

thou hast sodden them put

shalt
5.

amend the sore. For new wounds, take a

it

root of this

same wort,

burn

to dust; put it on the wounds.

The

technical
in

name

is

from the synonym in Apuleius.

are

The drawings
but cordate.

MS. V. A.
Gr.

more

like Pyrola.

MS. T.

gives also leaves growing on long footstalks from the root,

MS.

only has stems and correct leaves.

44

IIERBARIVM

JDimbe)"
See the

tiin;i;e.

XLTI.

Deoy pypt
biibula

]>e

jpecaj'
-j

bu5lo]'}\im

iiemnaS^

eac

enjle^

^ jiomane linjiia S^^ppyjit j oSjium

naman^ hunbej' be^anum fropum

Jjiy

tun;5e
*j

hataS* heo biS cenneb^ on yanbijum lanbum.^

on

hpylcum men''
])By

yj

y^ey

jjjnbban

ba^jey

yeyeyi

oS8e^
p5^]ite
];one^'^

jreopSan

jemm

tSonne^^

heo h?ebbe

]?onne^ pyp'^'^P^^^^^^ J^yjT^ ]?]iy bojap^^ Srep y?ebey peo5

pyjittrpuman on paetejie syle

bpmcan

J>u

h^'ne

jelacnafr.^*

8eo eac^^ Se bsepS

])am jelice^^
jye

)?8ep

psebep peopeji bojap ppemaS^^

pe Leji bepopian cprebon.

Donne
bfiele~^

^^

jy

Igeppan

pypttpuma^^
nrebbpum.

pypt |?yppe jehc peo bsep^^^ sumc leap^^ Sonne -^ boccoe >^^ J^sejie^* pypre*^' on ppetepe jeSy^eb^^ pi8pae6 iceom 'j
o]>e\\

jenim ];ap ylcan pyjite^^ *j hunij mib fmejuipe'^^ sebacen*"^"^ ]?am jelice Je -j hlap^^ )?e py J'U clySan pypce punbophce hyt f paji tophr.
PiS nyjipyt^^

Jjlsebene.^'^

XLIII.
J^ap

PiS protep
bulbiscillitici

peocnyppe^^
*j

jenim

pypte
'^'^

J^e

man
-j

oSjuim

naman

jlrebene

nemneS

'

nene'S, B.
li.

eac on
"^

8eiisli)*c,

H.
'

nama, O.

haca'S, E.

caenneb,

B.
o\>\>iir,

0. omits a line.

by a Kpaai^;
"-Ser, O.
'

O.

jsane,

O.

Gif man, O. '"-me-, O.

\>an,
-

* o^S"<Se)', II.,

" t>anne, O.
'^
''

''Kine, O.
'^

" -nofc, H.; -nefc, O.

eac, II.

niama-S, H.
bsclan, B.; bale, 0.
aiie, B.
;

Felice, B.
-'
'^^

O. O.
s'

haue'S, O.

2"
-'

lea}-,

B.
-^

I'an,

'^

bocce, H. B. KeMs^'^,
15.

)>ara, ().

pyrr, O.

-man, O.

-'

'-''

nyppet,

II.

B.

"'

Jjeofylca j)yir, O.

^"hlaer,II.
'

smej))>e. If.
''

B.

3-

bacceu, O.

^s

Glabene,

C).

-nej-fe, II.

glabene, O.

APVLETT.

145

HOTTNDS TONCTTE.
1.

XLTT.

Ci/r,oylossum
officinale.

But.

which the Greeks name /SouyXwo-o-ov, and the Romans lingua bubula, and also tlie Eno^le call glovewort, and by another name hounds tongue, is produced in cultivated places, and in sandy lands.
This
wort,
2.

Tf

any man have a

seethe

tertian fever, or a quartan,

take the root of this wort,

to

when

it

has three shoots

give
(it)

seed;
;

the root in water;

him

to

drink

thou shall cure him.

3.

The wort
like

fits 4.

which has four seed stalks, benethat wliich we have before mentioned.
also
is

Besides, there

another wort like

this,

which

hath in some deo-ree a less leaf than the dock. A root of that wort swallowed in water, is an antidote
against frogs and snakes.

Against oppression of the chest,^ take this same wort and honey, and a loaf which has been baked Vv^ith lard, in the manner in which thou wouldst make a poultice wonderfully doth it disperse the
5.
;

disorder.
^"^^*

Gladden,^
1.

falsely,

xliii.

^.'''^^''

tima.

Bot.

For water sickness (dropsy), take this wort, which is named (3oKjSo a-xiWrirncoc, and by another

Latin,

Ad

suppurationes in corpore.

The

old interpreter

read suspirationes.
^

The

traditional figure

may be
drawn

Scilla nutans^

Bof.,

or

F'ome other, but the leaves are

too broad for the squills.

In

MS. Add.

17063,

a flowerpot has been

is

made out of the

the

bulb.

BoA/3o^ oTKiKkriTiKoq

in so

many words

bulb of

the squill, and should not have been confused with gladden,
gladiolus.

But

this

wort does duty for others.

146
jebjiyje^

HERBARIVM
hy^
j'ySSan*^ eal

peapbe^ yeoS on paetejie^

onbutan jenim )?oiine mneSonne ^ hyt peapm j'y je'j

menjc^
j-'ulle

eceb^^ pyle ]?py jfcenceay^^ fpySe hpa^e^^ fceal peo^^ seocnyp^* beon ut atojen

eac^ ]?8epto^ liumj

jjujih

mij^an.
li]7a

piS

pajie

jenim

J?ap

ylcan

pypte*^ ppa

pe

sep

cpseban^^ mnepeapbe^'^ pyll^^

on

ele

pmypa^^

]?

pap fep^^

mib son a hyt ppemaS.^^

piS
J?yppe
J7a^^

able

]>e

jpecap paponicliiar nemnaS jenim

'j

ylcan

pypte

mib hlape leje

jehgeleS.

pypttpuman cnuca mib ecebe to )?am pape^^ punboplice hyt hy^*

j^upft

^ man ne mseje paoteppeocep mannep jecelan jenim J>yppe pylpan^^ VYV^^ l^^F -^^5^
Pi6
]?a

unbeji

trunjan pona heo }?one^^

)?upft:

popbyt.

Umbilicum.

XLiiii.
'j

Deop pypt Se 3pecap cotilebon uenepif nemnaS byS cenneb^^ beopjum.

^^Pi6 ppylap
fpa

pomane umbilicum on on hpopum

-j

jenim

J>ap

pypte

'j

fpinen

fmepu pipum
be
pihce^^

Seah

unjefylt

sejj^pep

jelice

micel

'

Sebpisse, B.

j^j^^

^ q
five
i**

fe'S'San,

O.
''

-perbe, O.

^ ^

psete,

O.
^
'=^

*^

V. omits
B. O.

words.
ecobe, O.

gemeensc, B. H.

eac,

H.

jjap,

"

fceaccaj", B.;

-tef, O.
'* *>a

pae, H. B. O.
i

>eo, O.
'

"

seocnej-,

H.
O.
If

pyrt, O.
20

cpaebon, 11.

^'
21

perbe, O.
j-jaama'S,

p^i^ jj.; pel,

22

" smype, H.
so,
25

j,ap^

q.
23

H.
2*

j,^^
.

B.

able

is

for

ablum,
26

fQ^e^

Q.
27

hig^ g^

q, omits.
28

ylcan, H.; O. omits.

j,ane,

O.

cajnneb,

H. B.
assungia

j^^

strumas
[fuilla

discutiendas.
alii]

Herba cotyledon
sine

pisata

cum

ovilla

feminis

sale

aequis

ponderibas

calida

imponatur

strumas

discutit.

But the

ed. of

1528 reads feminibus, so that the sense

would be

less

disturbed.

'^^'^pih'ct,

H,

APVLEir.

47
Gladden.
^^'^- ^^"^

name
mix
cups

gladden, and next dry *

it

it all

about
it

then take

the inward part, seethe

also thereto
fall;

in water,

when
;

be

warm

honey and vinegar

administer three

very quickly shall the sickness be drawn

take this same wort as
;

out by urine.
2.

For disease of
;

joints,*^

we

before said, the inner

sore therewith
3.

part
the

boil it in oil

smear the
Trugcovuxi^?,

soon

it benefits.

For the disorder

Greeks

name

angnails, take root of this same wort, pound with vinegar and with a loaf, lay it to the sore wonder;

fully it healeth the same.

In case that the thirst of a dropsical man may not be assuaged, take a leaf of this same wort, lay it under the tongue, soon it abateth the thirst.
4.

Wall ijenny wort, {Our) Ladys navel A

1.

xliv.

Cotyledon
vmbilicus.

This wort, which the Greeks

name

xoruAyj^wv,

and
roofs

Bot.

the

Romans umbilicus

veneris,

is

produced

on

and on barrows. 2. Against swellings,^ take this wort and swine lard, yet without salt, of either constituent alike much by The

interpreter translates torretur etymologically.

^ Latin,
c

madidum

this is tepidum.
is

Latin,

Ad

perniones, that

kibes, heelsores,

from the old

sense of
"^

Perna=nTepa, a
figure in
;

heel.

V. represents " Cotyledon umbilicus, stem and flowers alone the leaves rarely coexist with them." (H.) llie drawing in MS. Bodley, 130, is monstrous ; in MS. A. valueless; in MS. G. it gives us convolvulus arvensis ; in MS. T. the cymbal-shaped leaves of Cot. umb. are given, the stem has been roughened, and gl. peny gres. So " Ymbilicus Veneris, peuiwort," MS. Sloane, 5. So Florio, Cotgrave, etc. etc. ^ In the word pipum, the interpreter decidedly followed his Latin copy, which read " cum assungia ovilla feminis sine sale cequis ponderibus calida imponatur," as does MS. A. But the ed. of 1528 reads feminibus, on the thighs.

The

48
\e^v.

HERB ART VM
to ];am fpylum hy'c
liy^

cniica t:o]"omnc'
];fep

toj-epeS

pyj^te J)u fcealt:

mman

on pinteptibe.
XLV.
afcoji-j

AttojilaSe.'^

Deop pyj^t pe man jalli cjiuf 'j oSpum nam an laSe nemneS biS cenneb^ on fsefcnm fropmn
pejap.
Pi);

pit)

cnuca mib hji}^]'le* lieojiSbaceniim^ lilape leje to ''6am Ilite pona liyt -j mib biS jehseleb* eac^ ]?>'P sylpe ppemaS'' pi6 heapb jefpell
plite
J>ap pyjite
j

hunbep

jenim

hit eal topepe^.

lOajiehune.^

XLVI.

PiS jepopu^ *j pi^ ]3 man liepelice hjirece ^enim Sap pypte Se jpecap pjiappion -j jiomane mapubium nemnat) eac anjle^^ hajiehune hataS^^ peo(S on ppetepe sy]e j
bpiincan

]?am

]?e

hepelice lipsecen

heo

hme^^

jehjeletS

pimbojihce.

Pi5 majan sape

jemm

J>yppe ylcan

pypte peap pyle

bpmcan hyt
paetepe heo

j^sep

pepep bepije- pyle

majan pap ppam abeS ^ jip Inm him ]?ap ylcan pvj^te pel bpmcan on
ahpsejiS.^^

hyne

PiS
ylcan
])yppa

penj
pyj^te

pypmap abutan^"^ napolan^^ jenim )?ap mapubium 'j pejmiob 'j elehtpan ealjia

pypta ^elice pela be jepihte peoS on jej'j'etton pfletepe 'j mib pine tjne^^ oSbe ]?jiipa leje to J^ain
napolan^^ hit cpel6
];a

pyjimap.

'

his, B.;
"

V.

is

here gone to pieces.

''

acterlo'Se, B.,
^

by

the xii. centurj^

hand.
"

CEenneb, H. B.
^

jijjle IT. B.

-nan, H.

eac,

H.

" Ad tnssim gravem. ho-^hune, B., by the later hand. )|iania'S, 11. '- lis qui grariter tiissiii}./. '" " hune haca^, II. e-ic on ajn^lifC, IT.

The hme
'^

in singular
II.

is

negligence.
'^

O. has
''

mauled

this

paragraph.

aiirep'S,

B.
tujta,

"'

ci'ist'a, IT.;

B.

-ton, B. ' na)elan, B.

ncajelan, IT.; najclan, B.

APVLEIl.

149
Cotylkdon

weight,

])Oiiiid

together, lay to the swellings, it removes

them.

This wort thou shalt take (up) at winter-tide.

['

xliv^

AtTORLOTHE.
1

XLV.
galli

Panicumcrus
crus,

This wort, which

is

named
is

and by
places,

^"

another

name

attorlothe,

produced in solid

and against ways. 2. For bite of dog, take this wort, pound it v/ith grease, and with a hearth baked loaf, lay to the wound, soon it will be healed also this same is of benefit for a hard swelling, and removes it all.
;

HOREHOUND.a
1.

XLVI.

Marrubium
vuUjare.

Hot.

For colds in the head, and in case a man breaks heavily {makes great efforts to clear his throat of phlegm), take this wort, which the Greeks name Trpaa-iov, and the Romans marrubium, and also the English call it horehound, seethe it in water, give to drink to them that break heavily it will heal theon wonderfull}''. 2. For sore of maw (stomach), take juice of this it doth away {the sufferer) to drink same wort, give the sore of the maw; aiid if fever vex him, give him this same wort in water to drink freely, it will raise
;

him
3.

up.

For tape worms about the navel, take this same wort marrubium, and wormwood, and lupins, of all
these worts alike
vv^ater

much by

weight, seethe in sweetened

thrice, lay to the navel

and with wine, twice or

the worms.

it killeth

occurred in MwS. V. in the placing of the which seems intended for Ceterach. Horehound is truly drawn as Prassion in MS. Bodley, 130 glossed lioreIn MS. A., fol. 25 b, the liounde in hand of xii. century. figure has the flowers terminal, which ought to be axillary. The drawings in MSS. T. G. are monstrous.
^

A mistake has

figure,

150
PiS
baejin
]i]?a

HERBARIVM
j^ajie^
-j

piS jej^mb

jenim

J^ay

ylcan pypte

to alipan^ bo to J^am yajie yona hit jehaelS.

Pi6 attpey Sijne jenim |?ypye ylcan pypte pop pyle on ealbum pme^ bpmcan pona f attoji topsejiS.

PiS pceb*

"j

pi6 teteji
]?one

jenim

)7ap

ylcan pypte peo6

]?8ep.''

on

psetejie

Speh^

lichoman^

mib

]78ej\^

pap py heo opjemmS ];one pcjiup^ PiS

'j

J^one tetep.

jenim ]?ap ylcan pypte peo6 on liunije pyle Jjijjean^ he biS punboplice jehseleb.
lun^en
able

piS

ealle ftiSneppa J^aep

lichoman^^

jemm

J>ap

ylcan
hselS

pypte* cnuca mib pyple leje to )7am

punboplice.

pape heo

Foxespot.
Iris xifium.

XLVII.

piS uncuSe pppmjap \e on lichoman^^ acennebe^^.beoS

jenim

yntpena jepihte 'j pmebman pix yntpena jepihte ecebep tpejen ^^ pcenceap^'^ 'j poxep fmeopupep^* Speopa yntpena ^^ jebec^^ ponne anne^^ pihte cnuca topomne on pme cla^ psep^^ op leje to Sam pape )7U punbjiafu J?8epe
Jjpeopa

pypttpuman o^pum naman poxeppot nemneS

]?yppe

pypte

pe

man

xipion

-j

lacnunje.^^
PI'S

heapob b]iyce~^ jenim

'j

J>ap

ylcan pypte upepejibe^^

jebpyje hy

jenim ]7onne be jepihte epen mycel pmep menj^*'' topomne leje to fam pape hyt Sonne J^a pojibjiocenan ban tit atyh^ eac^'* jip hpset on ]?am lichoman^'^ bepjenbe by^ hyt pel piiS ]5
cnuca ^^

'

Ad coniUlomola,
'

Latin.

-'

bufce, II.; axj-au, B.

'

three words.
^

j-caeb, II.
^

B.
'"

hi'eah,

B.

"

^ V. omits -haman, B.; -ma, O.

>ap, B., twice.

rc"r]> H- ^- ^-

^^^^ fonns

are

still

current.
II.

"
'^

hiKScan, IT.; hc^an, B.

tpej^ean,

-haman,

B., twice.

" aceennebe,

V.

'=*

rcwncar, B.

" rmeppef, B.

"

ynC}*a, H.,

APVLEII.

151
inflation,
it

For sore of joints and for wort, burn it to ashes, apply

4.

take this same Houkhound

to the sore,

soon

it

^^'

^^'

healeth.
5.

For

s^vYiillowing of poison,

take ooze of this same

wort, give (to the sufferer) to drink in old wine, soon

the poison passes

6.

off.

Against scab
seethe
it

wort,

where the sore

tetter.
7.

and against tetter, take this same in water, wash the body therewith, may be it removes the scurf and the
;

For lungs

disease,

take this same wort, seethe

it

in honey, give it to

swallow; he will be wonderfully

healed.

For all stiffnesses of the body, take the same wort, pound it with lard, lay it to the sore it healeth
8.
;

wonderfully.

Foxes foot.
1.

XLVII.
1

Agamst

strange pustules which are produced on

IT

Sparganinm
simplex.

Bot,

the body, take a root of this wort,

^i<piov,

which

is

named

and by another name foxes foot, by weight of three ounces, and of smede or fine flour, by weight of six ounces, two draughts of vinegar, and of foxes grease by weight of three ounces, pound together in
wine,
cover

then a cloth therewith, lay to the

sore,

thou wilt wonder at the cure. 2. For head breach (a broken head), take the upper part of this same wort, dry it and pound it take then by weight as much of wine, mingle together, lay to the sore, it then draweth out the broken bones; also if somewhat on the body be annoying, it is well
;

confirmiDg ihe argument in

1'

St.

Mark,
''^

senne, B.
b]iece, II.

'^
'^^

>a]a,

B.

-"

-jjeajibe,
-^

H. B,

gebjiisse hig, B.

meengc, H. B.

'"bo, H. p. 87, 30. >ape lacnun^e, B.; lacnu^Se, H. ^ Sebpigebe ^ cnuca by, H.; -^ -hamen, B. eac, H.
'-'

152
jijiema^
^

HEKBARIVM

o^^e jij: hpa'"^ mib hiy jiet; oj: fcepS^ aBtrjuj banpiacan^ o^^e nsebbpan Seop rylfe pypt ij- ppyfe
yceajip^

numul

pi^

J>9et

attoji.

Psetep
Iry-p

p^^jit.

XLViii.

psemnum bepijen^ jemm Sap p^'P'^e j^e man callitpicum^ -j oSpum uaman pietep pyjit nenineS cnuca liy^ pynbjiije leje to )?am pape lieo hyc hgelS. jdcan pyj^te Ifip mannep pex^ pealle jemm ]7ap cnuca on ele fmypa^^ Sonne f pex^^ );8Gpmib^^ hyr
I'pylap

pona biS

psefu.

Bjaijjiene.
Allium moly.

XLix.

Deop pypt ]>e man temolum 'j oSjium naman pmjpene nemneS J?sep ]?e omepuf pa^jS yp pyjita^^ beophtufu^* "j ]5 mepcujiiup h}"^ pnban pceolbe -^'^ S}^pp<^ yf TPJ^^ pjiemjiul 'j liyjie pypttpuma yp pyjite pos

pynepealt:

*j

ppeajit eac

on SjBpe
]7ap

*^

mycele

])e

leacef.

pr6
j.gepto^''

cpij>an

pape

jemm
^)

pypte cnuca

Icje

heo 3eli]7e5a^

pap.

Bijelpeajipa.
Holiotropion
scorpiurus.

L.
"j

^^Deop pyjvt

|;e

jpecaf heliotpophur
'j

]\omane uep-

tamnum nemnaS
'j

eac anjle

'^^

fijel hpeojipa
*j

baraS

''^^

biS cenneb-^ jehpaep^^ on

eac

bejanum fropum

on damnum

on m^ebum. Deop pypt hsejiO mib hype sume punboplice jobcuubneppe^'^ p ip ponne p hype blopman hy-^ a3pt:ep }iepe^^ sunnan pyne~^ penbaS^'' spa pa bloptman ponne peo
]5

'

yjiamaS,

ir.

hjia,
'^

B.

'

tta]^x:,

B., tart.

bejiien,
>

''

In, n.
j'yjite, II.

jeax, B.

^ biin, B. ^ jtfeivb', B.; frapS, II. IL; bepigan, B. ^ j^allicpicum, V. '^ " yeax, B. fmejia, B. j,a^,^ 3

" -rofr,
but
B.
-"

II.

'^

j-colbe, II.
'"

B.

'

Sajxc,

B.
-'"

'^

J^an,

B.

'^
-'

V.

is lierc

little legible.
--'

eac on

anj^lij-c, II.
-^

hace'S,
'"'

H.
B.

cainneb,
Jnijie,

11.

t^thjiaji,

B.
-'

-nyfr^", li-

h'S,

"'

B.

hjiyiie,

B.

j'tcuba'cS,

B.

APVLEll.
serviceable against that
or if

153
ioot.

any one with his foot Foxes steppeth on a poisonous deadly snake, or on an adder, this same wort is very efficacious against the poison.
;

Water
1.

wort,

xlviii.

Caiutriche verna. Bot.

If swellings

called

annoy maids, take this wort, which is ycuXXlTpi^oCj and by another name water wort,
it

pound
2.

apart, lay it to the sore

it

healcth

it.

If a
it

mans
in
oil,

hair

fall

off,

take this same

it

wort,

pound

smear then the hair therewith,

soon

becometh

fast.

SiNGREEN, or Houseleek.^
1.

XLIX.

Sempervlvum

This wort, which

singreen, of

name
it,

is called fju^Ku, and by another which Homeros saith it is of worts

the brightest,

is

and that Mercurius should find {found) ooze of this wort is very beneficial, and its root round and swart, also of the size as of a leek.t> 2. For sore of matrix, take this wort, pound it and
it

lay

thereto

it

alleviates the sore.

SOLWHERF.
wort, which the

L.

^^j^.^,^
fomentosa. Bot.

Greeks named YiXiOTpoTriov, 1. This YiKioTpoTTogf and the Romans vertamnus, and also the English call it solwherf, is produced everywhere in cultivated places, and on clean ones, and in meadows. This wort hath with it some wonderful divine qualities, that is, that its blossoms turn themselves according to the course of the san, so that the blossoms
^

The drawing

in

MS.

V.,

fol.

32

c,

represents in a

way

this

wort, but the flowering stem and flower are given as very slender, and solitary, so that one thinks of " Pingnicula
vulgaris." (H.)

In

MS.
is

resembling houseleek

Bodley, 130, under moly, a wort drawn. MS. A., fol. 26b, is like
is

MS. v.;
j)ioIj/,

the flowers look like arbute berries.

^ Tlio root

of

singreen

not a bulb

a garlic,

allium

v/as in the

mind of

Apiilciud.

154

HERBARIVM

yuime jepyhS hy^ rylpe beclypaS ept Jjonne heo 'j upjanje'S hy^ TJ^F^^ jeopeniaS.*^ ^ tobjisebaS ^ heo ppemaS * to J^ij^yum Isecebomum fe ye hep pi6 sejztan
appiten habbaS.

fpiSe"'^

PiS ealle attpu jenim ]?ap pylpan pypte cnuca to fmalon^ bufte oSSe hype poj^'' syle bpmcan on

^oburn pine punbophce heo f attop tojzepeS. PiJ? plepj'an^ jenim Syype ylcan pypte leap cnuca
'j

leje to

6am pape hyt

ys^

jelypeb f heo pceapphce

jehsele,

Msebepe.

Li.
*j

Deop pypt bepe nemneS

hpepS hpitef

J?e

man jpyay
cenneb^^
"j

oSjmm naman mse-

b5^S

pj^pmupt^^

lucania heo

mapman^^ bleoh heo bi6 jeppsetepub ^^ mib peopep peabum ptgelum.^* piS ban bpyce jenim J^ap ylcan pypte Pi6 ban ece cnuca hy^^ leje to )7am bane ]7y ];pibban baeje him bi6

'j

sel fpylce J^aep^^ cly]7a tojelaeb paepe.-^^

6ac^ t'yrr^ Pyp*^^ p}'pttpuma ppema'S^^ pi6 aelc paji ]?am lichoman bepeS^^ f yp Sonne f man ]?one \)e

pyjittpuman cnucije^^ pap he jehael'S.

-j

to

Sam pape

jelecje

eal

Dymele.^^

Lli.

Deop pypt Se man poll tpi cum ^ oSpum naman hymele nemneS by]; cenneb^^ on ealbum hup ftebum eac^* on puhtum ftopum.

-j

'

hi?;,

B., twice.

'^

V.

is

here illegible.
"

'

-nia'S, B.; -na'S,

'

H.
B.

'

}niamat),

H.

v]n'5aTi,H.

r^alan, B,
'"

poj-,

**

H. B. " -mefr, H. B. mapman, 11. has altered by the same hand to ma]ib]ian, being a later utterance than the penman found in the text.
luxutn, looseness.
hys,

Ad

V.

caenneb,

'"^

'^

Se}7i8etpob, B.

^'

ytelu, B.
'"

''

hig, B.

'"

\>ap,

B.
-

'"

togeleb

jisepe,
-'

B.

^^

Pac,

H.
II.

-tpuman
-

jiiama"^, II.
--'

bepa'(\ B.

cnuca hy, H., spoiling the

-^

.sentence.

humele, B., by later hand;

so in index.

caenneb,

B.

eac, II.

APVLEII.

155
Solwiierf,
^'*'
'

when the sun is setting close themselves, and again when he upgoeth they open and spread themselves; and it is beneficial for the leechdoms which we here
have after written. 2. For all poisons, take
this

same wort, pound

it

to

very small dust, or its ooze, administer (this) to drink in good wine; it wonderfully removes the poison. 3. For flux, take leaves of this same wort, pound

and lay them to the

sore

it

is

believed

that

it

healeth sharply (efficaciously).

MADDEK.^
1.

LI.

jiui^ia

tine

This wort, which

in

is

named
the

grias,

is

first

Lucania;
it is

it

has

complexion

produced of white
stalks.

'^^""'

marble, and

ornamented with four red

same wort, pound it, lay it to the leg on the third day comfort will be for him, as if a poultice were laid
2.

For leg ache^ and

for leg breach, take this

;

there.
8.

Also a root of this wort

is

beneficial

for

each

which troubles the body, that is, when a man pounds the root and lays it to the sore, it healeth all
sore

the sore.

Hop
1.

TEEFOIL.C

LII.

T^^i-^^
^^7"'^'"'-

This wort, which is named iroKCrpixov, and by another name hymele, is produced in old house-steads
(tofts)

and

also in

damp

places.

as
at

For madder, MSS. V. G. T. A. draw a great rhizome, with lanceolate leaves growing out intervals yet varied by the fantasy of the artists. MS.
of Acorus or Iris,
;

Bodley, 130,
^ Latin,
c

is different.

Ad

sciaticos sanandos.

By

aid of the figure in

leaves, the interpretation

sistent

MS. G., fol. 17 b, which has trefoil of MS. V., h^^mele, is rendered con-

with our English tradition of names.

156
Pib mno(5e]"

HERBAKIVM
j'ajie^

pypte leap );e pe beoS fpylce Ipmen byjilu cnuca Sonne a leap *j nijon pipep copn -j colianbjian pa3bep nijon copn"* call to pomne syle bpincan on jobum^ pine -j ]7yp yf Sonne he janje to bseSe cac*^ peop vice pyjit jebe]? f ^Sp'cp 5^ pepa je pipa^
l^yj'j'e

jenim

politjiicum

nembon^

l^ype

tpiju'^

J,

peax^

pexe]?.^

pubuhjiope.'^

LIII.
^^

JAS
pyjite

]3

man on

pombe^' pojipexen

p}^pttpuman Se jjiecap malochm

pejia

sy jenim J^yppe ajpia 'j poniane

aftula

nemnaS
pj-le

-j

eac

senile ^^ pubupope

hataS
j^JTr^P

cnuca mib pme

ppempulnyppe.^*
PicS

bpmcan pona )u onjitft

)>yppe
p}'Jite pteb

mnoSep pleppan jenim

Jiejia

\e pe

aftula

nembun^'^ jemencjeb^^ nub

)>one

fti]nun

ccebe

pyle

bpmcan hyt jeppiS

mnoS.

Popij.^'

LIV.

PiS eajena
J;yppe
pyj^'^e

pajie

f yy p pe
Se

cpeSacS

topnije^**
-j

jenim

pos

jpecap

moecojiiap

jioinaiie

papauep album nemnaS ^ enjle^^ hpit popij hataS'-'^ oSSe ]?one ftelan mib pam paeftme leje to J^am eajan.
PiS J^unponja^^ pajie oSSe ]78ep heapbep jenmi J'yrr^ pylpan pypte pos cnuca nub ecebe leje opep ]?one
anbplitan^^ liyt 5eli]:e5a"6
j-set
saji.

'

yape, B.

jiembun, H.
^

^tjnKa/II.

coliantojmn, V.;
^

II.
**

omits two words.

"Bobu,

B.

*"'

eac,

H.
'

jnya,
'"

B.

yex,

H.

"

peaxet5, B., but the conjunctive is required.

pube-

roue, B.,
'^

by

later hand.

" pambe,

II,

B.

peaxen, B.
;

pusem-, 11. on senghpc, II.; en^le, B. '" j;cm8enj;ceb, H. 'Mi)'ic popi, B., by '^-bon,B. "^ nemne"S '^ tojineSe, II. T on senghpc, H.

eac

-nejje, B.
later

hand.

-"

hata'S, B,

-'

J^an,

B.

--

j'lacan, II.

B.

APVLETT.
2,

157
iiop trkfotl.
^^^- '"

For sore of inwards, tako leaves of this wort, which we named iroKvTpixov, its twigs are as swine bristles pound then the leaves and nine pepper corns and nine grains of coriander seed all together give to drink in good wine, and let this be when he goes to the bath. Also this wort is efficacious to make either
;

mens or womens hair grow.

WOODROFFE.
1.

LIII.

In case a
of this

man
wort,

be overgrown

m
.

,1

the

1,1 wamb,^ take

yuuKoix'^

Asphodels
fdiitosus.

Bnt.

roots
Uypla,

which

the.

Greeks name
regia,

and the

Romans

hasfcula

and

also the
;

Engle call woodroffe, pound with wine, give to drink soon thou shalt understand the advantage of this. 2. For flux of inwards, take seed of this wort, which we named hastula regia, mixed with strong vinegar, administer {this) to be drunk it bindeth the inwards.
;

X OPPY.^^
1.

LIV.
is

Papaver som"
^'^^''"''

what we denominate blearedness, take the ooze of this wort, which the Greeks name [/.y^koovu, and the Romans papaver album, and the Engle call white poppy, or the stalk, with
For sore of
eyes,

that

the fruit, lay

2.

it

to the eyes.

this

For sore of temples or of the head, take ooze of same wort, pound ^ with vinegar, lay upon the
it

forehead;

alleviates the sore.

In the table of contents truly translated after the Latin but foppexen can be only wrongly groivn^ not troubled with diarrhoea. Similarly ii. 4, xl. 1., lxix. 1.
^

See

art.

xxxiii.
;

Poppy would not be recognized

either in

MS.

V.,

fol.

33

c,

or in the dissimilar figure, MS. A., fol. 28 b. In MS. T., gl. " chesbol album," but not like either a garlic or a pojjpy.
^

The

notion of pounding an infusion with vinegar

is

due to

our old interpreter.

158
piS
ylaepleaj'te^

HERBARIVM

jenym
mib

l^yj"]*^

y^^^^^

VYV^^
J^one

P^r
j^lep''

fmype^
onpenfc*

J^one

man

pona

J?u

him

LV.

mseje jemm fyffe pypte^ pypttpuman J>e^ man oenantey ^ oSpum naman nemneS to bufre jecnucube^^ pyle bpmcan on pnie
Tsyy lipa^ jemijan^ ne

tpejean^^ pcenceap^^ pulle hyt ppemaS^^ healice.

Zryp ^y^ YVflp^ hpeece^* jenime )?yppe ylcan pyjite^'"' pypttpuman ficje )?am jemete J>e pe nu hep. bepojTan^^
cpsebun^^
i^

hyt jehSijaS

|?one^^ hjiacan.^^

JOalp pypit.^*^

LVi.

punba ]?e on )?am men^^ beoS acenneb^'^ jenim )?yppe pypte pyjxttpuman^^ Se man napcippum^"* o^jium naman^^ halppypt nemne^ mib ele -j mib 'j
PiS
J>a

raelupe

jecnucubne^'^
]?8epe^^

pypce leje to

J)am jehce J7e J>u to^^ ch]?an punbe hyt hsel^ punboplice.^^

Bpune
]}r8

pypt.
]?yppe

LVii.

miltan pape
pplenion
'j

jenim

pypte pyjittjiuman pe
-j

jpecap
enjle^^

pomane teucpion^^ nemnaS

eac

bpune pypt hata^ cnuca to

fpi^e fmalan bufte

'

fleep-,

B.
"

fmejia, B.
'

flsep,

B.
"

onrs&nfe,

H. B.
O.
II.
b.,

''

man, O.

K^j E- 0- omit.

pyre, O.
'"

jiyrtume, O.

* \>a.,

().

alters the text a little.

''^

secnocobe, B.; cnuca to

'^
'"

" cpegen, H. B. fceencaf, B. O. " jaa&ce, B. ' -ren, O. '5 pyre, O.

'

-rue's,

O.; >-]iama'5, H.
'**

-bon, B. O.

>ane, O.

hjiacan, B.

-"

See cxxvii.
acsenneb,
II.

HeALSfYRT,
B.
^'

H.
O.

^i

o^
-'

fol. 1.5
2^^

= 57.

^-

^^
^^

-me

j?,

mana, O., napcij-ii, V. B.

j,a
'^^

nama, O.
-beji-, O.

^^
^^

Secnucub, H.
uerid, O.

to, B. omits.

l>ajie,

B. O.

'^^

eac on eenjlirc, H.

APVLEIL
3.

159

For

sleeplessness,
it

take
;

smear the man with sleep on him.

ooze of this same wort, and soon thou sendest the

^^^y^y

DropiUOrt^
1.

LV.

(Enanthe
pimpinelli-

If one

may
is

not pass water, take roots of this folia.

olvoivQr],

wort, which

named

and by another name,

P^^^^o^

pounded to
full
2.
;

dust, administer in wine,

two cups

it is

of high benefit.

If one break much, let

same wort, let which we now

breaking.

him take roots of this him swallow them in the manner

here
before

quoth

it

allays

the

HALSWORT.b
1.

LVI.

For the wounds which are produced on a man, take roots of this wort, which one nameth vxpjua-a-og, and by another name halswort, pounded with oil and with meal, as if thou wert working it to a poultice
lay to the

Probably Campanula trachehum.

wound

it

healeth wonderfully.

BrOWNWORT.
1.

LVII.

Ceterach officinarum. Bot,

For disease of spleen, take roots of this same the Greeks name ucttcKyiviov, and the wort, which Romans teucrium, and also the Engle call brownwort

Drawn
MS.

site

in MS. V., fol. 33 d, as a naked stalk, with oppobranches furnished with tufts of leaves, and so in the

Latin

A., fob 29

a,

and in MS. G.

in

MS.
gl.
*'

Bodley, 130,

as a trailing plant with

compound

leaves

on peduncles and

spiked flowers

None

Vitis nigra." of these have any resemblance to the dropworts. ^ Falsely interpreted, perhaps ; see the glossary. In MS.
;

in

MS.

T., as bryony,

and

Bodley, 130, at this place,

launge.
i.

narcissus

is

glossed "

Oxngen

hundestunga."

syle

bjimcan on lijnm
eac^ yy
sa^b
]>

pine healic*

)^"''3<^

l'^^

]>ve]\^

mib
p
ip

onjitfr

heo jmy

j.Tinben'*

pa^jie

c)oniie p liyt: jelamp hpilon ^ man peapniap mib ];?epe^ nnlran uppan pap pypte jepceapp pa pona jeclypube^ peo milte to pyppe pyjite "j heo hjiseblice pa miltan po]mam pop ^y heo eac^ ppam pumum mannum

fplemon

^eci^eb
po]i

yp

]5

nemneb
hvjie

pam^

p?ep
eta'cS

yp pe

on

upe
psej^

je^eobe
-^^

milte

man

pa ppin^^ pe

pypttjiuman^^

f hy been

butan^'^ milten^*

jemette.^'^'

tpijum^^ hysopan jehcne^^ hfebbe ^ leap^^ beanum jehce panon^^ hy^^ pume men pam pylpum naman nemna'b hypopan pa pyjite man nimeS ponne heo blep^^ ppi^upt^*^ lieo yp jehepeb^^ on pam miintlanbum pe man cihcia ^
eac
pa3C5ea^^'^

8ume

heo

frelan

mib

pipibia nemne<5.

LVIII.

Deop pyjit pe man pohon -j oSpum naman nemneb bi^ cenneb^'^ on unfmepum^^ ptopum. Pi^ mono^^'^ peoce jenim pyppe pypte peap pe pe polion nembun jemenjc^^ pi'^ eceb fmypa^^ p?ep*^^ mib
pa p ypel pohjen topopan pam pe hyt liym to j^ylle peh^^ pu hyjie leap 'j hype pytujiuman bo on^^ -j anne^^ cl?enne cla^ *j jepprSe onbutan^^ psep mannef
'Se

'

-hce, O.
IT.

j,ap,
'

B.
II,

3 ^,/lc,

" '"
'^

-jobe,
fejj'S,

eac,

-be, O. H. mannuni, H. omits.

'

'

)>ajie,

B.
n.

"

)>8em, IT,

B.

" fjnn, B.
"railcan, B.
'

'^'

-tjurnia,
'"

B.,

dropping
'" leaj:,
''^

bacon, B.
r,.

t^^niece, If.
'^

eiic secgea'S,

H.;
B.

recsaS,
'
'^'

t])iKan, II.
-'-

j;elicne,
-'

B.

}>onon, B.

-'

hit;, F,.
^^

blej>-S,

B.

-^ofr, B.
-'

-jiob, B.
;

csenneb, B. H.

nino'5,

unfmehan, 11. v., but mono"??, V. in index, and

II.
-"

Ad

bmaticos, Latin
*^

IT.

B.
B.

^emaenc, B.;
^" j'aji,

j;tnia;n'^;c,
="

j'mype,
'

II.;

fmejin, R.
II.
^'

B.
on-

Kill, B,

?^6r,.

II.

"-ajnne,

aburan,

II.;

buccii, B.

APVLEIT.

IGl
to drink in
litlio {^oft)

poimd
Also
it
it

it

to small dust;

give

it

Brownwort.
^'*
"

wine, therewith thovi wilt observe a remarkiiLle thing.

is said,

that the wort

was thus

found, that

is,

whilome happened that a man scraped intestines with the spleen upon this wort, then soon the spleen clave to this wort, and it quickly consumed the as spleen, for which reason it is also designated splenium by some men, which (spleen) in our language is called the milt. Hence it is said of the swine, which eat its roots, that they are found to be without
spleen.
2.

Some
it

also

say that

it

has a stalk with twigs

;

like hyssop,

name

The wort must be collected when it is in full blossom. It is of a famed sort in the mountain lands which are named Cilicia and Pisidia.
^
1.

and leaves like beans by the same name hyssop.

hence some

men

LVIII.
ttoXiov,

Teucrium poUum. Sot.

and by another produced in unsmooth places. 2. For a lunatic, take juice of this wort which we named polion, mix with vinegar, smear therewith them
is

This wort which

,

called

name

is

that suffer that

access),

evil,

before it will to

him

(before the
it

and shouldest thou put the leaves of the roots of it on a clean cloth, and bind

and

about

Bodley, 130, the drawing represents Plantago See further on, art. cl. The drawing in MS. V., fol. 34 b, might do for teucrium (H.), it is pretty much like. MSS. A. G. have the same figure as MS. V. MS. T. gives
^

In

MS.

lanceolata.

composite discs terminal.

162
]"pypan

HERBARIVM
pe

yjzel

^ola^

hyt

be\>

onpunbelnypfe^

)?8Bf

pyljzan ^mjej-.

Eneopholen.
]}rS J?one

Lix.

bpopan

-j

pi^

)?oiie

majan^
J>e

]"cenceaj*^ pulle

poyey ^yppe pypte

jemm trpejen man uictopiole

*j

o^pum naman eneopholen nemne^ pyle bpmcan jzsej^tenbum* yrS humj jemenjeb*^ pona hyt ^one bpopan
jepsece^.

Ixalluc.

LX.
'j

Deop
jalluc
eac'^

o^pum naman man conpipman on pelbum nemne^ bi'S cenneb*^ on mopum

pypt
J?e
-j

-j

on msebum.
fleppan jenim
)?ap

pi's pijra

pypte conpipmam cnuca

pine pona pe

to

ppy]?e^

pmalon^ bufte

syle

bpmcan on

fleppa setftanbej?.^^
Jjyp hpa

pypte
j7onne

tobopften^^ py jenime^^ J^YPf^ ylcan pypttpuman jebpsebe^^ on hatan^* axan^^ ficje

mnan

on hunije pseptenbe he bi'S jehseleb *j eac hyt ]?one majan ealne apeopma^. Pi^ majan pajie jenim J^ap ylcan pypte -j jemenj^^ eceb J?u onjitft mycele^^ ppempulPI'S hunij *j PI'S
nyppe.^

'

nysse,

H.
II.

^ j,ggf

masan
"

rape, H.
'

j-csencaj- ,

B.

yaefcenbe,
*

H.

^
"
'^

^raaenseb,
jTiialan,

B.
'"

csenneb, B.

eac, H.; cac,

B.
'-

rpiJ^an,
II.

H.
B.

B.

-jranb-, B.
' '

" tobjiocen, H.
omits,

semm,
^^-

jebjiaebe, B.

hacan,

II.

and
'^

spoils

his text
'^

by blunders.

^^

axon, B.

'"

semsensc, H. B.

miccle, B.

IPY"*-*

APVT.ETT.

163
the
evil, it will
Art.
iviii.

the

mans swere

(nech),

who

suffers

give an experimental
virtue).

proof of that

same thing

(its

Knee

holly/^ or Butchers broom.

Lix.

Ruscus
aculeatus. Bot.

For the wrist drop, and for the maw or belly, take two cups full of the ooze of this wort, which is named victoriola, and by another name knee holly administer it (to the patient) to drink fasting mixed with honey;
;

soon

it

diminishes the wrist drop.

YaLLUC,^ or Comfrey.
1.

LX.

Symphytum
officinale.

Bot.

and by another name yalluc, is produced on moors and on fields, and also on meadows. 2. For wives (womens) flux, take this wort confirma, pound it to very small dust, administer it in wine to drink soon the flux stancheth.
This wort, which
is

called confirma {comfrey),

3.

If one be bursten

within, let

him take

roots

of

this

him roast them in hot ashes, then swallow them in honey fasting, he will be healed and it also purges the whole stomach. 4. For sore of maw (stomach), take this same wort, and mingle with honey and with vinegar; thou shalt
wort,
let

perceive

much advantage.

draws leaves, some serrated, some crenate, blue with a round red spot in the middle, root bulbed. MS. Add. 17063, fol. 30 a, similarly, but leaves green, entire, MS. G. has the spots red spot has a yellow circle round it. and characteristic. they are the nectaries, ^ The drawing in MS. V, fol. 34 d, has comfrey leaves and
^

MS.

v., fol. 34

c,

no more. MS. A., fol. 30b, has leaves not quite so distinct, and the root has become bulbous. In MS. Bodley, 130, one of the mint tribe is drawn. L 2

164^

HERBARIVM
LXI.

Deos pypt

])e

man

afuejiion ^ o Spurn
betrj^eoli

naman
on unfme]?um^

nemne^
stopum.

by(S

cenneb-

jftanum

'j

Deop pyp"* ycmeS

heopone^
*j

j'e

'Se''

he ycmlac jepeo 'j hypbum^^ 'j ppam fpylcum

mihta^^ cunnun.^^

on nilite ypilce fceoppa^ on liy^ nytente^ jepih'S he psej^^^ ^ ]fpa apsepeb" he biS tseleb ppam

mannum

ppylce^'^ psepe

pypte^*

Pi^
pe

pylle ]"eocnyppe

jemm
pyle

)?yppe

pypte bepjean^^ pe

afcepion
'j

nembon
]>

etan

on

panijenbuni

^^

monan^^
O. condenses.

sy

Sonne ^^

]?8epe^^

punnan-*^ pyne beo on

J?am

tacne
pe

)7e

man

uipjo

nemne^ f bi^
-j

on

}>am

monSe

man

aujuftu]* haue^^^

hsebbe

'Sap

pylpan

pypte on hip ppypan^* ahanjene^^ he biS jelacnub.^^

IDapan hyje.^^
Puchsius,
p. 479, figures

LXII.

Trifolium arvense not

Geum

ur-

banum.

jenim Sap pypte ]>e man lepopip pef "j o^pum naman hapan hije nemne'S jebpyje hy cnuca J^onne to bufce syle bpmean on pme jip he unpepepij sy jyp he J^onne on pepepe sy pyle bpmcan^^ him on paetepe sona peo pseptnyp to
Pi^
inno)?ep

psefcnyppe^^

plype^.^^

LXIIL

Deep

pypt

J?e

man bictamnum
by]?

-j

o^pum naman
J?e

iiemne'S

oenneb*^^

on "Sam ijlanbe^^

'

O. gives fauine for the English.

^

caenneb, H. B,
'
"j

-fmy'S-, B.
"

pypte, B. -enbe, O.

fterre, O.
'

heuena, O.

\>e,

0.
'^

hig, B.

'^

r^S^, O.

"he
''

abp8et"S,

H.
"*

hyi^bu, B.
'*

fpylcu, O., error.

'"

"
" )>ane,

J>apa pypta, B., in the plural.

ne, O.
IT.

inserts.
"

-non, B.
0.
-'

bepgan, B.
='

pansenbum,
O.,
-^

monan, B.
-^
.-*

>ape, B.

-^ futle,

omitting

article.

hace'S,
-"

B.

ppyiian, B.; ppeopan, II.

*^

ahans-, B.
;

ahan?;e

O,

-nob, B, O.

hyne, V., but hij;e below

hyje,

II.

APVLEII.

165

LXI.
1.

Tliis wort,

which
,

is

name
misinooth places.
2.

is

and by another produced between stones and in

aa-repiov,

named

This wort shineth at night as a star in heaven, and he who seeth it, not witting what it is, he supposes
(as he

that
is),

he seeth an apparition, and so afeard he is ridiculed by herdsmen and by such

the virtues of the wort.

men
3.

as

know

For the falling sickness, take berries of this wort, which we name asterion, administer it to be eaten when the moon is on the wane, and let that be
Avhen the course
of the

sun

is

in

the

constellation

named Virgo; that is, in the month which is called August; and let him have the same wort hung on his swere (neck) he will be cured.
;

HARESFOOT.

LXII.

Trifolivm
arvense.

Bot.

For costiveness of inwards, take this wort, which is named leporis pes, and by another name haresfoot; dry it, then pound it to dust, administer it in wine
to drink, if he
(J:he

patient) be unfeverish
it

if

however,
;

he be in a fever, give

him

to drink in water

soon

the costiveness will pass away.

DiTTANY.b
1.

LXIII.

Diptamnus
alba.

Bot,

This wort,

which

is
,

named
is

dittany,

and

by

another

name

produced in the island

MSS. A. G.

in MS. V. is beyond interpretation ; so In MS. B. 130, the drawing reminds us of Stellaria media, Bot., Chickweed. ^ The figure in MS. V., fol. 35 c, has eaten itself away.
^

The drawing

The

later

hand

in B. glosses auence.

-^

-nejje, B.
^-

-^

bjimcan, B.

omits.

^" )-lipe5,

B.

^^

czenneb, H. B.

ig-, B.

166

HERBARIVM
cpete*
hate^S^
*j

man

on

J^am
hyjie
J?e

munte

l?e

man

iba

nemne^.
liyp hpylc
t:ubbuji

pip

h?ebbe

on

mno^e
pe

beab bopen

bictamnum nembun* pp heo butan pepepe py syle bpmcan on pine* jip hype )?onne pepep bepije syle bpmcan on peapmum psetepe pona hit ^ tubbup ut apenbej)^ butan ppecjenim
J>yppe

pypte pop^

nyppe.^

punba pom hy pyn op ipepne pom hy pyn op ptence'' o^^e ppam nsebpan jenim J>yj*pe ilcan pypte pop bo on )7a^ punba 'j pyle bpmcan sona he by^ hal.
6pt:

pi^

6pt po^hce
pyjite

pi^

peap

pyle

jenim )?yppe ylcan bpmcan on pme pona hyt ^ attop

nsebbpan

phte

topepe^.
Iryp hpa^ attoji ficje

jenime
ppa

J>yppe

ylcan pyjite pop

yp
fpa
J^yppe

bpmce on pme

pitoblice

my eel

pypte
hyjic

ptpen^^^^ ppa na ^ ^n ^ heo mib nyppe^^ nsebbpan opflyh^ j-pa hpsep

hype anbpeapbhy^^

jehenbe^^ beo^ ac popjjon op hype ptence^* );onne he

mib pmbe ahapen bi^ fpa hpaep^^ ppa hy^^ beoS J>one ppsec jeptmca^ hy pcealon^'' fpeltan.^^

*j

hy^*^

6ac^^ yp saeb be J?yppe pylpan^^ VYV^^ syp ^^^^ on huntuj^e pan^^ o^^e psejean^^ mib plane o^^e o^pum
psepne jepsecej? f hy^^ pyllon |7ap pyjite etan^^ fpa hy^^ h]Taj7opt to cuman msejen "j heo pona^^ )?a plane ut

abe^

*j

^a punbe

jehaele]?.-''

yrS nipe punba jenim ]?ap ylcan pypte "j sejjelpeji^mc^ pypte 'j hmbe hselej^an^^ cnuca mib butepan^^

'

Sjiece,

V.
B. H.

hata, B.
"

p6r, also B.
^

'

-bon, B.

aj-aenbe^,

nisccnyj-j-e,

B. H.

fteencse, H.j fcense, B.

" ot>a,

corrected to on

\>a, II.

This correction

is

frequent and needless

see St. Marh., p. 96, 57.

hpa, H.

rpentJ, V.; fcpaensS,

'^

"
^

-nefj-e,

B.

'-^

his,

B.,

omitting hype.
'

geheenbe,
>^

H. H.

fea&nce,

H.

'^

hpap, B.

hig, B., twice.

j-culon,

APVLEIl.

167
is

which n 1 called
2.

is called Crete, T 1 Ida.

and on the mountain which

have in her

Dittany.
Art.
Ixiii.

inwards a dead-borne offspring, take wash of this wort, which we named dittany; if she be without fever, give {it her) to drink in wine; if fever then trouble her, give soon it outsendeth (it her) to drink in warm water
If

any wife

(tuoman)

the offspring without mischief

3.

Again, for wounds, whether they be from iron,

pole,

whether they be from

of

or from snake, take

wash
to

this ilk wort, apply to

;

the wounds,

and give

drink
4.

soon he will be hole.

Again, verily, for bite of snake,

take juice of
;

this
it

will
5.

same wort administer remove the poison.

;

it to

drink in wine

soon

this

any one swallow poison, let him take ooze of same wort let him drink it in wine. So mickle,
If
;

in fact,
it

is -the

strength of this wort, so that not only

by its presence stayeth snakes wheresoever they be handy to it, but by reason of its smell, when it is carried by the wind, wheresoever it is, and they
smeil the stench, that is odour, they shall die, or they
die, it is said.

same wort, if a man in hunting with arrow or other weapon weaken a roebuck or a roe, that they will eat this wort as quickly and it soon puts out the as they may come to it and healeth the wound. arrow
6.

Also,

it

is

said of this

For new wounds, take this same wort and stichwort and water agrimony, pound with butter, lay to
7.

'^

fpylta,
ilcan,

H.,

20

B.

an
29

error.

n seems to have been erased -1 hpan, B. 22 pgegan, B. -'' hig, B. sona, H.

-''

]'pyltan,
-^

B.
'^*

'^

eac,

H.
the

hig,
"'

B.

eacan, H.,

-hsel-, B.
^'^

To

same pm^pose,
helejjan, B.

Isidorus, Origin,
^o

xviii.

9=p. 152 B.

-Smgc, B.

butepan, H.

168
leje

HERBARIVM
to
)79epe*

punbe

]7u

punbjiayt

on eallum J^injum

^YYYe pypte jeppemmcje.^

LXIV.

Pi^ naebbpan
]7ap pyp'ce
J?e

plite

'j

])r6

pcoppionep fnncj^ jenim

*j

man

polajo maioji
'j

lieliopcoppion

nem-

ne^
syle

bjiy-^e'^

liy^ j7onne
"j

cnuca to

]fpyj>e^

pmalon^ bupte

bjimcan on pine

jenim

]7a

pypte jecnucube^ leje

to

)?3epe^ punbe.

llsebpan.^^

LXV.
pi)?

Sset
)7ap

paenjc^^

pypmap^^ bepjen^^ ymb napolan

jenim

pypte

)?e

man

polajo

minoji

'j

oj7]\um

naman seliotpopion^^ nemne^ pyle bpmcan on peapmum

opflih'S.

jebpijebe cnuca to bufte

psetepe

heo

)7a

pypmaf

Peoina.

LXVI.

Deop pypt ^e man

ppam peonio
haep6 he
iHcepa^''
LI'S

]?am

peoman nemne^ peep punben ealbpe "j heo ]?one naman op him

cenneb^^ pypmeft

m
hyp

jpeca

-^^

]7a

eac pe

ealbop

homepup

on^^

bocum ameapcobe

heo bi^ punben^^ fpy)7oft ppam hypbum^^ -j heo haepS copn ]73epe mycelnyppe^^ ]7e mah jpanati. ^ heo on^*

'

Sajie,

B.

gej^ijgjnjQcge^
^

jj

-j:jiemminse, B.

^
'

jTincs, B.

bjnsse, B.

^15, B.
" I'ajie,

rjnjjan,

H.

rnialan,

B.

11.

**

^ecnocobe, B.
]ienjc;c,

B.

"*

A snake and scorpion are drawn.

'^

"

B.

'-

jiytipyjunas, H.,
'^

with a gloss Imnbrici.

'"
^''

-Sau, B.

"echo-, V.
"^
'-'

csenneb, B. H.
'^

cjieaca,

II.;
'^

creca,
hyjibii,

B. B.

II.

omits maejia.
II.

on,

H.
22

):unben, B.

-ne)7e, B.; -nef)'c,

^n, H.

APVLEII.

169
all

the

wound

thou shalt wonder on

accounts at the

Dittany.
^-'*- ^^"^-

efficacy of this wort.

LXIV

Heliotropium

Europccum,

For bite of snake and for sting of scorpion, take the wort which is named solago maior and ^X/oo-xottjoj, then dry it and pound it to very small dust administer it in wine to drink, and take the wort pounded, lay it to the wound.
;

Painting of a fight between a scorpion and a snake. MS. F., fol 36 a.

LXV.

Croton
tinctorius.

In case that round worms annoy about the navel,

take this wort, which
is

called solago minor,

dried,

and by
;

another
it

name

Y)XioTp6'7riov,

pound
it

it to

dust

give

in

warm

water to be drunk;

slayeth the worms.

PeONY.^
1.

LXYI.

P- officinalis. Bot.

This wort, which

the chieftain,

is

Uocictiv,

and

named peony, was found by it has the name from him.

produced principally in Grsecia. Also, as the illustrious author Homeros, in his books remarked, it and it has grains of is found chiefly by herdsmen the magnitude (of those) of the malum granatum,
It
is
;

The

figure in

MS.
in

V.,

fol.

36
fol.

a,

was once nearly a

a,

dupli-

cate of the next.

^

The drawing

MS.

V.,

36

when compared with

eaten away, but
it

the figure in the Flora Graeca, has points of resemblance.

^

not

The painting in MS. much like pseony.

V.,

fol.

36 b,

is

was

170
nihte pcme^ ppa
jelice coccele

HERBARIVM
leoht
jrget

-j

eac

hype cojin beo^

cpsebon oftupt^

*j

heo^ by^

j^pa
'j

pe

seji

pjiam hyjibum on nihte jemet

jejabejiob/^

mono^ pceonyppe^ jyp man J7ap pyjite peoniam ]7am mono^ peocan lijcjenbon^ opep. alej^^ pona he hyne pylpne halne'^ upahep^ jip he hy^ mib him hapa^ nsepjie peo abl hmi ept ne^ jenealsece'S.
PI'S
'j

ban ece jenim J>yppe ylcan pypte fumne b8Gl pypttpuman 'j mib hnenan^^ cla^e jepjn^ to );am hyt jehsel^. pajie
PiJ)

hype

Bepbena.^^

LXVii.

Deop pypt ]>e man pepifrepeon "j o^pum heo yp culppon fpiSe bepbenam^^ nemne'S

naman
hipcu^^'^
hate^S.

);anan^* hy^^ eac^^

pum

]7eobpcipe

columbmam

Jjyp hpa

]?ap pypte^'^

peon
yrS
pylle

nembon
ealle

ne

mib him hapaS ]?e pe pepiftemsej he ppam hunbum ^^ beon

bopcen.^^
attjiu^^
ealle

jenim

fyj'pe

sylpan^^

PYf''^^

^^^^

bpmcan

attpu^^ heo tobpipS eac

mon

psej'S^^

f bpyas^* to heopa cpseptum hype bpucen.^^

'

he,

B.

_^ofj.^

H.
alei-S,
'"

-pab, H.
'

"

-nerre, B.

II.

' "

lees-, B.; -ban, H.

ne,

H.

halne, B.

his, B.
letters,

V. omits.
'-

-nu,

B.; V. has here lost

fol.

many
'^

" bejibene, H. ing

uel

ueruenam, O.,

37

= 8.
'"

The draw^fv-) B.
hunbef, O.
23

may

be meant for vervain, not for aquilegia.

''

" >anon, B.
'

his, B.

'

eac, II.
^i

''

pyre, O.
22

biiocen, II.

^o

attre, O.
0.,
fol.

q. omits.
25 jj^j^^c^jj,

g^^ra, O.

f^^^^

2*bpyar, B.;

I^naf,

20.
p. 80,

B.; bjnica, H., ^ith loss

of N, on which see

St.

Marh.,

13

-con, O.

APVLEII.

171
a
light
;^

or "pomegranate;
fat

and

it

shineth at night as
its

Peony.
Art. Ixvi.

or
it

lamp, and also

is,

grains

are

like

cockle

and
2.

as

we

before said, most often

met with and

gathered by herdsmen at night.

wort peony over the lunatic, as he lies, soon he upheaveth himself hole and if he hath this wort with him, the disease never again approaches him.

For lunacy,

if

man

layeth

this

For hip bone ache or sciatica, take some portion of a root of this ilk wort, and with a linen cloth bind
3.

it

to the sore

it

healeth.

VEEVAIN.b
1.

LXVII.
irspio-Tspsmv,

{Confused with
columbine).

This wort,
doves.

which

is

named
also

and by
call
it

another name verbena,

culvers or

is

very near akin in colour to

Whence

some

people

columbina.c

any one have with him this wort, which we named peristereon, he may not be barked at by dogs.
2.

If

3.

Against
it

all poisons,

take dust of this same wort,

it

administer

to

drink

driveth

away

all

poisons

also it is said that sorcerers use it for their crafts.

cocci simile," a cochineal grain or insect : our Saxon gives a wrong interpretation. ^ Verbena officinalis is intended by the drawing in MS. V., and by irepia-repeuv in Dioskorides. Columbina, culverwort, 'TCpia-rpciv means dovecot, is a bad translation
^

Latin,

'*

not in the Latin of 1528. The author of our text evidently, by the expression about the colour, meant
is

This clause

the columbine, aquilegia vulgaris.

172

HERBAKIVIM

lOymele.^
Bryonia
dioica.

LXVIII.

pjg miltan yape jenim j^aj" pyi^'^^e 6e man bjiyonia j ofipum naman hymele neraneS yyle j^ycjean^ 5eman5

mete fonne
]:o]i5

yceal
Seoj'

j5

paji ly

li]?elice

])uph

]7one

micjj^an^
j5

to J>am liejiijmblic^ pi6 ^epune bpenceap^ jemencjeaS.^

jan**

pypt

hy man

LXIX.

man on pambe foppexen fy jenim oSpum naman sseb })e man nympete nemneS cnuca mib pme pyle bpmcan.
Pi6 pypte
j5
'j

pyffe

6pt^ ^
6j:t

syljze^

be Sam pypttpuman^^ syle hyne

x.^^

J^^am

peocan j^icjean

bajaf.

jyp ]?u J)ap pypte pylpt ficjean^^ on ptpanjon^^ pme heo J^aep mnoSep nnpyne jeppiS.

Ela3ppe.^*

Lxx.
lipa ]?ypye

PiS

)?tBpa

jomena yape jyp

"j

pypte pyptclgepjie

tjmman \e man cpipion nenmeS mib liim hapeS -j on hmi hip joman ne bepiaS.

oSpum

naman

hif fpypan

bypS nieype

b-^ionia jnlbemep, B.,

by

later

hand.

I'lC^an,
^

B.
yoji'S

mic?;an, B.;

micsan, by correction from

^
'

nii?;an,

H.
accent.
"

jan, B.
^

omits.

he]j?;enblic,

H.

so
^

B.,
for,

without
O. adds.

bjiencaj*,

B. O.

-mseng-, B.

Sam

ylcan,

H.

l^an fylfc,
^-

1" '^

mm

J>aii

pyrcrume, O.
;

" hc^an
'*

ryn, B. O.
so.

jnc^an,

B.

-sum, B.

ftange, O.

clsejie,

H.,

In the painting,

MS.

V.,

fol.

36

d,

I trace no likeness
call it,

whatever to the hop " root," as the hoppers

whether

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173
Humulufs
lupulus.

HyMELE.^
1.

LXVITI.
this

For

sore

of spleen,

take

wort,

which
;

is

named

fipumioc^

(to the sich)

and by another name hymele give it to swallow among (Jiis) meat then shall
;

the disease gently go forth through the urine.

This
witli

wort

is to

that degree laudable that

men mix

it

their usual drinks.^

The water
1.

lily.^

lxix.

In case a man be overwaxen in wamb,^ take seed of this wort, which is named vu|a(paia, and by another name pound it with wine, and give it to
,

drink.
2.

Again
Again,

for the same, of the

root,

give

it

to

the

sick to eat for ten days.

thou givest this wort in strong wine to be swallowed it restrains ill running (diarrhoea) of
3.

if

the inwards.

Clover,

lxx.

TrifoUum
pratense.
JBot.

For sore of the jaws or bach of the mouth, if one hath with him a root of this wort, which is named xlpa-iov, and by another name clover, and beareth it on his neck, his fauces will never give him trouble.

piperita (H.)

male or female, nor to the bryony ; it is more like Mentha In MS. Bodley, 130, bryony is drawn tolerably well, with red berries it is also rightly glossed " wildenep." ^ In this clause hymele is humulus, the hop plant. It was not said of bryony in the Latin text. c In MS. v., fol. 37 a, drooping leaves, like confervas lifted from the water, on erect stalks remain.
;
ti

Latin,

Ad

dysentericos.

The

interpreter

misunderstood

the word.

See liii. 1. Latin, Ad faucium dolorem, and below, fauces.

174

HERBARIVM
LXXI.

Da]' pypte specaj' ipatij'

j

^j

pomane alutam nemna)?^

eac anjle^ hateS^ ab peppentij' mopfum.*

Pi6 n^ebbpan
ipatip^

llite

jemm

fyfj^e

pypte

leap

]>e

jpecap

nemnaS cnuca on
'j

pastepe leje to ]?sepe^ punbe

heo ppemaS'^

f pap opjemmS.
LXXII.

piS nsebpan plite jenim

)7ap

pypte

]>e

man

pcopbean
pyle

oSpum naman bpmcan cnuca

'j

nemneS peoS on pme

j7onne
}?a

pypte

'j

leje^

to

J>8epe^

punbe.

*j

PiS pma pape ^enim jepylb mib Sam ele PiS

)7am

J)ap

pylpan pypte cnuca

h}^

Se

sy op lapep tpeope je-

pjiunjan^^

hyt f pap op animS.

pepope
'pe

baejhpamlice

oj^Jje

Sy

jjpibban

bseje^^
jepjiiS

on
hy^^

man becymS jenim

onbutan^^
]?a3p

pap

ylcan
)7pibban

pypte
baejep

-j

mannep bchoman^^ heo

^^
'j

opanimS
pepop.

J?one

bsejhpamhcan

]?y

Felt^^ pypt.

LXXlii.
"j

Deos pypt
pypt^'^

]>e

man uepbapcum
biS

oSpum naman

pelt
'j

nemneS

cenneb^^

on panbijum ptopum

on myxenum

})ap^^

pypt^ JY P^eb f mepcupmf pceolbe

20

'

nemne'S, B.
also;
it

eac on senshfc, H.

hata^, B.

''

ad serpentis
in.

morsum, H.

should be jmb, woad, which in B. has been forced

hand which put in the numbering after xxviii., seeing a In ^ iJT^cij', space left for the drawing of a snake, has made it a new wort. " )?ajie, B, ' >-]iama, H. 1^^^ jj^^^ jj. J>ajie, B. V. ' '" >2 ^15, B. ^^ buron, B. V. B. omit. bees, H. j;epimnsen, B. '' ^^ baege, V.; -hamon, B. bseger, with the next word lie-, II.; '" '" yelb, B., here and in contents, but not in text. jrelb erased, II. ' ' csenneb, H. B. fcolbe, B. >eor, H. pyjib, V.
B., the later
<>

'^"

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175

Woad.
1.

LXXI.

toria.

Uatis tincBot.

This wort the Greeks

aluta,

name lo-anj, and the Romans and also the Engle ad serpentis nnorsum.^ Drawing of a snalce. MS. V.,fol. 37 h.
;

For bite of snake, take leaves of this wort, which the Greeks name isatis pound it in water, lay it to the wound; it benefits and removes the sore.
2.

LXXII.
1.

Teucrium
Scorodonia ?

For

bite of snake, take this wort,

which
,

is

named
it

^^^

<Tv.6phoVj

and by another name

it

seethe

in

wine,

give

(the

sick)

to

drink.

Pound then the

wort and lay it to the wound. 2. For sore of sinews, take this same wort, pound it, and boil it with the oil which is wrung out of laurel tree it removes the sore. 3. For a quotidian fever or a tertian, take the same wort, and tie it about the mans body it removes the quotidian and the tertian fever.
;
;

Felt wort, or Mullein,

1.

lxxiii.

Verhascum

This wort, which

is is

named verbascum, and by bol

another

name

feltwort,
It is

and on mixens.

produced in sandy places said that Mercurius should give

Our

interpreter

was

dozing

when he

transferred

the

heading of the next paragraph ad serpentis morsum to this place, and called it English. The plant is woad, pab. The

drawings are worthless. ^ The Latin has Scordion,

Dioskorides was herbaceous,

id est,
itoac,

sorbus

the

arKophov

of

drawing in MS. V., fol. 37 c, T. Scorodonia, it cannot be T, Scordion.

not a service tree. The may, with large allowance, be

170

HERBARIVM

mlixe J;am ealbojimen yyllan ]?a he com to cijicean j he na ]"y})}an fenije hype yjrelan peojic onbpeh.'

pypte ane tealjpe bypS ne biS he bpejeb mib aenijum ojan ne him pilbeop ne bepe]?^ ne aemj yjzel jeancyme.^ pi]; jzot able jenim j^ay ylcan pypte uepbaycum ^ecnucube* leje to )?am pape bmnan^ jzeapuni tibum heo ^ehssl]? f pap to Sam pceajiphce ^ he eac^ jan byppe 'j maeje eac^ upe ealbpap epsebon -j paebun^ ]5 Seos ^epetebnyf heahcopt ppemebe.^
j^yffe

Iryp hpa mib

hym

LXXIV.

Se

J>e

pylle opep lanjne

f'ap

pej pepan haebbe mib him

J?e

on pam peje

pypte

man

hepaelean

'j

oSpum

naman

nemne)? J^onne ne onbpsebe]? he

aplyjej?.^^

hym

semjne fceaj^an^ ac heo hy

Cyle}?enie.

LXXV.

Pi J? eajena bymnyppe^^ 'j papnyppe^^ 'j opeptojennyppe jenim )?yppe pypte peap )7e man^^ cehboniam^* -j oSpum

naman

)?am jehce cylej^enie^^

nemneS cnucub^^
'j

op ]?am

pypttpuman mib ealbum pel topomne jepunub^^

mnan.^^

pine
'j

hunije -j pipope py f> fmype^^ ponne pa eajan

'

peopc

oubpccb, H.
^ "

bepa'S, B.
"^

S^'an- B.
"

sepimube,

II.;

-nobe, B.

-non, B.
;

eac, II., twice.

^

j-e'Sbon, B.,

verified.

-mobe, B.
' ^^
'^

jpamube, H.
" -nerre,
^^

senispe (so) j-ca^an, B.,

with gloss

t>eaf.

ayhs^, B.
*)

II.

B.
>

'-

-nerre, H.

" H. omits man.

?;ecnocab, B.

on, H.

cyle^emse, B.
II.

^ecnub, H.;
'"

-nob, B.

fmepa, B.; j-mepe,

V. has

here suffered much.

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77

wort to Ulixes, the chieftain, when he ^klt wort. Ixxiii came to Circe, and he after that dreaded none of her
(gave)
this
/\ if

evil works.

him one twig of this wort, he will not be terrified with any awe, nor will a wild beast hurt him, or any evil coming near. 3. For gout, take this same wort verbascum pounded,
2.

If one beareth with

lay

it

to the

sore

within a few hours

it

will

heal

the sore so effectively that (the gouty

man) can even

dare and be able to walk.

clared

Also our authorities de-

and said that

this application

was in the highest

degree beneficial.
^

LXXIV.

an over long way, let him have with him on the journey, the wort which one nametli YjpcuKXsla, and by another name then he dreadeth not any robber, but the wort puts them (all)
will travel
,

He who

to flight.

Celandine.^
1.

lxxv.

cheiidomum
maius.

For dimness of eyes and soreness and obstruction,^ take juice of this wort, which is named "x^sKilovlu, and

by another name
the roots,
let

like

that celandine, beaten

out of

pounded with old wine and honey and pepper together, then smear the eyes
that be well

inwardly.
^

The

figures are fantastic.

;

In

MS. Bodley,

130,

is

a gloss

MS. V. does not represent centaur ea In MS. G. is a gloss " hanni champ," that is, clavaria coralloides, but neither G. nor V. draw a fungus, nor yet Heraclea sphondylium. ^ MS. V. aims at drawing chelidonium maius. (H.)
calcetreppe

but

calcitrappa.

Opepto^ennyj-, overtuggenness,
;

tio

the Latin has,

Ad

a drawing over, ohduccaliginem oculorum, et qui ulcera in

is

oculis et scabritudinem liabent, et

ad

albuginem oculorum.

See

flie,

in glossary.

178

HERBARIVM
pe

6ac
l^yrr^
f>y*

cnpunbun'
pyptre

yume

men

oj:

Saejie

meolce
'j

ylcan
piS

lieojia

eajan^ fmypebou^
eajan^

hiin

sel yddy.

6pt

bymjenbum

jemm

)>yj*J*e

ylcan

pypte pop oJ?]?e^ Sa bloptman^ jeppunjene 'j jemenjceb.^ mib hunije jemenjc^ );onne lifelice peallenbe

axan
fsete

j^aepto

^^
'j

peo6

]78ep

to

^^

pomne
piS

Syp
ip

ip

py^^^pl^^^^ Isecebom

sepenum eajena^^ bymon

gep^* cpsebon^'^

nyppe.

6ac
J?8ep

jepip

^ pume men^^
J^ap

fpa

pe

popep p5^nbeplice bpuca6.

piS cyjmlu jenim

le5e

ylcan pypte cnuca mib j^yple

to j?am

cypnlun^^ fpa

hi^^ aepept^^

pyn mib

pastepe 3ebe]7obe.
]}i\>

heapob ece

jemm

)7ap

pylpan pypte cnuca mib

*j

ecebe pmype^^ Jjone anbplatan^^

f heapob.

PiS f man popbsepneb^^ py jemm ]?ap ylcan pypte cnuca mib jsetena^^ fmeppe^^ "j leje )73Dpto.^*
Solfequia.
Solarium

Lxxvi.

nigrum and dulcamara.

PiS

jeppel

jenim

)7ap

pypte

pe

man

polate
'j

-j^^

oSpum naman
pi]?

polopece

jemenjcebe^^ leje

nemneS jecnucube J^aepto^^ hyt ppemaS

mib

ele

jenim Syppe ylcan pypte pos jemenjc^ mib J?am ele op cyppo 'j jepypm hyt -j^^ fpa plaec bpype on ^ eape.
eapena
pape PiS toS ece syle etan Syppe pylpan^*^
pyp''^^

cpoppap.

>

-bon H. B.

_goii^

B
'

fmepabon, B.
''

-Su, B.

o-S-Sa b.,
'" '*

H.

blofm-, B.

-msensc, B.
''

l^aji,

B., twice.
'^

-msenseb, B.; cebe, H. '- easan, B. piflic, H.

^' his, B. -Ion, B. r^an, II. ^i ^o gebsepneb, B. _phc-, B. pnepa, B. -ofc, B. " ssetenum, B., and H., with a later gloss, sotene. ^^ fraepupe, B. II. ^7 j,ap, B. 26 2< " ^ on^ jj Segemaensebe, B. >ap, B. yyX^ka.B.. -^5, H. omits. msenseb, B.; semsenscbo, IT.

" mn, H.
8

8&P,

B.

'^^

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179

2.

Also,

we

liave

found that some

of this

men have smeared

it

Celandine.
^**

theii*

eyes with the milk

same wort, and

ooze

^^^'

was thereby better with them.

3.

Again, for eyes getting

dim, take

of this

same wort, or the blossoms wrung out, and mixed with honey mingle then gently ^ hot ashes thereto, and seethe together in a brazen vessel; this is a special leechdom for dimness of eyes.
;

4.

Also, it

is

certain that

some men, as we before

said,
0.

use this ooze separately.

glandular swelling s),^^ take this same wort, pound with lard lay to the kernels, so that they be first bathed with water. same wort, pound it 6. For head ache, take this with vinegar; smear the forehead and head. 7. In case a man be badly burned, take this same wort, pound it with goats grease, and lay thereto.
Against
kernels
(Jiard
;

SOLSEQUIUM.C
1.

LXXVI.

Rather Niht-

For a swelling, take this wort which is named \ha^e. ^But solatrum, and by another name solsequa, pounded and solsequa in the glossaries is , '^^ 11 l^ -IT 'in \ mmgled with oil, lay it thereto it will do good. marigold. 2. For sore of ears, take ooze of this same wort, mingle with oil of privet,^ and warm it, and so when lukewarm, drip it in the ear. 3. For tooth ache, give to eat the flower heads of this same wort.
I

The

interpreter read leniter for leuiter, leviter.

^ Latin,

Ad

parotidas

behind the ears.

c

swellings of the glands Small hard swellings are still called kernels.
;

Trapwr/Sa^,

MS. V.

has drawn Solanum dulcamara (H.), instead of

solatrum.
^

Latin, Oleo cyprino.

flowers

by

infusion

was

The oil of privet obtained from the " not often used " in 1693. (Salmons
Cyprus was the medip. 122).

Druggist's Shop Opened, p. 1129 a).

aeval

name

for privet.

(G, J. Voss, de Vitiis Sermonis,

180
MS. V.
is

HERBARIVM
oj:

here

piS blob pyne

^^^,

noyum jenim

)^yyj'e

ylcan pyjite
"pa

imperect.

^ bype anne^ Imenne- claS 'j ):oj\fete J7?ej\^ mib yona S?et blob oSfcsent.^

nsej^Syplu

lipunbe ypyhje.

LXXVll.

Deoy pypt Se man penecio 'j oSpum naman jpunbe ppylije^ nemneS by]? cenneb^ on hpopum *j onbutan'
pajum.
Pi6 pypte
le^e

hy pyn pp5')?e ealbe jenim )?ap nembun^ cnuca mib ealbum jiyplt" ]?e pe penecio to ]7am^ punbum^^ hyt hselej^^^ sona.
punba
];eah
lipa^~

mib ipepne^*^ jeplejen sy jenim pap ylcan pypte on sepne mepjen oSSe to mibban baeje cnuca liy^* fpa pe aep cpsebon mib ealbnm pylle leje to ]?8epe^^ punbe sona heo l7a punbe ^eopenaS 'j apeopIryp
maS.^^

PiS pot able jemm )?ap ilcaii py]te cnuca mib jiyple leje to pam ptum hyt jeliJ^ejaS f pap -^^ eac hit ppemaS^ mycelum^^ piS J7sepa~^ pma pape.

pypte cnuca mib pealte J?am^^ jemete Se J)u clyj^an pypce leje to Sam lenbenum ^'^ ]?am jelice hyt ppemaS^^ eac pi8
PiJ)

lenbena^^

pape jenim

)?ap

ylcan

pHepa*^

pota

sajie.

Fepn.^^

Lxxviil.

pypte pypttpuman pe man pilicem "j oSpum naman peapn nemnep jecnucubne leje to psepe^ punbe *j gepelpeppmcj ^^ VJV^^ tjiejpa^" tpymeppa jepseje syle bpmcan on pme.
PiS

punba ~^

jemm

J^yppe

'

aenne, B.

-'

linene, B., suppressing

]5.

* j-pilce,

a consonant without

sound.

3
"

})ap,

B.
8
'

"

asc-,

H.
'
'*

caenneb,

H. B.
II.

-ron, B.
hj)a, II.
\>a.

-bon, B.
irerne,
'*

^septo
'*

\>^,

H.
B.

punbum, H.
'Sajie,

" hsel^,
"

'"
-'

H.
II.

his,

B.

i y., II.

rap,

H.

ypyma'5, H.
"-'2

'"

miclu,
-'s

II.;

mieclum, B.
-''

* 'Sajia,

B.
B.

Isenb-, B.
iSajia,

>aim,

Isenb-, B.

*^ yjiaraa-S, II.
-* ]>a]U',

"'
'''

B.

-''

fearn,

B.,

later hand.

A plural.

-ms, B.

='"

tpe^ea, V.

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181
Solsequium.
^^** ^^^^^

4.

this

For blood-running from the nose, take ooze of same wort, and dip a linen cloth in it, and stop
it
;

the nostrils Avith

soon the blood stanch eth.

lxxvii.
senecio,
Senecio vui(jaris.

Groundsel.'^
1.

This wort, which

is

other
walls.

name

groundsel,

is

and by anproduced on roofs and about

named

For wounds, though they be very old, take this wort, which we named senecio; pound it with old it healeth them soon. lard, lay it to the wounds 3. If any one be struck with iron, take this same wort at early morning, or at midday pound it, as we
2.
; ;

before said, with old lard

it

lay

it

to the

wound

soon

openeth and purges the wound.

4.

For gout, take

this
;

same wort, pound

it

it
;

with
also

\^

lard, lay it to the feet

it

alleviates the disorder

benefits
5.

much

for sore of the sinews.

loins,

For sore of
;

take this same wort, pound

in
it

it

Avith salt, in the

manner

which thou wouldest work

;

a poultice

lay

it

to the loins, like that

feet.

also

is

of

advantasce aojainst sore of the

Fern.
1.

LXXVIII.

Aspidium, Polypodium,
^^^

For wounds, take a root of this wort, which is named filix, and by another name fern, pounded, lay and stichwort, by weight of two it to the wound
;

drachms, administer to drink in wine.

The drawing
like.

in

MS.

V., fol.

38

d,

intends groundsel,

without being

^ There is a later gloss in MS. V. on the drawing, " Feuger," which is French for fern. The drawing, fol. 39 a,
is

apparently

unfinished

as

it

stands

it

is

like

fucus

purpurascens.

182
Pi"S

HERBARIVM
Jfer

jeonj man heal^be^ sy jenim paj* ylcan pypte fa3p^ heo on becenan tpeope]" pyprcpuman jepexen^ py cnuca mib pj'ple -j jebec'* anne^ claS
)78epmib
-^
"j

jeppiS to
.^

Sam'^ sape

nppeapb sy jepenb

J)y

ppa p he J?a lipyle^ piptan bseje he biS jehgeleb.

Lpice.

Lxxix.
leap
'j

Pi8 miltan sape

jpamen

"j

jenym J)yppe pypte oSpum naman cpice nemneS

J;e

man
hy^*^

jepeoS

fmype^^ ponne anne^^ claS Jpsepmib^'^ leje to miltan )?u onjytefc ppempulnysse^^ J)8ep6p.^^

J^sepe^^

Irlsebene.

LXXX.

PiS blsebpan pape

jenim^'^ t'yrr^

piS f man jemijan ne mseje pypttpuman iitepeapbe Se man PyP^^

'j

jlabiolum
fcenceap'^^

'j

oj^pum
^j

naman
*j

jlsebene

nemnej?

bpije

h}'ne^^ ]?onne

cnuca
-j

jemenjc^ Ssepto^" tpejean^^

pjBtepep syle bjuncan.

pmep

f'py^^

PiS miltan pape jenim J?ap ilcan^* pyp'^^e ^labiolum ]7onne heo jeonj^^ py bjuje^^ hy^'^ ^j cnuca to ppy}>e hyc ip pmalan bufte syle J^icjean^ on lij^um pine

jelypeb f hit punboplice

PiJ)

J;a

miltan

jehselej?.

inno]?ep

pape

-j

);8epa^^

bpeosta
-j

pylpan

pypte bepjean^^

jecnucube^^

jenim^*^ J^jrr^ on jsetenpe^^

'

-lehe, B.
'^

>a]i,

B.
''

='

becsenan ^epeaxen, H.; sejeaxen, B.

B.
^

'

Sebec, B.
Sepsenb,
Jjajj,

eenne, B.
'

t^aj^,

'SBeiii,

H.
'-^

hjnle,

B.

"
=

H. B.
"
let.

hig, B.
'
'

" fmejxa, B.

senne,

H. B.
^'

B.
II.,

J>ape,

B.
"*

-nejTe, B.

' \>a]i,

B.

jje-

nime,
-'>

him

take.

In

11.,

hyne, which was correct, referring to

"

pyptjimnan, has been altered to hy.

}>ap,
illan,

semsenc, B.; semsensc, H,

fceencar, B.
-^ ]>]ii5,

B.

-'
-

rjiegen, II. B.

'--

j-cencaj*, II.;
'-"

B.
B.

2'

V.
B.
II.

Seonc, H.
=*"

'

bjugse, B.
II.
="

his, B.

- t>yc?;an, II.

2"

J>apa,

senime,

bcjigan, H.

^*

-cobe, B.

3^

^secenne, Hj,

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183
Fern.
^^*' ^^^x^"'-

In case a young man be ruptured, take this same wort, where it is grown on the root of a beech tree pound it with lard, and cover a cloth therewith, and tie to the sore so that it, the cloth, the while be
2.
;

turned upward; on the

fifth

day he

will be healed.
Triticum
repens.

Quick or quitch grass.^

For

Quickens, Gouch.

lxxix.

Bot.

which is named gramen, and by another name quitch,'^ and seethe them, then smear a cloth therewith, lay it to the spleen thou shalt understand the advantage
sore of spleen, take leaves of this wort,
;

thereof.

Gladden.^
1

lxxx.
in case that a

iris pseudacorus. Bot.

For sore of bladder, and

man may

not pass water, take the outer part of the root of this

which is named gladiolus, and by another name gladden; dry it then, and pound it and mix thereto two draughts of wine and three of w^ater; give this
wort,
{to the
2.

patient) to drink.
sore of spleen, take the
is

For
it

when
dust
;

young,
it {to
is

<^^

dry

it,

same wort gladiolus, and pound it to very small

it

give
It

the sufferer) to

wine.
spleen.
3.

believed that

swallow in lithe {soft) wonderfully healeth the

For

sore

of

berries^

of

this

inwards and of the breasts, take same wort, pounded, and rendered

Quick grass is most fantastically disguised in the drawing, MS. v., fol. 39 b. ^ Still so called by country folk, better known to gentlemen and ladies as couch-grass. Gladden is drawn in MS. V., fol. 39 c. Maturissimam, Lat. 1528.
*
^

'^

Lat. baccam, as a hip

is

a berry

the seed

is

contained in

a trilocular capsule.

184
meolce o66e jyt

HERBARIVM
j'elpe

on pine jeplehte syle bjnncan

yaji jej^pice]?.

BoSen.
Deo)"

Lxxxi.

jiofmapim 'j oSpum naman bofen^ nemne]? by]? cenneb^ on fanbijum lanbum^ *j on pypt bebbum.^ pi6 toj? ece jenim J^yfpe pyp'^^^ pyptpalan^ Jje pe

pypt

]}e

man

jiopmajiim

nembun^ py^^
toSa pap
-j

^"^^^

butan
}>

^enimS^

]?8ejia^

healbe

ylbmcje^ he pop on hip miij7e

pona hyt

jehselj? ]?a teS.

piS abhjenbe^^ jenim pap pypte

popmapmum

cnuca

mib

ele

pmype^^ Sone^^ abhjenban^^ punbophce

J?u

hme

jehjelefr.^*

PiS 5ic)?an ^enim J?ap ylcan p5^pte jecnuca hy^^ -j ^emen^c^^ hype pop piS ealb pm 'j piS peapm paptep
pyle bpmcan^'' ]^Fy^^ baja]\ pi8 hpep peocnyppe^^ 'j
sylpan^*^
'j

p8ep

mnoSef jenim
pceajipla

J>yppe

pyptre

pumne^^

jpipan

on
-j

peetep

jemencj^'^

}78epto^'^

napbj^p ppa

hanb

pulla^*

puban

pumne

fcelan peoS to

somne on pseuepe

pyle

bpmcan

he biS hal. piS nipe punba jenim ];ap ylcan pyjite ]?e pe ]\opmapmum nembun^^ cnuca mib p^'^sle leje to J?am punbum.

'

bo^en, O.

caenneb, B.

H.
'

lanbu, B.; Isenbe, 0.

^

bebbe, O., which, as usual, pares off redundant words.

I'VP*^"

" -bon, B. tpuman, B. in II. by Ypoloyiwge, swallowing.

'"

This word
^

is

glossed or

amended
B.

biuim'5, O.

^ ^Jajia,

Ad

languentes in the Latin, and glossed in H. bebjiebe, bedridden.

'^ j^ofi, '

" fmejia, B.
'* hij5,
'^

H.; >ane, O.
'^
-'

'

-ba, 0.

>'

-IfC, B.
)>pis,
;

B.

smsen^c, H. B.
ilcan,

bpm, H.
i,,

B.

-nej-fe, B.

-'

B.

Glossed in H.

that

is,

one

heel.

APVLEIl.

185
in

lukewarm

in

cjOcats
;

milk, or yet better,

wine* ad-

Gladden.
Art Ixxx

minister this

the sore will cease.

BOTHEN.
1.

LXXXI.

f^^
Tinf

This

wort,

which
is

is

named rosemary, and by

another

name bothen,

produced on sandy lands and

this wort,

on wort beds. 2. For tooth ache, take a root of

which

we named
out delay

rosemary, give
it

it

(the sufterer) to eat, with;

removes the sore of the teeth and let soon it healeth him hold the ooze in his mouth
;

the teeth.
3.
it

For the sickly,^ take this wort rosemary, pound wonderfully thou with oil, smear the sickly one
;

healest him.
4.

Against

itch,

and mingle its water administer this for three days. 5. For liver sickness, and that of the inwards, take of this same wort one^ handful, scrape it into water, and mingle thereto of nard two hands full and a stalk
;

same wort, pound it, ooze with old wine and with warm
take
this

of rue, seethe together in water, give it to the patient

to di-ink; he will be whole.

For new wounds, take this same wort, which we named rosemary, pound it with lard lay it to the wound.
6.
;

-^

Lat. asinino, which the translator

made out

as uino.

^ Lat.
^

Ad

languentes.

This sense has been discussed in Spoon and Sparrow,

199.

art.

-2

semaensc, H. B.

-^

Sap, B.

^4

^He, B.

'-^-bon, B.;

naembun, H,

186

HERBARIVM

Felb mopu.^

Lxxxii.
^

peof

pypt;
jzelb
-j

]7e

man

naman
fropuni

mopu

yiluaticse ^ oSpum nemnej? bi8 cenneb* on yanbijum

paftmace

on beopjura. pi8 ]5 pipmen eapjzuSlice''' cenneN '^ jenim J^aj' pypte |?e pe paprinacam piluaticam nembun^ peo6 on psetepe j'yle )?onne ^ ]"e man hyne ]7aep mib beSije^ he biS
^ehaeleb.

Pi^ pipa apeopmun^se^^ jenim J?ap ylcan pypte paj^tinacam yeo^ on psetepe *j^^ )7onne heo jeyoben beo menjc^^ hy pel "j jpyle bjuncan hy^'^ beo6 apeopmabe. Dolhpune.
Lxxxiii.
"j

Deop pypt ]>e man pepbicalip oSjium naman bolh pime nemneS by)? ceneb^^ piS pejap "j pi5 peallap 'j on
beopjum.
PiS pot able 'j piS cancop^^ jenim pepbicalip^^ nembun^'' peoS on pserepe
pet
-j

})ap

pj'^p'ce

Jje

pe
]7a

bej?e^

J>onne

]?a

cnepu
)7U

*^^
"j

cnuca pySSan
leje to

]7a

pypte mib pyple

'j

bo on ?enne

claS

]7am^^

potum

to ]?am^"

cneopnm

hy^^ pel jehselpt.

Eebelc.^^

Lxxxiv.
paf pypte
)7e

piS

};aep

mnoSep
"j

heapbnyppe^'^ jenmi

man

mepcupialip

oSpum naman

cebelc^*

nemneS on

'

felhrno-^e, B,, later

''

hand.

Deo, H.
'"

'

pafcimace,
''

H
B

'

cainneb, II. B.

-]o^S-, B.; -ja^'-,

niibun, H.
" -5,11. omits.
''

^ J>a]j,
'-

B.
II.

"

H. be'Sie, H.
'='

csennen,
'"

II.

B.

-hon, B.

Sing., purgationem, Lat

msen^c,

B.

j-yle

hy, H.

" csenneb, H.
'^

In

II.,

the corrector and glossator has written on his erasure, cneojni

knecx.

'"In H., perdicalis

'^

is

glossed
;

halmerwet.
cneojm, H.
-"

-bon, B.

nbim, H.
'-'

be'Sa,

B.

'"

cneopa, B,

be&m, H., bis

hi:;,

B.
B.,

" In B. appears,
also
in

in faded
-^

ink, over-written

by the

later

xii.
'-'

century hand, Hmeo-^epurt.

heading.

-nefre, B.

neajxunej-fe,

H.

cc>c'lc,

APVLEII.

187

Field more, or Parsnei).

1.

lxxxii.
pastinaca
silvatica,

Field more.

This

wort which

is

named

aad by another name field more, is produced on sandy places and on hills. 2. In case that women kindle {hear cliildren) with difficulty, take this wort, which we named pastinaca give it then that the man silvatica, seethe in water
;

may
{she)
3.

bathe himself^
will be healed.

{woman

herself)

therewith; he

For wives purifying, take this same wort pastinaca, seethe it in water, and when it be sodden, mingle it they will be purged. well, and administer it
;

DOLHRUNE,
1.

Pellitory.^
is
is

LXXXIII.
perdicalis,

Parietaria

This

wort,

which

another

name

dolhrune,

and hy Bol produced against ways and

wort,

named

against walls, and on barrows.

which we named perdicalis, seethe it in water, then bathe pound afterwards the wort the feet and the knees with lard, put into a cloth, and lay it to the feet and to the knees thou healest them well.
2.

For gout and

for cancer,^ take this

ChEADLE.^^
1.

LXXXIV.

Mercurialis
perennis. Bot.

is

For hardness of the inwards, take this wort, which named mercurialis, and by another name cheadle,

Woman was

in old times a masculine word, as

it

followed
plural

the gender of the second part of the compound.

The

had preceded
Somner.
c

in the

Latin
fol.

also.

^ Parietaria,

MS.
V.,

Bodley, 130, and other accounts support

MS.

40 b, and MS. A.,

i?i

fol.

38

a,

may have

intended this herb.

So MS.
gout

T., Plinius, xxi. 104.

Gonagram,

Lat.,

the knee.
in

^
fol.

Perennis seems ascertained by the drawings 40 c, MS. A., fol. 38 b, MS. T.

MS.

V.,

188

HERBARIVM
j^am
-j

paetepe jejnibene p}de

heapbnyppe^ ut^ atyhS

jelice

Solejenbum pona heo Sa Sone majan apeopmaS )7ain

yseb

ppemaS.
'j

PiS eajena pap

leap jecniicube'^

jeppel

jenim Syppe sylpan

pyjite

on ealbum pine leje co

fpi^e

J^am'* pajie.

Ijip pa?t:ep

on eajian
peap
plsec

jepijen

sy jenini ]?yppe

ylcan

pypte

bpype

on f eape

pona

liyT

roply^.^

6po}i peapn.^'

Lxxxv.
^j

Deop pypt )?e man pabiolum peapn'^ nemneS^ yp jelic peapne

oSpum naman
lieo

epop

luanijum fcopum^^ -j on haepiS on sejhpylcum leape tpa enbebyjibnyppa^^

ppicena
J}v8
"j

by^ cenneb^ on ealbum hup ptebum ^ heo

"j

paejejijia

p'a

pcmaS ppa
ece
clsene

jolb.
J;ap

heapob
Ipi^e

jenim

pypte

}7e

pe

pabiolum

nembun^^
J)eaple

apeopmube^'^

peo^

on

ecebe

fmype^* ))onne f heapub^^ fsep'^ hyr jeli'SejaS f

pap-

]7ubu
Pi^S blsebpan

cejiuille.^^

LXXXVI.

pape oSSe jeppelle

jemm
'j

f>yppe

pyjite

pypttpuman
pubu
bgele

J>e

man

fpapaji ajpefuip

o^pum naman
to
peop'San

ceppillu^^

nemne'S

peoS

on

paetejie

bpmce

Sonne

paeptenbe

peopan^^

bajap

-j

he

'

-ne]*f e, B.
II.

ut, B.
"

-abe, H.

?;ecnocobe, B.
;

Sscm, H.

ylih'S,

B.
later

De

radiolo, id est, poUipodio, O.

''

eueo-^fearn
;

and

euerfeam, B.;
**

hands.
"

euoji-,

B. H.

naemne'S,

H.
II.

caenneb, B.
'-

aenbebypbnyffae,

H. -bon, B.; nsembun, H,

'"

lanbe,

O. " -nepfa, B.; " -mobe, B.

'^ ]>aji,

eaforfim,

afermebe, O.
'^

" fmepa, B.

''^

-job, B.

B.

In B., one of the intemieddlers has erased

faji,

thinking perhaps,
left for

it

m as
is

not a good answer to ece.

The vacant

space

a painting

APVLEII.

189
the
sufferer

rubbed
ilrawetli

in
ovit

water

give

to

soon

it

Ciieadle.

the hardness

and purges the

the seed
is

maw

(or

f^tomach).
2.

In the same

way

beneficial.

For sore of eyes and swelling, take leaves of this same wort, pounded in old wine lay that to the
;

sore.
3.

this

sunk far into the ears, take juice of same wort lukewarm, drip it in the ear; soon it
If water be

fleeth

away.

EVERFERN.
1.

LXXXV.

v^rt'^Bot

This

wort,

which

is
is

named
like

radiolus,
;

and
it
is
;

by
pro-

another

name

everfern,

fern

and

and duced in stony places, and in old house steads it has on each leaf two rows of fair spots, and they
shine like gold.

head ache, take this wort, which we named radiolus, purged very clean, seethe it in vinegar thoroughly, smear then the head therewith b; it alle2.

Against

viates the sore.

[Red]
1.

Wood
is

chervil.

LXXXVI.

Asparagus
acutifoUns.

For

sore of bladder, or

for swelling, take a root

agrestis,

of this wort, which

named asparagus

and

by another name wood chervil, seethe it in water to a fourth part let him drink it then fasting for seven
;

* Lat.,

ex passo, wine made of

raisins, Frontignac.

^ I

read faepmib, against V. B. H.

filled in B.,

by

the letters of the alphabet, and atque

.*

est.

amen aue

dominus tecum benedicta tu in muneribus atque benedictus fructus uentris tui amen, in manus tuas commando spiritum '" cypjiUe, H, meum redemisti me domine deus. pube cearuilla, B.
maria gracia plena
'**

ceapuiUa, B.

^o

-yon, B.

190

HERBARIVM

manejum
psetejie^

bajum bsepef^ bpuce na on calbum cume ne he cealbne ptetan ne J^icje punbojilice

-j

he hsele onjyr.
PiS to^ ece jenim

pyyye sylpan

pyjite

seap

]>e

pe

ppapap nembun^ pyle supan *j healbe hyr ppa on hyp mu^e. PI'S sebbjiena pajie jenim pyppe ylcan pypte pyptpalan jecnucube* on pme pyle bjnncan hyt pjiemaS.^
Iryp hpylc
jebpijebe
^

ypel

b'^^be

man
''

})ujih

senijne 8ep]?ancan

oj7ejine bejalej?

jenim

J?yppe sylpan pyjite

pyptxpuman
^
be-

syle

Jpicjean

mib

pylle^

psetepe

pppenjc hyne mib )?am pa3tepe he biS unbunben.

Saume.
PiS
J?a

Lxxxvii.

cynehcan able )?e man aujiijmem^" nemneS ]> yp on upe jej^eobe^^ J^sepa^^ TJ^^ jetoh *j pota jeppel jenim ]?ap pyfite ]?e man pabmam 'j oSpum naman pel J?am jelice paumam hatej?^^ syle bpmcan^* mib hunije heo topene}?^^ j5 pap p sylpe heo bej) mib pme

jecnucub.^^

jenim J)ap ylcan pypte pabinam eopnlice^ jecnucube^^ mib ecebe -j mib ele jemencjPiJ?

heapob^^ ece

ebe^*^

fmypa^^ )?onne f heapub^^

beabppjnnjaf

-j

J}a

j^unponja-^ healice

hyt ppemaS.^*
Pi)?

jenim

|?ap

pypte

pabinam

mib

hum^e

jecnucube^^ fmype^^ Jjonne f pap.

'

bej>8ef,

H.
'

The

corrector inserts ne,

H.
"

-on, B.

gecnocobe, B.

^ j.-jaama15,

H. H.
"^
'

^
^

Faintly distinguishable from

pyll,

Sebpisibe, in
'
'<
'**

V. aupjiismem, H. bjiincan, H. eop'Shce, H.

riype, 11.
}7iyma'5,
;

"Siscan, B.

H.
B.

-fpjjsensc, B.
=

" "Seobe, H.
'^
'"

'^ ^,3^^^,

hace, B.
heayob, B.

-patS, B.

Secnocob, B.
-"

'"

gecnocobe, B.
^^

semaencbe, H.; semaenseb, B.

-"'

'-'

fmepa, B.

H.

heapb, H. B. ^ secnocobe, B. ^^ j-mepe, H.

Ijunpanga, H.

fmejia, B.

APVLEII.

191
l^^^^'l OIIKIlVlIy.

days
let

and for maay days let him use the bath, and him come not into cold water; and let him not
;

Wood

Art. ixxxvi.

take
2.

any

wonderfully he obtains a cure. For tooth ache, take juice of this same wort,
cold liquid
;

which we named asparagus; give this to sup to the sufferer^ and let him hold it so in his mouth. 8. For sore of kidneys, take roots of this same wort, pounded in wine, give to drink it is of benefit. 4. If any ill-doing man enchants another through any spite, take roots of this same wort dried administer (this) with spring water, and sprinkle him witli the water he will be released (from the charm).
;

SAVINE.^
1.

LXXXVII.

Juniperus
sav/'na.

Bot.

For the morbus regius,^ which is named aurigo, aurugo, which is in our language spasm of the sinews and swelling of the feet; take this wort, which is called sabine, and by another name pretty much like that, savine, administer it with honey; it removes the sore. The same effect it hath when pounded with
wine.

Against head ache, take this same wort sabina, diligently pounded with vinegar, and mixed with oil smear then the head therewith, and the temples
2.

highly
3.

it is beneficial.

For carbuncles, take this wort sabina, pounded with honey then smear the sore.
;

Savine

is

not a native of England

it is

drawn somewhat
See Gloss.

like in
^

MS. V. Ad morbum

regium, hoc

est,

auriginem, Lat.

192

HERBARIVM

JDunbef heafob.

LXXXVIII.
]>yyye

Pi6 eajena
palan
J?e

paji

-j

^efpel

jemm
-j *j

pyjite pypr-

man camf
hataS^ peo6

caput
5ebeJ>a

on upe

5eJ>eobe
fyj^l^an

liunbep

lieapob^

on psetepe

mib );am
j^V
5^~

psetepe
liJ^ijaS.^

J?a

eajan^

hpseblice

hyt ^

Bjiemel.

LXXXIX.

piS eajiena pap jenim pap pypte ]?e man ejiupti^ -j o}>pum naman bjiemel^ nemneS fpa meaj^pe jecnuca

mm

]70nne
'j

]3

pop

jepleht

bjiype

on

f eape

liyt

jepanaS

jepiplice jehselej?/

Pi6 pipep plepsan jenim J?yppe ylcan pypte cjToppap ppa meappe "j psepa^ syn J7piipa peopeone^ peo6 on
psetepe

to
ppa

];jiibban

bsele

syle

bpmcan

pseptenbe ppy
]?one

bajap
mpie.^^

Su

peali

sejhpylce

bsej^^

bpenc

Pi5 heopt ece jenim )?yppe ylcan pypte leap ^ecnucube^^ fupli hy pylpe leje opeji );one pynftpan tit

f pap topaepS. PiS nipe punba jenim J^yppe pylpan pypte bloftman^^ leje to Sam punbum butan selcpe^* ylbmcje 'j ppecenyppe^^ hy )7a pnnba jehselaS.^^ Pi]? lipsb sape jemm }>yppe ylcan pypte sumne brel peoS on pine to J^pibban baele *j op ]?am pme syn^^ ];onne J)a lyj^u jebeSebe ealle psepa^ li6a untpumnysse^^ hyt
5eliSi5a]7.2

'

heapb, B.
"

hate,

IT.

B.

eason, B.

-eSalS, B.

The

printed Latin, Eruscus, id est rubus, or

bpeebel, II.
'

Nomina
B.

et virtutes
**

herbw

Erusci, rubive.
'
''"

sheel]), II.

Tyrone, H.; j-eorone, B,

'" baej;,
'^

also II. B.
aelceiie,

B. " nipije, B.
l^ajia,
'^

secnocobe, B.
-nail-, B.
''

'^

blopiian, B.
'

B.
'

-cennyiTe, B.
""

fyn, B.

J>ajia, II.

B.

-nerre, B.

s^-

libej;a, II.

B.

APVLETT.

1!)8

Hounds head,

lxxxviii.

Aaiinhinuvi
01

out in m. Bof,

For sore of eyes and swelling, take roots of this wort, which is called canis caput, and in our language hounds head seethe them in water, and then bathe the eyes with the water soon it {namely, the. appli;
;

cation) relieves the sore.

Bramble.^
1.

lxxxix.

Rubusfmticosus.

Bot.

For sore of ears, take this wort, which is named eruscus, and by another name bramble, so tender, pound it; then take the wash made lukewarm, drip it in the diminishes the sore, and surely ear it
;

healeth.

For iiux of wife (woman), take heads of this same wort, so tender, and of them let there be thrice seven administer seethe in water to a third part (this) to be drunk fasting for three days, so however, that thou every day renew the drink. 3. For heart ache,^ take leaves of this same wort, pounded by themselves lay them over the left teat
2.
;

the sore passes

4.

off.

same wort, lay them to the wounds without any dela^^ and mischief,^ they will heal the wounds. 5. For sore of joints,^ take some part of this same wort, seethe in wine to the third part, and with the wine let then the joints be bathed (the applicatiooi)
take

For new wounds,

blossoms

of this

relieves all the infirmity of the joints.

The drawings

in

MS. V. and MS. Add. 17063

In classical Latin hardly so
(Lat.

intend

this.
^

Ad
Aut

cardiacos. Lat.

mucli

spoken of the heart as of the stomach.

^

flos

aut

berries.
^

The

Addit. 17063), blossom or interpreter blundered.

mora

MS.

Ad

condylomata. Lat.

194
PiS naebbpan
pe
ejiufci

HERB ART VM
ylite

jemra
nipe

}>yyfe ilcan

pypte

leaj:

]>e

nembun^

fpa

jecnucube^ leje to

Sam

sape.

Deappe.^

xc.
'j

Dap pypte*
pmban
haelbe^
psepan.^^

]?e

man
'j

millepolm[m]

on upe

jej^eobe
h}"'
.

jeappe nemne)? yp pseb f achillep pe

pcolbe
]?a
-^

ealbojiman

lie

mib

J?yppe

sylpan
'j

pe

mib
lieo

ipejane

jeplejene

pypte ^ejepunbube^
pop
)7y^^ je-

6ac^^

op

sumum mannum

nemneb^^ yp achylleop mib p)8epe^^ pyp"^^ yp saeb f he eac^^ sumne^^ man jehselan pceolbe^^ J>am^ p?ep thelephon nama. piS toS ece jemm J>yppe pypte pj^jitpalan Se pe miUepolmm nembun^^ pyle etan psefrenbum. ]}i]) punba )?e mib ipepne pyn jepojihte jenira ]mp ylcan pyjite mib jiyple jecnucube*^^ leje to J>am punbum heo )?a punba apeojima); 'j jehseleS.^^ PiJ? jeppell jenim J^ap ylcan pyjite myllepolium mib butepan jecnucube^^ leje to pam^^ jeppelle. Pi6 ]78et hpylc man eappoSlice jemijan^* ma35e jenim ]?yppe ylcan pypte pos mib ecebe pyle bpmcaii punbuplice^^ heo hsele]?.^^ Irip punb on men acolob sy jenim ponne Sa^^ sylpan pypte millepolium 'j jnib fpyj^e pmale -j menjc^^ pi6 butepan leje Sonne on Sa punba ^^ heo cpica); pona 'j
,

peapimaS;^^
Irip

men f

heapob beppte o^^e

uncuS ppyle onje-

'

ne&mban, H.; nembon, B,

hand.
"

gecnocobe, B.
^

^
"^

garupe, B.,

by
'" '^

later

pypt> B.

hij,

B.
'^

j-ceolbe,
"

H.

j-colbe,

V. B. j)8&pan, H.
>ape, B.

sehselbe,

H. H.
-'

ifepne, H.
yoptJig, B.
''

-bobe, B.

psejion,
'5

B.

" Cac,
'

'-

e^c^ jj.
2"

sume, H.

j-colbe,

B.
'^2

senSneb, H. '" Mm, H.

-i-

'
-'^

-bon, B.
)>8em,

secnocobe, B.
''"

-hsel-, B.

gecnocobe, B.
^^^^ jj.

H.

-'

-*

maencs, H. B,
;

-mis- B. 29 pun^g, B.

" _bop-,

B.

^e

}^^i_

heo

gepeajiraa'S, H., omitting three

words

peapm-, B.

APVLETT.

195
this

6.

For rend by a snake, take leaves of

same

Bramble.
^^*^^'^'

wort, which

we named

eruscus, so fresh, pounded, lay

them

to the sore.

Yarrow.*
1.

xc.

. . ,. Achillea mille-

Of

this wort,

which

is

named
;

millefolium,

and*^^"^^*

in

our language yarrow,

it is

said that Achilles, the

chieftain, should find {found) it and he with this same wort healed them who with iron were stricken and wounded. Also for that reason, it is named of some men, Achillea. With this wort it is said that he also should heal (Jiealed) a man whose name was

Telephos.b
2.

For tooth ache, take a root of

millefoil,

this wort,

which we

named
8.

give

it

(to the

patient) to eat fasting.

For wounds which are made with iron, take this same wort, pounded with grease lay it to the wounds it purgeth and healeth the wounds. this same wort millefoil, 4. For a swelling, take pounded into butter lay it to the swelling. 5. In case that any man with difficulty can pass water, take ooze of this same wort with vinegar, give wondrously it healeth.^ it him to drink 6. If a wound on a man be chilled, take then the same wort millefoil, and rub it very small, and mingle it with butter, lay it then on the wound; it soon quickeneth and warmeth it. a mans head burst, or a strange swelling 7. If
;

The drawing
Hjginus,
fab.

in

MS.

V.,

fol.

42

a,

intends yarrow,

^
^

ci.,

and the poets.

The

rest of

yarrows leechdoms are not in the printed

Latin, 1528, nor in

MS.

A., nor G. T.

190
firte

HERBARIVM

nime pyfye ylcaii pyjite pj^jitpalaii bmbe on pone fpyjian' Sonne cj^meS^ liym f to jobjie ppeme.
6]:t piS |7am
j'lcan

jenim

]?a]'

ylcan pypte

p5^]ic "co

bufce bo on 6a punbe ]?onne by)? heo pona hatijenbe;'^

hpylcum men lebjian aheajibobe syn^ oS6e^ hip mete jemjdtan ^ nelle nym ^ f'yppe ylc^n pyjite ^ peap menjc^ Sonne pm 'j'*' pseteji -j liunij -j p peap eall tosomne^^ pyle hyt him Sonne '^ peajim bjiincaii Sonne ^^ by)? him sona bet.
Iryp

Gpt
O. condenses.

piS

)78ejia^'^

Seajima ylcan
Sjieo

ece^^
pypite^

-j

piS

eallep^^

)?8ep

iniioSep^'^

mm

pap

^PYS
^^

jejnib to bupte spy)7e pmale bo Sonne

cuculepiap~^
pulle
*j

^Y f'onne 'j ])SQY buptef pip

pull

Sonne Sonne bjiincan^^ f hpylcum eajipoSum ppa him on mnan biS. Iiyp Sonne ?epte]i Sam men py po5o);a jetenje^oSSe^^ 1^P5'-^c mnan junb^^ bjiyne ^emm Sonne ^^ t'yjT^^ pypte pyptpalan "j jecnuca Ipyj^e pel bo Sonne^^ on fpype 50b beoji^^ pyle hfx: him ponne^^ placu pupan Sonne ~^ pene ic f hyt him pel pjiemie*^^ ^e piS pojoSan je piS sDjhpylcum mcunbum'^^ eajipoSnyppum.^^ PiS heapob^^ ece jenim ];ap ylcan pyjite py^jic ^" clyj^an^* J)8epop^^ leje Sonne ^^ on f heapob Sonne jenimS^ hyt pona f saji onpej.^^ ])i\) pan^^ nsebbep cyime Se man ppalanjiup hateS^*^ jenim J>yppe ylcan pypte tpijo 'j j)a leap peoS on pine
.

pmep syle hym beah hyt him piS fpa

jobep

'

)'j)eopan, jr.

"^

cym'S,

13.
'

liac-,

B.
\>.

j-yn,

B.

-'

oM,

B.

-ten, O.,

fol.

U =34.
'"
'*

nirae, O.

pyrt, O.

nijencs,
t>ane,

H- B.; men?;

to, O.

1,

B. omits.
O.
"'

" co gabere, O.

^ '
*--

O. (for >anne.) "^ ealle, O. eca, O. '" J^ane, O. j)yrc, O.

jjetaenge, II.; f,ttainc'Sit, B.

]>ane,

"
brican, O.,

J^ajia,

B. O.
fare.

''A modern hand

-"

in H. proposes to

add

-eel-, B.
o^j^er,
^s

and so
"

often.

-^

0.

^'

cunb, B. O.

l^ane,

O.

2*'

ane, O.
J>aune, O.

"beop, B.
="

^fter

)>on,
^'

-mi?;e, B.; -mia, O.

H. adds rr&; Pan, O. mcnnba, O.; in margin.

APVLEII.

197
Yarrow,
iVrt.

appear on it, let liini take roots of this same wort, and bind them on his neck that will come to be of
.

xc.

good service to him. work 8. Again for the same, take this same wort, to the wound, then it will soon apply it it to a dust
;

be heating.

any mans veins be hardened, or his meat will not digest, take juice of this same wort, then mingle wine and water and honey and the juice all together,
9.

If

then give
10.

it

him warm

to

drink

then

it

will

soon
the
it

be well with him.

Again, for ache of the bowels and of

it

all

inwards, take this same wort, dry

to dust, very small
;

then,

and rub
full

then put up five spoons

;

of

the dust, and three cups of good wine

that to
drink.

then give him

Then

it

is

good

for

him

for

whathic-

soever annoyances he hath within.

11. If then, after

that,

there befall the

man

any ratten-burn ^ within (him), take then roots of this wort, pound them very well; put them give it him then lukewarm to sup. into good beer Then I ween that it may be of good benefit to him either for hiccup or for any internal difficulty. 12. For head ache, take this same wort, work a then it soon plaster thereof, then lay it on the head
cuping,
or
;

removes the sore away. 13. Against the serpent

(paXayyia,

kind,

which

are

called

tarantulas,

take twigs

of this same wort

3-

Ratten

is

pus, matter, in Devonshire

understand purulent

inflammation.

uncuba.
=*5

^''

-nerj'um, H.
^^

^^
^'

heajob, B.
^^

^^

to clySan, H.
^

>,ap,

B. 0.
;

i>ane,

0.

hail,

O.

bmimS, O.

apeg, O.

''

Sam, H.

O. omits the paragraph.

" hat-, B.

98
^

HERBARIVM

jnib

fpipe fmale "j leje on 6a^ punbe jyp Sonne heo tosomne hleapan polbe -j J;onne septep. );am jenim Sa pypte 'j hunij menjc^ to somne pmype^ Ja punbe Saep^ mib ponne haraS heo pona.

jyp hpylc man hyne bejypbej; mib J^ylTe pyjite^ 'j hy'^ on peje mib hnn bejiej; he bi6 jepcylbeb ppam^ aejhpylcum^ nsebbep cynne.'^ PiS pebe^^ hunbep phte jemm Sap ^'^^an pyj^te jnib "j hpseten copn leje on J?a punbe Sonne halaS heo pona.
PiS
ngebbpan
flite

jyp peo punb^^ poppunben^^ sy J^yppe yfp^^ teljpan^^ peoS on psetepe jnib ponne^'^ TPyt^ pmale jepobene leje ];onne on Sa punbe ^ Sonne ^^ f bolh open py jenim pa ylcan pypre unpobene^^ jnib fpype pmale menjc^^ piS hunij byS heo lacna^^ ponne pa punbe ^^ paepmib Sonne sona hal.
piS nsebpan^^ flite

Gyc

jemm

sylpan^^

'^'^

Rube.
Ifip blob op

xci.

jiutam

-j

nosum plope jenim Sap pypte pe man pam jelice oSpum naman puban nemnep bo

jelomlice on pa

naepSj'^plu

^^

punboplice

heo f blob op

Sam

ntepSyplun^^ jeppiS.

PiS 'coSunbenn5^sse^'^ jenim pap ylcan pyjite jiuTam syle hy^^ bselmelum ppa jpene etan^^ oSSe on bpmce^"
picjean.^^

'

boii,

H. omits,
' ^

Sa,
" '"

V. B. omit.
pyrt, 0.
'

mncji;,

H. B.
pi for

'

fmepa, B.

>a]i,

B.

his, B.

rpa, B.
St.

-cen, O.
'^

nsebbre cunne, 0.
'-

" podef, 0.; See

'"'

John,

X.

21, Marsh.

O. condenses.
'^

nsebbra, O.
'^

fe

punbe, O.
eeljran, 0.

-bon, O.
''

ilcan,

B.
'*^

celjan, B.; biffan pyre

'"

t>ane,

0. O.
^s

punba, O.
-'

l^an,

0.
B.;
jj.

'"-bone,

B.; pyrt

jeefobone,

mnc5,
^4

H.;
b. 0.

msenc,

meng, O.

lacna, B.

p^nba, O.

|,ap^

"^

APVLEII.

9.9

Mid the

them in wine; then rub them very small, and lay them on the wound, if it be and after that, take the wort and willing to unite
leaves, seethe
;

Yarrow. ^^- ^^

honey, mingle together, smear the

wound

therewith

then
14.

it

soon heateth.^

For

with this
he
is

any man girdeth himself wort, and beareth it on the way with him,
bite of snake,
if

shielded from every serpent kind.

For tearing of mad dog, take this same wort, lay them on the wound r ub it and wheat grains
15.
;

then
16.

it

soon

liealeth.

For a rent by a snake, if the wound is swollen, take twigs of this same wort, seethe in water, rub them then very small when sodden, lay them on the wound. When the incision is open take the same wort unsodden, rub very small, mingle with honey,
;

then dress the

whole.

wound therewith

then

it

will be soon

RUE.b
flow

XCI.

Ruta graveolens.

Bot,

from the nose, take this wort, blood 1. If which is named ruta, and by another name like that, rue apply it frequently to the nostrils it wonderfully stanches the blood from the nostrils.
;

2.

For bloatedness, take

in
pieces,

this

same wort
or

rue, give it

so

green,

to

be

eaten

swallowed

in

drink.

'^

All the

MS

S. hacatS

but halat5 would be better.

17063,
fol.

The figure MS. Y., fol. 43

^

in
a,

MS. Add.

41 b, intends rue.

cannot, but rather

Vlex Eurofceus (H.),

furze.

omit seven words by error.

-'

'"

burle, 0.
^'

'^''

-nejye, B.

^s

jj^^^

CO etan

.-'

O,

^"

biimcan, H. O.

bicsan, B.

200
prS p8pp majan^
*j

HERBARIVM
)\ape

jenim

]>yYye }lcan
;

pypte

saeb

ppepel

'j

eceb syle J^icjean^ jraej^tenbum

]}v6

eajena

sape

S^fpel

jenim pap jdcan pypte^

to
Sam'^

putan pel jecnucube^ p^^pttpuma jecnucub^

leje
-j

pape

eac

pe

SiBji'

mib jefmypeb^ ^ pap

hyt

pel jebet.
)?a

litapjum hateS^ p yp on upe opepjytrulnyp^^ cpeben jenim J^ap ylcan je]?eobe^ pypte putan mib ecebe jepepebe bejeot )7onne fene^'
PiS
able Se

man

anbplatan Saep

mib.^'"^

yip eajena bymnyppe^* jenim

leap
syle

etan

paeptenbum

-j

15 ^yppe sylpan pypte syle liy ^^ bpmcan on

pme.
PiS heapob ece jenim Sap ylcan pypte pyle bpmcan'' on pme cnuca^^ ept pap sylpan pypte "j pjnnj f pos

pmype^^ peop pypt ppemaS^^

eceb'^

on

Sonne

heapob

]7?e]miib

*^^

eac

piS beabTppinjap.

HoTsemintP
mentaPcpum
ptpanjon^^

xcii.

PiS eapena~* sape jenim pyppe pypte pos pe^^

man
mib

oSpum naman pme jemencjeb'^^ bo on

*j

~^
]?

liatej?

eajie

peah Sgojr^
pceolon^'^

beon p3^pmap on acennebe^^ beon acpealbe.

hi^'

pujili'^'

Sip

'

maeje, O.

Jnc?;an,
'

cnocobe, B.
"

hsera,

H. B. H.
'"

J'yj^^**,
"

V. omits.
'

'

j;e-

j;ecnocob, B.

)?a]i,

B.

" hac-, B. H. B, '- t>one, B. ?;itcolne)', H. '^ plye pyptan, B. ^" hi^, B. '" ecebe V. is here fretted away.

j;e)nnepeb,

-Kobe, B.
'^

" -ne]*, B.; ojep'

'**

hap, B.
^n

-neffe, B.
;

''

-ca, O.

cnuca, H. omits
-'

~\,

II.

fmepa, B.
^^

|>a]i,

B.

j]iyma'S, 11.
"

-^

ho-^fminre, B.,
')',

by

later hand.

eapan, O.,
'^

fol, 12.

)>ara jniitre j'of

-'

O.
-^

*"

O. supplies brocmince, and alters

II.
;

the text.

ftrange, O.

semsen^eeb,

-^eb, B.

hap,

APVLEir.

201
Ruk.
^^^'
'

For sore of the msLW, take seed of this same administer (to the wort and sulphur and vinegar
3.
;

patient) to eat, listing.

swelling, take this same pounded, lay it to the sore, also the root pounded, and smear therewith it well amendeth
4.

For

sore

of

eyes and

wort
the
5.

rue, well

sore/'^

For the disease which is called lethargy, and in our language is denominated forgetfulness or unconsciousness, take this same wort rue, washed, that is, macerated in vinegar, souse then the forehead
therewith.

For dimness of wort, give them {to

6. 7.

eyes,

take leaves of this same

eat fasting,

the

sufferer) to

and

give (them him,) to drink in wine.

For head ache, take this same wort, give it to again, pound the same wort, and be drunk in wine Avring {out) the ooze into vinegar then smear the head therewith. This wort also is beneficial for car;

buncles.

Horsemint.^

XCII.

Mentha
vestris.

sil-

Bot.

For sore of ears, take ooze of this wort, which is called mentastrum, and by another name horsemiat, mixed with strong wine, apply it to the ear; though Avorms be therein existing, they through this (a^yplication) shall be killed.

The idiom of the Saxon is not uncommon. The painting, MS. V., fol. 43 b, is intended probably
In

for

horsemint.

MS.

Bodley, 130, glossed " horseminte," but

drawn wrong.

B. O.
^'

3"

acaennebe, H. B.

-neb, 0.

=>

hij, B.

22

j,^p^

q,

j'culon,

B,

202

HERBARIVM
pypte
leap

Pi6 hjieojrlaii jeiiim j^yffe ylcan etan jepiplice^ lie bi6 jehgeleb,^

syle

P^el pypt^ vel ellen pyjit.

xcill.

pi6 f ptanap
Je
*j

man
eac

pexen* jenim pap pypte ebulum *j oSjium naman ellen pypte ^ nemne]? sume^ men peal pyp'^ hataS^ jecnuca hy**
blaebpan

on

J^onne ppa

meappe mib liype leapum pyle bpmcan on

tit

pme heo^

anybej?^ Sa untjiumnyppe.^^

Pi5 nsebbpan

flite

jenim

)?ap

ylcsm

pypte

)?6

pe

ebulum nembun^^ -j sep )?am Se ]?u liy^'^ pojaceoppe healb hy^^ on ]?inpe hanba^* 'j cpeS ]?jiipa^^ nijon pipan^*' omnef malap beftiaf canto f yp Jjonne on upe^'' jepojiceopp^^ ]>eobe bepmj ^ opepcum ealle ypele pilbbeop liy^^ Sonne mib fpy}?e pceajipon pexe^^ on )?py^^ bpelap

J?a

hpile

J?e

J)U

Sip

bo'^^ J?enc^^ be

pam men

])e

]?u

ponne ]?u ]?anon penbe^'' ne bepeoli p>u ]?e na Sonne ))a pypte 'j cnuca liy^^ leje to pam Qite pona he biS hal. Pi]? paeteji peocn}'ppe jenim }>yrr^ ylcan pyjite pyptSsejimib^* fiencft^'^ to

jelacnienne^^

'j

mm

palan
liiiebbe

jecnucube^^
];0epop^^

PF^^S
peopeji

J^onne

J>9e]iop^^
'j

ppa

]?8et

]?u

pcenceap'^^

pmep

healpne

'

?;ei>-,

B. omits.

-]ial-,
"

0.
sumsen,
II.

'

jmljuirc, B.,
'

by

later hand.

'

peaxa)?,

IL
"

his, B.

pyp^? H. heo, B.
*

hac-, B.; hate^, H.

'-

anyb-, B.
'^

" -nerre, B.
hjiipa,
-
-^
-"

-oon, B.
n^^on, B.
l^jxys,

'3
''
'^^

his, B., twice.

u]ie,

B.

'**

" hanba, B. '" joi)ceo)i]e, H.

-^ -^

B.

'
-'

hig, B.

seaxe, H.

B.

bo, B. also.

baenc, II.
j'senbe, II.
^'
;

-'

haji,

B.

>{enc fc,

H.
-"

-'

gelacni-

Senne, B. H.
=*"

j^senbe,

B.

hi,

B,

s^cnocobe, B.

bap, B., tvrice.

rcajncav, B.

The

old interpreter has omitted

sis.

this.

Vt
in

scias in cuius
tolles

stellae

tutela iiatus
linteolo

Herbam mentastrum
habeto, et quando

mundus

et in

mundo

pane cocto gra-

APVLEIl.

203
of
this

2.

For

leprosy,

take
;

leaves

same

wort,

iiorsemint.
^^** ^^"-"

administer to be eaten
healed.'^

surely {the patient)

shall be

Wall
1.

WOBT, or ElDEK W0RT>

XCIIL

Sambucus
ebulvs.

Bof.

this

In case that stones wax in the bladder, take wort, which is named ebulum, and by another
elder

name

wort,

or

chvarf
;

elder,

and (which)

also

some men call wall wort pound it then so tender, it with its leaves, administer it to drink in wine
;

forces out the infirmity.

For rent by snake, take this same wort, which we named ebulum, and ere thou carve it off, hold it in thine hand, and say thrice nine times, Omnes malas bestias canto,^ that is, in our language. Enchant and overcome all evil wild deer then carve it off with a very sharp knife, into three parts and the while that thou be doing this, think of the man whom thou thinkest therewith to leech, and when thou wend thence, look not about thee then take the wort and pound it, lay it to the cut soon it will be whole. 3. For water sickness, that is, dropsy, take roots of this same wort pounded; wring then thereof, so that thou have of the ooze four draughts, and (add) a
2.
;

integrum inveneris, simul cum herba ponito, septem Stellas, hoc est Solem, Lunam, Martem, Mercurium, lovem, Venerem, Saturnum, et sub puluino pone, atque roga ut tibi per quietem ostendant, in cuius
frumeiiti
et preceris
stell^e

num

tutela

sis.

The drawing
elder,

in

dwarf
also a

as so

MS. V., fol. 43 c, is apparently meant for MS. Add. 17063. In MS. Bodley, 130, is

rough likeness, with the glosses " walwort, danewort, " wylde elder." Classical Latinity authorizes only ebulum, but ebulus is favoured by the analogies.
c

Canto, Lat. 1528, but the English text has the verbs in

the imperative.

204
yefueji
]'yle

HERBARIVM
bjiincan

;enne^

on

bsej

hyt

pjiemaS^

myclum'^ ))am psetejifeocan. 6ac^ hyt bynnan'^ heal]:on^' 5^^P^ ealne

lit

]7one paetau

atyh]?.

Dpeojije

bpeo]"le.

xciv.

poUejium 'j o]?]ium naman bpeopje bpople nemne}> hsepS mib hype maneja Isecebomap )?eah hy'' pela manna ne cunne ^^ ];onne yp ]7eos 8e pejx^^ hapa]> pyjit tpejea^ cynna ]) ip pep^^ -j pip hpite blofcman^^ ^j ]? pip hapa]? peabe o])]?e bpune punbophc 'j hi^^ on him hab8e5hp8e]7ep yr iiy'^hc^^ punbophce mihte mib )?am msefran bleo^* hy ba]7 blopa))^^ Sonne neahce o))pe pypta pcpmcaj? "j peoji-

Deop

pyp'c

}'<^

i^an

'j

niaS.

jenim ]?ap 5'lcan pyjite pollejium 'j cymen cnuca topomne mib paetejie 'j leje to bam napolan^^ pona he biS jehseleb. 17
Pi]?

Ssep inno]7ep

pajie

Bpt
bjuncan

jnS

])sey

majan
hy^^
hj'-t

pajie
-j

pollejium

cnuca

^enim )?ap pylpan pyjitc mib psetepe jepaepc^^ syle

plsettan
]>ey

on ecebe

]?one

majan

pel

Pi^ 5ic];an ]?8epa^^ jepceapa^^ jenim }?ap ylcan pyjite seoS on peallenbon psetepe let^^ ]?onne cohan ppa oSp hyt^'^ man bjiincan mpeje 'j hyt J^onne b]iince hyt jelij^eja)?

Jjone 3ic]?an.

6pt

piS

]78ep
*j

mnoSep

pajie )7eop pylpe

pypt ppema)?^^

pel jeetan^^

ppam
piS

to J^am napolan~^ jeppij^en ppa p heo~^ ]7am napolan peallan ne m^eje^^ pona heo ]? pap pepope

topepe]?.
]7am^''
J7e

]>y

Spybban

b^eje

on

man

'

ajne, II.

B,
'

yjiamat), II.
his, B.

'

micclu, B.
^

'

Gac,

II,
'"

'

-non, B.
yteji,

heal>an,H.

-na, 0.
'-

tpe^jia, B. O.
'=*

H.,

twice.
*

" blosman, H. B.
'

netlic, II.
>'

hij, B.
'

'

bleo, B.
'

hlopa'S, B.

-j-el-

B.

-hail-, B.

his, B.

sejies,

APVLEII.
half sextariiis of wine
it

205
;

administer one a day to drink

Wai-l wort.

benefitetli
4.

much

the watersick or dropsical.

it

Also, within half a year

draweth out

all

the

dropsical humour.

DWARF DWOSLE,
1.

Fenuyvoyal.

XCIV.

Mentlia puliyium. Bot.

which is named pulegium, and by another name dwarf dwosle, hath with it many leechdoms though many of men ken them not. Further is this wort of two kinds, wer and wife, or male and The wer, or male, hath white blossoms, and feifYiale.
This
wort,
;

either is hath red or brown beneficial and wonderlike, and they have on them wondrous virtue. They blow v/ith the greatest beauty

the

wife,

or female,

when
2.

nearly other worts shrink and languish.

For sore of the inwards, take this same wort pulegium, and cummin, pound together along with water, and lay to the navel soon he, the patient, will
;

be healed. 8. Again, for sore of the

give to drink in vinegar of the
4.

maw,
it

or stomach, take this

it

same wort pulegium, pound and wash

;

well relieves

with water, the nausea

maw,

or stomach.

Against itch of the shape, or sexual parts, take this same wort, seethe it in boiling water, then let (this) cool, so far as till a man may drink it, and let him then drink it it relieves the itch. 5. Again, for sore of the inwards, this same wort
;

profits well,

eaten and tied

down

to
;

the

navel,
it

so

that

it

may

not

fall

from the navel

soon

removes

the sore.
6.

For a tertian, or the fever which cometh on a

H.
-*
-*

B.;]HOB.
25
^"

-"

-esa^', B.
-'=

^i

|,apa,

B.

-^

-ycapa, B.
-ytt\-,

--\xz,B.
-^

hi,

j:pama'5,

raaga, O.

H. l^sem, H.

seeten, H.

"

B.

he, B.

206
becymej? jenim
pulle

HERBARIVM
f'yfj'e

jlcsm pyjite trpiju^ bepealb

on
ye

fcep^

hyne

J^sejimib'^ tojzojian*

pepop

hym

to pylle

'j

timan jyp hpa hyp heapob mib

)?am

)?e

J>yppe

pypte

onbutaii'^

bepinbej>.

heo f pap

])sey

heapobep^

^eliSisa]?/

Iryp beabbojien cylb sy on pipep

ylcan pypte

Jjjiy

cy]?ap

'j

j?a

mnoSe jenim }>yppe pyn nipe ppa hy ppyj^opt;

fcmcen cnuca^ on ealbon^^ pme syle bjimcan.

jemme^^ pap ylcan pypte polleian psepmob^^ cnucie^* tosomne mib ele 'j mib ecebe fmypije^^ hyne Jjsepmib jelomlice.

Gyp hpa on

pcipe

plsettan

J^ohje^^

'j

])v6

blsebpan
]7ap

sape

'j

pi6

f ptanap
polleian

)78e]ion^^

pexen'*
'j

jenim

ylcan

pypte

pel

jecnucube'^

"cpejen pcenceap^^

pmep jemencj^^ tosomne pyle

"j

bpin-

can pona peo blsebbep to pelpan jehpyppeS^^

bmnan
^j

peapum bajum heo ptanap ]?e J^fep^^ on

J>a

untpumnyppe ~^

jehpele);

]>a

peaxej? ut^^ anj^beS.

Gyp hpa
ton
j

onbutan^'^ hip heojitan

oJ?)?e

on

liij'

bjieos-

paji

)7olie *^^

)?onne ete he }?ap ylcan pyjite polleium

bpmce hy^^ pseptenbe. Gyp hpylcum men hjiamma

'j^^

]^ypte

tpejen pcenceap^^ ecebep

PiS

)?8ep

jenim
poetepe
syle

)7ap

jenim ]7ap ylcan bpmce pseftenbe ;^^ majan topunbennyppe'^^ "j J^iiepa'^^ mnojm ylcan pypte poUejium jecnucube^^ -j on
bejiije

o^^e on pme jep^'llebe o]7];e ]?uph hy^* PX^F^" picjean^^ pona byj? peo untpumny]' pojilseten.^^

'

tjnsa,

H.
" '"

'ftyp, B.
heajrbes,

^
'^

>aji,

B.

-pon, B.
*

'"

onbuton, B.
cuca,

H.
J^olce,

-ega^, B.

hig, B.

''

H. ])epmob, H.
"^

-ban, B.
"^

"

H.

'^

" cnuca, H.; cnocige, B.

secnocobe, B.
'^^

s^im, 11. '* fmepa, B.

'*

"

jisepmo, V.;
'" i>a]i,

B.
B, O-

peaxa'S,

H.
^s

scencas, H.;

)'C8encaj*,

2"

jmeencs, H.;
-nerre, B.

semsenc, B.
j,ap,

gehpeopj-e^, H.;
^s

?;efyrfe^,
''

"

B.

"*

lic,

B.

.^on, B.

olise.

APVLEIT.

207
Dwarf
DWOSLE.
Art. xciv

man on
fold

the third day, take twigs of this same wort

in
;

wool incense as with a censer, the patient, before the time when the fever will be upon him and if one windeth liis head about with this
;

them up

wort,
7.

it

alleviates the sore of the head.

woonans inwards, take three sprouts of this same wort, and let them be new, so do they strongest scent, pound
If a dead-borne child be in a wifes

or

in old wine; give to drink.

endure nausea on shipboard, let him take the same wort pulegium, and wormwood, let him pound them together with oil and with vinegar; let him smear himself therewith frequently. 9. For sore of bladder, and in case that stones therein wax, take the same wort pulegium, well pounded, and two draughts of wine mingle together
8.

If

any

thole

or

give to drink
(state),

soon the bladder shall turn to a better

and within a few days the wort shall heal the infirmity, and shall force out the stones which therein
are waxing.
10.

If

any one about

is,

his

heart or
let

in
eat

his

breast,

thole, that

suffer

sore,

then

him

this

same

wort pulegium, and drink ^ it fasting. 11. If cramp annoy any man, take the same wort and two cups of vinegar; let him drink fasting. 12. For swelling of the maw and of the inwards, take this same wort pulegium, pounded, and boiled in water or in wine, or give it to be swallowed by itself soon shall the infirmity be removed.

Only

glutiat. Lat., 1528.

H. B.
^
^*

'''

his, B.
^'

28 ^^

ojnits.

^^

scencas, H.;

j-ceencaj',

B.

yej'Cenbe,
his, B.

H.
^^

i>unbenej')*e,

B.

^^ ]?ajia,

B.

^^

s^cnocobe, B.

IJicsan,

B.

)?ynscan,

36

uncpumnesse yoplsetan,

H.; -ne)' };opl8ecen, B,

208
])\])

HERBARIVM
miluan
yape

jenim

J^aj"

ylcan

pypte

polleium

yeoS on ecebe yyle bpincan fpa peajim.

lenbena^
ece
pi^
'j

PiJ>

'j

psejia^

]?eona

pape

jeniin

];ap

ylcan pypte

polleium

pipoji

sejj^pep jelice micel

baej^e

be jepihte cnuca tosomne ^ )?onne ])u on pmyjie^ ]?8epnib* ]78ep* hyt fpyj^opt bepi^e.

sy

Nepte.

xcv.
'j

Dap^

pypte^
-j

man nepitamon
eac jpecaf hy^
nebbjie.

oj^jium^

nam an
Lata)?.

nepte nemne];

mente opmon

jenim )?ap pypte^ Se pe nepiramon nembun^^ cnuca mib pme ppmj ]7onne f pop ^^^ syle^^ bjimcan on pme^^ "j jenim eac ])(i leap^'*
Pi]?

nsebpan

plite

)?yppe sylpan j^yp"^^

jecnucube^^ leje to

pa3jie'^

punbe.

Cammoc.
The
fig.,

xcvi.
*j

v.,

J)ap pypte^''

man peucebanum
Nebbne.
J

oSjmm naman cam-

hoidtobe
peucedanum
officinale.

moc^^ nemne]?.

Deop pypt

];e

pe

peucebanum nembun^^ maej nsebpan

mib hype fp^ce^^ aplian.^^ piS naebpan Ilite jenim ];ap ylcan pypte peucebanum betonicam -j heoptef fmeopup^^ o^^e^*^ f meaph -j *j eceb bo tosomne leje ]7onne to J^aejie^^ punbe he biS
jehseleb.^^

PiS

]?a

able

J?e

jjiecap pjienepip

nemnaS p

ip

on

ujie

'

laenb-, B.
is

>e]ia,

V.

hajia,
'

B.

'

fmejia, B.

haji, B., twice.

V.
'"
'^

here defective.

Deo)*, II,
II.
^

]>5'pc i^e,

B.

'

on Ujium,

pypce hig, B.
^

altered later to
"
''^

I'yrt,

O: O.

nenbun, V.; nembuu, H.; -bon, B,

"

-j,

B, omits.
little.
'"

fule,

mib

J>au jnne, O.

"
'"

lea):,

B,; O. alters a

'^

secnube, V.;

gecnocobe, B.

]>ape,
'^

B. O.

A meddling

hand has
II.

inserted b into pypte, in B.

cammuc,

IT.

'^

-bou, B.; ntcmban,

APVLEIT.

209

1*J.

For sore of
seethe

milt, or spleen, take this

same wort

Dwarf
^'^^J|Jj[^

pulegium,
drink.
14.

in

vinegar,

give

it

so

warm

to

For ache of loins and sore of the thighs,^ take this same wort pulegium, and pepper, of either alike much by weight pound together, and when thou be in the bath, smear therewith, where it most troubleth.
;

NePTE.^'
rrti
.

Catsmint
nepeta,

XCV.

Nepetacat-

This wort
nepte,

IS

named

11 and by

another

11

name

tatia.

Bot.

and

also the

Greeks

call it xaAafjo/v^r)
F., fol.

opsii/jj.

44 d. For bite of snake, take this wort, which we named nepeta pound it with wine, wring (put) then tbe ooze, and give it to drink in wine and take also tlie leaves of this saine wort pounded, lay them to the wound.

Dratving of a snake. 3fS.

CAMMOCK.
1.

XCVI.

Peucedanum
officinale,

Bot.

This wort

is

named

TrsuxsSavoc,

and by

anotlier

45 a. 2. This wort, which we named peucedanus, has tlie power to put to flight snakes by its smell. 3. For bite of snake, take this same wort peucefol.

name cammock. Drawing

of a snake,

danus,
hart,

and betony, and grease or the marrow of a and vinegar put them together, then lay them
;

to the
4.

wound

the patient will be healed.

(ppevYio-ig,^

For the disease which the Greeks name

Ad

sciam (so) vel coxarum dolorem.

Lat., 1528.

So

that thigh
^
c

must include

hip.

Drawn fairly well in MS. As Celsus, lib. iii. c. 18.

V.,

fol.

44

d.

-"
-^

rpaecce, PI.

-'

aylisan, B.

--

rmejiui', H.; -pu, B.

-^

o^bar, O.

bape, B.

^elacmib, H. ; -nob, B.

210
jej^eobe
jepitlej't^
by)?

HERBARIVM
psep

mobej'

by)?

Sonne p heapob

jenim )?onne J7a]"^ ylcan pyjite peucebanum cnuca on ecebe bejeot ))onne f heajzob )}?epmib^ hyr ppema)?* liealice.
apeallen

8pepe pypt.
MSS. V. G.
rising from a

xcvii.

piS blsebjian pape jenim

)7ap

pypte

)7e

man^ limnula
'j

^^^-

campana 'j o)?]ium naman fpepe pypte nemne]? mepcep saeb -j eojiS naplan^ *j pmulep^ pyptpalan cnuca tosomne syle )?onne plsec bpmcan pceapplice hyt:
ppemaS.

PiS to)?a pajie 'j pajunje^ jenim )?af ylcan syle etan paeptenbum heo )?a te]> jetpymeS.
Ascarides
lumbricoidse.

pypte

PiS p
y^^^

ymb

)^8ene

napolan^^ syn penj pyjimap jenim

pine leje to )?am

ylcan pypte

hmnulan cnuca on

inno6e.

Eibbe.
Cynoglossmn
officinale.

xcviii.

Bap pypte
hate)?.

))e
-j

man^^ cynojloppam
liy^^ eac^^

pibbe nemnef)

cSpum Naman pume men Imjuam camp

-j

Nsebpe.

Pi^ nsebpan plite peop pypt bun^^ pel ppema^^^ jecnucub^^

)7e
'j

pe cynojloppam nem-

on pine

jefiijeb.

Pi^ )?am^^ pepope "Se )?y^^ peop)?an bseje on man becymej?^^ jenim )?ap ylcan pypte cynojloppam 5a j?e

'

-leaj-c,

B.

'^

)>8es,

H.
"

'^

)?aji,

B.

jrjiaraa'S,

H.
**

H. omits

)>e
^

man,

inserts ylcan.

nayelan, B.

jinelej-,
*"

B.

>]iamab, H.
nayelan, B.

pujunge, H.
l^e

B.

omits four words.

naj-lan,

H.

" H. omits
'2

man.
'^^

his, B.

eac,

Both V. and B. write " -bon, B. H.

gecnocab, B.
folios

]'e,

which
'^

is

not wanted.
raa^^

ypam, H., with

'"

written over.
'"

'"

'"

J^an,
ill

H.

Hs, B.
pass

becymtS, B. H.

The

of H. have been

put together,

we

here from

1 7 b. to .50 a,

four words being missing.

APVLEII.

211
of

that

is,

in

our

language,

witlessness
;

the

mind,

Camiwock.
^^'^'

which is wlien the head is on fire then take this same wort peucedanus, pound it in vinegar, then souse the head with it it benefits highly.^
;

^^^''

SpEARWORT.
1.

XCVII.
this

For

sore

of bladder,

take

wort,

which

is

Inula hdenium. ^"^'

campana, and by another name spearwort, and seed of marche, and roots of earth navel or asparagus, and of fennel, pound together, then give it to drink lukewarm; it benefits sharply. 2. For sore and looseness of teeth, take this same

named

inula

wort,

give

it

(to

the

sufferer)

to

eat

fasting;

it

steadieth the teeth.

In case that about the navel there be round worms, take this same wort elecampane, pound it in
3.

wine, lay

it

to the inwards.

ElBWOET.
1.

XCVIII.
xvvoyXcjoa-a-ov,^

Plantago Ian'

This wort, which

is

named

another
canis.

name

rib,

and

also

some men
Snake.^

call it

and by linguam

(Sentence incomplete.)

Drawing
2.

we named For bite of snake, cynoglossum, is of good advantage, pounded and swallowed in wine. 3. For a quartan ague, or the fever which cometh on a man on the fourth day, take this same wort
this

of a snake. wort, which

The

Latin, ed. 1528, uses throughout the feminine form

;

TCiVKebavoc,

the English interpreter had a different text.

Cynoglossa, Lat., ed. 1528. But Ribwort is Arnoglossum. In MS. Bodley, 130, glossed " Hundestongse," and faithfully
^

drawn.
for
^

neat figure in

What remains of the outline in MS. V., and the MS. A., fol. 45 a, might have been from nature,

Arnoglossum.
Intended as a direction to the oruamentator.

o 2

-H.

212

HERBARTVM
syle

peopeji leap hscbbe cniica liy^

bjimcan on protepe

heo

alype)? j^one

man.
unnytlicnyype
]7ap

Pi]>

Srepa^ eajiena

jeliypan^ ne mosje
^^ecnucube'^
-j

jemm
ele

on

^ man pel ylcan pypte cynojloppam jeplaehte^ bpype on f^ eape

'j

piS

punbopilice liyt

bsele)?.

Sunbcopn.
For the
figure,

xcix.

seethefac-

eos pypt Se man paxippajam 'j oj^pum naman punbcopn nemneS by)? cenneb'' on bunum 'j on iiienilitum" ptopum.

PiS f ptanap on blasbpan pexen jenim ]7ap pypte pe pe paxippajam nembun^ cnuca on pme pyle bpmcan
]?am
J^olijenban^^
'j

Sam

pepepjenban
J^83p
]>Q

on peapmum
op

pjBtepe fpa anbpeapb^^ beo yp

bi]'

^' s?eb

Sam

pe

apanbebon^^ f beo J^y ylcan b&eje bpyctS -j by^* ut'^ atybS -j J one man
jelsebe]?.^^

)?a franaj-

poji-

to

byp

bgele

eo]X6 yp^?'
Hedera
helix.

C.

pexen jenim pyppe pypte )?e man liebepan nijpan 'j oj^pum naman eopS ipij nemnej? peopon bepian oSSe enblupon^^ on psetepe jejnibene pyle bpmcan punboplice beo^^ ptanaj- on
piS

j'tanas

on

blsebbpan^^

Jpsepe^^

blsebpan

je^abepaS

"j

by to

bpicS^^

'j

)?ujib

mijj^an ut atybS,

PiS beapob

sa]i~^

jenim

J?aj'

ylcan pyjite bebepam

-j

'

his,

B.
B.
'"

^
"

Sapa, B.
o]>,

'
'

Sehypau, B.
"

secnocobe, B.
IT.

5 "

_j,leh-,

B.
B.
'-

ctcnueb, B.

frxnisiim,
;

B.

-bu, -bon, B. >' -bob-, B. a mere Latinism, offended the later owner of the MS. '^ eo^'Siui, B., by later hand. '"-Mb-, B. ''uc, B. "his, B.
11.

aupaibe, H., on an erasure

anbpeapb,

APVLEII.
oyriooflossiiiii,

213

that one (iiamely) wliick

.

may have
. ;

four

pound it, give it to drink in water it releases the man. 4. For uselessness of the ears, and in case that a man may not hear well, take this same wort cynoglossum, pounded, and in oil niade lukewarm, drip it on the ear; wonderfully it healeth.
leaves,

Kibvv<^ut. Art. xcviii.

SUNDCORN.
1.

XCIX.
saxifrage,

Saxifraga
granulata.

This wort,

which

is is

another name sundcorn,

stony places.
2.

and by produced on downs and in

named

In case that stones

wort,
;

wax

in

the

bladder,

take

pound it in wine give it to the sufferer to drink, and to the feverish in warm water, so present, that is, in the Latin sense, effective, it is, that of it, it is said, by those who have tried it, namely the experiment, that it, namely the wort, breaketh to pieces the calculi the same day, and tuggeth them out, and leadeth the
this

which we named

saxifrage,

man

to his health.

Earth
1.

IVY.^^

O.

Glechoma
kederacea. Sot.

In case that stones wax in the bladder, take seven or eleven berries rubbed sm^all in water of this wort, which is named hedera nigra, and by another name earth ivy, give them to drink wonderfully it,
;

namely the wort, gathereth the calculi in the bladder, and breaketh them to pieces, and tuggeth them out by means of the urine. 2. For head sore, take this same wort hedera, and

The

lig;ure in

MS. V.

is

Hedera

helix.

^^
-"-

-bjxan,

H.

*^

aenlufan, H.; enbli>ene, B.

;

^o

j^^q

j,g^^

jg^
-^

21

-gape, B.

bjimc'S,

V. and H. before correction

to bping^, B.

ece,

H. B.

214
jiosan pos
"j

HERBARIVM
on pme
jepej^eb^

fmype'^ )7onne pa

Sunponja
cpoppap
]7py6ban
set

):one

aubplatan ^ prS miluan sape

fTY*^^

paji jeliSija);.^

jemm

pyppe

ylcan*
set

Pyp''^^

a3pept;^

^^ o]7pum
enblupon
'^

pgele pip.

pam
*'^

psele

seopone
"^^

set )7ain peopj^an

aet

cyppe nijon

pam
)7peo-

fiptan

cypjie^
'j

]?am fixtan

cyppe
'j

tyne

set

pam

peopoj^am cyppe piptyne*^^

set )?am

ehteo]?an^^ cyppie peopontyNe

*j

set );am nijoj^an

'j

cyppe
^^^

nijontyne

set ]7am teoJ>an paele an^'^

tpentij

pyle

bpincan bsejhpamlice on ptne jyp he ]7onne on pepope py pyle bpmcan on peapmum pseteyie mycelon he by]?

jebeu

'j

jefcpanjob.

piS

J^aepa^'^
J^yj'pe

pypma
pylpan

plire

)7e

man

spalanjionep

nemne^
J?e

jenim

pypte

peap psep pyjitpalan

pe

hebejiam nembun^^ syle bpincan.

6pt
pypi-ce

piS

]78epa^'

punba

lacnunje

jenim

J?ap

ylcan

seoS
]3

on pme

leje to )?am punbum;.'^

nsepl^yplu 5t^^^ ftmcen^ jenim pyppe sylpan pypte seap pel ahlytpeb'^^ jeot on pa noeppyplu.
Pi]7

Pi^S

]78epa^^

eajiena

unnytlicnyfTe

'j

piS

^ man ne

mse^e pelP^ jehypan^^ jenim pyppe ylcan pypte peap fpype clsene mib pme bpype on pa eapan^* he bib
jelacnub.^^

pip ^ heapob ne ace pop punnan hsetan jenim pyppe sylpan pypte leap fpype hnepce cnuca on ecebe fmype^^

ponne pone anbplatan psepmib^^ eac hyt ppemap^^ onjean^^

selc paji^^

pe

pam

heapobe^* bepep.

-])er-,

B,
'

'^

Tmyjia, B.
^

'^

-esalS, B.
"
'^

'

ylan,

V.

sejiorc,

H.
B.

"
'<*

jjpiS,

B.

nisone, H,

cipe, B.

senbliifon, H.; enblijon,

-ttyne, B.
tpenti, B.
^*
-

"
i>apa,

)n>-tene,

B.
'"

eahtoJ>an, B.
'^

'*

B.

-bon, B.
^i

l^ajia,

B.

'**

H. punbun, V.
an,

"

-ncan, B.

-ttpeb, B.

^apa, B.

22 ^,^1^

h.

23

jehypan, B.

APVLEII.

215
ivy.

ooze of rose extracted in wine, then smear the temples Earth

and the forehead it relieves the sore. 3. For sore of milt, or siileen, take heads ^ of this same wort, at first, three the second time, ^yq the
; ;

third
turn,

time,

seven

the
;

fourth

time, nine

the

fifth

or

time,

eleven

the
;

sixth

time,

thirteen

the seventh time, fifteen

the

the eighth time, seventeen

;

ninth
;

time,

nineteen

the tenth time,

in
it

one and
if

twenty

give to

drink

daily

wine,

then,

he,

the patient,

be in a fever, give
;

warm water

much he
like

is

him to drink in amended and strengthened.

legs,

Drawings
4.

horned locusts;
wings, two.

eight;

worms, or creeping things, which are named <^a\ciyyioi, tarantulas,^ take juice of the root of this same wort, which we named hedera give
bite of the
;

For

to drink.
5.

Again, for healing of the wounds, take this same

it

wort, seethe
6.

in wine, lay it to the wounds.

nostrils smell
it
ill,

this
7.

In case that the same wort, pour

take juice

of

well refined into the nostrils.

ears,

and in case that a man may not well hear, take juice of this same wort, very clean, with wine, drip it on the ears he,
;

For unprofitableness of the

the sufferer, will

8.

be cured.

not ache for heat of sun, take leaves of this same wort, very nesh, or tender, pound them in vinegar, then smear the forehead
the

That

head

may

therewith.

It

also

is

of benefit

against

every sore

that vexeth the head.

Grana, Latin text.

Some pretend

(paKdyyia, are

not tarantulas.

2* 29

eajie,

B.

^5

_^q^^

26

fmypa, B.
heajrbe,

^7

jj^p,

B.

''^

n^ama^, H.

onsen, H.

^o

j.^^^ jj.

^i

B.

216

HERBARIVM

Opjane.

ci.

PiS

)7e)'

heajrobej'^
'j

sajie

jenim

)?yffe

pyjit

eseap
'j

]>e

man
J

yeppillum

o)?pum
to to

naman opjane nemne)?

ppyj^e^

ele

jebsepneb^

pealr

Imalan

bulue

jebpv^

jemenjc* ealle hyt by}> hal.

somne fmype^ f
J)ap

lieapob Jjgepmib^

6pt
j

PI'S

heapob ece jenim

ylcan pypte peppilluiu

Jjgejimib^ ]7a

jepobene cnuca on ecebe fmype^

J>one anbplatan.

Sunponja

Gip hpa fojibaepneb sy jenim J)ap ylcan pypte peppillum -j 8epc]?pote aenne^ pjTib ^ anpe yntfan^^ jepihte jeppyppep op seolppe -j jiopan^^ ]?peo]ia yntpena^^
jepihte jepuna )?onne eall tosomne on
bo^^ fepto^^ bepan Imepupes^^ 'j heoptenep^^ peoS peopma hyt -j leje to ]?am bsepnette.^^
]?omie
'j

anum
punbep
ealle ^''

mojitepe
jepihte

pex

healpep

tosomne

Pepmob.

Oil.

Deos pypt |?e man abpmthmm "j oj^jmm naman pejimob nemneS^^ by]; cenneb^^ on bejanum ftopum "j on bunum^^ *j on ftsenilicum^^ propum.
Pi8
;^enim
])

man

]?ap

^ oSpe saji op lichaman jebo*^ pyp'^ti abpintliium peo'b on psetepe bo ponne

Isela

on anne*"^ claS leje to ]?am sape jyp J^onne meapu~^ py peo'S on hunije^'' leje to ];am

se lichoma^'''
pape.'"'^

'

heaj-bej-,

H. B.
*

-net, B.
"

fjnjjan,

H.

'

jiemsensc, H.
'

-maens, B.
**

fmyjia, B.

hsejimib, H.; >a]i, B.

'"

j-myjia,

B.

J>a]i,

B.
B.
'**

"
'-

anne, H.

yntj-ena, H., with

St.

marks of erasure,

"

jjoj-an,

ynbfeua, H.; ynbfa, B., see

>^-]ipef,

''bo, B.
tal,

"hajx, B.

B.

'

hyjirenej-,
''

Marharete, p. 87, art. 30. H. >^eall, H.;

^'

B.

"Wanting in the Latin texts.

-"

]eremob nemneb, O., and

bunii, B.
-^ -^

here stops the sentence.

li^um, altered

csenneb, U. B.

frajni-

by
-'

erasure to rcsenisum, H.; -nisuni, B.

"

Sebon.' 0., which omits a line.

-^ -]ui]',

senne,

H. B.

Sebo, H. B.; -^ -hama, B.

B.

-nij;,

B.

-''

fojie,

0.

APVLEIl.

217

Organy,'^ Wild marjoram,

1.

ci.

Orujanum

For sore of the head, take juice of this wort which is named serpyllum, and by another name opslyavov, and oil, and bm-nt salt, bruise it to very small dust, mix all together, smear the head therewith
;

it shall
2.

be whole.
take this same wort

Again, for the head ache,

pound it in vinegar, smear therewith the temples and the forehead. be badly burnt, take this same wort 3. If one serpyllum, and ashthroat, o?" vervain, one bundle, and by weight of one ounce of the filings of silver, or litharge, and roses by weight of three ounces, then pound all together in a mortar, than add thereto wax and of grease of bear and of hart, by weight purify it, and of half a pound, seethe all together
serpyllum, sodden,
;

lay

it

to the burn.

Wormwood >
1.

on.

Artemisia absinthium. Bot.

named absinthium, and by another name ware-moth, or vmrmwood, is produced

This wort, which
places,
is

in

cultivated

and

on

downs, and in stony

the body
lay
it

places.
2.

In order that a
other
in
;

man may remove from

take
this
it

weals and
seethe
it

sores,

water,
if
it

then put

wort on a

absinthium,
cloth,
it

to the sore

honey

lay

then the body be tender, seethe to the sore.

in

The ligure in MS. V., fol. 46 c, has root, stems and buds with swelling calyces, but no leaves. It is quite unlike the herb. MS. A,, fol. 46 b, has the same as V.
'^

in
fol.

The distinctive features of wormwood may be recognized MS. T. and MS. A., fol. 46 b not so well in MS. V.,
:

45

d.

218
Ascarides

HERBARIVM
^ penj pypmay ymbe^
)7aj'

J^ig

)7one

nafolan'^ bejiijen'''
*j

jenim
*j

y^^^^ P3 P"^^* elechtjium^ ealpa jelice

oj7)7e

abpmtbium

hsepe

hunan^

paetepe^

mycel seoS on jefpettum on pine leje tupa oSSe^ )?jiipa to Jam

pj^pmap.

napolan hyt

cpelj? |?a

8aluie.

cm.
on
psetepe

pi6 5ic)?an

)78epa^^

jepceapena^^ jenim pap pypte he

'j

man
Gfc
petl

paluian

nemneS seoS
J7a jepceapu.^'^
);a3p

mib

J)am

psetepe fmyjie^^
piS

jicj^an

setlep
*j

palpian^^ peo6

on

paetejie^^

jenim ]?ap y-lcan pypte mib ]7am pgetepe be)7a

]?

hyt

jeliSijaS Sone 5ic]7an heahce.

Celenbjie.
Pi'6

civ.

Sone napolan pexen jenim ]7ap pypte ];e man colianbpum 'j oSpum naman J7am jebce cellenbjie nemne^ peoS on ele to )?]iybban bsele bo to ]7am pape 'j eac^^ to Sam heapobe.^

P^i^S

pypmap

ymb^^

Pi5 f pip hpsebhce cennan^^ maeje^^ jenim J>yrr^'^ ylcan cohanbpan pseb enblupon^^ copn oSSe ]7peottyne'^''^

cnyte mib anum Spsebe^* on

cla]7e

anum
set

nime "Sonne

an^''

man

]7e

hnenan^^ sy^^ msej^babep^^ man*

clsenan''^^

cnapa o}7]7e msejben -j bealbe neah ]?am jepealbe -j pona fpa

J>am

pynptjian

]7eo

eall

seo^^ jeeacnunj*'^^

'

yb, H., as in Narratiunculse, p. 72, altered to ^iiib; embe, O.

na-

jelan, B.; najlan,

*

by

first

hand,
O.

PI.
<*

bepien, H. -an, O.
;
'

'

j'vrt, ().

hunan, B.

hara huna, O.
^
;

elehcpan, H. B. O.
'"

oSt5er, O.

ob'Ser,

hapa, B.
art.

patere, O. " sercapa, B.;

'^

^e^ceapa,

H.
B.

cf.
'*

St.

Marharete,

p.
''*

87,

30.

" "
-*

-j-capu, eac, II.

;

faluian, B.
"*

heajbe, B.
-'

V. omits four words. '" csennan, B. H.

pnypa, B. '^ yb, H. ne

"-"

maes, H.
)>p8ebe,

maejc;,

V. H.
^n^ B.

J^af,

H.
^^

enblipan, B.
''''

'^=*

-ccene, B.
^o

B.;

'Sptie'Se,
27

clsenan, B.
"^^

linenan, H. omits;

-nu, B.

^8

y^^ g.

-hab-, B.

^^

j^

" eacnuns, H.

APVLEII,

219

In case that round worms are troublesome about Wormwood. Art cii the navel, take this same wort absinthium, and horehound, and electre, that is, lupins, alike much of all, seethe in sweetened water or in wine, lay it twice or thrice to the navel it killeth the worms.
3.
;

Salvia, Sage.^
1.

cm.

'S''"^-

^^*-

For itching of the shapes, or the verenda, take this wort, which is named salvia, or sage, seethe it in water, and with the water smear the shapes.
2.

Again, for itching

of the

settle,

or

seat,

take

this
settle

same wort
;

salvia,

seethe

it

in

water, bathe the

it

will relieve the

itching

in a high degree.'^

COKIANDER.c
1.

CIV.

Coriandrum
sativum.

Bot.

In case that round^ worms wax or grow about the navel, take this wort, which is named coriander, and by another name like that, cellender, seethe in apply it to the sore, and also oil to the third part
;

to the head.
2.

In order that a

wife,

that

is,

a woman, may

quickly bring forth, take seed of this same coriander,

eleven grains or thirteen, knit them with a thread on

then a person take them who is a person of maidenhood, a boy or a maiden, and hold this at the left thigh, near the natura, and so soon as aU the parturition be done, remove away
a clean linen cloth
;

let

Salvia, Bot.
is

is

figured in

MS.
G-.

V.,

fol.

47 a.

Nearly the

same figure
^
c

in

MS.

A.,

MS.

Wanting

in Latin text.

ing
fol.
^

The figure is wholly decayed mark of coriander can be

47
a.

in

seen in

MS. V. No distinguishMS. Add. 17063

Round worms

are akin to tape worms.

220
jebon beo bo^
mnoSe]'
soiia

HERBARIVM
J)one

lascebom

apej^

J?y

la^y psey

bael J^a^p^ septeji

j-'ilije.

cv.

PiS j'piSlicne jrlepsan* J^sep psebep pjiemaS^ pel ^eos pypt )?e man popclaca -j oSjiiim naman
nemne)?^
inib
8e5)7e]i

je

]7uph

liy''

pylpe

jef^ijeb

je eac^

o)?pum bpenceoN.^*^

Leajipille.^*

cvi.

PiS ]78ep cepepolium

ne]?^'^

majan
'j

pajie

jemm

|?yppe

pyji^re

J>e

o]?]ium

naman
ppa

J^am

jelice
*j

cejip ille

man^~ nem-

^py^*

cpoppap

5pene

bpeojije

bpoplan

cnuca on anum tjiypenan^^ moptepe j anne^^ cuculepe pilne amepebep Lunijep "j jpene popij pyll tosomne
pyle Sicjean
^^^

Lyt

)?one

majan

hpseblice jefrpanja]?.

Bpocminte.

cvii.

Pi^ )78epe^^ blaebbpan pape -j piS f man jemijan^^ ne mseje jenim ]?yppe pyjite pos 'pe man pipimbpium ojppum naman bjiocmmte nemne]; pyle J7am polijen*j ban on peapmum peetepe Sicjean^^ jyp he pepopjenbe^^ Vy SyF ^^ }>onne ne py pyle him on pme bpmcan Su
lime jelacnupt^^ punboplice.

'

after bo,
II.

man

inserted, II.
^
''

Jipe^,

H.

^
"

haji,

B.

'

jlepfdn,

jjiama'S, II.
j;c'.

"

nemne^, H.
'"

hi^,

B.

-Ms-

B.

eac, H., omitting

-con, B.; bjiDenceon, H.

-na'S, B.

" cerfiUe, B.
''

by
li.

later

hand.
'"

'-

miin, II.
''

'=^

" hjnj, B.
'**

cjiyjjcnum,

ainne, B.

t;ic?;an, II.

B.

l^ajie,

B.
B.;

'''

Ke, B. omits.

-'"

Sicgan, H. B.

-'

leyju^enbe, B.

" -najT,

Selacnofc, H.

APVLEII.
the
n.

221

leechclom,

lest

part of the inwards follow there- Coriander.

Art. civ.

alter.

Purslane.''^

CV.

Portulaca
sativa.

Bot.

advantage,

For violent which is named and by another name

gonorrhoea,

this

wort
either

is

of

good

porcilaca,
,

purdane, swallowed by
or

itself,

or also witli other drinks.

ChERVIL.1>

CVL

Anthriscns cerefnUvw. Bot.

For sore of the maw or stomach, take three heads of this wort, which is named cerefolium, and by anotlier name like that, chervil, so green, and dwarf dwosle, or jpennyvoyal, pound theWj in a treen or wooden mortar, and a spoon full of spoilt honey, and a green poppy, boil them together give them to be
;

swallowed,

it

then quickly strengtheneth the maw.

BrOOKMINT.c

CVII.

Mentha
suta.

hir-

Bot.

For sore of the bladder, and in case that a man

may

not mie, that

is

wort, which

pass water, take ooze of this named (ria-ufji^piov, and by another name
is,

brookmint, give

swallow in warm water, if he be feverish if however, he be not, give thou wonderously dost cure it him to drink in wine
it

to the sufferer to
;

him.

This
See

article is

wholly wanting in the Latin texts.

The

figure in
^

MS. Y.
art.

has perished.

lxxxvi.

articles

are totally unlike.

has traces of long seed

leaves only.
^

The drawings belonging to the two The figure in MS. A., fol. 47 b, pods MS. V., fol. 47 c, has lozenge
;

The

figure in

MS.

V.,

fol.

47

d,

was probably intended

for

this plant.

222

HERBARIVM
CVIII.

Syt: piS )78epe^ blsebpan pajie

'j

piS

f man^ jemijan
olipatjium
'^

ne maeje
o)7jium

jemm

]?ap

pypte

)7e

man

naman

nemnej? cnuca on jepylleban*

pine pyle bpincan heo 6one^

mijSan mihtelice 5ebet.

Liliae.

cix.

Dap pypt man

ne)?.^

lilie

'j

oJ>pum

naman

lilium

nem-

PiS nsebpan plite nembun'' -j bulbum

jenim
J>a*

)?ap

pypte

)7e

pe

lilmm

naman

lialppypt hate]?'^

^^ ^^^ ^^^^ oJ?pum cnnca tosomne syle bpincan

Py]^^^

bulbum ]?a pypte jecnucube^^ leje to )?am plite he byS jehaeleb.^^ PiS jefpeP^ jenim lilian leap jecnucube^* leje to J7am jefpelle pceapplice hyt hsBleJ? f jeppel jeJ>onne
-j

mm

li^ija}?.^^

Lactepiba.

ex.
-j

Deos pyjit

]?e

man

titymallof calauitef
bi6

oj?jium

naman
fropum

lactepiban
'j

nemneS

cenneb^^

on patum'^

on oppum.

'

)>ape, B.; J>ara, 0., fol. 16.

man, H.
O.
^

^ \)a.

yyrc

'p

man

V. is illegible, but \>Siy pypte J>e man epmion, B. (Kpivov); the space requires so many letters ' Deos pypc ("Se inserted) man o^jiii naman lihum nemnetS, H. -bon, B. '" nemne, B. ' jecnube, be, B. eac, H. H., \yhich
oliaftru,

O.

'

-ebu, H. O.

]?ane,

may be
Lat
'^
,

a contraction
"^

gecnocobe, B.
:

^^

j^ggi^^

g^
'^

is

j^^ luxum,

understand luxation

not so our interpreter.

11.

gecnocobe, B,

-esa"S, B.

caenneb,

B.

"

paecum, K.; psecu, B.

The
A.,

printed Oleastrum, Lat. 1528,

is

an error, Plinius,

XX. 46.

I see no resemblance in the figures

fol.

MS.

V.,

fol.

48

a,

MS.

48

a.

In

MS.

T.,

it is

well meant.

APVLEIl.
Alexaiiders.^
cviii.

223
SmT/mium

Again, for sore of the bladder,

and in case that a

man

is

not able to
is

niie,

or pass water, take this wort,

named olusatriim, and by another name horse parsley, pound it in boiled wine, administer to drink then it mightily amends the urine.
which
;

LlLY>
1.

CIX.

This wort

is

named

\slpiov,

and by another name

lily.

which we named lily, and the wort bulbus,^ which is also called by another name hals wort, pound together, gee arts give to drink then take the wort bulbus, lay it to cxxvm
2.

For

bite

of a snake. of adder, take this wort,

Drawing

Lvr.

CLXXXIV.

the bite,
3.

it will

be healed.
take pounded
;

Against swelling,

leaves

of

lily,

lay them to the swelling

it

healeth sharply, effectually,

and

relieves the swelling.

Lacterida.
1.

ex.
JljUT)TlOToici

This

T/T>jc,(?)d

named tMiuolKKo^ yaXuKand by another name lacterida, is produced

wort,

which

is

laihijris.

(^prengel)

in

wet places and on

shores.

The

lily in

are blue also in the

c

Herbse

lilii

flowers blue V., fol. 48 a, is good they Vienna MS. of Dioskorides. bulbum conterito et in potu dabis aut ipsum
; ; ;

MS.

bulbum tritum morsui apponas. Lat. Of the sorts Dioskorides and Plinius, xxvi.
'^

not mention Calatites.

The

printed

40, seqq., do Latin text has only

fol.

Tithymalus.

For the identification see Dorsten,

Tithymalus, Flora Britannica.

286,

Cooper

in

MS.

V.,

fol.

48

b,

nearly coincides with

MS.
latter

Bodley, 130, in the figure, quite

unlike Spurge.
^

The

MS.

has a gloss Pintelwort

the

figure is nowise like

Arum

maculatum.
Plin., xxvi. 40.

Tithymalum

nostri

herbam lactariam vocant

Nascitur in asperis maritimis.

224?

HERBARTVM
J^gepa^

PiS

innoS.i

yape

jenim
j5

jjypfe

tirymalli cnuca

on pine spa
op
]79epe'^

Jjsep

pypte ppib pmep syn tpejen

popep j^septo*

pcenceap^ bo J>onne
jehaeleb.

Pyp''^^ ]^^Y

tpejen cuculepap pulle bpmce ^onne psefcenbe be by)?

PiS
breje
Pi(S

peaptan
pos

jenim
bo

J^yppe

ykan

p}^pte
]>y

meolc^

"j

clupj7un5an*^

ro

]?3epe^

peaptan
sylpan

]?pibban^

hyt

J>a

peaptan

jehselej?.

hpeoplan jenim

Syppe

pypte

cpoppas

mib typpan T;epobene smype^

J^seji^^

mib.

Pubu
^'Deop p}'pt Se

piftel.

CXI.

man capbuum
nemneS
sajie

syluaticum
coenneb

-j

o];pnm

naman pubu
piS pejap.

Si fuel

biS

on m?ebum ^
]^^

piS

J>8ep

majan
-j

jenim

)?ap

ylcan^^ Py]^"^^

P^

capbuum piluaticum nembun^'^ Sone cpop upepeapbne ppa meapune^^ ppa jpenne^*^ syle J^icjean^^ on jefpetton^' ecebe hyt jeliSijaS^ J^a papnj^ppe.^^
PiJ;

f Su nane

jenim )?ap mepjen ]?onne peo sunne

jeancymap Se ne onbp^ebe ylcan pypte capbuum pilpaticum on sejine

ypele
rejiefu

f sy~' ])onne pe mona sy^^ in cappicopnu 'j healb hy^^ mib J>e spa^^ lanje ppa Su hy^^ mib ]7e bypfu nan piht ypelep
^j

upjanje^^

J^e

on;^ean cymeS.^^

'

J>apa,

H.

j'csencaj',
'

B.

'

hajie,

B.
"

'

haji,

B.

'

meoluc,
"

II.

'

-Duncan, B,
^ap, B.
'^

J'ape,

B.
is

)>pibban, 11,

rn^yP^* ^'
11.,

'"

" This paragraph -bon, B.

'

illegible in
II.,
'

V.

'-

ylcan,
'

but B.

omits.
'
-"

'^

meaiuipne,
15.
--'

and omits
B.
-^

^.

^jiene, II.
-nerj-e, B.
-'^

)>icsan,

H. B.
-'

-ttu,

-e?;a\N,

>

up,

H.

ry, B., twice.

hij, B.

spa, II.

hig, B.

"

ne, inserted in II. before cyme'5.

APVLEir.
2.

225
Lactkrida.
^>'fcx.

For sore of the inwards, take a slirub of tliis wort tithymallus, pound it in wine, so that of the wine there be two draughts, add then thereto two
spoons
full

of the ooze of the wort, let

him then drink

he will be healed. Against warts, take milk of this same wort and ooze of cloffing, apply to the wart the third day it
this fasting;
3.
;

See

art. ix.

healeth the warts.

Against leprosy, take heads of this same wort, sodden with tar, smear therewith.
4.

Wood
1.

thistle.^
is

CXI.

Cnicus lanceolatus; or per-

This wort, which

called carduus silvaticus,

luild
thistle,
is

and

^^j^. see

Fuch-

by another name wood or meadows and along ways.

2.

gotten in

si"s> P- 53-

For sore of the

maw

or stomach, take so tender

and so green, the upward 'part of the head^ of this same wort which we named carduus silvaticus, administer it in sweetened vinegar; it relieves the
soreness.

In order that thou may dread no ill gaincomers, in early take this same wort carduus silvaticus, and let that upgoeth morning, when first the sun be when the moon is in Capricorn, and retain it. As long as thou bearest it with thee, naught of evil
3.
;

Cometh against

thee.

^^

Formerly Carduus

is

sufficiently like.
thiftell."

" wylde

The figure in MS. V., fol. 48 c, So MS. Bodley, 130, where is a gloss MS. G. draws the upper face of a single
I.

head and glosses " Difcd."

^

Quod habet

in capite

summo, raedullam viridem.

Latin

text.

220

HERBARITM

cxn.

Beof pypr

J)e

man lupmum monranum

'j

oj^pum
-j

naman
panbipim stropum.
]>i6

nemne)) by)? cenneb^ piS he jap

on

f pypmap ymb 5one napolan bejujen* jenim yay p5"pre lupmuin montanum jecnucube^ pyle bpincan on ecebe anne* feenc^ pulne buTan ylbin;^ce" heo Sa pypmap uu apyppeS.
Iryj J^oime cilban^
pyjire
j?

sylf^

bepije*

^emm

6ap ylcan

lupmum

-j

pejimob cnuca rosomne leje ro

Sam

napolax.

p.

IryS

copn.^''

CXin.
*j

peos py]it

]>e

man

lacrypibem

oj^jmm

naman ^5-j

cojm nemneS byS cenneb^^ on bejanum propum

panbipim,

on

Pi5

)>sep

inno)>ef heajibnyppe

jenim p5Tr^ Pyp^^

Y^

^ pe^pmum^*

p\-nbon

Sa copn^^ pel apeopmube^^ p^le bpincan on

pjerejie

pona hyr

))one^^

mno6

apryjiej?.

p'.

Lacruca.

cxiv.

Deos

pyp*J^

)>e

man lactucam
*j

lepojiinam

-j

oj'jium

naman bejanum
^^

]>am jelice lacrucam nemne]? bi8 cenneb^" on

on panbipmi l^e Syppe p\'pt:e yp saeb }> pe hajia 5onne he on sumujia^^ pop IpiSlicjie hferan^^ ^ereopub*^' by)' mib )>yfle p>*pte hS-ne sylpne jelacnaS --^ pop )?y ^ heo yp lacruca lepojunam jefcopimi
nenineb.

Jhb pepopjenbe^ 3;enmi )>ap^ Pyp^^ lacrucam lepopi-

caHiiieb.

H. B.
*
'"

bepjen, B.

'
"

jecnocobe. B.

Knne, B.

' "

foenc. B.
bepie,

buron, B.
'"

-mge, B.
B.
'

cilbon, B.

H.

GuS

co^n. B.. by later hand.

See interpretation.
*

" CKnne^. H. B.
'* *

cojin.

H.
'"

" -mobe, H.
-^

peapmum. H.
'*

)>onK. B.

'"

naman, H,

cmieb. H. B.
-not>,

hi&ran. B.

-'

-jiob. B.: -jiab.

H.
-*

==

it>pW>n^

-mepa, B. H-:

fop'Sis.

feviujjenbe. B.: irepopjjenbne.

H.

^y, H.

APVLEII.

227
rtvTT ^^^^-

ti

Lupinus
Bot.

luteus.

1.

This wort, which

is

named lupinus montanus, and

,

by another name

is

produced against hedges

and in sandy places. 2. In case that tape worms annoy about the naveb take this wort lupinus montanus, pounded, give to drink in vinegar, one full draught it will cast out the worms. 3. If then the same thing annoy a child, take this same wort lupinus, and wormwood, pound them to;

gether

lay

them

to the navel.

GiTH CORN.
1.

CXIII.

This

wort,

which

is
is

named

lacterida,

and by

The berries of Dafne laureola, which MS. V.,

to draw, See Flora Aus-

another
places
2.

name

gith

corn,

produced

in

cultivated tempts
this

and in sandy ones. For hardness of the inwards, take seed of

is,

wort, that

the grains, well purified, administer to

;

drink in

warm water

soon

it

stirreth the inwards.

Prenanthes muralis. Bot.

Lettuce.'^
1.

CXIV.

This wort,

which

is

named

lactuca leporina,

and

by another name like that, lettuce, is produced in cultivated places and in sandy ones. Of this wort it is said that the hare, when in summer for vehement
heat

he

is

tired,

doctors

himself

with

this

wort,

whence
2.

it is

named

lactuca leporina, hao^es lettuce.

For the

feverish, take this

wort lactuca leporina.

Arthrolobium (H.) is drawn in MS. A., fol. 48 b. MS. V. has an equally false figure, and colours the pods blue, but they are lupine pods. ^ See the glossary, in Hares lettuce.
*

Not

lupine, but

p 2

228

IIERBARIXTM
leje
linn

nam

nytenbum

unbeji

hij-

pyle

he by);

jelioeleb.

]/.

JOpejihpette.

cxv.
'j

^laterium\ probably meant by the draw-

Deof

pyjit \q

man cucumepem

naman
j^^

lipejilipette

yiluaricum nemne)? by)? cenneb*^ neali

piS potable

oj^jium
*j

fse

on

mg,
foi.

Mto. v.,

stopum. J

49

c.

pi'6 J^sepa**

pma^ sape

'j

jenim^ pyptpalan

pypte ]?e pe cucumejiem pilpaticum nembun ^ peoS on ele to )?]iibban b?ele fmype^ J^seji mib.^ Gip cilb mipbopen \y ^enun ^yj'j'e }dcan p}^]ite pypttjiuman to pjnbban^^ b?ele jepobenne^^ J^peali "Sonne
J^yppe

pypte pa^ptm paeptenbe becymS to ppeanyppe^"* po]\ Sy^^jehpu J>ijeS^^ hyt hine pophaebbe p he hi^^ na }:aeftenbe ete.
p
cilb })8epmib^^
"j

jyp hpa

]?yppe

liun

y'.

lOenep^^
]?e

.j.

Canuere.

cxvi.
pilpatica
'j

Deos pypt

man

cannane^^
by]?

o]?jnim

naman
stopum

henep^^ nemnej?

cenneb^^ on pij)epjia3bvim

pi6 pejap* ^ hejas.^^

pj^jite

Pi6 ];8e]ia^^ bpeopta pape jenim })ap rem^^ piluaticam jecnucube^* mib pyple
bpeoftan^^ heo
topejie);
]3

cannato
J^am

leje

jefpel

"j

jyp

paeji^^ l^pylc

jejabepunj

bi]?

heo

]7a

apeopmaj?.

PiS cile baepnettep jennn }>yppe ylcan pypte pseptm^' mib netelan psebe jecnucubne^^ ^j mib ecebe "^eyeYeh"^^
leje to ]?am sape.^^

'

j-ina,

-bum, H. H.

'^

pele,

H.
II.
'

caenneb, H. B.
II.;

hajia,

B. B.

able.'

Senim,
i"
''

-bun,
B.

-bon, B.

Tmyjia, B.
'-

"haji, B.; J>8ejimib, II.

13
'"

Jjpibbsele,

" -bene, H. B.

>aji,

H. B. haenep, B., by
"Sise^,

'^ yoptJis, B. ' his, ^^ niKcnerre, B. '^ cannaue, B.; in H. glossed "wilde henep. later hand.
-'"

'^
'^-

heenep, B.
j^apa,

B.

'^3

caenneb, H. B. cannauem, B, (that

'" l^aji,

^'

V. omits the two

'^*
'-"

last

words.

is

cannabim.)
j'sefcm,
'-''

-cabe, H.;

Secnocobe, B,

-'"

-cu, B.
;

B.

H.
B.

~^

-cube, H,

and v., before correction

j;ecnocobne, B.

-ju')*-,

^" Xi\]^^,

H.

APVLEII.
lay
it
;

229

for

liim,

witliout

liis

knowing

it,

under

liis

Lettuce.
Art. cxiv.

pillow

he will be healed.

Wherwhet.
1.

cxv.

Cucumber.
cucumis
silvaticus,

Cucumis.

This wort, which

is

named

and by another name wherwhet, is produced nigh the sea, and in hot places. 2. For sore of the sinews and for gout, take roots of this wort, which we named cucumis silvaticus, seethe in oil to a third part smear therewith. 3. If a child be misborn, a partus ahortivus, take roots of this same wort, sodden to a third part, then wash the child therewith and if any one eateth fruit of this wort, fasting, it cometh to mischief to him,
;

'^

therefore
eat
it

let

every one withhold himself so

that he

not fasting.

Hemp,
1.

or Cannabis.^
is

cxvi.
silvatica,

c.sativa?

This wort, which

named cannabis

and

^'

by another name hemp, is produced in rough places and against ways and hedges. 2. For sore of the breasts, take this wort cannabis silvatica, pounded with grease, lay it to the breasts it removes the swelling; and if any gathering be
there, it purges it
3.

away.
<^

For a chill of burning, that is, a blistering or inflaming by cold, take fruit of this same wort, pounded with seed of a nettle, and soaked with
vinegar; lay
it

to the sore.

^^

A mistaken
is,
:

interpretation

" et inde se sublavet," Lat.,

that
^

of course, the puerpera.

MS. V. draws Eupatoriitin cannahinum (H.), known as hemp agrimony that may therefore he the herb meant, but MS. T. draws hemp (fol. 40 a).
c

Frigorc

exiistis,

Lat.

230

HERBARIVM

])'.

Rube.

CXVII.
*j

Deos naman^

pyjit

\>e

man putam montanam

puban
nemnej)
byj>

o)7jmm

)?am
'j

jelice

cenneb^ on

bunum

on unbejanum fuopum. pi6 eajena bymnyppe*^ ^j piS yfele bolh jenim )?yfre ])ypte leap )7e pe putam montanam nenibun'* on ealbum pine jepobene bo ]?onne on an jl^epen paet: Imype^
fy)?j7an ]?ep

mib:-^

bpeopta sape jenim ]?ap y^^^^ VYV^^ putam piluaticam cnuca on tpypenan^ paete )7onne spa my eel ppa Su mib Spim pmjjion^ jejpipan mseje bo On^^ an pset ^j Jjsep^^ to anne^^ pcenc^^ pmef tpejen paetepep syle bpmcan jepepue liyne ]70nne "j pume hpile sona he by8 hgel.^* PiS lipep sape jenim )?yppe ylcan pypte anne^^
pi J?
fepa'^

mm

3]iipan

'j

o)7epne

healpne

sestep

psetepep

*j

ealppa

my eel
bajap

liunijep

pyll^^

tosomne

pyle

ma
]5

-^yy

him

)7eapp sy

]7U

bpmean f>py^^ hine miht jehaelan.

piS

man

pypte pute
peeneeap^*^
pyll eal

jemijan^ ne maeje jenim )?yiT^ ylean piluatiee nijon ftelan^^ 'j psetepep Spy
*j

enuea topomne^^
sj^le

eeebes

healpne

peftep

topomne

bpmean

smjalliee

nijon bajap

he byS jehseleb.^^
neebpan^^ plite

Pi6

]78epe^^

6e

man
j5

pcoppiup hatej

jenim

)?yppe ylcan

pypte

sseb

pute piluatice enuca on

sap.

pine syle

bpmean hyt

jeliSija)?^^

namon, B, nembon, B. " pngpun, H.

'

'^

ca&nneh, H. B.
^ J^aji,

-nejje, B.
'

'

nenbun, V.;
**

'

fmypa, B.
'"

B.
'-

t)apa, B,

-num,
fceenc,

II.

on,
'
'

H.

"

I>a]i,

B.
'

seiine, II.

B.

'^ '^

B.

^ '^

hal,

B.

senne,
'*

B.

pyl,

H.

^jus,

B.

Se, B. omits,

in

-' -" fcrenca]-, B. H. The penman V. omitted seven words, and in supplying them put the usual caret

ftelan,

dots before jyle.

'^^

gehseleb, B.

'^'^

l>ape,

B.

-'

nsebpan,

H,

"

-esa, B.

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231

BUE-^1.

CXVII.

Bula montana.
Bot.

This wort, which

is

by another name like that, and in uncultivated places. 2. For dimness of the eyes and for an evil cut, take leaves of this wort, which we named ruta montana,
sodden in old wine, then put the extract into a glass
vessel
3.
;

named ruta montana, and rue, is produced on downs

afterwards anoint with the fluid.

For sore of the breasts, take the same wort ruta silvatica, pound it in a wooden vat then take as much as thou may grip with three fingers, put it into a vessel, and thereto one draught of wine and two of water, administer to drink; let him rest himself then for some while soon he will be whole. 4. For liver sore, take one grip of this same wort and one sextarius and a half of water, and just as
;

much
days,
5.

of honey, boil together,

give to drink for three

;

more
nine

if to

him need be

In case that a
stiels

man may
stalks

thou mayest heal him. not mie, or pass %vater,

this

take

silvatica,

same wort ruta and of water three draughts, pound together,

or
of
boil all together,
;

and add a half sextarius of vinegar,

be healed.

administer to drink constantly for nine days

he will

For wound by the venomous creature which is called a scorpion, take seed of this same wort ruta silvatica, pound it in wine, give it to drink it re6.
;

lieves the sore.

I see

no likeness between the herb and the drawings.

See

art. xci.

232

HERBARIVM

Scofen^

leajre.

CXVIII.

Deos pypt
}:oluim
byj?

"pe

man
*j

nemneS

eptajnlon ^ oSjium naman ]feptieac~ yume men seofenleajre*'^ hatacS

cenneb'*

on^ bejanum

j'topnm

'j

on

panbipim

lanbum.
Pi6 pot able jennn ]7ap p}']^te peptipolinm jecnucube^ "j pi(S cpoli jemen^cjebe ^ fmype^ 'Sonne J)a per

mib J>am pose

)?y

Spybban bseje hyt ^ sap jenime)?.

COifrel.

cxix.

PiS lieapob ece jenim j^ap pypte )7e man ocimum 'j oSjium naman ^ mifcel nemne]? cnnca mib jiosan^^ pose
o8Se^^ pyptpipep^^ oSSe^^
platan.^^

mib ecebe leje to ]7am anbjefpel cnnca

]7a

6pt^* piS eajena sape^^

hy^^ jehselft.

-j

6ap
)?8ep

pylpan
mib^^

pypte^^ on ^obum^^ pine pmype^^

]7U

eajan^^

Pi6 iebpena pape^^ bo

Sees seples
j^e

j5

sylpe syle

bpmcan on
nemne]?.

jniibc

man malum jpanatum

COepce.^^

cxx.
S^fpel

Pi5 catena ^*
O. condenses

sape^'^

'j

piS

mm

Sap

pj^jite ]7e

man appium

"j

oSpum naman mepce nemne]?

]ei:^e

pel je-

cnucube^^ mib hlape

to J^am eajon.

'

feojon,

B.
*'

eac,

H.

feo)on, H.
''

caenneb, H. B.
^

^
"

on,

H.

?;ecnocobe,
'"

H.

-mseng-, B.
bis.
'
\>a.
'-'

iinyp^) B.

naraa, O.

rofe,

O.

" oS'Ser, O.,

'*

-rreoj^ef, O.

'^anp-, 0.

" Cafe, O.
'^

for,
'"

O.

pyjite, II.; jjyrt, O.

-''

" Soban, B. O.
inib,

fniyj^a,
-'

B.
B.
f^j

fmera
-"-

eajena, 0.
-^

>8ep-

H.;

>aji,

B.
^4

hi?;,

^ajie,

H.
2:.

apiu mepc, B.,

26

in later

hand.

_^^^

q^

13^

pj^e^

jj^

^p.

cnocobe, B.

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233

SEVENLEAF.a1.

CXVIII.

Setfoll.

TormentiUa,

and by another name septifolium, and which also some men call sevenleaf, is produced in cultivated places, and on sandy lands. 2. For gout, take this wort septifolium, pounded and
This wort,

which

is

named

kiTTtx^vWov,

mingled with
ooze
;

saffron,

smear then
it

the feet with

the

by

tlie

third

day

taketh

away

the sore.
CUnopodinm
viilgare.

MiSTLE, nOlV BasiU^

1.

CXIX.

Bot.

For head ache, take this wort, which is named ooxi{ji.ov, and by another name mistle, pound it with ooze of rose or of myrtle, or with vinegar lay it to
;

the forehead.

Again same wort

2.

for sore

and swelling of
wine, smear the

eyes,

pound

this

in good

eyes therewith

thou shalt heal them. 3. For sore of kidneys, do the same; give to drink with rind of the apple which is called malum granatum or pomegranate.

MARCHE.c

CXX.

Aphmpetrograveolens ?

For sore and for swelling of eyes, take this wort, which is called apium, and by another name marche, lay this to the eyes. well pounded with bread
;

The drawings put the herb in an unnatural stiff attitude. The drawings seem to intend that wort. MS. Bodley, 130, lias " mistil 8peci (?) birunt (dicunt) basilice." The plant
^

drawn

is

clearly not mistletoe

more

like " veronica becca-

buuga." (H.)

cin MS. Bodley, 130, the gloss is '' Stanmarch, StanThe drawings in MS. V., fol. 50 d, MSS. G. T. A., raerche."
arc
little like.

234

HERBARIVT^r

YjTij.

cxxi.
cpj^focantep
*j

Deos

pyj^t
ifij

)?e

man hebepam
ij^

oSpum
popSy^

naman
]}e

nemnej?

jecpeben
jelice.

cjiyfocantep

heo byjiS copn^ jolbe

PiS pa3tep yeocnyype jenim }>yffe j^ypte tpentij copna^ jnib on anne'^ pej^tep yiney ^ op J^ain pine syle bpmcan J^py'* pcenceap^ peopon bajas peo un-

tpiimnyp^ Suph

J>one niijSan

byS aiblub7

cxviii.,

MS.V.
^]}i^ teteji
'j

CUinte.

CXXII.
lic'^

pypyljenbe^

jemm

SyJT^ pyp'^^^^

peap

]>e

man mentam

mmtan nemneS
eaP'*

^ ]7am jelice o]?]ium naman bo J^onne ]?aepto^^ ppepeP^ ^ eceb cnuca

pe)7epe^^

tosomne'^ fmype^^ mib nipe

pona p pap

^elibijaS.^^

Ijyp ypele bolh

f>ap

oS6e pimba on heapbe^^ pyn ^enim

ylcan

pyj^te

mentam
jehrele]?.

jecnucube'^^

leje

to

);am

punbum^^ heo hy^^

Dile.

CXXIII.

piS jic^an
pyjite
)?e^^

"j

pib

pa]\
-j

]7sej\a.^'^

jepceapa^^ jenim pap

man anetum

o];]ium

naman

byle nemne]?
menjc^*^

baepn to bupte

mm

tosomne

be]?a sejiept

^ bupt -j p pap mib peetepe^^

]7onne

liunij

J^peah py]7)7an^-

'

yoji^iS, B.

"^

H. omits from cojm

B.

to

cojina.
'

'^

eenne, B.

)>piS,

B.

rcsencaj-,
b.
fjiejjel,

"

-nej-,

B.

-lab, B.

O. alters

a
'2

little, fol. 1 1

= 54
'^

pipli?;-,
'^

B.

lie,

H.
'^

" pyrt, O.
to gabera,
'**

)>ap,

B.

O.
'"

eal, II. omits.

j-y'b'epe,
;

().

'"
'"

j-mejia,

B.; -e, O,

mib anpe

B.

ane,

().

-e5a"S, B.

on heafebon, O.
his,
;

""

Secnocabe, B., so
^4

-caba, O.

-'

jmba, O.

"

B.

^^

>apa, B.

_pa^

ix.,
;

glossed pintel, a French word,

-without
ge,
-'*

penis
'5a,

V. has the termination

'^"

illegible

O.

"

j'yrr

O.

m8en?;c, 11. B.

"

j^acere,

O.

j-yShan, H.; hreaj'

fean, O.

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235

IVY/^
mi
1.

CXXI.

Hedera
/

poetica,

This

wort,

wliicli

is

111 named hedera

is

^pvaoxafnoc,

Encyclop. // helix. Bot.

and by another name

cause
2.

ivy,

called

chrysocarpus, be-

it

beareth grains like to gold.^

For water sickness or dropsy, take twenty grains of this wort, rub theim in a sextarius of wine, and of the wine administer to drink three draughts for seven days. The infirmity will be annulled by means of the
urine.

MlNT.
1.

CXXI I.

Against tetter and a pimply body, take juice of this wort, which is named mentha, and by another

name
pound

like that, mint,

all

add thereto sulphur and vinegar, together, smear with a new feather soon it
;

relieves the sore.

2.

If

ill

cuts or

same wort menta,

healeth them.

wounds be on the head, take this pounded, lay to the wounds it

;

DlLL.d
1.

OXXIII.

Anethum graveolens.

Bot.

For

itch,

and

for

sore

of the
is

shapes,
avY,Qov,

or the

verenda, take this wort, with

named

and by

another

name

dill,

burn

to

dust, then
first

take the dust

and honey, mingle together;

bathe the sore with

From

the drawings, which are unlike

one another, no

conclusion arises.

Grana. Lat. The ivy which adorned the staff and temples of Bacchus had golden berries Plin. (xvi. 62.) Dioskorides (ii. 210.) Theokritos (Epigr. iii. o tov KpoKoevra
^
;

The drawings may do

for

some of the mints,

as

M.

ar-

vensiSf before the

^

appearance of the flowers.

The drawings intend such a plant. " will do very well for Dill." (H.)

That

in

MS. V.

236

HERBARIVM
^

mib peajimum pyjitpypenum

iiunje^ J^septo.*
G}^p
)7onne'^

pope leje ponne^

fpylcep
]7one
bejiije
p^'^F^^^

J7a

lac-

pipmen

hpaet

bo hype
Isecebom

man^ ppam hype

)7yepe^ yy^J^^Q

bypp)?inene

fe pe nu^ hep bepopan'^ cprebon. Pi6 heapob ece jenim J^yppe ylcan )?y)ite blofrman^^ peoS mib ele pmype^^ ^a^^ J^unponja^'^ "j^^ jeppiS^^ p
heapob.

Opjane.
^^Deop pypt
]>e

cxxiv.
"j

man opijanum
ip

oSpum naman

Jmni

hattpe jecynbe^^ 'j spyShcjie heo ^elc ypel blob ^j )?8ene^*^ 'j heo jebpseceo ut atryhS -j bpopan ^epylbe)? 'j heo py]? nyppet^^ *j hpep peocum
jehce opjanan nemne]?
pel ppemaS.^^

piS jebpaBceo
etan
)7U

jemm

]7ap

ylcan pypte^^ opjanan pyle

punbpafc hype ppempiiln\^pperSmpulle.^^

CXXV.

PiS ealle je^abepunja^^ ])s&y ypelan psetan op J^am lichoman^^ jenim ]7ap pyptre ])e man pempepumum "j oSpum naman pmpulle nemne]? 'j ]^yple "j hlap 'j coli-

anbpan cnuca

eal

topomne

]^am

jelice

j^e

Su

clyj^an

pypce leje to ]?am pape.

Fmol.
pi6
jebppeceo
J>e
*j

cxxvi.

pyS

nyppyt jenun
peniculum
'j

]>yppe

pyjite

pypttpnman

man

oSjium

naman

'

-treoj-, O.

hona, O.
"

'

lacnunj;e, 11.
"

-un?;a, B.
;

'

^ap,
**

15.

O.

^
'

hanan, O.
before, O.
'"

mon, H.
'*

hape, B.

)>ara,

O.
''^
''

nu, B.

blopnan, B.

'

^iiypa, B.
J^ar

0. inserts >ano.
sejwr^', 0.

'^

'Sunponsan, H.
O., fol. 16 b, condenses. -yvc, O.
J^eof j>err,
^"

O. inserts

mib.

"'
'"
-'

fpama'S,
^'-

II.

'" j^one, B.; " -cuiib-, O. )>ane, O. Most of this paragraph is eaten away in V.

O.

jpam-,

II.;

-no]*j*e,B.

1 hure

Isececrafre, O. adds.

APVLEII.

237

witli

water,

subsequently

wash with
sort

warm

myrtle

Dill.
it.

tree wash, then lay the sanative preparation thereto.

2.
If,

cxxm,

next,

any thing of the

as

annoy a woman,

let

the same leechclom of the wort be applied to her

by her midwife,
3.

we

here before said.

For head ache, take blossoms of this same wort, seethe with oil, smear the temples, and wreathe the
head.

Organ Y,^ Marjorano.

1.

cxxiv.
o^s/yavov,

Origanum
(jure.

vui-

Bot.

and by another name like that, organy, is of a hot and vehement nature, and it draweth out cough, and it overmastereth all evil blood and wrist drop, and it is very beneficial against oppression of the chest, and
This
wort,

which

is

named

for the liver sick.

For cough, take this same wort origanum, give to eat thou wilt wonder at its beneficial effect.
2.
;

SlNFULL,b HoUSeleeh.

CXXV.

Sempervivum

For

all

gatherings

of

the
is

body, take this wort, which

humour from the named semper vivum,

ill

and by another name sinfull, and lard, and bread, and coriander, pound all together in the manner in which thou wouldst work a poultice lay it to the sore.
;

Fennel.c
1
.

cxxvi.

,; f Anethum jceni.
.
.

For cough and for oppression of the breast, take roots of this wort, which is named foeniculum, and by

^"^""'-

^^f-

The drawings make

See glossary and

the herb umbellate.

^
c

art.

xlix.
is

Anethum fceniculum

intended by the drawings.

-^

Semperviua, fmfulle

"t

fingrene. Jouif barba, O.

-unge, H.

-^

-ham an,

B.

238
izmul nemne];

HERBARIVM
cnuca

on pme bjimce^ p?eftenbe nijou

bajap.

jenim j^yj'fe ylcan pyp'^^e J?e pe pemculum nemdun anne^ jjiipan fpa jpene^ -j mepcep pyprcjiuman jjienne -j eojiS napolan pyjitpuman jpene* bo on anne^ nipne^ cpoccan -j psetepep anne^ pepreji pulne pyl topomne to peopSan bgele bpmce )7onne pjeptenbe peopon bajap o])]>e ma'^ *j he b^ej^ep^ bpuce na ppa )7eah colep ne he colne psetan ficje buran^ ylbmcje psepe^^ blsebbpan pap byS jehSijob.^^
PiS blaebpan
j^ajie

Lib

pyjvt.

cxxvii.
*j

Deop pypt
nemnej>
by]?

)?e

man

epipion

o}>j\um

naman h6 pypt
]^

on pjianclanbe on ]mm munte J>e man popactip hate); heo h^epS mejicep jehcnyppe -j heo hapaS bloptman peabne ppylce cseppe^^ *j heo hapaj> peopon p^^pttpuman "j fpa pela fcelena "j heo hy^* TJ^F^ tobpsebeS on unbejanum ptopum -j na on psetum^^ heo byj> eelcon timan blopenbe'^
jalha
ip
j

cenneb^^ pypmept

heo hapaS pgeb ppylce beana.

lunjen

Pi)?

able

jenim
]?e

J^ap

oube^^ )7am

jelice

J>u
^^

cly]7an

pypte epipion jecnupypce leje to J>am

pape heo hit ^ehaele)?

pyjite pyle

mm

J^onne f pos jnyye pylpan

)?9ep

bpmcan

]7U

punbpaft

msejenep^^ l^yrr^

pypte.

'

bpice, B., error.

^

'^

-bon s&nne, B.
*

'

Sjienne, H. B.
n.,

*
'

B. omits five words.

eenne, B., t\\ace.

"

on anne claenne
'"

H.

ma, B.

"

be'5s,
'-

H.

bucon, B.
'^

>ape, B.
'^

" -esob, B.
' '"

csenneb,
'

H. B.

cepse,
'^

H. B.

his, B.

on unjiaetmn, H.

blop-, B.

secnobe, B.

' -l^S,

B.

msegnej', B.

APVLEII.

239
in

another

name

fennel,

pound

wine

let

him drink

Fennel.
'^'**-

tasting for nine days.

^^^^^1-

For sore of bladder, take a handful so green of this same wort, which we named foeniculum, and a green root of marche, and a green root of earth navel,
2.

or asparagus, put
X>ot,

themii into full

new

crock, or earthen

and a sextarius

of water,

boil

them together
;

to the fourth part.

Let him

drink then, fasting, for

seven days or more, and

let him use the bath not however, the cold hath, nor let him taste cold liquid without delay the sore of the bladder will be miti-

gated.

LiTHEWORT.
1.

CXXVII.

This
that

wort,

which
the

is
is

named
the

eriphia,^

and

by
in

another
Gaul,

name
is,

lithewort,

produced
It

principally

in
is

land of

Franks,

on the
^^

moimtain which

called
it

ness of marche, and

hath the likehath a red blossom as cress,

Soracte.^

and
ones,

it

hath seven
it is

spreadeth itself

and

and it in uncultivated places, and not on wet blossoming at every time, and it hath
roots,

and

as

many

stalks

seed like beans.

wort erifia, pounded in which thou mightest work a poultice, lay it to the sore, it will heal it take then the wash of this same wort, administer it to drink thou wilt wonder at the virtue of this wort.
2.

For lung

disease, take this

the manner

in

a Plin.,

xxiv. 103.

^ Soracte is near
c

Rome.

Syra, ed. 1528, Lat.

cress,

Understand, blossom like

but red.

240
])'.

HERBARIVM
]Oaly pypr.
]?ap

cxxviii.

pypte ])e man pmpitum album "j oJ?pum naman halp pypt^ nemnej? jebjiije hy^ -j cnuca tospij^e pmalan bupte s}4e bjimcan on pme pona heo }?a plepsan jeppiS.
PiS
pipe]'

pleppan jenim

y\

Peteji

pilie.

cxxix.

Dap p5^pte^ man tjnannem j o}>pum naman petpopelmum nemne]? *j eac* hy^ sume men J>am jelice
petejipilie hate)?.

PiS nsebbpan plite jenun op Syppe pj'P'te petpopelini fpyj^e fmsel bupt anep pcillmjef jepilite pyle bpmcan

on pine
punbe.

mm

Sonne

]?a

pypte jecnucube^ leje to

ylcan

]??epc'

yip Ssepa pina sape jenim

J>ap

pj'pte petjiojeliJujacS^^

pelmum jepunube^
p
paji )?aepa^^

leje

to J>am pape

lieo

pma.
p'.

Capel.^^

cxxx.
J'yppe

Pi5

ealle

jeppell

jennn

pypte

cjioppap

j>c

man

bpapj'icam

piluaticam

oSpum naman
]?icne^^

cauU^

nemne)? cnuca mib ealbon

leje to

jiyj'le

jemencj^^ Sonne fpylce

Imenne^^ claS

Su clySan pypce bo on^^ anne^^

pam

pajie.
Jpap

PiS piban pape jenim

ylcan

]'yptc bjiappicam

'

halfpypt, H. omits; see glossary.

his,

B.
*

jiypt ^e,
'^

II.,
\\.

spoiling the sense.

^

Read triennem,
'

triennial.

eac,

H.
'"

hij,

gecnocobe, B.
)>a]ia,
'*

J>ape,

B.
'^

)>apa,

B.
by

"

-nobe, B.

-egat), B.
'^

" I'sepa, H.;

B,

pilbe capul, B.,

;

later
'*

hand.

capel,

H. B.
''

gemsencs, H.
'^

-msenj, B.

on,

H.

'"

eenne, B.

J>ynne, thin,

H.

linene, B.,

by sound.

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241
Art. cxxvlii.

HALSWORT."'

CXXVIIT.
this

For

womans

flux,

take

wort,

wliicli

is

named

(tvixi^utov,

sympliytuni album, which

i^
;

common

com,fre]i,

pound it soon in wine

;

dry and and by another name lialswort to very small dust, administer it to drink
it

stops the flnx.

Parsley.^'
1.

oxxix.

Aphm
and by
call

petm^e-

This

wort

is

named
and
also

triennis,^

another
\i

name

7r=Tpo(rs\ivov,

some men

by

name

like that, parsley.

Draiving of a snaJce. 2. For bite of adder, take some very small dust of this wort jDarsley, by weight of a shilling, give it to drink in wine then take and lay to the wound the wort pounded. 8. For sore of th.e sinews, take this same wort
;

pvarsley,

pounded,

la}^

it

to

the sore

it

will

relieve

the sore of the sinews.

COLE.^
.

cxxx.
f,
. ,

^,^,,,.,^
napuft.

Bet.

1.

For

all swellings,

take heads of this wort, which

is

named

brassica silvatica,

and by another name

cole,

pound it with old fat, then mingle, as thou wouldst work a poultice, put it on a thick linen cloth lay it
;

to the sore.
2.

For sore of

side,

take this same wort brassica

Symphytum
v.,
fol.

officinale

is

not

what the
lxiii.
;

figure

means,

MS.
it

52

b,

wliich shows fraxinus excelsior (H.)

Was

Dictamnns alba ? hut that occurs art. ^ Parsley is drawn in MS. A., fol. 53 a
v., fol. 52
a.
^

but caricatured in

MS.

Sir

Wm. Hooker,
as-

British Flora, p. 136, marks Petroseliniim

sativum
^

biennial

and P. segettim
drawn.

as annual or bienniah

Brassica napus

is

242
yiluaticam leje to

TtERBARIVM
]?am

yape fpa
sylpan

jemencjeb^ ppa ye

hep bejzopan^ cp?ebon. PiS potable jenim

]?a

];ap

pypte^ bpapjncam on
'j

ylcaii

pipan

]>e

pe

aep

cpiBbon^

ppa pe l?ecebom
'j

ylbpa

bv]>

ppa

lie

pceapp"'''

numulpa^'

lialpenbpa'

Naebbep pypt.
The
figure in

cxxxi.
*j^

Deop pypt
pypt
peo
"pte]!^^

J?e

man

bapilipca

MS.V.,fc^53a, ^g^^o
curia,

nemne]^^^
nsebpe
.

by J?
]?e

a Tana-

byj>

oSpum naman naebcenneb^^ on Sam ptopum man )?am ylcan naman

^"^

rXL^ParS^'- ^^^^^^ bapilipcup

nium (H.), with
tAvined^about the root.

nyp heopa cyn an ac hi^* pmbon J^peopa cynna ^n yp olocpypeip f ip on ujie J^Seobe jecpeben f heo eall jolbe pcme -^^ Sonne ^^ ip oSep cyn fcillatup f ip on^'' upe jej^eobe^ bpoppali seo ys fpylce heo jylbenum'^ heapbe py ^ Spibbe^^^ cyn yp panjmneuf f ip blobpeab eac^^ ppilce heo jylben on heapbe^^ py ealle^'^ Sap cyn^* peop pypt bapilipca haepS ]?onne jyp hpa^^ ]?ap pypte mib hma^^ hapaS ]?onne ne^^ maej him nan S^^ppa^^ n?ebbep cynna bepian peo popme najbbpe olocpyppup ip jenemneb^^ cpipeop peo
pitoblice

ppa hppet ppa^^ heo

cepalup aftepitep

jepihS heo
ip

toblaepS

-j

ansele]?

^^^

Sonne peo ofep ptillatup

poSlice

jecpeben cjvypo-

J^eop

ppa^"^
'^^

hpsGt ppa^'^ heo jepyliS

]?onne ip peo Spibbe'*^^ jehyt poppcpincS -j jepite]? nemneb hematitep 'j cpypocepalup pjni hpaet^^ ppa''" Seop jepyhS oJ>J>e hpepeS*''^ hyt toplepS ppa Saet faep''^^ nan piht belipe]?*^ buuon*^ J?a ban J^onne^^ haapS ]?eop

'

sj'd

sem8encj;eb,

11.
'
''

-ma&nj;-, B.

bc'iojian, II.
"

vS'P'^f ^f'

*
'^

cjjaebon, B.

sceajipppa,
nsebbre, O.

H.
'"

-mel-, B.

-bjia, II.

an for

-j,

O.

-na'??, 0.,

and then the sentence

" cainneb,
II.

breaks
'- )ja]i,

off.

B. O.

Also it condenses what folloMS. '^ namun, H. " hi^, B.

^'

B.

^'

eal

\>a.

golb feme)?, O.
'-'"

'
-'

t^an,

on, II.
IT.

'

se, O. omits.

'"

-nun, O.
'-'

)rmbe,
;

().

blobpeab eac,
byfra, 0.

--

heafeban, O.
-^

j-y eall,

H.

ealla,
-''

O.

-*

cynne, O., and condenses.

-"

hj'a, II.

B.

-'"

on him, O.
^"

na, O.

28

senembeS.-' 0., for

iy S-

hel pat, O. (for eal).

APVLEIT.

24n
so

silvatica,

lay

it

to

the

sore

mixed,

as

we

liere

Cole.
^'''
''''''''

l^efore said.

same wort brassica, in tlie same manner as we before said, and the older the leeehdom is, the more efficacious and healing it is.
3.

For gout, take

this

Adder wort,
1.

cxxxi.
/3ao'/A/(r;c>j,

This

wort,

which
is,

is

named
is
is

and by
places

another

name adderwort,
which
;

produced
is

in

the

where the adder

^u<TiXl<TKog.

named by the same name

not one
sort,
is,

Verily of them, there

but
said

they are of three Idnds

in

one

is

6Xo^pv(rog,
all
is

that

our language, that

as if it

it

shineth

with gold; then

in

there

is anotlier sort stellatus, that

;

our tongue,
sort

spotted
is

it is

had a golden head.

blood red
;

The third

sanguineus, that

is,

it also

may

be golden

on the head. All these kinds this wort basilisca hath. If then, one hath this wort with him, none of these kinds of snakes may do him harm. The first snake oKo^pva-og, is named p^^pucsoj it bloweth upon and setteth on fire, whatsoever it seeth. Next the other, stellatus, is truly denominated ^pua-oKefaXog uG-TspiTYis as to this one,'^ whatsoever it seeth, shrinketh up and perishes.
;

Next, the third

is

named

alj^ar/ry]?

and

^pv(Toxi(puXog
it

whatsoever

this

one

seeth

or

toucheth,

flowetli

away, so that nought there remains but the bones. This wort basilisca then hath the all powers of them.

nominative thus put absolute

is

not

uncommon

at the

])eginning of a sentence.

s'

onaeletJ, B.

onael^, O.
""

^2

j.p^ jj.
^^ hj^sec,
=*

^'^

el

f, O. (for eal).

3^

forp-, O.

beo )>ribban, 0.

B.
B.
^^

"

^al ),ac
b.,

feo,
*^

O.

^-pa, B.; O. omits.

*-

>ajj,

ne

bucon, H.

t>anua, 0.

Q 2

244
pyjit:

TTERBARTVM
bapilifci
ealle
Inm''^

heojia

frpenjSa*' ;^yF ^WY^^

'^^^^^^

V^r VyV^^' ^^^^

tpiim.

hapaS ]n^
jelic

eall na^bbeji C}'n^ lie bi))

peos
fpylce

p.ypt:

yy puban

'j

lieo

hsefS

meolc peabe
peabe^ bloyt-

celibome
*j

"j

lieo

hfepS

polcen'"'
]>y^^^
lie

hyne pylfne mib peolfjie 'j clsenpie^' 'j mib heoptef hopne^* 'j mib ylpen^^ bane'^ 'j mib bapep*^ truxe^^ 'J mib peajijiep'^ liopne ^j mib biiiiijf ;^eppette*^ pa^ptmap J>jTpp^' onbutan^- ^elecje.
inan
^^

pe

J>e^

liy^

niman'^

hy^^ beppite^^ mib jolbe

'j

CQanbpajopa.
The manKhaped figure true enough. See Flora
Grgeca, plate
is

cxxxii.

'^''Deop

p5'P'c^

J^e

man-* manbjiajopam
-j

nemne);

yp

heo yp ppempul *'^ Sa ]>u pcealu pyppiun jemete niman ]7onne ]m ro bype cymfu
*j

my eel

mrejie on^^ jepilij^e

232.

]70Dne

onjift^''

J7U

hy^^

be ]?am
]?u

])e

heo on nihte"^

pcmeS

eal

ppa^^

leoht pset^^ ]?onne

Su hype^^ heapob
hpaj^e
raib

fepept jepeo'*^ J^onne^* beppit:

liy^^ pel

ipepne^^

j;y

la?p

heo

fe

a3tpleo

bype mse^en yp ppa

my eel

"j

ppa msepe p heo unela3nne

pel

man
mib
ppa

]?onne'*'^

he to
J;u

hype eymej)^^
]>i\^^

hpafe'^^

poppleon*^ pyle popSy*^

ipejme*'^
-j

]iy*~ beppit**^ ppa

pe

cep

cpflebon*"*

ppa

peeal"

onbutan*^ hy*^ belpan

'^'^

]?am ipepne"*^ na ?ethpine

bu hype mib ac ]m jeojmlice j'eealt: mib

belpan

ylpenbanenon'^^

fcsepe

6a ^^ eojiSan

"j

];onne^*'^

pu hype hanba^^ j

hype pet

jepeo"^'"

]>onne jeppiS"'^

'

fcpsens^a, H.
is right,

jyrc,

O.
'"

"

him, H.
"

cyn, H.
'

"

role, H.,

which

welk

is

murex.
O.
hilpen, 0.
'"

reaban, 0.

>e

\>t,

O.

his, B.
fie,
^''

nyman, H.; nime, 0.

'-

blofman, B. " -nps^. B.;

beajisep,

elaenne, II.; clsene

'^ '^
-
'-''

his,

B.
'"

'^

beprihe, O., wreathe.

'

hopne, B.
B.
="
="^

bane,

II.
-"

cuxle, H. B.; cpuxe, 0.

J>ap,

yeappe)*,
fol.

H.

sej'wcte, v^etted,
-*

H. H.
II.

"

-ton, B.
II.

-^

O.
-'

11

=54
II.

condenses.
-

man,

on,

H.
O.
B. B.
;

-" j-]i8emj:ul,

onsicfr,

his, B.

="

niht, O.
ban, O.

3" fo,

leohfffiC,

O.
*"
^'

hure, 0.
=

'^

sereo, B.
II.
s

3^
**

his,

yfene,

().

ban, O.

cym'S,
^-'

hpa-Se,

H.

-].leon,

forlsete,

O.

}opis, B.

his, B.

bepyrft, O.

APVLEIl.
If

245
lihii;

any man hath

all

this

wort

with

he

is

secure Ai^der wort.

^^^- ^^^^'

against

kinds of snakes.

2.

Tliis Avort is like rue,

and

it

hath red milk like

;

celandine,

and

it

hath purple blossoms

and

let

him

and let iiim inscribe it with gold, and with silver, and with harts horn, and with ivory, and Avitli bears tusk, and Avith bulls horn, and let liim lay tliere about fruits sweetened
will take it cleanse himself,

who

with honey.

Mandrake.^
1.

CXXXII.
y^avlpuyopac, is
it
it,

Atropamandnujora,

Bot.

This wort, which

illustrious

is

named
and
take

mickle

and
slialt

of aspect,

is

beneficial.

Thou
comest
that
it

in

this

manner

when thou
it

to

it,

then thou
at
its

nnderstandest

by
thou
its

this,

shinetli

night altogether like a lamp.

head,
it

When
it

first

thou seest
\v\i\\

then inscribe

instantly
is

iron,

lest

fly

from thee
it

virtue

so

immediately fiee from an unclean man, when he cometh to it hence, as we before said, do thou inscribe it with iron, and so shalt thou delve about it, as that thou touch it not with the iron, but thou shalt earnestly with an ivory staft* delve the earth. And when thou seest its hands and its feet, then tie thou it up. Then take the
will
;

mickle and so famous, that

This

it

in the Latin text the last article.

In the drawings
:

the root

is

man

mans shoulders
is

MS. V. adds a dog from the grow some leaves. In MS. G. is more clearly
in

shape

represented, the pulling of the dog at the root,

to

which

it

attached by a chain.

*'

cpgebon, B.;

cjjabii,

O.
5e, U.

'^

ifene, O.
-o

^^

l^an }ju,

0.

*'

-cou, B.;
^^ yfeo.''

-ce, O.

"*hiK, B.
^-

'Xylene, O.
^'

letjiine,
^*

B.

^'-bain-, H.;

-baenenan, B. O.
J?anc,

l^ane,

O.

lianbe, O.

O.

^"^

Sej'yr'j 0.

246
]m
liy
'

HERBARIVM

mm

Jjonne^

{jsene

o)7epne
^

enbe

'

-j

jeppiS^

to anep liunbep

ypyjian^

ppa

pe"

Imnb

Imnjpij'^

hyne py pupp him^ py]7]?an^ mete aiipixican^^ ne mteje buton^^ he mib him J7a pypte^^ upabpebe ^^^ be J>yppe pypte^^ yp saeb^^ ^ heo ppa mycele mihte ha3bbe f ppa hpylc^^ J^mcj^^ ppa hy^'*^ upatyhS ^ hyt^^ pona pcyle J^am p}dpan jemete beon beppycen popJ;y~^ pona fpa ]>u jeyeo f heo upabjioben ];u hype jepealb haebbe jemm hy^^ pona on "j py hanb^^ fpa anb pealc^* hi~^ 'j jeppmj f pop op hype leapon^^ on ane^^ jlgopene ampullan -^^ "j ];onne^^ Se
topopan ppa ^^^ he

neob

becume f
heapob

J>u

hpylcon
J)u

men

Jpsepmib^^

helpan^^

pcyle ^^ J^onne^^ help

Pic5

him Syppum^* jemete.

f man plapan^^ ne^^ mseje jemm f pop pmyjie^^ ]7one anbplatan '^^ ^ peo pypt ppa pome^^ ]?am pylpan*^ jemete ]?one^^ heapob ece jeh^ija]? '^^ "j eac*^ )?u punbpapt hu hpsoblice pe** plsep
ece
'j

pi8

becyme]?.

PiS J^sepa"*'^ eapena pape jemm f>yppe ylcan pypte pop jemencjjeb*^ mib ele );e py op napbo ^eot on Sa

eapan

]>u.

pmibpapt hu

hjiseblice

he

b5'}>

jehaeleb.

PiS pot able ]?eah t^e heo hepejuft^^ py jenim op ^^ 'j op J^sepe^^ pynJjaejie^^ fpyjppan hanba^^ J^yppe pypte

ptpan op^^
])ypc

9e5}eppe^^

hanba
sin

J?peo]ia

to biipte^^ pyle bpmcaii

penesa^* jepihte^^ on pine peopon bajap^^

pset

he by}> jehseleb^^ na^^ f

jeppel

jepet

ac

lii^,

B.
^

\>onv,

B.; >auc, O.
'^

senbe,

H.
^

'

5*py^ ^J**

O'yjian,

B.j fpeopan, II.

fe'S-San,
^^

"Sa j> K',

0. O.

-^I'l,

O.

lurn

hofi, II.
^'^

0.

'"

)>a

t, O.
'"

" aiiajcan,
jiyrr,
'
'^^

It. B.;

aracon^ O.

biice,

O.

p>TC, O.
^^

hj)ylce,

O.

hinc, B.;

" up, li, Hnc^, II.

-'

for

yc yf yfseb, O.
-"

hig, B.

he, H., false

^^

syntax.
ba, O.
-'

O. alters the text.

-'

jophij, B.
-* hi?;,

B.
-" J'aii,

hig, B.
""

on

lian-

an])ealche, II.; an])elcc, O.

-

hure leafcu, O.
="

anne, H., false syntax.

liclpcn,

-lie,

0.

O.

baji,

B. O.

^'

O.
^^

3-

reeole, H.; rcule, B.; pylle." O.

'

"
r>.

J^anc,
^^

O.

"'|>57U,

B.

-pen, O.

no, II,

^^

ymyjia,

)>ane

APVLEIL
other end and tie
it

247

to a dogs neck, so that the

hound Mandrake.
^^^'^"

be hungry not reach

Of

this

next cast meat before him, so that he may it, except he jerk up the wort witli him. wort it is said, that it hath so mickle might,
;

what thing soever tuggetli it up, soon in the same manner be deceived.
that

that

it

shall

Therefore,

as

soon as thou see that

session of
it,

it,

take

it

be jerked up, and have posimmediately in hand, and twist

it

and wring the ooze out of its leaves into a glass ampulla, or j/dcher, and when need come upon thee, that thou shouldst therewith help any man, then help thou him in this manner.
head ache, and in case that a man may not and the wort sleep, take the ooze, smear the forehead also in the same manner relieveth the head ache and also thou wondrest how quickly the sleep cometh.

% For

For sore of the ears, take wash of this same wort mingled with oil, which is extracted from nard, pour it on the ears thou wondrest how quickly the ijatient
3.
;

is

healed.
4.

very heavy, take of the light hand of this wort,^ and also of the left, of
gout,
it

For

though

be

hand by three pennies weight, reduce to dust; give to drink in wine for seven days, the patient will be healed not only so that the remedy allay eth
either

'^

The

rooL of the

mandrake

is

drawn

in the shape of a niau.

anj'l-,
*-

0.

*'

yame, B.
eac,

'*"

)Tl}'aii, II.

omits.
^^

""

}jane,

0.
B.

-egaS, B.

"

H.
'^

^'

him
^

for ye, B.
;

>a]ia, B.;
"^^

O. omits
-^aj^t,
i
oj-,

and condenses. ^ hape, H. B. ^' aes>pe, H. B.;

"^

seni&ncseb, H.
0.
^
^*

-rnxug-, B.
^'

'"

hanba, H.

pyrr, O.

>a]ie,

B.

^'

H.

aesre,

paenega,

H. B.
^

"

-ta, O.

bufr, O.

57

^^gaf, O.

-iial-,

O.

nah', 0.

24S
eac^
)7a3pa'^

HERBAlllVM
ymii tojunje to hyele
jehsele)?.

jclyebe);

"j

pa

yaji

butu^ punbuplice"*
]?r6

jepitleayte

ly piS

beojzul

j^eocnyfpe

jeniiii

oj:

]7am liclioman^

J^Jr]'

ylcan pypte^ manbjiajojie )7]ieopa

peneja^ jepihte pyle bpmcan^ on peajimum^ paetepe^" Ipa he ea^elicopt: mseje pona he by]? jehseleb.
6]:o

pi^

pma tojunje

jeniin^^

oj:

"Sam

hchoman^"^

anpe ynbpan^^ jepihte cnuca^^ to ppy)?e pmalaii^^ bupte jemencj^^ mib ele Imype^'^ J>onne ]7a J>e 8ap j:opeip]iecenan untpumnypj'e habbaS. Gyp hpa hpylce hepije yj:ehiyppe on lup hojie^* jej-eo^^ jenime J^ap pypte manbpajopam on mibban
J)ypye

pyjite

]7ani

hupe fpa mycel

]'pa

he ]7onne hsebbe ealle

yjrela

he utanybe^.^^

Lsece pypt.-^

cxxxiii.
ptepanice
"j
'j

Deop

pyjit

c5c

man

hchanip

o^jiiun
jepujie
'j

naman

Isecepypt nemne];
-j

hapiS lanje leap

lisepene-^

heo hajzaS
man^'*

hype ftela byS mib jej^ujiuni-^ bojvini -j on upepeapbum ]7am ftelan jeolupe bloptVYV^^ Y^^
nsebbeji
^^^ P^^^^

]^5']'r^'

jepealb jipeniaS-"^ pel

^'^

onjean
(3am

eal

cyn

-j

piS

pcoppionep stmcj to

ppj'J^e j;8ep
ojieji
"j

Se

pume

men**^ pecjeab
j3

man
nepj'e

]7a

pcoppionep jelejb

jyp hy^'^ heo him unmihtijj3

untjimnnyppe^^ onjebptncje.

'

eac, II.
''

hajia,

B.
^

fara,

0.

'

bura, H. B.;

>
'"

far

bara

abura, O.
'*

-boji-, B.; -bcr-, 0.

^ lie, II.;

-haman,
V.
-'

B.;

-ma, O.
-ra, O.

pyrr, O. " Senim, H.

''

paenesa, B.
'=

bjuncan,

II.
'^

"

]'yrme, O.

lie-, II.;
">
'"

-haman, B.
11.;
'-'"

ynj-an,

)-malan,

H.

"*

hjioje, II.
later

Sej-co,

jemrensc, B.
B.

unaecented, B.
-'

" cnuca, H. " Tmypa, B.

lechejmrt, B.,
-'

heo uc abeS, B.
scjjuju, B.
='

by
-'
-^

hand.

hsejiene,
^o

blopiian, B.
'-''

y]^anvd}S, 11.

j^jin, II.

FC5a'6\

II.

B.

his, B.

uur]ium-,

II.

APVLEll.

240

but also leadetli to liealin;jj the tugguig Manduakk. Art. cxxxu. of the sinews, and wonderfully healeth both the disthe
swelliiio'
.

orders.

For witlessness, that is, for devil sickness, or demoniacal fOHHesslon, take from the body of this same Avort mandrake, by weight of three pennies,
5.

administer to

drink in
;

warm

water, as he

may

find

most convenient
6.

soon he will be healed.

Again, for spasmodic action of the sinews^ take

from the body of this wort, by weight of one ounce pound to very small dust, mingle with oil, then smear them that have this aforesaid infirmity. 7. If any see some heav}^ mischief in his home, let him take this wort mandragoras, into the middle of the house, as much of it as he then may have hy hir)ij
he compelleth
all evils

out of the house.

Leechwort.
1.

cxxxiii.
is

Questionahly.
x(>x'^^S
<TT(puvi)iy],^

and by another name leechwort, hath long leaves and tufty and purple, and its stalk is with tufty branches, and it hath on the upper part of the stalk yellov/ The seed of this wort administered in blossoms. Avine, is of much benefit against any sort of snake, and against sting of scorpion, to that degree, as some men say, that if it be laid upon the scorpions, it bringeth upon them unmightiness or impotence and
infirmity.

This wort, which

named

'^

arul)ccvo}iAcc'tiK-fi.

Dioskorldcs,

iii.

14.

avBo^

ti/.nrjp,pvp(tv^

not

leaves.

The
b,

Diotikoridenn plant
is

is

Agrostcmma coronarium
In the drawing,

(Sprengel), but not that

ibl.

ligured.

MS. V.
some

54

some eyes discover Catnpions^ Lychnis

dloica,

Agrostemma githago.

250

HRBAR1VM

CXXXIV.

Beop pypt; iSe man action nemneS hafaS^ jelice leaj:

inapan
trjiuman
'j

'j

o^jium naman^

cypppettan'^ ac^

hy^ beo6

heapbjian
jjieatne

^ stelan

'^'

heo
-j

hapaS^ piS J?one^ Pyp^" trpejea^ pa^bma'^ lanje^^ ^j

peab^^ on bleo.
-^^
"j

heo haj:aS^^ on upepeajibon^^ J?am ptelan picb Siptele

jelic^'*

ac'^
j5

hyt byS
blob
*j

pmseljie

'j

PiS
op
]>e

man

poppm^^ jemanj hpsece

jenim
cyjmlu
jelicc

])yppe pyjite

peopep peneja^^ jepiht:^^ S9ebep~^

pmcpypenum^^ hnutum cnuca topomne

]7u

]>am.

anne^^ aeppel pypce syle Jjicjean^* ];am

J?8epa^^ li6a
-j

untpuman

liyt liyne jehsele^.^^

PiS
ciibe^'

sape jenim pap ylcan pyjite jecnuleje

fco

cly)7an jepoplite
.~^

to

Sam

pape~ heo
ealbe

hyt ^ehSijaS
punba^^

eac^^ J^am

pylpan

jemete heo

^ehaele]?.^^

8u]?epne

puba.'^^

ex XXV.
-j

BeoB pypt
]5

J?e

man abpotanum
'j

o^jiam naman^^
^^^

{"aSepne puba nemne]?

yp tpejea^^ cynna
TpyJ^e

)?onne^^

ij*

oSep cyn jpeaton^^ bojum

(mcelon^^ leapon
'j

ppylce

heo
*j

ma

pexebe^^

jepepen^^

sy

heo

hapaS

blofrman^^
Ipeecep
"j

j^^ TPyf^ jehpsebe '^^ 'j heo m5"celep 'j biteppe*^ on bypjynje.

ip jobep**

'

uainan,

II.

-'

hafeS, O.
^

=^

cyyecran
^

;),

B.; lange
"

leaj:

Jelic
11.

cyiijctcan

ac, 11.
'

%
**

0.
>ane, O.

hig,
"
'-

B.

heajib pan,

herbran, O.
1"

hsefb, O.

cpegpa, B.j cpe^Sea,

'^^

II.
II.

]-8ebma,

B.

" lagne, 0.
selice, 0.
'^ Jic,

haifeb, O.

-bon,

J'Selic, H.;
'^

II.;

O.
^^

'

hjieab, B.

H. B.; j'yrmet, 0., altered by a later hand. '" pn-, B. hracce/ O. " sejnhce, H. B. O. -' senne, B. -hicgan, B. -creop-, O. jnn-, V. -^ bi(S gehaeleb II. Smgu, O. altered to Ijic^ean
pojimf,
'-
;
;

hjisece,
-'

B.

fwbif,

O.
II.,

hcscan,
-"
:.o

hajia,

B.
II.

- secnocobe, B.
=^'

-
^-

pjie, II.
^^

^o

.^^^^^ ^^

^ac,

punda, H. 0.
^'

-IS, B.
II.-,

futSer pube, B., in later

hand

juibii,

nainan,

B. omits the English

name

on enghfTe, O.

KKUM DIOSKORIDES,
ACTIUM/''

ETC.

251

CXXXIV.

^i,,un,n lappa.

A
1.

scorpion holds a snake.

MS.

V., fol.

54

c.

This wort, which is named actiuin, and by another hath leaves like a gourd, but they are name and it hath at the root a great larger and liarder
,
;

hath on the upper part of the stalk seed like a thistle, but it is
stalk

and of two

fatlionis

length,

and

it

smaller,
2.

and red in

colour.

In case a

man break up

blood and ratten or jms

take four penny weight of the seed of this wort and kernels out of pine tree nuts, pound together as thou wouldst work a dumpling, give it to
together,

the infirm to swallow

0.

it

healeth him.

For sore of the joints, take this same wort pounded and wrought to a poultice, lay it to the sore, it relieves it. Also, in the same manner it healeth
old wounds.

Southernwood.^
1.

cxxxv.

Artemisia abro-

This wort, which

is

named abrotanum, and by

;

another name southernwood, is of two kinds the one kind then is with great boughs and with very small
leaves, as if it

were seen rather as furnished with hair, and it hath blossoms and seed very minute, and it is of good odour and strong, and bitterish to the taste.

Dioskorides,

iv.
fol.

107,

"Ap/ceioj/,

draAviug,

MS.

V.,

54

c,

or "ApKnou erepov. The represents " Proteus jxnteprimus,

I should thiuk." (H.)

The Dioskoridean
drawn,

plant

is

Arctium
Dios=

lappa (Sprengel). ^ Southernwood

korides,
iii.

is

MS.

V*,

fol.

o3

d,

From

29.

'*

tpesiia, B. 0,

cjie^ipa,
^'^

H.
'

^s

cyn iia, H.

3S
*-

-tu, O.

fmala, 0.

jcxebe,

H.

^r j,an, q. sef-, O. omits.

0. omits bl-; -man, H.; bloj'man, B.

sober, H.; sober, B.

B. O.

gehj^eebe, B.j -hpebe, O.

"

biceji,

252

HERBARIVM
pi6

Py6 nynpyt^ *j pi6 ban ece "j jemijan mseje )\v)'ye j^yjite lice jecnucub^ -j on piBtepe* jeSijeb.^
piS piban yajie
^piS attpiu
pyjite

^ man eajipSpel
pj\emaS''^

yieb

jemm
PI'S

Sap ylcan pyjite^

'j

betonicani

cnuca topomne pyle bpmcan.

-j

naebpena plite jenim

bjiincan
ele
-j

Sap

ylcan

abpotanum pyle
eac^

cNuca by^
]>yejmiib
^'^

mib

on pine heo belpeS pel fmyjie^^ Sone licboman^^

eac^^ lieo piS ]7one colan pepoji'* pel ppeinaS

eac'^

pBb }>yppe pypte lupan^lice apli^eS^^" jinbfrjieb^^

oSSe onaeleb.

piS

];sejia^

ns3b]iena^^ plite
];eop sylpe'^^

]?e

man

ppalanjionep

*j

pcoppionep nenineS

VfV^

P^l pjieniaS.^^

PiS eajena pajie jenim pap ylcan pyjitjc abpotanimi jepobene^^ mib Ssepe^^ pypte ]7e''^ man melacibomam -j

o^jium

naman coboniam

hatej? ^
f>u

Sonne

inib lilape je-

cnucube^'^ ]?am jelice^^

J>e

clyj^an^^

pypce leje to*^

cp^ebon

]?am^^ pajie byt byS jeliSijob.^^

So Dioskor.,
but not in the

P^^F VYV^
(.ynna
oSeji

^F A^^

V^ bep^^ bepo]\an
oSeji

Tpejea^^

yp

p]p

pep

^^'^

*j

by'^'*

liabbaS^^
J?a

on

eallon^^ Jjinjcon^'' jelice

mibte^*^

on jean

Smcj^^ Se

pe

liep^'^

bepopan peebon.

'

-]>et,

B. 0.
'

vjiamaS, H.; freme'5, 0.

^
^

gecnocob,
* >.
''

13.

-cob, O.
'

j'ateran, 0.
hi?;,

jjeHseb, B.
"
''

j'.,

O. B.

O. omits two paragraphs.

B.

eac, II.
jejrqi,

fimyjja,

'

-haman, B.
'"

'-

J^ap,

B.

"

eac,

H.
'^

H.
is,
""

'*

jjjama6'

t'dc, II.
"*
'-'

ayliSe'S, II.
'"

?;mb, B., that

jjeonb; ?;nib,
sylje,

V.

)>apa,

B.
'-^

J7i'S

ne&bbjian,

H.
-^ J^ajie, -^

B. omits.
'-'

))iama"S, II.

y.

jefobena, O.
''

B. 0.

pyre
-'

ba, O.

?;(CUOCobe, B.; -cobe, O.

-

jehcan, 0.

he

clv"6am, U.

har to, 0.

ham,

II.

^^

-csob, B.

"

htj,

H.

FROM DIOSK GRIDES,

2.

ETC.

253
for

For oppression of
in case

tlio

breast,
witli

and

leg

ache,

Sottherx^^.^

and

man may

difficulty

pass

water,
is

cxxxv.

seed of this wort, ponnded and swallowed in water,

of good benefit.

For sore of side, take this same wort and betony, pound together give to drink. 4. Against poisons and against bite of snakes, take this same wort abrotanum, administer it in wine to drink, it helpeth well pound it also with oil, and smear the body therewith. Also it is of good effect
.*].

against the cold

fever.

Also
fire,

the

seed

of this

wort,

spread about or set on

to flight.

strongly disposes snakes

Dratoing of a scorpion holding a worm^ with hvo

tvings
5.

and

eight legs.

For

bite

of

the

poisonous
this

creatures
is

called

q^ciXotyyict,

and

scorpions,

same wort

of good

advantaoje.
6. For sore of eyes, take this same wort abrotanum, sodden with the wort which is called /jtvjAa xvlwvia, and by another name cydonia,*'^ and then pounded with a loaf, as if thou shouldst work a poultice lay this to the sore, it will be relieved.
;

7.

This wort, as
is

we

here

before

said,

is

of

two
or

kinds, the one

wife, or femcde,

the

other wei-,

and they have in all things alike might against the things of which here before we quoth.

male

Not a

wort, hut quinces.

32
3^

-pespa, B.; Cpesipa, H. ^s habbeS, O. eallii, B.;

^s

hifpif- o>er hif pere, O.

j^jj.^

a&lcu,
'<>

0.
oj-,

^'

>inscon, B; omits

hnga, O.

"8

mihta, O.

39

j,jn5a,

O.

H.; se, O.

254

ITERBARIVM

Labep.^

cxxxvi.
'j

Deoy

pyjit

]>e

man

sion*

oSjium naman^

labeji^

nemnej? byS cenneb^ on psetum stopum.^

PiS ]5 j'tanap'^ on blaebpan pexen syle etan oS6e jepobene^ o^'Se lipeepe
Jnipli'^

3;eiiim

Sap yyjite

heo'^

pa

franaj'^*^

mijfian iit^^ atyhS.

P^l ppemaS^'' piS vitpiht'^
-j

Gac'*^ iSeop fylpe^* PyP''^

pi6

J)a3p

inno)?ep afcypunje.

8151I hpeo]i}:aJ^

CXXXVTI.
'j

The

figure,

Deop

pjp'c

])e

man

eliotjiopup

oSpum naman^^

re rZents^ l^^'

think, Heliotro-

r^P^^P^^PF^ nemneS by]; cenneb^^ on jraGttnm lanbum^*^ 'j on bejanum^^ -j heo liapaS leap neali ppylce mi fuel

iHs much^"'"
damaged, and
^
(Cro/o?i!

beo^ P^je 'j bpabe 'j heo liapa'S paeb j-inej^ealt^^ 'j j5 by (S })peojia cynna bleos. ^^ ilitap pi (5 pcoppionef -j Pi'^ ealpa^'"^ nsebbeji cynna jenim }>yppe pypte pypttjiuman eliotpopop pyle bpm1'^

can^^ on

pme

'j

jecnucube^^ leje to

J^fepe^^

punbe heo
];am^^

ppemaS^^ mycelon.

Py6 nytjmm
on*^^

))set;

]?y]imap

ymb
Sap

))one

napohm on
'j

m"j

noSe bepijen'^^ jenim

-j

yl^an pypte*

ypopan

c?eppan'^^

cnuca topomne

ealle pyle bjiincau

psetepe heo^^ acpelle]; Sa pypmap.

'

laper, B.,

by

later
fol.
" ^

hand.

son,

V.

ron, B., with

shoved
^

in.

''

oW

name, 0.,

14 b.

= 56.
0.
II.;

'

labep, V.; lapep, B.

^

caen-

neb, II. B.

j'setere ftope,

fcanaj',
"

H.; -nef, O., which

'"

condenses.
franar,
'^ f,

-bene,

-bone, O.
fur,

hu, O.
'-

-nef, O.;
'=*

H.

"

I'up'S,

V.;

0.
"= lit,

uc, B.
"^

edc, II.
l.
II.

H. omits.

''

jjiama'S,

H.

B.
gone.

See article
'"

hpeojipa, "V.
'^

The former
'-'"

half of the
II.
-^

word
-'

is

naman,

csenneb, II. B.
ealle, II.
-*

lanbum,
II,

besanu, B.

-'''

-pt^al,

B.

-3
-'

cynna,
29

bjiincan,
^^

H.

gecnocobe, B.
=*"

Pape, B.
cejjjan, B.
^-

jpama^;

II.
"^

bsem, II.

bejuan, B.

^'

on,

H.

heo, B.

from dioskorides,

etc.

255

Layer,
1.

cxxxvi.
a-lov,^

This wort, which

is

is

named
in

and by another
take
it

7iame laver,
2.

produced in wet

places.

In case stones
it

wax

the

bladder,

this

wort, give

to eat, either sodden or

raw

draweth

out the calculi through the urine.

3.

Also this same wort

is

of good

benefit against

diaiThoea

and

stirring of the inwards.

SOLHWERF.^
This

CXXXVII.

ScOVpiuTUS Or heliotropion.
Diosk.

Heliotropion

Euroimum.
YjXioTpoTrog,

1.

wort,

which

is
is

named

produced on fat on cultivated ones, and it hath leaves nigh such as mistel,^ or basil; they be rough and broad, and it
another
solhwerf,

name

and by lands and

round seed, and that is of three kinds of colour. bites of all kinds of serpents, and of a 2. For scorpion, take roots of this wort heliotrope, administer drink in wine, and lay it, pounded, to the it to wound it benefits much. 3. In case that worms vex about the navel in the inwards, take this same wort, and hyssop, and nitre, and cress, pound all together administer to drink in water, it killeth the worms.
]iath
;
;

Slum

is

now Water parsnep ;

laver,

porphyra

laciniata,

and Plin., xxvi. 32. " Laver quoque nascens in rivis condita et cocta torminibus medetur." The table of contents to Pliniiis has " Laver sive
in^va latissima.

This does not match

and so the mediaeval botanists. But none of these is drawn in MS. V., fol. 55 b. The article is founded on Dioskorides, ii. 154, which Sprengel decides to describe S. ansion,"

gustifolmm.
^

See

art. l.

Tliis article is

from Dioskorides,

iv.

193.

250

HERBARIVM

Pi6 peajitan jemm ])i\y ylcan pyjite 'j fealr cnuca coj'omne lei;e to J>am peajitan' lie liy~ }:opnime]> J^anoii

heo

eac'^

uepjmcajiia jenemneb

i]\

cxxxviir.
Deo]' jiypt: Se
nemiie}>

man

fpjiejiitiy

'j

oSpum Naman
jeSupe'*
"'^

ha^fS

jehpgebe

leap

'j

*j

lieo
J>a

op

anum pyptrpuman maneja

iieali 'Srejie*^

liojap apenbej?
lieo

-j

beoS

eopSan alebe
)^u

'j

hapaS jeolupe blopt-

man

hy^ betpeonan }>mum^ pin3;piim^^ jebjiyTerc J)onne hapaS heo spfBC ppylce myppe.^^ Pi6 J>one^^ colan pepoji jenim J?ap pyjite pppejutip to Sam timan^^ 6e pe pepop to Sam 'j peoS on ele men jenealaecean pylle fmype^'* hyne joepmib.'"'^ pyS pebe Imnbef slite jenim J^ap ylcan pypte cnuca Sonne anne'^ cuculepe pulne'" pyle to bupte bpmcan on peapmum pastepe he byS hal. jenim ]^yppe pylpan pypte anne^^ ]}y]> miltan pape ^obne jpipan 'j anne^^ peftep pnlne meolce ])yll topomne pyle bpmcan healp on raepjen healp on a^pen'^
'^

'j

jyp

mm

]7a

hpyle

J;e

him

};eapp py peo milte b}'S jelacmib.^^

CXXXIX.

Deos

pyjit

]?e

man
-j

ayzop mino]i j objium

naman ^^

nemne}) byS cenneb^- on pajum j on

fc^em^um^'^ ptopum

on bunnm

-j

on ealbum^^ byp-

'

peapcum, H. B.
B.
''

his, B.
'

eac, II.
'^

Se^uye, B.
" nii,

i '"

aj-aenbe'S,

t>ape,

B,

hlopnan, B.
'-

hij;,

B.
'^
'"

B.

ymspum, H.
senne, B., twice.

" myppse, B.
''[>ap, B.
'"

]>one,

H.
B.

timan, Y.
yulne,

" fm^'pa, B.
'^

'"

ajiine,

H.

on
--'

eejine,

H., at earhj.
-^

""

-nob, B.

-'

O. omits " other name."

cnneb, H. B.

fcan-, O,

-jum, H.

^*

-bum, H,

-ben, O.

FROM DIOSKOKIDES,
4.

KTC.

257
Solhwkrp.

same wort and salt, pound together, Liy to the warts, it removes them whence the tuort is also named verrucaria, wart wort, from the Latin verruca, a wart.
Against
warts,

take

this

Scarlet
1.

pimpernel
is

cxxxviii.
spreritis,''^

AnagalUs
arvensis ?

and by another name hath diminutive leaves, and tufty, and it sendeth forth from one root many boughs, and they are laid near the earth, and it hath yellow blossoms and if thou breakest it between thy lingers,
This wort, which
,
;

named

hath then a smell as myrrh. 2. Against the cold fever, take this wort spreritis, seethe it in oil, and at the times at which the fever will approach to the man, smear him therewith. 3. For bite of mad dog, take this same wort, pound it to dust, then take a spoon full, give it to drink in
it

warm water
4.

he will be whole.

For sore of milt, or spleen, take a good handful of this same wort, and a sextarius full of milk, boil
together,

give to drink half in the morning, half in

as long as

the evening,
cured.

need be

the

spleen

will

be

b
1.

CXXXIX.

Sempervivum
sediforme.

Bot.

named asl^ooov [juxpov, and b}^ another name prick madame, is produced on walls,
This wort, Avhich
in
is

and

stony

places,

and
b.

on

downs,

and

on

old

* spyeritis,

MS.
7)

T., fol.
(foi,vi,Kri,

49

^TtvpTnt; is

a,

mediaeval

synonym
fol.

of the avdyaXAii;

the scarlet pimpernel, in the marginal

209.

notes to Dioskorides,
is

ii.

The drawing, MS.

V.,

56

d,

not a good likeness, but has points of resemblance.

The

words of the text however are not from Dioskorides, and the colour is wrong. The Oxford copy (p. 349) of the Vienna drawings has a-cpaipTTn;, and like Centaurea nigra.
^

From

Dioskorides,

iv.

90.

The

technical

name from

Sprengel.

Scdiim

riipestre, or reflexnm, Kiilm.

258

HERBATIIVM
-j

jenum^
V.
is

lieo oy
-j

anum

pyjircjiuman^

maneja
*j

jehpsebe''

bojas* apenbeS^
here eaten
-j

Sa beoS puUe op jehpsebum^ leapum*

*j

lanjtini

^^^^'

t'yjT^

pceappum VYV^^ pypttpuma

'j

psettum

"^

pelpopijum
potable

'j

ys unnyuKc.^
"j

PiS Oman 'j piS catena pape 'Sap pypte butan^^ pyptrcpuman
)7am jelice

jenim fmebman* cnuca mib

pi^

Su cli^an^^ pypce untpumnyppum^^ hit hy^* jeliSija^.^'^

J?e

leje

to )7ippum

^^

jenim J^yppe ylcan pypte pos *j popan pop msenjc^^ topomne pmype^^ f heapob J^aepmib'^ f pap^^ byS jeh'Sijub.^^

Py6 heapob

ece

PyS jenim

)7aepa^^
j?ap

pypma phte

J>e

man

ppalanjionep

hatej?^'^

ylcan pypte aizop on^^

nytlice.

pme jecnucube^

pyle

bpmcan^^ hyt pjiemaS^^

Pi6 utpiht
]>e
"j

pi6

mnoSep pleppan
bepiaS^^
J^eop

-j

py^
pylpe

pyjimap^^

on^^ Sam^^

innoJ?e

pypt

pel

ppema^.^^

Bpt^^ pyS

jehpylce^^
ylcan
^^

untpumnyppe

f)8epa^^

eajena

jenim

VYV^^ V^Y eajan^ J;aepmib^^ nytlice hyt ppemaS.'*^

]?yppe

^i^yp^^^

Sonne ^^ pa

Tunpinj

pypt.^^

cxl.

Deop

pyjit

J;e

man

ellebojium
'j

album

-j

oSpum naman

tunpincj**^ Pyp"^

nemneS

eac*^

pume men pebebepje

'

* aj-aenbe'S,
*
>2

-gennu, B.j -sen, O. B. ; O. omits a

B.
>=*

-man,^H.
^

gehpitebe, O.

*
'

bosaf, B.
jratcu,

line.

gehpsebii, B.
'"

O.

pypc pyirrume, O.
i^ij-u,

-net-, O.
'*

bucan, B.
'" '^

'*

clij>em,

O.

-nefTe, 0.

hig, B.
'^

O. omits. B. O. B.
^g^m^ h.
gephylce, V.

-esa, B. O.
22

'^
'2

"3
27
*'

meg, O. -sob, H. on, H.

jrjiama'S,
}>8epe,

'''

jmypa, B.
secnocobe, B.
-**

]?ap,
"'

fap, O. omits.

-esob, B. O.
^*

]?apa,

h^-e^, B.

'^^

bpincan, H.
^9
33

^^ j-jiama'S,

H.
H.

pyrman, O.

pambe
^^

"t

on >an, O.
^*

bepisat?, B.

H.
;

g'p-^ jj

geppylce,
^^

8<
'"'

H.

I?apa,

B. O.

ylcan, O. omits.

smype, H.
hit

oa, B. omits.

easena, O.

]jap,

B. O.

""

jrjia.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
barrows,

ETC.

25.9

and from one root it sendeth forth many Sempervivum. minute boughs, and they be full of leaves, minute and long,'** and sharp and fat, and well oozy, or succulent, and the root of this wort is without use. 2. For erysipelatous inflammations, and for sore of eyes, and for foot addle, or gout, take this wort, except the root, pound with smede, or fine flour, in the manner in which thou mightest work up a poultice,
lay it to these infirmities
3.
;

it

will alleviate them.

same wort and ooze of rose; mingle together, smear the head thereache, take ooze of this

For head

with, the sore will be relieved.

which are called (^oLXayyiu, or tarantulas, take this same wort aizoon, pounded in wine, administer to be drunk
4.

For

bite of the

worms or creeping

things,

it

will benefit advantageously.

5.

For diarrhoea and flux of the inwards, and for worms which vex in the inwards, this wort is of good
benefit.
6.

Again, for any infirmity of the eyes,

wort,

take ooze

of this same

then smear

the

eyes

therewith

excellently it benefits.

TUNSING WORT.b
1.

CXL.

Veratrum
album.

This wort, which

is

named

helleborus alb us, and

also

by another name tunsing wort, and

some men

* 'TcepKpepwv,

round,

White hellebore

= Veratrum
is

album, Bot.,
lost.

is

not a native
in

of England.
Tunjilfinpypt.

The drawing
iv.

See the glossary in

Dioskorides,

Only a groundwork of this article is 150. The Vienna MS. draws Ver. alb.

ma's,
*'

eac,

H. H.

*'

clue]>unge,

cunfmgpurc, B., by

later hand.

^^

-fins, B.

E 2

2G0
hataS byc^
leace
jelice

IIKRliARIVM

cenneb^
-"^

on bununr
pyj^te

'j

lieo

hajiaS

lea}:"
j'ceal
J^a

fyr^e

pyjittrj^uman
"j

man

niman onbutan^ mibne pumup'^

pypt ealle pojvSy^ heo
ip

eac ppa
pel

pome^

to Ifecebomum

jecpeme*-'

on ^yppe pypte f heo bapaS jehpsebne^^ pyjittjmman -j na ppa pibtne f he be j-umum bsele jebyjeb^^ ne py he byS bpeaj? "j tibpe J>onne he jebpijeb by^ -j J)onne he tobjiocen byj? he pyc]? eal ppylce he pmic^^ op him ap^nbe^^ 'j he byS liponhce bitteppe^^ on byjijmc^e J^onne^"" beoS }a mapan pypttpuman lanje -j heajibe 'j ppyfe bittejie^^ on by]i;5inc5e^' 'j hy^^ habba)? to Sam ppy])hce mihte "j ppecenpulle^" -^ pop opt hpsebhce ]7one man popJ>ihnia]7 *' f hy Sonne pceal man ]?ypne pypttpuraan ppa pe aeji cpiebon jebjujean*^ 'j ]?a lanjnyppe^^ toceoppan on pysena jehcnyppe -^^ mycel laecebom ip to jehpylcum J^mjum f man Sonne J>yppep~* pypttpuman jenime tyn peneja'^"' jepihte ppa "Seah ne msej man geppe pop hip pupenjSe^*' hyne pyllan Jncjean^^ on punbjmm^*^ ac^^ mib pumum''^'^ oSpum mete jemencjebne^^ be J78epe^~ fpylcnyppe^'^ J^e peo untpumnyp^* ]7onne byS ^ ip jyp peo untjiumnep spa ftiS beo ]*yle J^icjean^^ on beope oSSe on blacan

ip

to

lupijenne

bjupe.'*^^

on utpihte py^'' pyle jjicjean^'^ on pypena pope o'S^e mib ])8epe'^^ VYV^^ ^^ ^^^ ojiiza hatej^ mib pmebeman^^ J>a ealle ppa feali pceolon^^ beon jejiopt^^ on liSon^^ beope jepobene 'j jeli^ijobe.'**
];onne

Gyp he

'

ca&nneb,

H. B.
"

bunii, B.

'

loay,
**

H.
'-'

Selice,

B.
"

-ton, B.

"
'"

j'umoji, B.
?;ehj)Eebne,
;

B.
is

fame, B. " jebisseb, B.

;

Vopl'iS*

B.

j;ecpeme, B.
^
'^

yrnic,

H.

aj-aende,
V>.

from H.
''

V.
all.

illegible
'"

B. repeats three words. B. B.

-^
'"

biren,

)>on,

V.

bit('iae,
'"*

from "
'

b5']i5inj;ce " to the

same Mord,
-" -'

H. omits
-'
-'"

hij;,

jjisecen-, II. B.

his, B.

-maiS', II.

--'

sebpi^an, B.
-'"

-nefj-e,
-

B., twice.

h)']'*^)',

B.
]>.

paenc^a,
jic,

II.

B.

fcpaens'Se, II.

jncj;an,

B.

-"
^'

funbjian,

-"'

II.

^" yv^n\, II.,

without case ending.

"^

-miunt;-, B.;

-cgeb,
^^

IT.

"-^ape, B.
II.; )>icj;an,

-nej'i'e,
"'

B.

^'

-nejje, B., as nominative.

''

bpinoan on,

B,

bpipe. B.

]-<.',

B.

^^

Vicjan, B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
call
it

ETC.

261
Thnsing
Art. cxl.

wood beny, madbervy,

is

has leaves like a leek.*

produced on downs, and man shall take a root of

this wort about midsummer, and also in like wise the whole wort, since it is very convenient for Icechdoms. That is to be admired in this wort that it hath a small root, and not so straight but that it in some part is bent it is brittle and tender when it is dried, and wdien it is broken, it reeketh just as if it sent forth from it a smoke,'^ and it is in some degree bitterish to the taste. The larger roots, however, are long and hard, and very bitter to the taste, and they liave a virtue to that degree powerful and mischievous, that they often suddenly choke a man. A man then shall dry this root as we before said, and carve up the length of it into the likeness of peas. There is in it much leechdom for various occasions, so that a man take of this root by weight of ten pennies however, must not ever, by reason of its strength, administer one it apart, but mingled with some other meat, according to the quality, of which the infirmity is that is, if
;

the disorder be so stubborn,

in black brewis.

administer

it

in

beer or

2.

If he then be troubled with diarrhoea, administer

it

in ooze
is

of peas, or with
rice,

the

wort,

rather grain,
*

which
jioitr
;

called oryza,

all these,

with smede, that is, fine however, shall be first soddej] and

softened in lithe beer.

Leek is an

alteration

Dioskorides says the leaves are like

in

those of plain tain or wild beet.

^

Acre gustu fervensque,

XXV. 21.

frangendo pulverem emittit.

Plin.,

=""

Jjape,
li'San,

E.
II.

"'

rmebman, H. B.

" j-culon, B.

'-

aejicj-t,

"^

" -egobe, B.

262

HERBARIVM
j'oSlice

Deof pyp^
sep hiy haele^

ealle

ealbe

^j

hepije
J)

enblice ablu^ tofepe)? ppa

lie

by

unlacmjjelacnub^ J^eah he
*j

on tolastenepye*

paejie.

CXLI.

^Deop

pypt:

J7e

man buoptalmon

-j

o^pum naman
'j

nemnej? hapa^ hnepcne ptelan^

leap jelice

pmule

heo hapaS jeolupe bloptman'^ eal ppylce eaje )7anon^ heo eac^ )7one naman onpenj '^^ heo byj> cenneb^^ pypmefc piS meomam Sa ceaptpe )?yppe pypte^^

*j

leap jecnucube^^

*j

to

clyj?an
-j

jepophte^* tolyra'S^^ je-

hpylce ypele pppmjap^^

heapbnyppa.^^

Py)? sepypblan }79Bp lichoman^^ j^e^^ cyme]? op rojotennyppe paep eallan^^ jenim ]?yppe pypte pos pyle

bpmcan

-^^ ^Syp^ ^ jecynbelice^^ hip jehyplseht ppylce he op fpi'Se baton ^* bse)?e^^

heo^^

'j

he by^
26

jeobe.'

Iroppt.
Tribulus
terres ris.

CXLII.

Deop pypt ^e man tpibulup -j o^pum naman joppt nemnej? ip tpejea^^ cynna o)7ep by)? cenneb^ on pypt

unum

o^ep tit on pelba. PiS mycelne hsetan J?8ep lichaman jenim tpibulum jecnucube^^ leje J?8epto.''^^

]?ap

pypte

'

ablu, B.

-nob, B.; gelacnub, H.

fol.

^
"
"

hle, B.

-tenn-, B.

* ^

O. omits and compresses,

)>onon, B.;
Jjaii,
'''

9.

Ccelan,

H.

'

blopnan, B.
sepojiht,

O.

"

eac,

H.
;

onyengc, B,
'^ lie,

" csenneb, B.
'*

'2

pyrt, O.

-caba, O.; -cube, H.

rpjnnca]',

secnocobe, B.

is-ye'S,

B.

"^

B.
St.
-"

'^

-nejya, B.
]?e

II.;

H, -haman, B.;
p. 86,

-hamaf, O.,
line 34.
line 4.
-=

' se,

on which see H. B. O.
O.
-'

Marharete
eallan,

meiben ant martyr,

he, O.
-'

H.

also;
-^

jeallan, 0.; cf. p. 270,

-^

Narratiunculse, p. 80, xxx.

-cunb-, 0.
eobe, B. O.
^''

hip,

H.

hif,

hacu, B. ; hsete, 0.
ceenneb, H. B.
29

hai>e,

O.

'^^

-'

tpespa, H. B.

-^

gecnocobe, B.

)>ap,

B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
3.

ETC.

263

This wort, in

fact,

removes

all

old

and grievous

Tunsing
^^.^

and incurable disorders, so that the patient shall be healed, though he formerly were despairing of his
cure.

^^^

OXLI.
1.

Anthemis
valentina,

This wort, which

is

named

(3ou<^QuX{jiov,

and by

hath a nesh or tender stalk, and leaves like fennel, and it hath yellow blossoms,
another
,

name

altogether like

an

eye,

whence

also

it

received

its

produced first in Mseonia, the town, say Leaves of this wort, pounded and rather province. wrought into a plaster, dissolve all evil ulcers and
name.
It
is

hardnesses.
2.

For

mischief of

the

body,

which cometh
hue,

of

effusion of the gall, take ooze of this wort, administer

it

to

drink,

it

restores

the

natural
as if he

and the

patient will be complexioned

came out of a

very hot bath.

GORSE.^
1.

CXLII.

VlexEuropceus.

Bot.

This

wort,

which

is

named

tribulus,
;

and by
is

another

name

gorse, is of

two kinds

the one
field.

pro-

duced in 2. For a mickle heat of the body, take tribulus, pounded ; lay it thereto.

gardens, the

other out in the

this

wort

The
a,

text
is

is

from Dioskorides
;

one of the species of

like

Anthemis
fol.

described

the

leaves

fennel,

MS.

V.,
is

57 Anthemis valentina meant, according to Sprengel, and others.

^

hardly belong to our ox eye.

One of the Tribuluses, not

article is
terrestris.

V.

e., is

drawn,

The

from Dioskorides,

iv. 15,

MS. V., fol. 57 b. rpi^oKo^, The Vienna

copy figures Trib.

264

HERBAHIVM
]73ey
^

PjS^

muj^ey

-j

)79ej\a-

jomena

}:ulny]'j'e

"j

j:op-

jenim ]mY pyji'^e tjiibulum jeyobene^ cnuca mib liunije heo hsele]? Sone muS "j ]7a joman.
jiotiibnyj'j^e
]7iJ?
j5

j'tanay

pypte yjeb

on bljebjian pexeii jenim J^yyfe ppa^ jpene jecnuciib^ yyle bpmcan

llite

ylcaii

pel

liyt jTjiemaS/

jenim f'yjT*^ ylcan pyjite sseb j^pa jpene^ jecnucub^ pip peneja i^epihte*^^ pyle bpmcan
p}'}'

nsebbpan

eac^^ PPylce

mm

]7ap^^

pyp*^^

^^i<^

liyjie

psebe

jecnuJ^sepe

cube^^ leje to )78epe^^ pmibe

pjisecennyiTe.

heo
eac^^

alype);

hyne op
on

pippe

pylpan
ip^^

pyjite

pseb

PPylce

pine

je-

bpuncen
pi J?

halpenbe onjean attjiep

bjiync.

plean^''

jenim

J>ap

ylcan pypte

mib hype
}>a

pajbc

jepobene fppenjc into ]?am hupe^^ heo cpel^

plean.'^

CXLIII.
Inula viscosa.

Deop

pyji^ \^ mail conize"^

'j

oSpuin

naman

nemne)? yp tpejea-^ cynna peah ];e o^eji py majie o]7eji keppe^^ J>onne hapaS^^ peo Ijaeppe fmsele^* leap "j jelipsebe

'j

ppyl?e

jecpemne
psette
-j

pprec

-j

peo
-j

o^eji

hapaS
pypt^a
PyP"^^'

mapan'-^^ leap ^

hepi^ne

j'psec

J^yppa

pyjittpuman pynbon-^ nnnythce*-'' ac^^ KVPP^ ptela-^ mib ]7am^^ leapum jmbptjieb^^ "j onseleb
bjian^^
aplije];

na3-

eac^'^

heo jecnucub^*

to

cly}>an

3
'

- hajia, B. yS, B., continuing the sentence before: a trying mistake. w " S^cnocob, B. '-bone, B. -tob-, B.; -nej-j'e, B. VlT''. ^'

jpama'S, H.
j;e]>aese,

Sfiene, B.

"
'- I'a,
''

^ecnocob, B.
B.
'=*

V.

is

here imperfect.

'"

H.

" eac, H.

secnocobe, B.
'

" Sape, B.
'

'^eac,
-" -'

H.
B.

'ir,H.
"'

ylean, B.

huje, B.

ylean, B.

onizae,

rpejjjaa,

B.
-"

"
vyn
^"

fmale,
lie,

H. B.
"'

-"

majian, B.

)*on,

'-

H.
-J,

r-elan,

H.

km,
'"

hsej'S, H. V. and H. "-nytt-, B. "' H. Smb, B.; snib, V.;

laefj-a,

B.

-^

Smb

II.

3-

onsclcb nsebjuin, II.

cac, II.

="

jecnocob, B.

FROiVI

DIOSKORIDES, ETC.

265
Gorse.

For foulness and putridity of the mouth and of the fauces, take this wort tribulus, sodden, pound it with honey then it healeth the mouth and the
3.
;

fauces.
4.

In case that stones

it is

wax

in the bladder, take seed so green, administer

it

of this same wort,

liquid
5.
;

pounded of good effect.

of snake,

in

For

bite

take seed of this ilk

wort,

l)Ounded so green, by weight of five pennies,

to

give

it

be

drunk

also
it

further,

take this wort with

its

seed,

pounded, lay
Moreover,

to the

wound,

it

will relieve the

wounded man from

G.

the mischief.
of this
in

same wort dnmken Avine, is liolesome against a drink of venom. 7. Against fleas, take this same wort, with
seed
seed,
tlie

its

sodden, sprinkle

it

into the

house;

it

killeth

fleas.

^
1.

CXLIII.

and by another name fleahane, is of two kinds, though the one be greater, the other less the less than hath small and diminutive leaves, and a very agreeable odour; and the other hath larger leaves, and fat or fleshy, and an oppressive smell, and the roots of these worts are useless but the stem of this wort with the leaves, strewed about,^ and set on fire, puts to flight snakes and also it, when pounded and wrought into
wort,
is

This

which

named
;

xovy^a,

^This passage
in

MS. v.,
^

fol.

In

art.

is from Dioskorides, iii. 136. The drawing 57 c, is like a Stellaria or a Galium (H.) cxxxv., for jinbj-tjieb Dioskorides had a-ri^a^ev-

6[/.eyov,

made
is

into

litter,

and here
:

vTro(npcovvv{ji,yot;

the reading

^nibfcpeb

a mere error

see

jmb

for jeonb,

in art. cl., see

also CLT. 4.

266
jepopht
*j

HERBARIVM
)?8epa^
'j

naebpena

j-lite

jehselej) ^
*j

heo jNaettay
fpylce
^fsey

micjeap^

flean^
'j

acpelle)?

lieo

eac
"*

ealle

punba
aftype]?

jelacna^

heo

eapjroSlicnyj'j^e

mi5]7an

'j

heo

]7a

cynehcan able

jehselej?

-j

heo on

ecebe jepealb pylle peocum^ helpe)?.

peop pypt conize

pipe^

unbep

jeleb''

on psetepe jepoben j pitrenbum heo 6one cpij7an^ ajzeopma)?.

Gyp pip cennan^ ne masje nime ]?ypye ylcan pypte pop mib puUe bo on ]?a jecynbehcan pona heo J^a
cenmncje^^ jeppemej?.
pyj)

on ele Sa pepopap beo^ ppam anybbe,

pij?

Sa colan pepopap jenim J^ap ylcan pypte peoS Jjonne ]7one ele fmype^^ |7one lichainan

mm

heapob ece )>yppa pypta jenim 6a la^ppan pypc to clyl?an leje to 6am pape heo hiu jeliSijaJ?.^^

Foxep
Solanum
insanum, or

jlopa.^^

cxLiv.
J?e

Pi6 Oman jenim

}>yppe

pypte leap

man tpycnop

manicop

'j

oSpum naman poxep

clopa^* nemne]? pypc

jeliSijaJ?.^^

Sodomeum.

to clypan leje to ]7am pape hyt

pypeljenbe^^

^ SP^cap eppmam nemnaS ;5enim J>ap ylcan pypte 6e pe tpycnop manicop nembun^^ "j pmebeman^^ pypc to cly]?an leje to ];am pajie hyt by)? jehseleb.^^
PiJ?
lic^'^

'

>a)ja,

B.

micsar, B.
"

>iean, B.
'

'

-nerre, B.
;

reocum, H.
cpit>an,

piye,

H.
'"

Seleb, V. omits

Keleb, B.

**

H.
'''

"

csennan, H. B.

caenmcse, H.; caenninse, B.

folios

" fmyjia, B.
in

-eSaiS, B.
fol.

" From the transposition of the

60.
'^

v., this article is at

cloya

had a

tail

added to the c
'

in H.,
'^

making g
H.
'

slop, B.
'

'"

-eSa'5, B.
-

P'pliS-, B.

lie,

-bon, B.

)-mebman, H. B.

Jehseleb,

B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,

ETC.

267
killeth gnats, Art.
cxliii.

a plaster, healeth bite of snakes, and

it

and midges, and fleas, and it also cureth moreover, all wounds, and it stirreth stranguryj and it healeth the kings evil,^ morbus regius, or jaundice, and when
exhibited in vinegar,
2.

it

healeth the epileptic.

This wort conyza, sodden in water, and mulieri

Si parere mulier nequit,

sedenti supposita matricem purgat.

3.

lana ad naturam eius

succum huius herbse cum applices, cito partum perficiet.

take this same wort, seethe
oil,

4.
it

For the cold

oil,

fevers,

in

then take the

smear
lesser
it

the

body; the
worts,
it

fevers will be forced away.

5.

For head ache, take the

it
it.

of these

work

to a poultice,

apply

to

the sore

re-

lieveth

Foxglove,
1.

cxliv.

Falsely,

Digitalis

purpurea.

For inflammatory sores, take leaves of this wort, which is named a-Tpv)(^voi [^uvitco^, and by another name
foxglove,^

work

to a poultice, lay to the sore; it will

give
2.

relief.

For a pimply body, which the Greeks name spTrri^, take this same wort which we named strychnos manikos, and fine flour, work to a poultice, lay it to
the sore
;

it

will be healed.

Kings

evil, 'U-vepou.

Dioskor.

Strychnos manikos is Solanum insanum fairly drawn, MS. v., fol. 60 a, not an English plant, and certainly not The leechdoms here recorded seem derived from foxglove.
^

what Dioskorides says of the

(bvK'Aa, KarccTrXoca-crofAevcx, dpf^o'C^ei
itpoq

o-rpu^voij

KriitccToq

namely,
epTVi^rcct;
;

to.

epva-nteAocra,

kou

and

so

on of

K(pa,'ko(,Xyicx,

and

c7TOjt>cap^o<j

Kavcrov^evoc;

and

uraXyia..

(iv. 71.)

2(j8

HERBARIVM
lieajzbcj'
j-ajie
-j

PiS cypnlu
I'mype^

jnS

pyyy

iiiajau

liaetaii^

'j

]n6

jenim
J>a

paj-

ylcan

pypue

mib

ele

jecnucube

pap by* toplupaS

eajiena yape jenini J?ippe^

pi]7

ScBjia*^

rylfJm

VYV'^^

peap

mib

jiopan*^ j'eape

bpype on p

eajie.

CXLV.

Pi5 pone bjujean^

jlj'-cvpibam j

pepop jenim

]>ap

])ypte

Se

man

oSpum naman

nemne]? pyl on
liyt ppema]?^^ nytlice.

j)eapmum paetepe pyle bpmcan

6ac^^ ppylce
psepe^^ lippe
-j

peop

pylpe

pypt fepa^^ bpeopta pap

'j

-j

psepe^^ blsebpan

paejia^'*

sebjiena

nnb

jepobenan^^

pme

jeba^lep

eac

beo^^ pypfuenbon pone

puppt: jebpi^aS.^^

PiS leabtpap bjep mupep pypj'e ylcan pypte pvjit:tpuma^^ jeetjen o^^e ;5ebpuncen^ pel ppemaS ^^ -j pa leabtpap jebselep '^^ eac^~ beo piinba jebaBlep Sgepmib'*^'^
jepepebe

"j

pe

pyjifcjiuma

ppa

pome^* f YY^Y^ 5^"

;^eappa^ ac

na ppa

peab ppa pceapplice.

CXLVI.

man jemijan ne mjeje jenim Syj'pe oppum naman pypttpuman Se man ptputmm
Pi^^
'f
'j

pypte

nemnep

pyle Sicjean^^ be pone

mij'San aptype"S.

'

haecan, B.

Secnocobe, B.
"

'

r^^yjiaj !>

hiS> ^^

^ ^
''

j-lupa'S,

B.

"

hapa, B.
'"

}>is,

II.

illegible in
'^

V. H.

**

povan, B.
'-hajia,

bjiiSean, H.; bpigan, B.

J'ape, B., twice.
'^

yjiama'5,
'^

H.

Cac,
'"

B.

" hapa, B.
-ej;a'5,

-non, B.

hyo, H., an unusual

'"

spelling.
-"
-''

B.
--

"*

-tjxuman, H.

gebju'incen, B.
-*

ypamaS, H.
jncjan,
IT.

'-'

Sehseleb', B.

edc,

H.

-'

J^ap,

B.

j-ame, B.

B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
3.

ETC.

209
Foxglove.

For sore of head, and for heat of the maw, 0?' domach, and for kernels, take this same wort, pounded with oil, smear the sores; they shall be dissipated.
4.

For

sore of the ears, take this

ear.

same worts

juice

with juice of rose, drip into the

Liquorice.^
1.

CXLV.

Glykyrrhiza glanduUfera.

For the dry fever, take this wort, which is named yXvxvppit^a, and by another name liquorice, boil in warm water, give to drink, it will be of benefit and
advantage.

same wort healeth sores of the breast, and of the liver, and of the bladder, and of the kidneys, if sodden with wine. It also re2.

In like manner,

also, this

lieves the
0.

thirst

for the

thirsty.

For blotches of the mouth, a root of this same wort, eaten or drunk, is of good benefit, and healeth It also healeth wounds washed therewith the blotches. and the root also, in like manner, atchieveth the same,
yet, however, not so sharply or efficaciously.

Gypsoph'da

Latfierwort or Urowsoap.^
1.

CXLVI.
,

In a case a man
<TTpo6^iov^

may

stiutlnum, Spr., or rather

not mie, that

'is,

for

re- Saponaria
is
officinalis.

tention of urine, take a root of this

wort,

which
,

named

and by another name

stirreth the urine.

ad-

minister this;

it

The substance of the articles is found in DIoskorides. The drawing, MS. V., fol. 60 b, is wholly destroyed. ^ The originator of the article is Dioskorides (ii. 193). The drawing, MS. Y., fol. 60 c, has only the pointed ends of a few leaves left. The Flora Graeca and the drawino; in the Vienna codex make ^rpovdicv, Saponaria officinalis.
*

270

HERBARIVM

Pi^ lipep seocnyfj-e* -j pi^ nyjipyt "j pi^S ppi-Slicne hpacan^ jenim pyppe pypte to bupte jecnucubpe anne^ cuculepe pulne pyle bpmcan on li]?an beope* hyt ppama^ .^ ^j eac^ hyc )7one mno^ pi^ jjsep eallan^ tojotennyppe jejlabaS -j f ypel popiS jelaebej?.

f ptanap on blaebpsen pexen jenim ^ap pylpan pypte fcputium 'j lubafuican pypttrpuman -j -Saepe^ pypte^^ ^e man cappapip hate^ cnuca topomne pyle bpmcan on li'Son beope^^ hyt tolypej? ^^ -Sa bljebpan "j ^a stanap pop^ jelaebe)?^^ ^j eac^'* )?8epe'^ miltan pap hyt tolype)?. yrS hpeoplan^^ jenim J^ap ylcan pypte -j melup -j
Pi]?

eceb

cnuca

tojaebpe^'^

leje

to J?am hpeoplan'^ he

bi'S

jelacnub.^^

6pt

-Seop pylpe pj^pt

mib bepenum melupe on pme

-j

jepoben ealle ypele

topepe]?.

heapbnyppa^^

jejabepunja

heo

^^

CXLVII.

Sempervivum
arboreum.

Beop
jecpeben
^

PVTit

^e
ip

ip

heo hapa^ elne lanjne ftelan on pmcpep^^ jpeatnyppe^* 'j heo ys pel popij^^ "j heo hapaS psette leap on^ pmsy
-j

peo

pi Ipylce

aizon H o'Snum
i i

naman

heo pymle cpicu^

heo eac by}> hpilon on pealle^^ jepeteb 'Seos pypt mib meolupe jecnucub^^ jehaele]?'^^ msemjpealbe^^ untpumnyppa*^* ^aep
jepep^^ Isenje
'j

'^^

heo ht6 cenneb^^ on

bunum

''

nefj-e, B. jTiematJ, B.
'

hpacan, B.
"

jecnocobpe senne, B.
'

beojie,

B.

eac,
>"

H.
eac,

seallan,

H.
B.

on bla&bpan, H.
'2

'3
'^

J>ape,

B.

pyptp, H.
'*

" bcope, B.
*

^5^

selsebe^, B.

H.

|>ape,

>

hpeoylan, B.
_nejya, B.

-bepe, H. B.

'
2'

hpeojrlan, B.

-nob, B.
;

20

-nyfj-e,
plies
;

H.

Fol. 59, V., of the recent binding

""

see art. xlix.

-^

cuca, B.
,

grammatici."

pnjpef H, B.
lines.

" pofi,

O.,

and omits three

smgrenan, O. supcpicu, altered to cpice, H. " Morosi 2* -nejje, B. ; V. omits five words. '^^ 27 pngpes, H. B. leaj: in, B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
2.

ETC.

271

For liver sickness, and for oppression of the I^atherwort "'' Crowsoap. breast, and for a violent hreaking, take a spoon lull Art. cxlvi.

11-

i>

1 1

of

tliis

wort, beaten to dust, administer

;

it

in lithe or

soft beer

it

will be beneficial.

And

it also

comforts

the inwards against effusion of the

bile,

and conveys
take
this

away
3.

the mischief

In

case

stones

wax

in

the

bladder,

same wort struthium, and a root of lovage, and of the wort which is called capparis or capers, pound together, administer to drink in lithe mild beer, it will and relieve the bladder, and leadeth forth the stones
;

it also
4.

relaxeth the sore^ of the spleen.

Against leprosy, take this same wort, and meal, and vinegar, pound together ; apply to the leper, he
will be cured.
5.
'

Again, this same wort, with barley meal sodden

evil

in wine, removes all

hardnesses

or

indurations

and gatherings.
Orpine, or livelong.^
]
.

CXLVII.
otsl^ooov,

SedumTelephium is the

This wort, which

is
,

another
quick,

name
it

denominated is as though

and by

largest English
'^P
*^
*
'

it

were always

hath an ell long stalk of the greatness of a finger, and it hath fat leaves of the length of a finger. It is produced on downs, and it also is someThis wort, pounded with times planted on a wall. meal, healeth manifold infirmities of the body, that

and

Skirrhus, in Diosk.

See

art.

xlix.

The
is

The

figure in

MS. V.

article is from Dioskorides, iv. 89. an altered likeness. The Vienna MS.

has a correct figure of Sempervivum arboreum, Fl. Gr. 478.

28
3^

lense, B.

-^

csenneb, H. B.
^'

V. has lost some words.

^3

8"

peallon, B.

Secnocob, B.

-hal-, O.

_i^^^ jj.

34

^nerra, B.;

-nelTe, O.

272
liclioman'
lice]'
'j

HERBARTVM
p \y bejij'tenbe lic~ "j fojijiotubnyj^ye^ );a3y eajena j'ajinvfye'^ 'j hfetan 'j jiojib^epnebnyfTe'*
f'lnj''^

ealle ]?ay

lieo jehsele]?.

PiS heajzob ece jenim J^yj^j'e ylcan^ PYP'^^ V^Y aizon mib poyan^ poj^e jemenjeb** bejeot f heapob J7?e]i" mib hyt jelibija]?^^ ^ yaji.^^ PiS )78ejie^^ nemnej; jeuim
n?ebpaii
})aj'

plite

}>e

man
aizon

j-palanjioneni
)\v]e

ylcan

pyjite

bjuncaii

on

hauon^'*^ pme.^*

Gpt bo f
-j

yylpe pi8 utpiht

-j

pi^

pyjimaj'

on mno'Se

pi(S

ppiSlicne^^ cyle

hyt ppema'S.

Gllen.
]}v6
pseteji
"j

CXLVIIL
i^enim
J?ap

peocnypj'e

^^

pypte
]?am
])a

]>e

man

Otherwise

pampuchon
jepyllebe^

oSjium

naman

ellen liatej^^' pyle

bpmcan
pseteji-

Amaracus, or
Oriyariuni

heo

jehnaece]?

Sa

anjmnn
pi6

maioranoides

peocum

eac^^ fpylce lieo^^

ppema]?^^

unmihtic-

(Kuhn).

nyj'pe^^ ]?^p

mijSan
j

-j

piS ];?epia^^ mno'Sa aptypunja.*"^

])r&

ppjnnjap

piS

troboppten

lic~'^
'j

i^enim

J\vpp('
-j

ylcan pypte leap

pampuchon jebjujebe
leje to J>am

jecnucube*^"

mib liumje jemencjebe^^

})eppt:an
-j

pajie liyr pceal

halian.

PiS
pealr
-j

pcojipionep

fumcj^'^

jemm
-j

]7ap

ylcan

pyjite

-j

eceb

cnuca topomne

to plaptpe

jepyjic leje

to

bam ftmje he

bi^ ^ehseleb.

'

-hamau, B. O.
^

lie,
"

II.

nej'j'c,

B.
yof.

-neyye, B.,
'

twice.
**

JJinsc,

H
'='

ylcan, O. omits,

and

]>ofan,

O. O.

-mcenj;-, B.
'Sajia,

" )>a)i,

B. O.
'

'" -et;a'b\

B.
'**

"
last

for,

''^ '

B.
Hi

haron, B.
'-'

V. omits the three

II.
-'-

words.

licne,

eac,

H. H.
'

-nej-pe, B.

' harab', B.

^ej-jnlebe, II.

-"

he, B.

ipama^,
his

-nejja, B.

' apa, B.
had
-'

-unj;e,

H.

B. has here a folio missing, and the leaf

been
.58,

cut
p.

out
120.

before

Junius
"lie,
11.

made
II.

transcript.
-'

MSS.

Bodl.

Junius,

j;ecnube. TI., so before.

t;enuenet;ehe, II.

-^

freuex;,

FROM DIOSKOUIDES,
is,

ICTC.

273
of

bursting

body,-'^
tlio
it

and
eyes,

pnirefacfcion

the

body,

Oupine, or
Art. cxivii.

and soreness of
All tlieso tilings
2.

and

heat,

and bad burns.

healetli.

For liead aclie, take ooze of this same wort aizoon, mingled with ooze of rose, drench the liead
therewitli
3.
;

it

relieveth the sore.

For wound

fmm

tlie

poisonous
as drink,

insects

called

(paXuyyiu,
this

or tavaiitidas, give

in liot wine,

in

same wort aizoon. h. Again, do tlio same for diarrhcra, and the inwards, and for a violent chill.

for

worms

It is bene-

ficial.

_
1.

Sambucus

ElDER.1>

CXLVIII.

nUjra.

But.

For water sickness, that is, dropsy, take this wort, which is named (rui/.^uy^ov, and by another

name
in like
ui'ine,

elder,

administer
tlic

to

drink

boiled,

it

checketh
Also,
to

the beginnings of

disease

for the dropsical.

manner,

it

is

beneficial for inability

pass

and for stirring ^ of the bowels. 2. For carbuncles,<^l and for bursten body, or hreaJcings out, take leaves of this same wort samsuchum, dried and pounded, and mingled v/ith honey, lay it to the sore it shall burst and heal. 3. For sting of scorpion, take this same wort, and salt, and vinegar, pound together, and work to a
;

plaster,

lay to the

sting; the

man

will be healed.

By
"

the text of Dioskorides,

(jiXey^uoi/cii;,

Ttpl^ cpva-i-rceXara, epTC^roc^, vofxccq,

c(f)6a'kiJ.o)!/

TTvpinccva-Ta,

it

a.ppears

that

" l^ursting

body

means breaking out

iii.

into eruptions.
is fol.

^ Dioskorides,

fruclification
f"

The drawing was drawn spiked, MS. Y.,

47.
o-Tpor/)o:'//evwv.

mostly gone 59
b.

the

Griping, from Diosk.

Diosk. only,
aipei

''

iircoTtia.^

wccds.

274
*

HERBARIVM
])r6

micele

lisetcan

*j

piS jeppel ^?e]ia eajena jenun

Sap pylpan pyjite mib nielupe

^lepophtre

jema^ncjebe

'j

to

cli(5an

leje to )?am eajon

hy bi5

jeliSijab.

CXLIX.

peop pypt
nemnej?
lieo pylp

(Se

man
pseb

ftecap

"j

o]?pum namanfiiiael
'j

liaepS

mycel

'j

p yp

jelipsebe

*j

yp boj^ene
leap
'j

jelic^ buton'* p heo

ptit)epan.'''

ha^aS punion

b?ele

mapan

Genim

]?ap

pypte

jepobene pyle bjuncan heo

J^sepa

bpeopta pap Bac hyt

jehsele]?.

bum

jepmiehc^ p hy bpenceon jemencje.

ip

man

to

manejum

30-

CL.

Deop pypt^
lencje^^
j

c5e

man
^j

thyappip^^

*j

o]?]ium

nam an ^^
pmjpep
ahylbenbe

nemnej> hapa]?
*j

pmsele'~
prS
J^a

leap

on

tobfelebe
^*

nyj^eji

eojij^an

heo hapaS
ealne
'j

upepeapbum

Synne ftelan "j lanjne -j heo hapaiS on hsopene bloptman 'j p yeeb by]? cenneb'"'
ptelan
'^^

jmb

];'one

eal

'Seop

pyjit ip ftjianjpe

jecynbe

^yppe pypte pop pel jepjmnjen -j jebpuncen ealle pa bitepnyppe Se op an^'^ pcenc^^ ))am jeallan C}aneJ) heo Suph "Sa jemcenelican neobe j Sujih fpipcSan ut anybe]?.'^
bitteppe
pul

'

Only a
H.

fev/ letters
*

remain in V.
11.
''

H. omits the useless words.

Selic,

butan,
''

-)iau, 11.
* II.

In

V. the rubrieator
^
^'^

put
'" >^ "* '

for G.

-lie, II.
11.
'^

omits bp.

I'y]*^^

tiapif,

O.

"

omits the useless words.

'*

smale, H.

Isen^e, 11.
hitejie, II.
fol.

V. omits seven words.

11.,

esenneb,
'"

H.
H.

" an,

but by the " morosus."

|*CPnc,

70 in V. misplaced.

FROM DI0SK0RIDE8,
4,

ETC.

275
Er>r>Ki?.
'

For inickle heat and swelling of tlie eyes, take the self same wort, mingled with meal, and wi'ought
to a cataplasm; lay to the
e3'^es,

^^ ^'"'

they be relieved.

French lavender.^
1.

cxltx.
arix'^g,
a-roix'^g,

Lavandula
.'ifffcha.'i.

J3ot.

This wort, which

is

named
,

by another name
the seed
is

hath mickle
it

seed,

and and

is

small and diminutive, and the wort itself

like

bothen or thyme, except that

stiffer leaves.

hath in some
it

degree larger and

2.

Take
Also

this wort, sodden, administer

in

liquid

it

healeth sore of the breast.

3.
it
is

customarily

mingled

for

many good

drinks.^

Shepherds
1.

piirse.^

CL.

Thjmus
campestris {Sprengel).

is named Q\u(T7ri, and by another i;i small leaves 111 D n name wiiaj thyme, hath 01 a lingers length, and parted, and inclining downwards towards the earth, and it hath a thin and long stalk, and it blossoms, and hath in the upper pctrt of it purple

This wort, which

.77/7

Kather Thlaspi
j,^^^^ pastoris.

^^

the seed
this

is

produced
strongish

throughoat

all

the

stalk.

All

wort
of

is

and

bitterish
out,

by

nature.

The

and a cup full drunk, by the common necessary evacuations and by spewing forces out all the bitterness which cometh of
ooze
this

wort well wrung

the

gall.

From

Dioskorides,

iii.

31.

The

figure in

the same as that of

Cummin, art. Clv. a figure judged by Prof. Daubeny *' pretty good."
^ Miyvvroci Se Ka)
<=

much The Vienna MS. has

is

MS. V.

Scvri^oroii;,
ii.

Dioskor.
186.

From

Dioskorides,

"Lepidium or

Ibeiis," (H.).

The drawing in MS. Y. is The Vienna MS. draws Shep-

herds purse, not Wild thyme.

d "f'Ko'KevKov is YViiheT

pinky lohitish.
s 2

270

IIERBAIUVM
])a
y):('laii

Bdoy Yy\ye pyp'c callo mnopep heo }:opnimo]> "j

lican^ afrypeS.

;^e5ahe]iunje

\iGX

eac' f]>ylce

heo

pi).a

moiioS-

Omnimojibia.

clt.
'j

Deop
hy])

pyp'c

)>e

man
^

poliop

o]>pum

iiarnan

omniliata];>

moj)bia neninej)
ceniieb'*

eac

yume
"j
''

meu"^

on

buniim
apenbe])
'j

heo op
*j

anum pypfcjuiman
lm]:a);
-j

maneja
yiBb

reljjiaii

heo on npepepbum
hepe^^on ppa}ce
^^

ppjdce

cpoppap

heo

ip

hpon

pepebpe on bypjmcje.
Pii5

npebpan phte jenim

paBteji

]^>'ppe

pyj^te yoy

pohop on
inno'tS

pa3tepe jepoben pyle

^

bpmcan
bo

hyt: jehoele}^ "Oone phre.

]3

]^iS

peocnyfTe

yy]ye

hyt
p^'^j^te

J^one

alype];.

piS miltan pajie jenim

J^ap

ylcan
lieo

pohop peoS
milr peocan

on ccebe
jelinele]^

pj'le

bjuncan
pylpe

nj'trhce

])onc

seleb

on hupe jeptjieb oJ>]:e onnnsbpan aphje]; ^ eac ^ ppylce heo nipe pnnba
'Seop

pypt:

popnnne]^.

CLIT.
JTfipcricum
in the\n^eiina

Deop
c<^]^^<^^^

pypt
nemnej?

]7e

man hypepicon
jehcnj^ppe
*j

-j

oj.^juim

nainan
hapa);

po]i

cymenep

heo

MS., and not cnspnm,

leap^^juiban jehcc^^
peaxa]>^~
'j

op
*j

anum

frelan

mancja teljpnn
ppvlce
-j

];a

peabe

heo

hapa];

bloj'tman^'^

banpypt

"j

heo hapaS

bepian pynepealte

Ijpon

hmje

'

eac, II.

monoS, not
'

lican, H.,

and the

foraier o erased.

"

II.

omits the useless M^ords.

"

heo
"

bi'tS

caenneb,

H.
^
'-

aj'sen-

be'5, II.

hepson
'^

)')'tecce,

II.

II.

omits this
II.

line.

eac,

H.

"-lie-,

II.

B.

'"k'ay, B.

" gelice,

B.

peaxe'S, B.;

]Hxt'i?, II.

bloj'man, B.

^
l>i;i

From
in

DioskoridcFt,

iii.

124.

''Polios''
9.

is

also

Omiiiinorart.

Isidoriis Orig.
fiijures in

xvii.

= XYiii.

See back,

Lvni.

The two

MS. V.

are unlike.

FllOM DlOSKOlUDEo, ETC.

277
Shki'ukuds
Ar't'd'

2.

This same wort reinovcs

inwaixls,

all

the evil gatherings of

the

and

it

also

likewise

provokes

ra

txv

OmNIMOHLIA/^
1.

CLI.
ttoKiov,

and by another name omnimorbia, and wliicli also some nien call is produced on downs, and it npsendebli many tv/igs out of one root, and on the upward part it hath seeds as bmiches,^ and it is heavy of savour and somewhat sweetish of taste. 2. For bite of snake, take ooze of this wort polium,
This wort, \Yhich
is
,

named

sodden in water, give

3.

it

to drink

it

hoaleth the bite.

it

For water sickness or dropsy, do the same,

For sore of
it

relaxes the inv/ards.

4.

milt,

take this same wort poliun),

it

seethe
it

in vinegar,

administer
sick.

to

drink,

usefidly

healeth

the

milt

This

same

wort

spread

forth in a house, or burned, turns to flight snakes,

it also

and

taketh

away new wounds.

^

CLII.

Ut/pcriciim

and by another name xopiov, for its likeness to cummin, hath leaves like rue, and of one stalk many shoots wax, and they, red, and it hath blossoms as bone wort, and it hath spherical berries, and somewhat long of
1.

This

wort,

which

is

named

vn^piKov,

eV ccKpov KopvfA^oei^eq corymbose head like hoar hair.

^ Ke<|>a/aov

wq TToXiav tpiya^ Diosk.,

a small
traiis-

The next
'^

clause

is ill

hitcd
tliiiig
c

by our text

Diosk. has

heavy of
b,

smell, Avitli

some-

of agreeable in the odour."

V.,
fol.

The drawing, MS.

70

has outline of//, crispum,

From Dioskoridcs, iii. 161. but die red of //. corls. Hypericum coris, Bot. clause about cummin differs
;

The
is

the

plant (Sprengel).

278
on
bejiey mycelnyfj^e
I'pylce

HEUBAKIVM
on J^am yy
j

sseb

'j

]>

ypeajit

*j

on

j'psece

tyjipe

'^

lieo

bi^

cenneb^ on bejanum
*j

fropum* mijjmn
jyp hy

^eoy
afuyjie]?

y)]^^
*j

jecnucub^

jebjumcen
punbojilice

]K)ne
be]?

lieo ]>a

mono'Slican

man Sam

jecynbelican lime unbepjele^e]?.'*

pr6 J^one pepop pe ]?y peopt)an bseje on man becjane]?^ jenim pap ylcan pyjite jecnucube^ pyle bjuncan
on' pme.

^Pib fepa^ pceancena'^ S^TF^^ 'J ^^ jenim pyppe ylcan pyjite p^eb pyle bjuncan on pme bmnan^^ peopejitijan ^^ bajon he hv6 jeliaeleb.

CLIII.
Cnicus acania,
or Eclnnops
in the
^^'
^

Vienna
'^

'j

Beop pypt pe man acanta leuce "j oSjium naman ^^ nemnep byS cenneb^* on fuaeniTum^^ ptopum on bunmn "j lieo luipap leap j'pylce^*^ pulpef camb
meajipjian^^
"j

ac hi^^ beop
-j

hpitpan

'j

eac

jejmppan^^

lieo hapa'(S

tpejea^^ elne lancne^^

oStSe

fcelan

on

pinjjicp

3] leatny fie ^^

pumon

bsele^^ majian.
"j

PiS

'^^^

man

blobe

lip8Bce~^

piS psep

majan pape

jemm

ylcan^^ Pyj^^^ acantaleuce cnuca to bujxe pyle bpmcan on~^ psetejie''^^ anne'^^ cuculejie^^ pulne liyt
(Sap

ppemaS''^^ pel.
Pi(S piep^^
j'pa

mi;5San apt^^jumje jenim paji ylcan pyjite

lieo

poj'ije

jecnucube^^ pyle bjnncan

Sone mijSan

pojiS^^ ^elsebep.^^

'

cyjise, H., crej>s.

csennebj

II.

B.
^

gecuocob, B.

'

-leg's, B.

-lei'S,
^

H.; rather
**

lai/l/i,

than luycth,
'-

becym'6',

B.
"

gechocobc, B.
'"

on, II.

11.

often puts the slops in this way.

hajia,

B.

ycanc-,

JJ.

" binnon, B.
cacnneh, H. B.
'^

-tigon, B.

'-'11.
'"

O, omit the useless words.

"

fccn-,

H.

fjnlcef,

O.

'"

his, B.

'

So B.;
B. O.
B.

niealu]')an,
?;el)U}))an,
-'^

V.

meajuij'fian, II.;
-"
^^

mcarujnan, O.
O.
is
^^
"'
j>,

'''eac I>u]pan, II.;

^'

B.

tj'eSjui,

II.,

-without accent, B.

langne,
-^

II.

-nejje, B.

ol>>er

fum

bale,

H. omits.
3'

h]8&cc,
'-''

pljan, B.

jjeofj'.,
*^

O.; ylcan in V.
renne, B.
^^

dotted for erasure.

cucelerne, O.
="

on, II.

patere, O.

jjiama'S, II.

3- ]>9by,

H. omits.

sccuocobe, B.

uc for

}oja'S,

B,

"

aleebe'S,

B.

FROivi dio,skoiiidii:h,

etc.

279
is

the mickleness or size of beer or barley, on which

Art.

clii.

the seed, and that swart and in smack as

it
is

tar.-^

And

produced in cultivated
the
xaTa/xrjvia,

phices.

This wort pounded

and drunken
Avondrously
naturalia.
2.

stirreth the inie or uririe,

if it

and it moves be hiid under tlic

day, that

For the fever which cometh on man the fourth is, a quartan, take this same wort, pounded,
to the iKiiient to

give
3.

it

drink in wine.

For swelling and aching of the shanks,^ take seed of this ilk wort, give it to drink in wine; within
forty days the

man

will be healed.

^
1.

CLIII.

Cat'duus leu^

This wort,

which

is
,

named
is

ukuv^ol \svkyj,

and by

produced in stony places and on downs, and it hath leaves as wolfs comb, but they be tenderer and whiter and also tiiftier, and it hath a stalk two ells long of the greatness ^ of a
another
^^

name

TsprenLl). Kather
lamigmosus.

linger or

some deal bigger. 2. In case that a man break blood, and for sore of the maw, take this same wort acantha leiike, pound it

to dust, give the

full
3.
;

man

to drink

in

water,

one spoon

it

serveth well.

For stirring of the mie or urine, take this same wort, so oozy, pounded, give to drink it forth leadeth
;

the mie.

^
-

Smelling of resin, in Dioskoridei?,

p-^riv^^ otfiv,
\<7y^^o^aq
iiv)

Compare the

original, B^aiif.vn Se

-qyApaq

/x. tci

o-TTt-p/xa TTivojt/.eiov.

Sciatica; the beverage

14.

is

administered for

the forty days.

^

From

Dioskorides,
it is

iii.

a carduus, and

" not

The drawing in MS. V. is not much like " (II.) crafcBgus oxyillegible,
it

ucantha, which would have been interpreted whitethorn.

^^

There

had

been

something

should

be

'

narrower,'
^

c-Tevwrepa.
7ra%o?,

Thickness,

Diosk*

280
PiS
clyj;aii

HERBAlllVM
5T^^^ \i\^lii jenun le^e to ])am j'Mjie
p}'!^^^
jsBjia''^
)^a]'

y^^^^^

VyV^^
apyjuiioj'

""^'^

Vi]^^
-^

Iieo

hyu

l^yri'^

8yl]:an

liyne

iinxri

YY^^^ ypa peapmne on Jmin

]\ypye

to}a

j'aji^

5t'lr5i;5ab^

jyp
^^"

mupe
ylcan^

jeliealbe)?.^
PYP"^*-'

prS hjiaininan jenim'

ciiuciib^ j^ylc bjimcaii

T^^
pel

bjienc^^

eac

]'pylce

on j'astejie^*^ liyr onjean n?ebb]iena

lielpcj^ j'e

sylpi
ppe-

ylite

6ac^^ fpylce jyj: mon^'* [ap pvjite on mannej' fpypan alieli'6'^ heo naebbpan ayly^e]}}^

[Beopy]\u]
Onopordon
(iciwthium, or
J//i/ricii7ii.

^'^

CLIV.
'j

Deop
pyjit^^
j

pyjit

]?e

man

acanton

oj'jium

naman

beo''^'''

nemne'O
^j

b}^)^^^

cenneb^^ on pynj'umon*^ ptopum

nii5];an

Sibihori) and the fig. in tlie

on pietuni

eac~^ fpylce on rctynijum.

'j

Vienua MS.

Pi8 Ja3p^^ mnoj^ep afuj^punje

buj'te jecnucubne^^ p}le bjuncan
])i])

J^iep

jenim
-j"^

Jjyj'pe 5'lcan pyjite^^ pyjittjuinian-^ jebjiijebne^^

to

on peajimnm
J^e

]?iBtc]ie.

lunjen able
bejiej^

'j

pit)

jelipylce ypelii^^
pvj^t

on ]nim^^
6^)^^5^^

inno(3e
):ani

Seop
liepi

pylpe

pel

pjiemaS^^

jelice pe pe

bepojian cppebon.^^

Cyinen.
py(5
nian^'*
]78ep

CLV.
]\yppe
'^^

inajan

pajie

jcnim

quninnmon ^ opjmm naman

pypte ]a?b j;e"^^ cymen nemne]?

'

ajyjipeS, H. B., removes.

'

r-ibe,

B.

"

I'ajia,

B.

'

plji,

B.

^-esa'5, B.
'-'

-bee'S, II.

scnim,
j'arcra,

II.

hifTe

fjccS,

O., fol.
II.;

39-5.

Secuocob, B.; -cab, O.

jjiama'??, II.
'^

'

O.
in

" biifcnc,

bjiync, B.

'-

This a omitted
'" afly?;(5,

V.
''

is

from

II.

" man, B.
'-"

'^

sjieofian

aheS,
"*
21

II.

O.
'"

bc-oj'yjir,

text of V., index

of V. O.

beopurr, O.

byj>, etc.,

O. omits.
-'

csenncb,
ha;)'.
"j,

n. B.
omits.
5,
3-^

_j.uniu, B.

"
'-"

laube, II.

eac, II.

-'

O.

hilTe jiyrr,

O.

-men, O.

"
="

-be, II. O.
yfele,

-^
^'

also
IJ.

O. omits.

'-"-be, II.;
II.

Sccnocobe, B.
=='

0.
^'
1>,

ham,
0.,

-me'5, O.; )jamaS,

-rem

cj'icSon, O.

quam.

3*

man,

II.

^"^

naman,

11.

FllOM DIObKUlllDES, ETC.

281
to a
Art.
cliii.

4.

For

evil

woals/''

take
it

tliis

same wuii, work

it
;

l)oiillice,

lay to the sore,

purgetli

the

decoction
teeth if a

of this
niaii

saijie

wort
it,

relievetli the sore of the

on the moutli.^ 5. For cramps, take seed of this same wort, pounded, give to drink in water, it helpeth. The same drink
holdeth
so warn),
also,

likewise serveth well against bite of snakes.

6.

In

like

manner
it

also, if this

wort
flight.

is

hung upon a

mans

neck,

settetli

snakes to

EEWORT
1.

CLTV.
axdvOiov,

Knikos
erioj'oros,

This wort, which

is
J-

named
^

and by anplaces/^
J^

other

name beewort,

is

i)roduced

in
_

winsome

Avoolly leaved thistle is the

'

nearest

wet ones, and also further, in stony ones. 2. For stirring of the inwards,^ and of the mie or urine, take a root of this sa.mc Avort, dried and beaten to dust give it to be drunk in warm water. 3. For luno" disease,^ and for the several ills which vex in the inwards, this same wort is very beneficial, taken in the manner which we before mentioned.
in
;

and

English
^^"i^^J*^^^-

Cummin.^'
1.

clv.

Cummum
cy milium. Bot.

For sore of the maw, take seed of this wort, which is named xu/x<vov, and by another name cummin,

'''

Oll-fifxaTaj

Diosk., swellings.
\

^ LiaKkvCjiiMzvav
^

Tinced in the mouth.

Stellariji

holostea
iii.

(H.)
19.

is

tlniwn

MS.

V.,

ful.

Gl

ix.

From
^'
*^

Dioakorides,

Turn

to art. vii.

riapaSt/cr&i^',

parks^ D.
D., the roots Stay the bowels, arc astringent.

KotX/av

la-Taa-i,

Jor consumptive people. E The painting, MS. V., fob 61b, is Originally from Dio.'^korides, iii. 68.
*

ipOicriKoTc,

D.,

^'

very like," (H.)

282
on
ele

HERBAIUVM
jej'obene
"j

mib
yy]\c

yyj:eSoii

jemencjeb
to
clyj7an

-^

'j

]'pa^

tojfebejie

jepylleb

]7onne^

leje

to

'6aia^ inno]7e.

Vi'P
pMeteji^

^yppy"^^
'j

jenim
raenj^

]?s.y

ylcan*^

pyp'^^

quiminon

-j

eceb^

to yomne pyle bpincau^'^

liyt

pjiemaS^^

nytlice

-j

eac on pme^^

jejnjeb^^ lieo nyeb-

bpan
0. condenses,

^*

plite pel jelirele]?.

PiJ;

fepa^^ inno]?a toSunbennyppe^^

pyjic

-j

hietan*^^ jenim

pap ylcan pypte mib pmbepian^*^

jecnucube^^

nenon meolupe^^
Sunbennylle.^^

to

clyj^an

mib beaheo jeliiTele); ^a to^^

6ac ppylce blobjiyne^^ op mib ecebe jemaenjcebum.^^

n8epp>yplon

heo jepjuS

CLVI.
Carlina acauhs, or
^

^^Beop pypt
pulpep
'j

]?e

man

camelleon alba

'j

oJ?]uim
"j

naman
cjiop
*j

tospl'^^

nemne]? bapaS leap

pij;epjiebe

]7ypnyhte

/era.

heo

liapa]?

on
-j^^

]?y]inyhtne^^
j'^^

mibban pumiic pmepealtne pe bi]^ bjmn^^ on bloptman^^

sseb
"j

belisepb
-j

he hapaS hpit

hpitne pyjitpnman^^

J'py^e

jeftencne.^^
PiJ>
]>

pypmap on^^

];am inno]?e

ymb

pone napolan
paejie

bejijen

jemm

^ippe ylcan pyjite ])yptt]iuman peap oiSSe

buft pyle bjimcan on

pme oS6e on

pa3te]ie pe

-deji

opjane oS8e bpeojije bpople on jepylleb hyt jmme pa

pyjimap pojiS jelsebep.^^

^
^

Jjone,

-bon gemsensbe, H,; gemsengeb, B. ^ nyj)j)et, B. >8em, H. H.

*

" sj'a,

II.;
^ '"

j^a,

O.

ylcan,

H.

j'seteji,

II.

'^

-be, O.
**-

'^

main?;, II. B.
'^

bjimciin, II.
nrebjian, II.

" jjiama'S, H.
*^

juue, II.
"^

SeMj;eb, B.

"
"^

I^apa, B. O.
'*^

cohunbennej-j-e, B.
;

heSran, II.;
'"

hsetan, B.
cobe, B.
';

lunbejiiuni, II,; jnnbejit^an, B.

o'^'Sc.
-'
-*'

-rie,

O.
-'

?;ecno-

and adds
"^

raelujic,

B.

-nejje, B.

rune, O.

-len, O.

four lines is legible in

2
*

V.
II.
'*

-maeng, B.; -^cb, O.; very little of these -^ D omitted by rubricator in B.

-^ -),

teerel,

B.
B.

'^'

-hte,

H.
^-

tAvicc omits.

'-"

bjiun, 11.
'^

bloyman, B.
Selsebe'S,

-ttji-, II,

Sej-cjencue, B.

6u,

H.

3'

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
sodden in
it
oil,

ETC.

288
Cummin.
^

and mingled with

flour

boiled together, then

work

tltcm to

and when so a plaster, and lay

;

^ v.

to the inwards.
2.

For oppression of the chest, take this same wort cummin, and water and vinegar, mingle them together, and also give to drink, it will prove beneficial
;

swallowed in wine, it healeth well bite of snake. 0. For swelling and heat of the inwards,'^ take this same wort and wine berries, pounded with bean meal,

work
4.

it

to a poultice; it will heal the swelling.

It

also,

further,

restraineth a running

of blood

from the

nostrils,

along with vinegar mingled.

teazle. t"
is

Wolfs
1.

clvi.
p^afcaiXlcov keuKosy

Dipsacus
silvestiis.

This wort, which

named
teazle,

and

by another name wolfs

and thorny,

hath leaves reversed

and it hath in its midst a round and thorny knob, and that is brown headed in the blossoms, and hath white seed and a white and very
fragrant root.

In case worms vex a man in the inwards about the navel, take juice or dust of the root of this same wort, give to drink in wine or in water, on which previously were marjoram or pennyroyal ^ boiled it
2.
;

clean leadeth forth the worms.

Dioskorides had

hi^vy^uv,

a decorous expression for

opx^oju,

the

Latin for

this,

tcsticulorum,

has been translated as

if

intestinorum.

The figures differ. Dioskorides, iii. 10. Klihu and others now fix on Acarna (jummlfera. MS. V. draws Cniciis pratensls (H.) The word "reversed" is not
^

See

art.

xxv.

found hi Dioskorides, but

leaves
^

all

the thistle tribe

protect their

by thorns pointing backAvards

in Dioskor.

as well as forwards.

Only ofiydvw

28^
pyyj'e
sylpaii pyjite
]7a

nEllBAllIVM

pyjitpuman
jepylleb

j:ip

peneja

jepihte

on pine jepijeb'ptjicnjj^e^
lieo

ptetcji

pcocan jebjiijep
*j

'6ap

pylfan
jsep

liapaj)

jcbjiuncen

piS

mijjjan eajipoSlicnypya.'*

CLVII.

Deop

pyjit

);e

man

pcolniibop

"j

oj^jium

nam an ^

nemne)? on pine jepyllcb ^ jebjumcen heo ]?one pulan yrenc^ bsejia^ oxna -j eallep piep licliaman^
apyjipej?.

6ac
mijjjan

ppylce

Seop

pylpe
'j

jrojitSjelsebeJ?

Sone fulptincenban eac halpenbne^ mete mannum

pypt

je^eajipaj).

CLVIII.

Deop

pyj^'c

]^^

man
ip

ijnp illypicam

'j

ocSjium

naman

nemnej?*^

jecpeben

ijiij*

illyjiica

op (5a3pe'^

Ji

mipenlicnyppe^^ hype bloptmena^^ K^]4'y ^* ]^^ ^J' je'Snht heo J;one lieoponhcan bojau mib hype bleoje^^ epen-

la3ce pe^^ ip

on

leben^'^

ijiip
'^
-j

jecpeben

'j

heo on
pexe]?
'j

illy-

heo hapatS leap jUiebenan jehce pa 5]iecap xipian hatap 'j heo hapaS tpumne pyptpuman *j Tpype jefcencne ^'^^ pone man pceal mib hnenan clape bepealban*^ "j on J peeabe^^ ahon oSSet; he jebju^eb beon ma35e popcSy-^
]uco

j^am

lanbe

fpiSopc

f'cpenjofc^'^

hys jecynbe ip ppipe har^^ j plpepbiepe. Gyp hpa mycelne hjiacan '^^ pohje 'j he pone hini eapehee ppam^^ bpmjan ne~^ maDje pop Syc^^}TF *j

'

paenc.sa, II. B.
II.
;

Se>iscb, B.
^ II.

fcjiseiisSe, IF.

'

-nvjjc,

-ncj-jT,
II.

B.
'

omits the useless words,

^

"rtonc, B.; fra-nc,

}8enbc,

haini,

B.

-horn-,

II.

Mial"
'

B.

'"

II.

omits the useless Avoids and iieninep.

'
'

l>njic,

B.

i^-lic-, IL; -uen'c, B.

Llormena, B.
'Mpcben,
-'

"]"]')"?;, B.

'blcoSf, B.

"'SCO, ir.
-" -'

11.

B.
II.

fju'Soj-,

15.

fcjiscnKofr, II.

?;cfraincne, II.

-bon,

j'cabe,

B.

23
-''

YO]r^}^,

B.

hac, II.

-'

hjuican, II.

)jam,

H.

ne, II. omits.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
3.

V/IV.

285
five
is',

root

of this

same wort, by weight of

drieth the water sick, ihat

Wolfs
Art. clvi.

pennies, taken in wine,

abates dropsij

it

hatli tlie

drunken, againsfc difhculties

same strength of the mic or

clvit.

boiled,
tirinc.

and

ArtichoJie.^
1.

Skohpnos
Hifipamctis.

This

wort,

wliich
,

is

named
and of

another

name

boiled in

and by wine, removeth the

a-Kokufio:,
all

foul stench of the armpits,

the hody.

same wort leadeth forth the foul stinking mie or iirme, and also prepares healins^ meat for men.
2.

In like wise

also,

this

Flower de
mi
1.

luce}'

CLVIII.
T
->

Irisforentir.a,
/

This wort, which

is

named
,

Ifiig

IXXvpiKv,^

and by

^"^^

Germa-

nica,

another

name
show
its

is

called iris Illyrica, from

the varieo-ated

is thouHit matcheth the heavenly bow, which in Latin is called iris, and it waxetli most and strongest in the land lUyricum, and it hath leaves like gladden, wdiicli the Greeks hight J/^<ov, and it hath a firm root, and very fragrant; and one shall enfold this with a linen cloth, and hang it up in the shade, till that it be dried, since its kind, or nahire, is very hot and sleep bearing. 2. If one suffer mickle break, that is, a great collection of p/iZeym in the throat, and he may not easily

of its blossoms, since it

it

that with

colour

Originally from Dioskorides,

iii.

16.

Artichoke

is

drawn
inter-

in the

Vienna MS.

KniJws pratcnsis was Sprengels

pretation.
^
is

The drawing
i.

is

Dioskor.,

1.

destroyed, MS. V., fol. 62 a. The original Isidorus, Grig, xviii. 9, ah ridges in nearly

the same words.

286
to
Imej^ce^

HERBARIVM
jenime
oj:

j^fyye

pypte

pj^jitjiuman^

Ssey

bufcc]*

pmrele

jecniicuhe]"*^

bpnican pieytenbe
]>]\y^'

on
lie

tyn pencja'^ jepilite pylle li]70n beope peopeji pcenceap^

bnjap op fet
jelice

yy

jehseleb.^

Dam

]5

bufu^ pyrr^

ri'^F^^'^'^

pyj^"^^
*^^
^j

<^^

lipon'*^

beopc^ jej^ijeb''

8one

plep^"^ onjelaebej)

eac^* pjepa^'*

mno]?a afcypunje
6ac^''

5eliJ?i5aS.^^
]>

ppylce

bupt

J^yppe

y^can pyjxte naebbjiena

']5

plitap

jelacnaj)
]}86p

^^

pylpe

jemet
-j

pe^

heji^^
ijiip

bepojian
poji

cprebon

buptep Syppe ylcan pypte

illyjiice

an mib ecebe
])am~~
J>e

jemencjeb^^
jecynbelice

jebpuncen hyt ppemaS-'

liim

hip

paeb

py]p pyllep pjiam

jepite]? pone leahtoji jpecap jonopboeam nemne];

jyp

hit

];onne

poShce
asp

]?am

ylcan
pipa

msenjeb^^ by)? hit

]>eah
hy-'"^

{^sepa^"^

^emete mib pine jemoNoc^hcan aptyjieS

lanj^e^^ pojilrotene^^ prejion.

PiS cyjmlu "j pi5 ealle ypele^^ cumnlu jenim Syppe^^ ylcan pyptc pyjittjiuman^" ppa anpealhne pel jebpipiSSan ^epobenne'*^^ cnuca hync Sonne ppa jebne "j
''^^

hnepcne
pejiej;.

]>ypc

to

cly]?an leje

to

Sam
pib

pape

liyt

to-

6ac^''^

fpa pome"'''*
'j

hyt

pjiemaiS''''^

fep

heapobep*^''

pape mib ecebc

mib jiopan pope jemencjeb.^"

CLrx.

jenim 'pay pypte pe man ellenemne); bopum album *j oSpnm naman^^ jebpijebe *j to bupte jecnucube^'^ pyle bpmcan^^ on
PiiS

lipep

peocnj'^ppe

'

c,

erased in H., wishing to

make

colmeri'e, toughness.
'

-man,

PI.
;

^ pjcnej;a, H. B. -cnuc-, H.; j;ecnocobe]% B. ^ ?;ehreleb, B. hpiS. B. seoyon ^-csenceay, K. "* li'cSan, B. " beojie SeHseb, B. ylcan, H.
J

j-csencaj-,
"

B.

haes b.,
>'"

Osep,

H. H.
H.
B.

'3

-Mb-, B.
_ijic-,

"eric,
'"

ir.

'M'apa, B.
'"

'

-e^a'S, B.
"'

Cac, 11.

18
''"-

B.

heji,

B.

St^nifcnSeb,
11.
"^

H. B.
"'

j-pama'S,
-^ hix;,

)78em, II.

-^

j:;emete?;ub,

V.

I'apa, B.
-^
ciaj',

lan?;e,

B.

-'

voplaebe, II.
="

yyelu, B.

II.,

exp-^cting
II.

an accusative.

-man,

II.

^'

sebpijebe, H.

"-bene,

B.

FROM DIOSKORfDES,
bring
'

ETC.

287

aiuay from him for its thickness, and as too flower df. nesli, let liini take of the dust of a root of tliis ^ ';''*f-... Art. clvni. wort, pounded small, by weight of ten pennies, give
it
,
.

to

drink

to

the

sufferer,

fasting,
tliat

in

lithe

beer, four

draughts for three days,

8.

till

he be healed.

Like to

jthat,

the dust of this same wort taken

in

lithe

beer leadeth

on
also,

sleep,

and

also

alleviates

stirring of the inwards.

4.

In the same

way

the dust of this same wort

The same quantit}^ that we before said, of the dust of this same wort iris druidcen, is of Illyrica, mingled with vinegar, and benefit to him, cui sponte semen naturale profluit, quem morbum GraBci yovoppoiav nominant. Sin autem eodem modo cum vino ad jnensuram datur, feminarum xuTaf/^Yivia provocat, etsi multo ante tempore
cures the bites of serpents.

interrupta sunt.

For kernels and for all evil lumps, take a root of this same wort, so entire, well dried, and then sodden, pound it then so nesh, work it to a plaster, lay it to the sore it removes it.
5.
;

6.

It also,
(if)

moreover,

is

of benefit for

sore
rose.

of the

head

mixed with vinegar and ooze of

White
hellebore.^

cltx.

Veratrum
album.

Bot.

For
dried

liver sickness,

take this wort,

to
dust,

which

is

named
,

helleborus albus, and

by another name
give to

and knocked

drink in

warm

The drawing

in

MS. Y,

has some resemblance, but

is

" Scilla." (H.)

^3

Eac, H.
...

3^

j-arae,

B.

35

j:p^maS, H.
'^^

- semoencseb,
37

II.;

-means-, B.
"

^' heajbej', B. H. omits the useless words.

Secnocobe, B.

bpmean, H.

288

IIERBAPvIV.M

peajunum
V.
is

jj^rcjie
)nx
.

j^voy

huyx:ey

yyx
,

cuculejiay pulle
'"

liir

eaten in
liere.

jelacnaci'

liype J^ret pylpc \y pjianiijeiiMtc

t
;j

laDcebom

holes

on pme

Jt^pijco'^

onjean

ealle atrjiu.

CLX.

PiS ]>am

pepope*

]?e

]>y

peop^an
pcap
];e

breje

on'^

man

bccynie]>^ jeiiim }^}^ppe

o))juim iiamau^
'j ]>

p5'P'^<3

inan^ belpinion ^ nemiie]? ])el jejabcjiob

-j

mib pipope
J^pittij

jecnucub
]?

-^

*j

TemciiCTcb^^

c^^epa^'

pipepcojina py opeji trel

an^'^
j

])y

yp jonne ]>y popman^^ boejc oSjwim bve-ze peopoutyiie i5y -j

))pihhan

bneje

]?pcotyiie

'*

^yy.

])[\

luni'*^

]np

pyllept

topopan

J^aspe'" jencala^^cincje ]'aep

pepopef j'unboplicpe

Iipa3bn5'ppe^'^ be biS alypeb.

CLXT.

Deop
bapaS
byjie

p}'!^''^

p't^

ii'^''^^'^

a3Ciop

'j

o]?jium

namaii^^
-j

nemiie]; b.apaS

pfieb
^j

jeb.c niobbpaii beapbe

bco^^
op

lanje

leap

prij?e

bco

maneja ptebm
leap
'j

apeiibe)^^^
*-]

beo

bapatS

]>ynne

Oa

li])onbce

betpeox ]mm leapoii^^ bjiune bloptman"- 'j betpeonan^'^ Sam bloptmum^'* lieo bapaS byjie p]?a pc rep cpa^bon poBb jebc na^bjian beapbe *j
J>ypnibte

bco

]iaj:a(5

py]ittpuma yy jebpa^be ^

ppeajit.

tSyppe ykan })y]ite py]itPy]) iia3bpeDa pbtap^'' i;enim juiman-^ );e ye a^ciop nembon pyle bpnican on^'' pme

byt pjiemaS*^ je
bpenc^^
eac'^'^

ajji

tSam

pbte je
lenbena^-

feptep

8e pylpa
'"^

TPy^ce

J^a^pa"^^

pap jebSijaiS

>

Selacno'S, 11.
]I.,

ypasenblic, B., so.

^

KeHst'b,
*

15.

'

}epe,

by

contraction.

on,
**

IT.

-cym^, B.
"
pajia, B.

'

V. omits

tM'o -svords.
'" '^
''

"Secnocob, B.
'1
i

-msenj;-, B.; -majnc

an, B.
-nej-j-e,

H. omits the -, H.

ur>eless phrase.

veoi)l>an, II.
jjajie,

"
B.

)'))eorrcne, B.
''^

'-'him, II. omits.

B.
II.
-"

11.

omits the nseless words.

"-'

'"

he,

V.

arsenbe^', B.
-^

"'
;

Ic-aion, B.
II., anil

hloj-man, B.

"-non, B.

blovman, B.

-tman,

omits the next two

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
water, of
tlie
is

ETC.

289
White
'

dust six spoons

full

it

cures the liver.

That same
against

a beneficial leechdom swallowed in wine,

Art. ciix.

all poisons.

Field larkspur.^

CLX.

Delfinium
consolida.

Bot.

For the fever which cometh on a man the fourth day, take juice of this wort, which is named '^b\(^Iviov, and by another name larkspur, well gathered and tliat pounded with pepper, and mixed, and of the peppercorns let there be an over tale, or odd numher, that is, and on the second on the first day, one and thirty If day, seventeen and on the third day, thirteen. thou givest him this before the access of the fever, with wondrous quickness he will be released.
; ;

CLXI.
%jov,

EcMum

and by another hath seed like an adders head, and it name hath long leaves and stiff, and it upsendeth man}^ it hath thin leaves, and them somestalks out it what thorny, and it hath betwixt the leaves brown blossoms, and between the blossoms it hath, as we ere said, seed like an adders head, and its root is minute and swart. 2. For bites of snakes, take a root of this wort, which we named echium, give it to drink in wine, it is beneficial either before the bite or after. The same drink, also similarly relieves a sore of the loins, and
This wort,
is
,
;

which

named

By

the drawing,

MS.

V.,

fol.

62
iv.

c,

Larkspur

is

intended.
figuro in

^ Originally

MS.

v.,

fol.

from Dioskorides, 63 a.

27.

A fanciful

words.
'-'

"

rli~^]%
^9
^^

H.
5p,nc, B.

^'^

-t]iuman, H.
=^

'-

bpiucan uu,
^<

If.

ypama'S, H.

bpienc

Pae,

IT.

J^apa,

B.

^^laenbena, B.

-esa. B.; SehscS, H.

290
*j

HEllBAUIVM
^pij^

eac^

on bjieopton meolc jejeajipaS

pyp'^^

-^

8o^lice
*j

an miht
ppebep.

yj' J^ypfe

"j

]^^y pyjittjiuman

j^aep

CLXII.

oSpum naman nemne]?^ by]? cenneb* on bejanum ytopum ^ on ptsenijum on bunum ^ on py npumum^ ]5 puopum heo^ op anjie typp maneja bojap apenDeop
pypt
];e

man

centimopbia

"j

'j

-j

-j

'j

bej? -^

"j

heo
'j

ip

jehpgebon^^
|?ap

leapun^^ ^

pmepealton

-j

toplitenon^^
hojip^^

heo liapaS

mihte to lacnunje

jip

o^^e on )?am bojum apyjib py 'j on hyt open sy jenim )?ap pypte ealle jebpijebe 'j' to fpySe^* fmjBlon^^ bupte jecnucube^^ jepceab^'' to Sam pajie heo hit jehsele]? ]?u punbjiapt Ssejie^ jepjiemhpiicje

mmje.

CLXIII.

Deop

pyjit

Se

man

pcopbiap^^

'j

oSjium
'j

naman ^^
heo eac
cenneb^^

nemnej? hapa]? ppsec fpylce leac^^

popjjy^^ pcopbiop jecpeben

yp

)?eop

pypt

b}^]?

pmepealte -j iSa^^ biton mopium 'j heo hapaj? leap ^'^ heo hapaj? peopeji ecjebne 'j tepe^^ on bypjmcje
ptelan
'j

^*

pealupe bloftman.^

I
'

eac,

H.
'^

-jiupa'S, II.

H. omits four words.

"

csenneb,

H. B.
'2

is
"

in

V. B. H.

bunum, H.
-hpseb-, B.

-sumon, H.
II.

heo,

II.
II,

arfenhe, B.
'^

" lea>on,

-non,

hop)', altered to hojreji,

'"

hump, H.
Sej-cab,

"

fpit'on,
'

H.

''

j-malon, B.

secnoeobe, B.

>^

B.
^o

)>ape, B.;

)?8ejia,

H.

"

j-cojxbioj',
^'

B. H., and index of V.

n
^-

qt^^^ the
^op'Sig, B.
;

useless words.
"^

leac,

H., and omits three words.

""'

CfEuneb,

IT.

B.
-'

-'

leay, II.

beo,
'-'^

IT.

adds.

bitejiiie, II.

bitepe, B.

-ginSe,

B.

bloj-man, B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
also

ETC.

201
Art. dxi.

when dry promotes milk in the breasts. In fact, tliere is one and the same efficacy in the wort, and
and the
seed.

the root,

CLXII.

This

wort,

which

is

named
,

centimorbia,

and by

produced in cultivated places, and in stony ones, and on downs, and in winsome places and from one turf it upsendeth many boughs, and it is of minute and round and serrated leaves, and it hath this might towards leechening. If a horse be injured on back or on the shoulders, and the sore be open, take this wort, all dried and poimded to very small dust; shed it on the sore, it will heal it; thou shalt wonder at the benefit.
another
is
;

name

Water germander)^
1.

CLXiii.

Teukrion
skordion.

Bot.

This wort, which

,

is

named

crxopSjov,

and by another
it

name
hence
taste,
is

hath a smack ^ as a leek, and

skordion.

also

called
it
it

This wort

is

produced in

moors, and

and

hath round leaves, and them of a bitter hath a four edged stalk and fallow

blossoms.

Lovell, Lyte, Nemnicli agree tliat Centimorbia

is,

is

Nnm-

mularia, that

Lysimachia
soil.

numrmilaria,
figure in

Bot.,

hnt this

plant does not agree

with the description in the

text, for it

grows on very wet an upright stem.

^

The

MS.

V., fol. 63 h, has

The
v.,

first
fol.

source
c,

MS.
<=

63

is

Dioskorides, iii. 125. The figure in " a very neat representation of Epimeis

dium Alpinum "

0a-fA,7J,

(H.),

Barren wort
*'

very bitter, with a strong disagreeable rcent, somewhat approaching to

'J'he
is

Diosk., smell.

whole herb

garlic."

T 2

292

HERBARIVM

Pi^ ])ey mijcSan aytypunje jenim J>a]' pypte j'cojibiop ppa jpene jecnucube -^ j on pme jej^ijebe oS'Se bpijje on pme jepyllehe pyle bpmcan heo 'pone mijSan
aptype];.-

6ac
ealle

j5

pyljre

j:pemaS* piS naebpena'^ plitap

*j

piS

atrpu 'j pitS |??ep^ majan pape fpa pe sep cpaebon piS )?8ep mi 5 San ypm'Se. PI'S J7a jepynnmcje ];8ep poppmep^ ym^ 'Sa bpeoPc jenim |7ap ylcan pypte "cyn peneja^ jepihte mib hunije
;^emenc5eb^^
pyle J^icjean^^
able

anne^^ cuculepe fulne

)?a

bjieopt beo6 apeopmube.^^

PiS
pel.

):ot

jenim

)?ap

ylcan

p}'pte

on ecebe ^eliyt }:pemaS^'^

cnucube^'* o<^Se on psetepe pyle

bpmcan

Pi^ nipe pimba cnucube leje to eac^^ heo mib j

^'^

jenim
hunije
-^^
-j
'^^

J?ap

ylcan pypte pylpe

hy'^
ealbe

je

Sam punbum heo

eac

jej^eobej?

jemencjeb^^

punba

ajieopma)?
ylsepc

-j

jehsele]?

hype

bupt

pexenbe^'

pel

jehn^ece]?.

CLXIV.
ne^d Milium,
Laud
567.

Deop
nemnej>

pj'^p'c
'j

]>e

eac

man ami^'^ pume men

Isecebome
J>

-j

oS]\um

naman milinum

hataS^* hajraS je-

on pme jepealb^^ bvS pel }:pemaS^^ piS^'' ]7nep innoSep aptyjumje pi'6 eappoS'j licnyppe^ S?ep mi^San piS pilbeopa plitap 'j eac^^ -j hyt Sa monoSlican jzopSjccijeJ? 'j piS pommap ]?8ep^

cpeme

pseb to

Secnocobe, B.
IT.

afc-,

H.

Cac, H.
^

'*

fpamaS, H.
^

naebpan,

B.
"

"

y>xy, 11. omits.

'**

popnifcf, B.
;

>'nib,

H. B.
" l>icean,
11.
;

p0ene?;a, IT. B.

-msens-, B.
'^

-maenc-, H.
;

J?icsan,

B.

'-

aenne, B.
'^

-mabe,

-mobe, B.
'^ hij;,

" Secnocobe, B,
i
2'

'^ypama'S, H.
'"

secnocobe, B.
-

B.

eac,

H.

-mfenc-

IT.

-maens --, B.
H.
-^

-hjel-, B.

]ieax-, B.

" -hnaec-,

B.; -linec-'

ami, O.

" h.
"

O.

omit the idle words.

^efaelb,

O.

jpama^, H.

pi's,

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
2.

ETC.

293
wort skordion,
Watku
Gi:UiMANI)lJU. ^^.j ^.j^-j-

For

stirring of the mie, take this

SO green,

pounded,
give
it

wine, dry,
urine.
3.

and taken in wine, or boiled in to drink it stirreth the mie or

;

The same
all

also is of benefit

for

bites

of snakes,

and against
as

poisons,

and

for the sore of the

maw,

we
4.

ere said, for disorder of the mie.

this

For the running of ratten about the breasts, take ilk wort, by weight of ten pennies, mingled with
full
;

honey, administer one spoon

purged.
5.

the breasts will be

For

foot disease,

take this same

it

wort,
it

pounded
helpeth

in vinegar or in water, give

well.

to

drink;

For new wounds, take this same woit by itself, pounded, lay it to the wounds, it will unite them and juingled with honey, it also purgeth and healeth old
G.
;

wounds.

And
fiesh.^^

the

dust

of

it

also

well

restraineth

waxing

^
1.

CLXIV.
afo^*,

Ammi copttcum.

This wort, which

is

named

and by another
,

name milium, and

;

vjhich also

hath seed convenient for

some men call leechdom, which is given in

wine it is of good benefit for a stirring of the inwards, and for difficulty of the mie or strangury, and for rendings of wild deer or beasts, and it also calleth
forth

the

>cara/x>ivja.

And

for blemishes

of the

body.

* Brjpcc

Se

vTzepa-ccpKcoiJ.cx,ro(,

crre'hKei.

Dioskor.

Lye gave

wrong sense
^

to gehnascan.

From Dioskorides, ill. drawn, MS. V., fol. 58 a.

70.

An

umbelliferous plant

is

O. omits.
3 -Saf,

"^

-Ti^xx^i B.; earfornylTe,

O.

^o

eac,

H. omits.

O.

2y^

HiaiBAUIVM

licliaman^ jenim J^yype j^ylfan^ pypte^ yseb mib hunije

jecnucub* hyt apyppeS^

]?a

pommas.
|78ep

PiS
]5

seblsecnypye^
'^

*j

seliipnejpe

lichaman^ bo
iehipneppe^^

pylpe

jefmype^^
ofjenimeS.

p yp oSSe

]3 ^^

Su
yyle

J^one^

lichaman mib ];am ylcau

bpincan

hyt

]?a

Ban
Dioskorides is considered to describe not Viola, but the varieties of Matthiola incana and Cheiranthus cheiri, our
stock and wallflower.
'

pyjit.

CLXV.

Deop pyjit ]7e man uiolam *j oSpiim naman banpyp'c nemneS yp Speopa cynna ]?onne yp an bjiun
bap up
Pi6
bhte]?
]}i]>

*j

o)7ep hpir*^'^ J^pibbe ip

jeolup

'^^

Sonne

ip

peo

jeolupe ppa peah

];gep

fpij^ofc^^ Igeceon^^
'j 'j

jecpeme.
lrran^^ jenim
]?ap

cpiSan pape

piS pone

y^lcan pyjite

jecnucube^^

unbepjelebe^^ heo hyne jepa

eac ppylce heo Sa monoSlican pojiSjecijeJ?.

mipenlice^^ leahtpap
Ssep
]?eah

bsecj^eapmap^^
j-piSopt
];8ep

]7a

jabap
to

hataS^^

ip

ppa

blobep

utpyne jenim
cly]?an
jeheele]?.

p'yppe

ylcan

pypte leap jecnucube^^

);a

-j

jemencjebe^* hy^^

-untpumnyfTe^^ ealle

pyppe^'^ pylpan
j

pypte leap^^ mib hunije jecnucube*^

jeha^leS^'^^

jemencjebe^^ J?one cancoji ]?8epa^^ to'Sa Sam pop opt Sa te)? pealleS.^'^
pyj?

op

monoShcan to aptypijenne^^ jemm pyfle ylcan pypte pa^bep tyn peneja^^ jepihte on pine je^a
cnucnb^^
"j

jebpuncen oSSe mib

liunije

jecnucub^^

-j

'

-mon, B.
;

'^

ylcan,

H.

B. O. omit.
'*

'

j'yjitan,
^

B.

'

-cob, 0.

secnocob, B.
^

afir^e'S,

O.
" i'on,

-nefj-e, B.
>

-horn-, H.

H. repeats p
'-

rylf*''

V.

-jia,

B.

-ru, O.
Selupe,
'*
"-'

" oMgy, O.

-nyfla, 0.
'^

hpic, B.

1^

Seola, B.

H.

'^

fj)i]?ofc,
'"

B. omits.
II.,

Isecon,

B.

haecan, B.
mij-lice, B.

Secnocobe, B.

-labe,

by contraction;
-^
*-'

-lobe, B.

-"
'

'^^

-mep, B. his, B'

->apa, B.

-^
"'"

hatetS,

H.

gecnocobe, B.
-^ ^" ^^
^'^

-msenc-, H.

-nefj-e, B.
"^ 2

p, omitted in B.

leay,
;

H.

omits,

spoiling the sense.

''

gecnocobe, B.

-maenc-, H.
j-ealla^,

-mseng-, B.
se):ealle'S,

gehselet?,

B.

H.

B.

^^

-Synne, H.

'

p roneja,

H. B.

gecnocob, B., twice.

laiOM DIOSKOlilDES, ETC.

295
it
Ait.

take seed of this same wort, pounded with honey

d\h

removes the blemishes. 2. For paleness and discoloration of the body,*"^ do the same, that is, that thou smear the body with the same, or give it to be drunk; it taketh off the discoloration.

Bone wort, Yellow

1.

loansy)^
viola,
;

clxv.

viola huea.

This wort, which

wort,
is

is

named
a

name bone
purple,

of three

kinds

and by another one is a brown

is

and

another white,
is

third

yellow

the

yellow then
2.

the most suitable to leeches.

For sore and heat of the /Jiy}Tpa, take this ilk wort, pounded and underlaid, it lighteneth the heat
it also

calleth forth the

xaraju-iivia.
o?*

3.

For various maladies of the back gut,

anus,

which we call puyd'^ci;,^ rents, that is, however, chiefly an outrunning of the blood, take leaves of this same wort, pounded and mingled to form a poultice; it
healeth
4.

all

the infirmities.

Leaves of this same wort, bruised and mingled with honey, heal the canker of the teeth,^ from which
often the teeth fall out.

For the xarajayjvja, to stir them, take of seed of this same wort, by weight of ten pennies, pounded in wine, and drunken, or bruised with honey, and laid
0,

Dioskorides was

rather

different

rpenei

he

kou

%poav

%ivojAevov KOU (Tvyy^p^aiA.evov l%i to p^XwpoTepoj/.

The

source

is

Dioskorides,

iii.

138. KevKolov

and the meStock

diseval

synonyms are Viola

fol.

alba,
b.
;

Viola

matronahs. has

seems drawn, MS. V.,

^

58

'PayaSa?

rccq

iv

laKivXia

Celsus also,
eo saepe,
^i

vi., xviii. 7,

" Rimas sedis." de Ani morbis, says, " Ac primum in

Plinius
locis, cutis

et

quidem pluribus

scinditur

paydhicc

GrEci Yocant."
'-'AcpBaq,

Dioskor.

296
to

HERBARIVM

Sam

jecynbelican

lime

jeleb^

hyt

])a

monoSlican

afcype]?^ j

"cubbep op J>am cpiSan jeleebe)?.

;;^enim

PiS milran yape

pyppe ylcan pypte pyjittjiu-

man on
jzjiemaj?.^

ecebe

jecnucubne'^ leje

to

Ssepe* milt an hit

CLXVI.

Pi8 nipe punbela

leap
]7e

*j

eac^ piS ealbe jenim )?ypfe pyjtte

'j

man
-j

uiola

puppupea
aejj^pef

o^jmm naman
mycel

nemne]?

pyple^

jelice

leje

to

bam

punbum
PiJ?

pceapplice

hyt hy^
lieajibnylle^

jeliseleS

'j

eac

^eppel ^

ealle ypele

jejabepunja

byt: tolypeS.

fep majan
j^sep

jenim
j

}>ypye ylcan pyp'^^^

bloptman^*^ on hunije jemencjebe^^

pme

jepepebe

majan heapbnyf

"^^

mib by6

Ipi'be

jobon*^

jeli^ijab.^*

CLXVII.
)eop pyjit
l^e

man

zamalentition

"j

o|7]ium

naman

nemne]; by6 cenneb^^ on fttenijum j'topum

"j

on bunum.
PiS
ealle ^^

punbela jenun

]?ap

pypte zamalentition

pel

mib pyple jecnucube^'' butan^^ pealte leje to Sam

)>ap

punbum ealle lieo hy^^ 5elia3le]7. 6pt piS cancoji punba jenim
lentition jebpijebe^^
cube^^ lege to
'j

ylcan

j^yjite

zama

to

fpyj^e

pmalon bupte jecnu-

Sam punbum

ealne J^one bite pa3p cancjiep

heo apeopmaS.

'

Se, II. omits; K^lcb,

B.

"^

-psC^, B.
eac, II.
'

Secnocobne, B.; -be, H.

B.,

'

hajie,

B.

^ j-]iaraa'S,
'"
'^

H.

jnle,

an

error.
;

hig, B.

ne)7e, B.

bloj*man, B.
'

" -maens-, B.

jemencseb, H.
csenneb,
'^

'''

Soban,

II.

-ner, B.

-c?;ob, B.; -150b,

II.,

H.

'*

II.

B.

eale, II.

''gecnocobe, B.; gecnube,

'^*^

by contraction.
II.,

con, B.

'

his, K.

-S5- B.

2'

secnocobe, B.; gecnube,

by contrac-

tion.

FROM D10SK0111DE8,
to the naturalia
^

ETC.

207

it
/

stirreth the

kutoi[xyivhx,

and leadeth Bone

wort.

TO

sfj^ppuov SK
6.

'/

/o

~ Tr}g

Art. clxv.

[ji^YiTpocs.

For sore of the milt, take a root of this ilk wort, pounded in vinegar, lay to the milt it benefits.
;

The
1.

violet.^

CLXVl.

Viola odorata, Bot.

For new wounds, and also for old, take leaves of this wort, which man nameth viola purpurea, and by another name violet, and fat, of either of theon alike much, lay to the wounds, sharply it healeth them and also swellings and all evil gatherings it dissipates.
For hardness of the maw, take blossoms of this same wort, mingled with honey, and soaked in very the hardness of the maw will be relieved. good wine
2
;

CLXVII.
1.

This wort, which

man nameth
,

zamalentition,*^

and

by another name is produced in stony places and on downs. 2. For all wounds, take this wort zamalentition, well beaten up with fat, without salt, lay to the wounds; it healeth them all. 3. Again, for cancer wounds, take this ilk wort, zamalentition, dried, and pounded to very small dust, it purgeth away all the bite of lay to the wounds
;

the cancer.

*
fol.

Some approach
58 c.

is

made

to the

purple

violet,

MS.

V.,

^ Zamalenticion.

MS.

T., fol.

57

b.

The

figure in

MS. V.
and

shows a
terminals.
Coll.

root, three

stalks

with opposite

sessile leaves

Zamalentition, a xiv. century

2. 48.

Latin MS., Tvin.

Cambridge, 0.

298

HEilBARlVM

The Vienna MS. has a

"good"

li"-.

of

^ ^ jJeos pypt oe' inan aucujpa j oojium

.

naman
"j

fr^^^'^^i^^^''

nemne];^

byS

cenneb^

has abetter.

V.

is

here

fretted

away,

j'mepum ^ Sap pyj^te 6e man^ majitmp hate]; -^ Syppe pypte synbon^ tpa cynjienu an^ ip Se appjucam bajibatam nemnaS^" opeji ys to liecebomum ppy]?e jecopen Seop by'S 'j cenneb^^ pyjimept on '6am lanbe Se man peppa^~ hatej)^^ 'j heo yf^^ pceappon leapon 'j pnihtum ^^ J>y butan ftelan.^^ Pic) pojibeepnebny ITe^'' jenim J'yppe pypte pyjittjiuman^ ancupa^^ on ele jepobene^^ "j piS pex^^ jemencjebne^^ 'Sam jemete pe ]7U plaptep o)7]7e^^ cly)?an

bejanum ptopum on 6u j'cealu niman on Sam^ monJ?e

on

pyjice

leje

to

J^am

bsepnytte^*

punboplice

hyt

^e-

hselej?.^^

Colianbpe.^^
Plan lay psyllium.

CLXix.
J?e

yp ppilliop jecpeben pop Sam hapaS pseb fpylce plean ]?anon by man eac^^ on

Deop

pypt^''

lieo

lebeii^''^
.
.

puhcajiem nemneS

'j

by eac pnme

men^*'

beo bapaS^^ jebpsebe leap 'j puje^^ -j beo bapaS^^ prelan Sone on bojum jej^upne -j beo yp bpijce^^ jecynbe j j tybjie^^ "j beo byS cenneb^^ on bejanum ftopum.

'

II.

^ O. omits >a, O. t omits four Avords.

o. n.,
^

and breaks
II.

off"

the sentence at nemne'5

'

ceenneb,

B.
'

on
'

'55,

II.

omits.

5 II. 8
12
'*

O. omit man.

hace^, B.
*"

synbo, V.;

flnbe>,

O.

cynne,

O.

an, B.

nemneS, B.

caeuneb,

H. B.

IS

'^ hate'S, B. ''yf, O. omits. and omits man. ' -rbn-, O.; -nej-fe, B. bucon jtelon, B. -hce, O. hatte, O. adds. -"-bene, for _jic],-, II.; purtrume, O.

_fej O.,

^'^

'''

-benne, V. B.
23

II.
"^^

-bone, 0.

-'

j'eax,
-^

B.

-^

-mseng-, B.

-geb,
foij^

O
j..

oM,

B.

-necce, H. B. 0.

^eha&le'b^

B.

^g

here missing in B. It is also not found in the transcript made by it might be yleaban, Junius. The heading cohanbjxe is an error
;

Jleahane.
cj)eben, O.

In O. the heading
'^^

is,

Psilliof

puhcajiia.
^"

eac,

H.

'^'^

laiben,

H.

II.

-^ j'yrc p man omits idle words, and

FROM DIOSKOIUDES,

ETC.

291)

CLXVIIl.

Ancnusii

iinc-

1.

This

wort,

which

is
,

named
is

uy/^omu,

and

hy

another
places,

name

and on smooth ones ; wort in the month which is two kinds of this wort, one is that which the Africans call barbatus, bearded; the other is much approved for leechdoms, and this is produced first in the land and it is of sharp and which one calleth Persia
;

produced in cultivated and thou shalt take this called March. There are

thorny leaves, without a stele or stalk a bad burn, take a root of this wort 2. ^For anchusa, sodden in oil, and mingled with wax, in the manner in which thou wouldst work a plaster or a
poultice, lay to the

burn; wonderfully

it

healeth.

Coriander.^
1.

clxix.
Thefig.

inMS.

This wort
(\J/uAXa

is

called 4/uAA*ov, since it ^ '

hath seed

"^^^^^^^; as p)^^

1 lantago psyl-

fleas flea), whence in Latin also it is //;/m nor Connamed pulicaria {from loidicem, flea), and some men bufn^oVTiikr' also call it flea wort; and it hath minute leaves, and Pa^Hnaca ^^^^^""^^* rough, and it hath a stalk, and that tufty with boughs, and it is by nature dry and tender, and it is pro-

being

duced in cultivated

places.

Sprengel says, ''A7%ovcra= Anchusa

Italica, A.

ireprj^A.

tinctoria,

and
in

A.

Tprrvj

Litho-spermum
67
a,

fructicosum.

The

intended to represent the root and terrestrial leaves of A. tinctoria." (H.) ^ This leechdorn stands first in Dioskorides on Anchusa
fol.

drawing

MS.

V.,

"

may have been

(iv. 23),
c

but the previous paragraph is not found in him. This article is abridged from Dioskorides (iv. 70). Planis

tago psyllium

drawn

in the

Vienna MS.

O. abridges.
^^

^'

hse}:^,

H.

^^

y^ seems

to

have
^^

jiuhe.

^3

heeya'S,

H.

bpise,

II.

" V. can

scarce be read here.

ce&nneb, H.

300
PiS
J^yppe
cvjiiilu'

HERBAlilVM
pi6
ealle

-j

yfele
'^

pypte
bollan
.^

ysebej*

jecnucubep
pjerejief

jejabepunja^ jemin an ele yse'c y:\i\

-j

tpejeii

pulle

men^c"*

topomne^
ysebe

pyle

bjuncan

mm

]7onne

op

6am

pylpan

pypc

blaptepi^ leje to

Sam

j-ajie

liyt by)? jehaeleb,

pope**
'j

PiS heapub pape bo p pylpe mib jjopan pyetepe ^eyeyeh^

mib

CLXX.
-^oi sempervirens and not

Deov

YJn'^

mail
-,

cynop

batup h o^pum naman

.

R. canina is meant by Oios- jenime)?

koncles (^JJaubeny).

mete jepijeo ac

-iciheo

nemnep heo bi6 pam joman^^

ppa
hi

v i t>onne ny

man
'j

op

so

oam

irelan

iix'i pean oa bpeopu

pciS

pi'Sepjiaebe

pop
v
"j

apeopmao

ppa hpylce j^mcj ppa

pynbon apope oSSe

bitejie Seali

fpa J^eah Saepe miltan pel pypte bloptma^^ jebpunccn ppa ]^y]T^ ylcan man ^elacnaS ^ he ];ii]ih bone^^ mijj^an pojib l^one jelsebeb biS 'j he eac blobjiynap apeopma];. 6pt pi^ miltan pape jenim^* \y^^^ ylcdin. pypte pyjittpuman op Siiepe jimbe pel apeojimabiie^^ leje to Ssejie miluan hyu biS hyjie nytlic "j pjicmjenblic *^^ -j pe j;e ]7ypne kecebom J;olaJ; he pceal uppeajib licjean hep J?y

hy ]mm majan bepien

^^

ppemaS

he

linjejjylbij

Sa ptpengj^e^'' P'yJT^ lacnunje

CLXXI.

onjite.^*^

Deop

pyjit

6e

man^*^ ajlaoponj' ^
on"^^

oSjmm naman ^^
"j

nemne]? pcmeS

nihte ppa blsepe^^

heo msej piS maneja untjmmnyppa.^^

'

curnlu, O.

"

-jiun^e,
**

H.
II.
^ j'ofa,

^ j-aeb
'

^ecnucube, H,

'

msens, H.

to gabere, 0.

bjiincan,

plafcep, II.
^

foreign to an Engle.
'"

O.
'-

pel

^epefeb
'^
'*'

gemun,
II.

11.

"
'

j-jiama'S, II.

blofcman, H.

3,

adds.

S^nim, H.
"^

'^

'^

ftjiaencSe, II.
;

ongete,

II.

-mob-, H. '" man, H.

"'

p was mengeb, O. "Suph "Sone mno'5 jpamsenblic, H.

initial
It

An

""

II.

omits four

words, adds heo

^^-nelTe, O.

O. supplies the blank with foxef gloua,

fol.

fol.

34 = 5
^"^

but

the drawing in V.,

66

a, is

not foxglove.

on, H.

blyre>

H.

FROM DIOSKORTDES,
2.

ETC.

301
take
Coriander.

an and oil vat full of the seed of this wort, pounded, two bowls full of water, mingle together, give to Take of this same seed, work a plaster, lay to drink. the sore; it will be healed. 3. For head sores, do the same, with juice of rose,

For

kernels,

and

for all evil gatherings,

and soaked

in water.

Evergreen
1.

rose.

CLXX.

Bosa sewpervirens.

This wort, which

is

anotlier

name

evergreen

named xuvo$ fSuTog, and b}^ rose,^ when a man taketh it

from the stalk, is stiff to the palate, and unpleasant for meat when swallowed, but it notwithstanding purgeth the breast, and whatsoever things be harsh or bitter though it vex the maw, yet for the milt it is of good benefit. A blossom of this ilk wort drunken, so leecheth the man, that it through the urine is led
forth
2.
;

and

it

also purifieth blood runnings.

Again, for sore of milt, take root of this ilk wort,

purified

well

from the rind,

beneficial to it
lie
;

lay

to

the

milt,

it

is

profitable
this

and

leechdom, shall

and he who endureth upward, lest he impatiently

understand the strength of this leeching.

^
1.

CLXxr.
uyXcio(pcjoTtc,

This

wort,

which

is

named

another name pcBony, shine th at night as

it is

and by a blaze, and

powerful against

many

infirmities.

See Dioskorides,
i<TTi,
lev^pu^'/ji;

lib.
;

i.

cap. 123,

and observe the variations

tree.

Sdi^voq
^ It

it

is

almost a

appears by the mediaeval marginal notes on Dioskorides,

that the 'AyXaocpariq

is the same plant as the Paeonia, and the " shining at night " is found in our text, same phrase about

at art. lxvt.

Plinius speaks of Aglaophotis as one of the portentous tales of Demokritos, xxiv. 102. The figure in MS.
Y.,
fol.

66

a, is

not pasony, and seems monstrous.

302

HERRARIVM
bjiibbaen^
-j

feopSan bfeje on man becyme]? jenim J^yyfe }dcan^ PJP''^^ T^^P ajlaojrotriy mib poyenan ele jemencjeb^ fmype ]?one yeocan untpeolice ]?u hyne alypefu.'* Gyp hpa^ hpeohnyppe on pepytte^ ]7oli5e jenime^ Sap ylcan pypte pop pycelp onselebe^ peo hpeohnyp'^ by^ popboben,
"Sy

PiS ]7one pepoji ^e py

bipunje" jenime J^ap sj^lpan pypue hsebbe^^ mib him jip hy J^onne^^ hpa mib hmi bepeS ealle ypelu^^ byne onbpgeba^.^^
Ipip
'j

hpamman

piS

Pububenb.^^
Capparis
spinosa.

CLXXII.

P*^ miluan pape jenim J^yppe pypte pyptrpuman J?e cappapif "j oJ>pum naman pububenb^^ hateS cnuca to bupte 'j jepypc to clyj^an leje to Ssepe miltan he hy abpyjeS ac^^ ppa fieah jeppiS ]?one^^ man J>y laep
TUQJi

he |7uph ]5 pap "Sa lacnnnje^^ op him apceace *j septeji })pim tibum jelseb hyne to bsej^e -j hyne^^ pel jebajm

he by]? alypeb.
^2

CLXXIII.
-j

Deop pypt \e man^^ epmjmf

byj?

o];piim

naman

nemnej? hapaS hnepce leap^^ ponne heo repept acenneb^^

Sa beoS pepebe on^^ ppsece -^^ "j hi man Jnjej? ppa oSpe pypta^^ pySSan hy beoS pceappe 'j ^ypnihte^^ heo hapaS stelan hpitne^^ oSSe gpenne on fep 'j heahnyppe upepeapbpe'^^ beoS acennebe^^ pceappe 'j^^
*j

^ -maenc-, IT. ^ ylcan, H. H. omits three words. ^ on nypepytce, H., on erasure. ^ hj'a, H. alefefc, H. '" 11. on recelf, O. -nyfTe, O. ^Senim, H. J^ '^ j^^bbe, H. " bi)iinse, H. eallayyele, O. )>anne, (). '^ '^ eac, H. >" j'ububeb, II. " -beb, II. Half a line in V. is gone. ^- afatrefcehere, B., by ^' hme, II, ' -" lac-, II. hone, H. -' leay, H. -^ man, H., omitting three useless words. later hand.
'
'

'^^

25acnneb,

II.

B.

^n

5^1

jx.

''^

xV^cce, B.

-'

jiypca, IT.

fhom dioskorides,
2.

etc.

303
Art. clxxi.

For the fever which cometli on a man on the third and on the fourth day, take juice of this same wort aglaophotis, mingled with rose oil, smear tlie indubitably thou shalt release him. sick 3. If any one suffer stormy weather, in rowing, let him take this same wort, set ablaze for incense the rouffh weather will be countermanded. 4. For cramps, and for quiverings, let the "patient take this same wort, let him have it with him; then
;

if

any one beareth

it

with him^

all evil

ones will dread

him.

Woodbind,^
1.

falsely.

CLXXII.

Convolvulus.

For sore of milt, take a root of this wort, which which is hight capparis, and by another name woodbind, pound to dust, and work to a poultice, lay to but notwithstanding, wrap up the milt, it drieth it the man, lest he through the sore, shake the leech dom off him, and after three hours lead him to the bath, and bathe him well he will be released.
; ;

Sea
1.

holly.^

CLXXIII.
ripvyyiov,

Eryvgiim,

This wort,

which one nameth

and by
it is

another
first

name

sea holly, hath nesh leaves

when

grown, and they be sweet of savour, and one partaketh of them as of other worts. It is at a later period of its growth, sharp and thorny, and it hath a stalk white or green, on the very top of which are

one

The name woodbind must have been set upon the page by who had in view a drawing of the Capparis spinosa, Bot. The fig. in MS. V. compared with that in Flora Granca, 486,
^

appears correct.
^

The

original

was Dioskorides,
*"

iii.

24.

-^

bypmilite, H.
"J,

hjntne, B.

^'

ufe-, B.

^''

acsennebe, B.

3^

B. omits.

304
)7y]inyhte
]?one
J?eop

HERBARIVM
pilay

*j

lieo

hajzaS

lancne^

pyptpuman
ppeecep

"j

urepeajibne
pyjTt
byp>

ppeaprne

-j

pe biS jobep
'j

"^

cenneb^ on pelbon*

on pi^eppaebon^

fuopum.

jenim pap ylcan pypte ]7e pe ejunjiuf nembun^ jecnucube^ pyle bpincan on pine na f an^ f lieo )7one mijpan aptypej? ac eac^ fpylce 6a mono]?lican -j ^sep mnoSep aptyjiunje^^ ^j
PiS
))9ey

mijl^an afuypunje

toSunbenylTe heo tolype];

-j

eac piS

lipeji

peocnylTe^^

-j

pi^ nsebbpena plitap heo pel ppemaS.^^

6ac^'^ ppylce pi^ mgenijpealbe leahtrpaf )78epa^^

mnoSa
])e

heo pel ppemaS^^ jej^ijeb

mib

J>aejie^^

PYJ^'^^

psebe

man

olipatpum nemne];.

PiS J^sepa^'' bpeofra^^ S^JT^^ jemm ^ap ylcan pyp'^e to clypan jepophte leje to 6am bpeofcan^^ ealle ])a
ypelan
pejieS.

jejabejmnjge''^^

on butan

^^

pa

bpeoft heo

to-

pi^ pcojipionep ftnijc^^ "j pi^ ealjia nsebbepcjnna^^ plitap 'j eac^'^ pi6 -pebe hunbep plite jenim pap j^lcan ^^ pypte pypc to plaptjie leje to fejie^^ punbe ppa p peo piinb ppa peah sepeft mib ipepne jeopenub^'' py -j pySSan psepto ^eleb^ fpa f pe peoca pone fcenc^^ ne onjite. Gac^^ ppylce peop pylpe pypt pi6 oman pel ppemap'^^ on pap ylcan pipan jemetejub^^ 'j eac*^^ heo
potable
jelejep.^^
jeliSijaS*^*

jyp

hy^^

man

oet

ppympe

to

'

lanj^ne,

B.

^ rjirecce]',

B.
"

caenneb, B.

H.
'*

v^l^unii
"

H.

^ '

-bum, B,
afcyji-,
i^aiia,

-bon, B.
'

secnocobe, B.
'-

un, II.

eac, II.
IT.

H.
'^

reoc-, TI.; -nerre, B.

"= |>ajie,

jrpamaS, H.
'"

" Eac,
'^

^*
'^

B.

vpama'S, H.
-"

B.
'-''

J^apa,

B.

-con, B.
II.

-rton, B.
naebbpe, H.

-unge, H.
-'

-unsa, B.
"^ II.

-con, B.

- Icenjc,
^e

-^

eac,
t>a]i

H.

omits two words.

"'
'*

^'ajie,

B.

2'

-nob, B.

-''

Seleb, B.

fcanc,

II.
="

="

eac, H.

3'

rpamaS, H.
B.
="=

-^

-gob, B.

eac, H., omits.

-esa, B.

^' hi,

-les'S, B.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,

lOTC.

']05

produced sharp arid thorny liairs, and root, and the outward part swart, and smack. This wort is produced on stubborn places.
2.

it liatli

a long

Sea holly.
^^'

it

is

of a good

c'-''^'"'-

fields,

and

in

For stirring of the niie or urine, take this same wort, which we named eryngium, pounded, give it to drink in wine not only doth it stir the mie, but also similarly the xTajU,>Jv<a, and it relieves the stirring and swelling of the inwards; and it also is of good effect against liver sickness and against bites of adders. 3. It also, moreover, taken with seed of the wort which one nameth olusatrum,^^ is of much benefit
;

^^

aojainst
4.

manifold disorders of the inwards. For swelling of the breasts, take this ilk
;

vvort,
;

wrought into a poultice

removes
5.
c

lay

it

to

the

breasts

it

all

the evil gatherings about the breasts.

For sting of scorpion, and for bites of all sorts and also against bite of mad hound, take this same wort, work it to a plaster, lay ifc to the wound, so that the wound, however, be first opened with iron, and (the application be) afterward so
of serpents,
thereto
smell.
laid,

that the sick

man may
also
is

not perceive

tiie

This

same wort

of good

advantage

against erysipelatous

swellings,

wise

and

it also

mollifies

tempered in this same gout, if one layeth it to

at the beginning.

* 'E/XTTvet^/xaTcoa-eK) inflations.

^ I,ra(f)vKtvoy,

0116

of the Carots

olusatrum

is

linioaekiyoy,

alexanders,
^

smyrnium olusatrum,
Init little

This paragrapli has

from Dioskorides.

306

HERBARIVM
MS.

CLXXiv.

[Clate.

0.]

Dap

pyjite

man

pliylantpopoy ^

nemne)?

]3

yj'

oii^

upe jej^eobe^ menlupi^enbe^ pojiSy^ lieo pyle hpseblice to 6am ^ men jeclypian -j heo hapaS paeb jelic mannef
napolan^
*j

J?a

man

eac o]?pum

naman

clate

nemneS^
lanje

heo op hype maneja bojap^^ apenbe]?^^ 'j ]?a peopepecje "j yp fti'S on leapon *j heo 'j jpeatne^^ ptelan 'j hpite bloptman^^ *j heo heapb^* pseb 'j pmepealt 'j on mibban^^ hoi spa
cp^ebon ]?am^^ jemete
'pe

hapaS
hapaS
pe eep

by^ mannep
-j

napla.^^

PiS

nnebpena^^

plitap^^

piS

J>epa^^

pypnia

"Se^^

man^^ fpalanjioneT hate)?^^ jemm^* WYY^ VfV^^ P^^ jecnucub^^ on pme pyle bpincan^^ hyt ppemaS.^^
PiS eapena^^ pape jenim pyppe^^ ylcan pypte pop bpype on f eape hyt jehsele); f pap.

CLXXV.

Deop
'j

pypt

J?e

man
by)?
-j

achiUea^^

nemne]?

oSpum naman ^^ cenneb^^ on bejanum ptopum

'j

neah psetepe^^

heo

hapaS jeolupe bloptman^"*

*j

hpite.

Pi^ nipe punba jenim J>yppe pypte cpoppap jecnucube^^ leje to Sam punbum heo ]5 pap jenimS -j heo 6a punba je'Seobe]?^^ ^j J?one blobpyne jeppiS.^^

'

ph.,

H.B.
'

5n,

)?am, H.
hata'S
'2

-olan,

H. H.
'"

>eobe,

eac,

V. H.
II.;
'

"

' mn-, H. yop^is, B. " nemme, H.; ^ engle

elate.-'

O.
'^

inanega

bosaj*,

H.
'^

"

aj-senbe'S,
'^

Speacne, H.

" hjncne blofcman,

mibban, H.
>"

hpice blofman, B.
na>ola,
;

B. peab

for heapb,
'
^'

H.

>am, H.
^o

H. B.
B. O.

-brane, O.

rlicaj-,

H.
-23

^g^pa,

H.

>ajia,
-'

O.; quos.

22

uj^jj^
'-^^

u^
II.
;

hate, B.
^'^

senim, H.

2^*

gecuocob, B. O.
earane, O.
^^

-ca, O.; bpincan, II.

j-pama'S, II.

^
in

I'yrre,

omitted in
"'

the three last letters eaten

idle words,
^'^

away

V.

""

acylleia, O.

H. omits the

caenneb,

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
Clote, elite, clivers.^
1.

ETC.

307

CLXXiv.

(jralium

,.

This wort is named (piXocv^pooTros, and is in our language menloving, because it will readily cleave to

"P^"'^"^-

a man, and
also
itself

it
it

nameth
edged,

hath a seed like a mans navel. One by another name clote, and it from

sendeth forth

many
is

boughs, and those long and

in
leaves,

four

and

it

stiff

and

it

hath

a great stalk, and in

before said, in the

the

manner

in

middle is hollow, as we which a mans navel is.

For rends of adders, and of the worms which one calleth (paAayyia, OT tarantulas take wash of this wort, pounded in wine, give it to drink it will be
2.
j
;

of benefit.
3.

For sore of
it

ears,

take ooze of this ilk wort, drip

on the ear;

healeth the sore.

Sneezewort and yellow milfoil.^

1.

CLXXV.

Achillea magna,

This wort,

which

is

named

u^lWsioc,

and

hj folia,

A. tanacetiA. ahro^JJ'^^^^^^^^^

places,

another n2imQ yelloiv milfoil, is produced in cultivated and nigh water, and it hath yellow and

white blossoms.
2.

For
it

new wounds, take

;

heads
it

of

this

wort,
sore,

pounded, lay to the wounds

taketh off the

and

unites

the

wounds, and stancheth the blood-

running.

Dioskor.,

lib. iii.

cap. 104.

The drawing, MS. V., fol. 64

odorata " (H.)
;

a,

"

is

a neat representation of Asperula

is

that

not a burr plant,

is

we

take

its

next of kin.

but as Philan-

thropos

Lappa

in Isidorus,

and the mediaeval synomyms in

Dioskorides.
^ Dioskor., lib. iv. cap. 36.

The drawing

is

very faulty,

MS.
H. B.
^

v.,

fol.

64

b.

^^

psecepe,

H.
^^

^*

-man, H.

blofinan, B.

^^

gecnocobe,

Se^ebe^, H.

je, inserted after first writing in B.

U 2

308
Gij:
)??ep

HERBARIVM
pip
oj:

pa3tan'*

oam^ jecynbclican^ limon*'^ Jjone }:lepj\an J^oli^en^ jenim^ ]>ap yk^^^ VJV^^^ S^F^'
unbej\

bene

jeleje

];am

pipon^

pittreNbum

ealne'^

J?one^^ psetan^^ op

Gac^"*

'Seop

hype 8e)?me lieo jeppiS.^^ py^F^ VfV^ ^^ psetepe jebpuncen^^ piS

}>e

utpiht pel pjxema'S.^^

^''Deop pypt y^ achillea'^ jecpeben popj^an
ip

pn3b

pe ealbojiman hype punba to jelacnijenne.^^ pceolbe

acliillep^^

^^elomhce

bpiucan

CLXXVI.

PiS hajol
pyjite Se

*j

hpeohnyppe to apenbenne^^ ^yF ^^

-j

I'^Y

man jucmum
Jjinpe

oSpum naman^V
hype
yvob

on ptope ppa ]m Jjin hup ahehfc^* o^Se on ppa hpilce]\e hy hapafu oSSe hype pseb heo apenbe'S^'^ hajolep hpcohpehte^^ hapapt o'SSe*^

nemneS on

jyp )>u hy^^ 0(S'6e hijie pseb on pcyp ahehfu to ]?am punbophc^^ heo ip p heo selce hpeohnyppe'^ jepmSdte]?* ]:ap pyj^'^^e J>u pcealt niman^^ fup cpe]7enbe abpip meip mcantauti ppecopi Hejiba jiiomum
nyffe^^
-j

tionibus^^

&

auejitap

jpanbmep
Sonne
on

^^

puljopa

et

omnep
qui

tempeftatep
luppit

pep

'j3

nomen omnipotentip
ip

bei

te

napci
ic

upe

jej^eobe

pyj^t

picmum
]7uph

bibbe

f
'j

J)u

retpy

mmum

panjum

apenbe^^ ha^jolap
namaii'^"

hjp^epceap^^ ^ ealle^* ?ehnihti;^ep ;^obep pe

f 6u hpeohnyppa het beon ]?e

-j
^'^

'

on

'Sa,

O.

-licon, B.; j^ecunb-, O.

'

limon, H.; 0.

omits some words by error.

'

j'aetaii,

H.

jiaetan, B.; .-ten,

O.

-150, II.

'^

mm,

O.
''

'

))eof y.,

"rict-, II.; -ben, O.

-te, O.
'" )-jia,
'='

ealle,

O.
II.

^ O. lH>on, B.; yyf, O. '^ ytatan, II.; " I'ane, O.

sejiyr^, O.

" Gae,
;

''

H., an unfinished writing

'^11.

-me'S, O.

-bpuncen, B.; -can, O. '' V. is here in a bad

''

state

from corrosion.

omits six words.

'-'"

lacnit;enbe. If.;
'^^

see Narratiunculce, p. 78, notes.

apsenb-, B.
^-

II.

omits
().

the attempt at an English name.

2'

hsete, O.
fifty letters

'^ o|'J>er,

ahesj-c, B.

"

apaenbetJ, B.

About

are here fretted

FllOM DIOSKOIUDES, ETC.

309
mulieribus
atqiie

3.

Dc

naturalibns

fliixuin

liumoris

pa-

Yi:r-r,ow
.

ticiitibus,

eandem
subiicito
;

lierbam

sumtain

coctaui

.."''T',"

sedentibus

omncm liumorem

per

vaporein
of good

suum
4.

cohibebit.

Also, this

same wort drunken in water,

is

is

use against diarrhoea.

5.

This wort
it for

called Achilleti, since it

is

said that

Achilles, the aldei-man, or chieftain, frequently should

use

curing of wounds.

The Oroton

oil ijlantJ^

CLXXVI.

Bidmis comvmnis.
Jjot.

For hail and rough weather, to turn them away, havest in thy possession this worfc, which if thou named ricinus, and which is not a native of is England, or if thou hangest some seed of it in thine liouse, or have it or its seed in any place whatsoever, it turneth away the tempestuousness of hail, and if thou hangest its seed on a ship, to that degree wonThis derful it is, that it smootheth every tempest. Herba ricinus, shalt take thus speaking, wort thou
precor
uti

adsis

meis
qui
te

incantationibus,

et

avertas
in

grandines,

fulgora et
dei

omnes tempestates, per nomen

iussit

omnipotentis
our language,

nasci

that

is,

pray that thou be at mine songs, and that thou turn away hails and lightning bolts, and all tempests, through the name of
ricinus,

Wort

The

dravv^ing,

MS.

V.,

fol.

64

c,

as

much

as remains,

is

clearly intended for the plant.

away
2i>

in

V.
B.
first

2c
^''

hjieohnej-re, B.

^7
^'

^ig, B.
11.
;

^s

.j^^^^ jj.

-nej-j-e,

mman,
^"^

binef.
3-

The

is

ajieenbe,

H. B.
^^

Spanof value to determine the meaning of these marks. 3' helle, -jiejx-, H.; -rseceaf, O. -rear, B. O.,
;

II.

mcantationibuj-,

also

for ealle.

-nei^a, B.

"^^

l>ur

nama, O.

310
acenneb
^^
*j

HERBARIVM
l^u

fcealt

clsene

beon

)?onne

]?u

8aj'

pyjite nimePc.^

CLXXVII.

^Deoy pyjit Se

man poUoten
'j

-j

oj^jiiim

naman

poji-

jium nijjium nemne]?

eac

pume men^

hataS yj* J^yjmihton frelan^ *j ppeapton^ -j pujum ^ bpabpan leapon ]70iuie leac'' 'j ppeaptpan^ ^j J^a pynbon ptpanjep ppsecep^ 'j hype milit yp pceapp.
PiS hunbep plite^^ jenim J'yppe pypte leap^^ mib pealtre jecnucube^^ leje to ]?am punbum^^ hit haelej?
punbophce.

6pt

piS

punba

jemm

}>ypp8e^*

ylcan pypte leap^^ mib

punbum^'^ selce punbe

humje

jecnucube^^ leje to )7am

hyt^ jehsele)?.

Netele.

CLXXViii.

PiS fopciUebe punba^^

jemm

J^yppe

man upticam
ele

-j

oSpum naman ^^

pypte peap^*^ ]?e netele nemne]? mib

bpopnum^^ jemencjeb^^ -j pumne bsdl pealtep Ssepto^* jebon leje to )79epe^^ punbe bmnan^^ J^pim

bajum heo

bi]?

hal.
J>a

PI'S jeppel

bo f pylpe f yp )?onne
senij
bsel
J^aep

ylcan jemete
jeplejen

leje to J?am jeppelle h^'t biS jehseleb.

Gyp Sonne
jenim
)79epe^^
)7ap

lichaman

py

ylcan pypte upticam jecnucube^^ leje to^

punbe heo^^ byS jehseleb.

aceenneb, H. B.

n^mfj.^

abridges,

fol.
;

23 = 65.

^ j^elon, B. H. omits the words that prove idle. frelan, II. ^ rpeaptii, B. ^ leac, H. ^ -tfian, H. ^ j-peeccer, B. ^" slice, H. '^ _cobe, O.; secnocobe, B. '^ jmnbum, H. " lea).-, H. '^ lea):, H. ^'^-cobe, O.; Secnocobe, B. '^>an ^')>iffe, B. *^ he, H., wrongly. " jmnba, H. jjtiba, O. r^SL]i, omitted ^s 21 naman, II.; namon, B. _jjjjen(._^ by V. bfiOYnuia, H. ^^ " )?a]ie, B. H.; -rnsen^-, B. bmnon, B. Mp, B. ^^ to, V. omits. 3" he, H., of secnocobe, B. |>ajie, B.
'
'^'^ '^'^
'-''

'^'

"^^

the patient.

FROM DIOSKOKIDES,
Almighty God, who hight thee

ETC.

311

to be

produced;

and

Tueciioton
Art. clxxvi.

thou shalt be clean when thou pluckest this herb.

Blade horelwund.
1.

CLXXVII.

Ballota nigra. Bot,

which is named /SaXAcor^, and by another name porrum nigrum, black leek,^ a.ii6L which also is hight is of thorny stalk, and swart and rough, and broader leaves than a leek has, and swarthier, and they are of a strong scent, and its might is sharp.
This
wort,
,

Against rent by hound, take leaves of this wort, pounded with salt, lay to the wounds; it, that is, the
2.

process, healeth wonderfully.

wounds, take leaves of this same wort, pounded with honey lay to the wounds it will heal each wound.
3.

Again,

for

NETTLE.b
1.

CLXXVIII.

Vrtica,

For chilled wounds, take juice of this wort, which is named urtica, and by another name nettle, mingled with lees of oiL and some portion of salt thereto added lay to the wound within three days he will
;
;

be

hale.

2. For a manner lay

3.
If,

swelling, do the

same

that

is,

in the same

to the swelling; it will be healed.

any part of the body be stricken, take the same wort urtica, pounded, lay it to the wound; it will be healed.
further,

In translating Dioskorides
ivpda-ov,

(iii.

117), Plinius, the author

of this error, read

ten,
is

leek, for itpdo-iov,

horehound.

Polo-

cpapan

leac, Gl.

Brux.

The drawing, MS.

(iv.

V., fol. 64 d,

more a leek than a horehound.

^

Based on Dioskorides

94).

The drawing

indicates

the plant,

MS.

V.,

fol.

68

a.

312
Pi(S li];a yajie

HERBAllIVM

About tcu
ilk'giblcTn V.

jyf hy^ op hpylcum belimpe obSe oj: cyle o]?c5e oj: renijum Jnncje ^eyajijube ~ beO(5 jenim l^yrre ylcan pyjite yeap 'j elep e|:enmycel tojc^bejic jepylleb bo ];onne J?a3]ito J^sep^ hit pprSopt bepije bmnan^ ]7jiim ba^on Su hyne jehielyt.^ piS jmle punba^ -j poppotube jemm ]?ap ylcan jecnucube 'j j^septo ^ pumne bgel uj\ticam pypte
yealtep ^eppiS to )^?epe^^ punbe
heo^'^ bi|> lial.

bmnan^^ J^pym bajon ^^

Pi6 pipep pleppan jenim ];ap ylcan pyjite on mojitepe pel jepunube^^ oS f lieo pel li]n^^ py ^ej^c J^onne
]?8ejit6^^
j

pumne
'j

bael

hunijep

mm

yy]>}7an
]?a

psete^^ pulle

];a

pel

jet^epebe

pmyjie^

Sonne

jepealb

raib

];ain

Isecebome

pj'^pj/an

hyne ]?am
J?y

hyne^^ I^VP^ unbepi jelecje

pleppan beliiceS.
Pi'5

jepyle f heo pylpan bae^e hyt pone

pipe
ylca^n

p
"j

]?u

cyle
ele

iie

J^olije

jenini

j^ap

pypte
J^a

ujiticam

on

jepobene pmype~^ Sonne

J^oiie

]?cE]unib^^

hanba^^
cile

ealne

lichaman^^ ne

oiijitft

Su

)?one

on eallum J^mum lichaman.~*

CLXXIX.

Deop pypt ])e man ppiapipci 'j o'Spum naman uica pejiuica nemneS to manejum^^ J^mjon^^ pel pjiemaS ^^^
3?

yp ]?onne^^ sepept-^ onjean beopol peocnyppa^^ -j piS niebpan^^ "j piS pilbeoji^^ 'j piS attpu ^j piS jehpylce^^

beliatu

-j

piS

anban

"j

piS

^ jip Su

];ap^^ pyi^-6

K^i^

ojan '^^ 'j f Su jipe hrebbe bipt jepselij 1^6 hapapt -Sii

'

his, K-

'

-Sabe, B.
"

'

jnijito haji,
"

B.
**

binnon, B.

Sehaelej't,

B.

punba,

II.

ylcan, II.

secnocobe, B.
'^ba^xxmyB.
*

''i'ap,
^

B.
II.,

'"l^ape, B.

"^"-non,B.

he,

of the

man

hit, B., tlie case.

baji,

-nobe, B.
II.

hhe, H.
-jia,

hhs, B.
i"

B.
20

jisece,
^i

B. B.
-^
"^-

'

B.

hyne,
)>in5e,

II.

omits.
-'

j-myjxa,

B.
^s

|,ap,

hanba, B.

-^ -

-hom-,

II.

IT.

omits the four last words.

II.
j,yn(.^

ma,nc?;an,
j.^,^.fj.

H.

O.

-'

jjxamaS,

q^

20

^u^ jj^

FllOM DI0SK011IDE8, ETC.

313
Netti-k.
^^'^^"'
"

4.

For sore of
befallen,

joints,

if

they be made sore from

chill,

any thing

or

from

or from

any

cause,

take juice of this same wort, and an equal quantity of apply then thereto where it most oil, boiled together annoys within three days thou healest him.
; ;

5.

For

urtica,

and rotted wounds, take this same wort *pounded, and therewith some portion of salt
foul

bind to the
hole.
6.

wound

within

three

days

it

will

be

Ad

mulieris

fiuxus,

herbam hanc
fiat,

in

mortario
ali-

tusam,

ita

ut omnino

lenta

sumito, dei'nde

quantiilum adiice
decerpta
mulieri

meliis,

lana denique madida atque

;

postea autem unge naturalia medicamento eodem die ut idem sibi subiiciat tradito
;

lluxum comprimet.
In order that thou may not suffer by cold, take then smear this same wort urtica, sodden in oil therewith the hands and all the body thou shalt not perceive then the cold on all thy body.
7.
;
;

Periwinkle.^

CLXXix,
priapiscus,

V^^^^a maior.

Bot.

This

wort,

which
is

is

named
is

and

by

another

name

vinca pervinca,

of good advantage for

many
nesses,

purposes, that

to say, first

against devil sick-

or demoniacal possessions, and against snakes,

and against wild beasts, and against poisons, and for various wishes, and for qwyj, and for terror, and that thou may have grace, and if thou hast this wort with

Drawn, MS.

V.,

fol.

68

c,

like enough.

(" No."

H.)

30
^'

-nejja, B. O.

^i

ueebjian,

H.
O.

32

5^5^^

jj^

33

hpvlce only, H.

osan, H.; ogan, B.

^^ jjeof,

314

HERBARIVM
.^

<j

fymle ^ecpeme

Saj- ^

pyp'^e

J?u

jxealt

niman jmy
habenba

cpepenbe.

Te

pjiecop uica pepuica multij- uuilitatibus

ut uemaj- ab me hilapij' plopenp cum tuip uiptutibus ut ea mihi ppeftep ut tutup et pelix pim perapeji a uenemp et ab ipacunbia mlepup pget yp J?onne^ on jej^eobe ic* bibbe ]?e uica pepuica mtlnejum u]ie nytlicn5''ppum^ to liaebenne^ ^ 6u jlseb to me cume^ mib ]7mum msejenum^ blopenbe f ^u me jejeappie*^

f ic^^ py jescylb -j pymle^^ jepselij 'j unjebepeb^^ ppam attpum ^ ppam yppunje^^ Sonne ^^ 6u ]?ap pypt
niman^^
pylt

unclsennyppe

Su pcealt beon claene piS sejhpylce ^j Su liy^*^ pcealt ^^ niman ponne se mona
-j

biS nijon^^ nihta^^ ealb

enblypon^^ nihta
*j

'j

Speot-

tyne^^ nyhta

-j

Spittij

nihta

Sonne

^^

he byS anpe

nihte

ealb.

CLXXX.

Deop pypt Se man Iitoppepmon -j oSpum naman [funb copn^^] nemneS byS cenneb^* m italia peo *j cpeta 'j heo hapaS^^ mapan leap Sonne pypmepte pube -j Sa jiihte *j on Seepe^^ liehnyppe^'^ heo hapaS^^ ptanap hpite "j pmepealte ppylce mepejpotu^ on pypna^^ mycelnyppe^^ "j Sa beoS on ptanep heapbn5^ppe^^

5 " '5

-man, O. nyclicn-, H.
'

^
"

cjjaeme

)>a,

H.
">

haebenne, H.
hic,

Seseapjuse, H. B.; -jne, O.

j-Tiam ypj-unge,

^ ^onne, H. cume, H. " to f., O. O.

'

'*

ic,

H.
O.

msesnu, B.
'^

-\iob,

H.
ycealt,

'']?ane, O.

^* *'

nime, O.; niman, H.

^^

hig,

B.

'^

H.
^^

'^

neoga, O.

V. omits fom* words,

22

" funbjj. Jj^^q hand H. had not so read, for it omits the cojm, in V. is in a later phrase for an English synonym. Licofpenmon. 1. funcorn. Gl. Laud, 567. -' -" >a]ie, B. " H. omits from haja^ to haya^. csenneb, H. B. ^o -^ ^ spocan, H. pyj-ena, H. B. -nej^e, B. hyhnefj-e, B.
zosenlujron,

H.; -enl-, O.

\>]\eot'cene,B.

^-j

31

-nejje, B.

''

is

a strong concurrence of evidence that sunbcopn The present article is from saxifrage, as in art. xcix.

There

is

niOM
thee,

DIOSKOllIDES, ETC.

315
ri^Ki winkle.

thou shalt be prosperous, and ever acceptable. This wort thou shalt pluck thus, saying, " I pray thee, vinca pervinca, thee that art to be had for thy

many

useful

qualities,

that thou

come to me
;

glad,

blossoming with thy mainfulnesses

that thou outfit

me

and ever prosperous, and undamaged by poisons and by wrath " when thou
sOy

that I be shielded,

shalt pluck this wort, thou shalt be clean

from every

and thou shalt pick it when the moon is nine nights old, and eleven nights, and thirteen nights, and thirty nights, and when it is one night
unclcanness,
old.

Oromel.^
1.

CLXXX.

Lithospermon
officinale.

This

wort, which

is

named

Xi$oa-7rsp[xov,

and by

another name sundcorn (read rather gromel), is kindled in Italy, and the foremost in Creta, and it hath greater
leaves than rue,^

and them straight, and in the height of it it hath stones, white and round as pearls, of the mickleness of peas, and they are of the hardness of

Dioskorides,

iii.

158.

Saxifrage
is

is,

however, allied to Sedum,

or stone-seed.

the English name of which

closely in its signification to

Stonecrop, which answers

XiOoa-TrepiAov

Among

his

synonyms

for

Lithospermon, Dorsten (1540, A.D.) has

Florio (1611, A.D.) Saxifragia alba, but he draws Gromel. " Litospermo, Greimile or Grumell. Some take it for has
stonecrop."

But the
officinale.

botanists

are plainly right in calling

the plant

known
L.

as Gromell, Lithospermon.

The

figure in

MS. V.
^

is

Dioskorides says olive.

Rue

is

not an English plant, nor

are the leaves

appropriately compared here.

Gromel leaves

are lanceolate, as in the olive.

316
j

UErv]5AillVM

eac^

]']'ylce

mnan
Pi(5

hole

'j

hy^ tojgebepe jeclij-ujen^ ^ Sonne 'f yddb ]7a)pon'* mnan.

liy

beoS

f j'tanay on bla3bpan^ pexen "j piS p man jcmijan ne msd^e jenim oj: Syyum^ Ibanum yiy pene^a'' jejnhte yyle bjnncan on pine Sa ytanap tobjiyctS -j 6one mij)?an popS jelaebe]?.

CLXXXI.

Deop
ptelan
liead mycel*j

pyjit:

]?e

man

ytauiy ajpia

*j

oSjium naman^
*j

nemneS hapaS
m^^cele
]7e
"J

leap pp>'lce pnijeajib

jiilite

heo hapaS pseb on jpenum cobbnm on fejie^^

nyrre

apop^^

pypan -j p byS ]>peoli}''pne '^^ ^ hjt bj^p ppeapt:* byS ppa ]7eah mnan hpit*^^ -j biteppe^*
j^setau
]}sey

on bypjmcje.^^
lichaman jenim J'yppe pypte pa3bep piptyne^^ copn jecnucube^'^ on IrSan^^ beope* pyle bpmcan hyt ]7one lichaman'^ Suph ppipSan
PiS ]70ne ypelan

apeopmaS

"j

septeji

t5am~^
-j

J;e

lie

'^one bpenc^^ jebjmn-

can^^ hapaS he pceal ^an

hjaie'^^

Ibypian a3p

Sam

]7e

he hyne apptpe
pceal

'j

J^onne he

hme^* ppipan onjmnej? he

beo]iep
]?iC5ean^^ Si
-j

jelomlice

li'Sne

psetan
VYV'^^

la^p

peo stpenjS^^
Sj'line.

]?93pe^''

P^

joman b?epne
j^yppe

pop-

PiS
paeb^*^

j'cjiup'-^^
cj

"j

piS pceb^^ jeniin

pylpan pypte

jiopan cnuca^^ topomiie

lei^e

to

Sam pcuppe he

byS

jehseleb.

eac,

n.

"

his, B.
'

seclipan,
II.
'

13.

cliyien,

"
'

bleebpan, H.

'Syn'um,
for

pecne^a,

H. H. B.

l^ajion,

B. B.
B.

albeS, B.
'"

H. omits the " hyjme, B. '^ -m^e, B.

''

search
'' ''

an
II.

English
^^
''

equivalent.
hjuc, B.

hajxe,

ajoji,

"
^^

biceji,

'"

pjtene, B.
B.
-'

secnocobe, B.

li'Son, II.
-''

-horn-,

II.
'-'

' ]?on,

bjjync,

B.
leaf,

^'^

-cen, B.

hyne,

B. omits.
five

V. has some holes in the

but must have omitted

'-'

words.

"

hicsaii,

B.

-'^

frjioens'S, II.

j^ape,

B.

FIIOM DIOSKORIDES, ETC.

317
Ghomkl.

stone

and moreover

also

they cleave together, and

they are within hollow, and then the seed is therein

within.

In case that stones wax in the bladder, 'and in case that a man may not mie, take of these stones by it weight of five pennies, give to drink in wine breaketh to pieces the stones, and forth leadeth
2.
;

the mie.

Staves acreS"
1.

CLXXXI.
Gra(fic,

Delfinium
siafis agria.

This wort, which one nameth

it
it
is,

aypla,

by another name
the size of peas,
austere

lousehane, hath a leaf as a vine,

and and
it

Bot.

a straight stalk, and

hath seed in green pods of

is

and
;

three cornered, and

is

and swart
evil

it

however, within white, and

bitterish to the taste.

humours of the body, take fifteen grains of the seed of this wort, pounded in lithe beer purgeth the body administer it to be drunk it through spewing and after that the sick hath drunken the drink, he shall go, that is, %ualh about, and bestir him before that he speweth, and when he begiuneth to spew, he shall frequently swallow some lithe liquor
2.

For the

of beer, lest the strength of the wort burn the throat,

and choke him.

8.

Against
of this
;

seed

and against scab, take same wort and roses, pound them toscruf
or
scurf,
it

gether

lay to the scurf;

will be healed.

This
v.,

article
fol.

is

MS.

69 b,

is

be ivild vine.
figure.

MS.

from Dioskorides, iv. 156. The painting, Bryonia cretica. iToccpvXr} aypia would T. has a drawing degenerate from the true

"^

rcupy, H. B.

"

j'cseb,

B.

^'^

H. omits from ymh

"'

to

yxb

in the

next paragraph, confounding two leechcrafts.

cnoca, B.

318
piS to]7a
j'ape
j'eoS
-j

HERBARTVM
toSjieomena

jenim

)?yffe
liif'
-j

ylcan

pypte
Of

j^aeb

Sam

on ecebe healbe J>onne on ecebe lanje hpile Ssejia''^ toSa j'ajx

j

muS
beotS

Ssepa^

toSjieoiiiena^

ealle

]78ef

muSef popjiotubnyppa*

jelacnube.^

CLXXXII.

Deos
'j

pypt:

6e

man

jojijonion

*j

o'bjium

naman^

nemnej? byS cenneb^ on bijlon j'topum'^

be Syppe pyjite ip pseb ]5 hype pyptTpuma py jeanlicub J^sepe^ neebpan lieapbe Se man jopjon nemneS "j ^a reljpan^^ liabbaS Jjsep Se eac^^ ip pseb sejSep je eajan je nopa ^^ je nsebbpena liip.^'^ 6ac^^ pe pypurpuma^^ jehpylcne man him jeanhcaS

on paeton

hpilon on^^ jolbep

hipe^''

hpilon on^^ peolppep

'j

]7onne

Su j?ap pypte mib hype pypttpuman niraan pylle Sonne papna )?u ^ hy na punne^ ne^^ bepcme Sy Isep hype hip^^ 'j hype miht py apenb^^ ]?uph Seepe^^ punnan beophtnyppe '^^ popceopp^* hy^^ ponne mib^^ anum pojan -j ppyf'e heapbon^^ ipepne pe J>e hy^^ *j ceoppan^^ yflle Sonne py he ppam apenb*^'' popSy^* hit nyp alypeb f man ^^ hype pyptpuman anpealh ne^^ jepeon mote. 8e ]?e ]?ap pypte^* mib him hapaS sejhpylce ypele pot fpaSu^^ him onjean ^^ cumenbe he popbuje]? je pop Son pe ypela man hyne popcyppe]?

oSSe him onbujej?.

'

hiy,

-nyj'j'e,

H. H.

^ }>8epa,
;

H.

)>apa,

B.,

twice.
^
**

-nej-p, B.
''

-nobe, B.

' peomena ? H. H. leaves out the equi-

valent seeking words.

"jjape, B.
>* '

csenneb,

'"telspan, H.
"^

"
'"

H. B. eac, H.
53^
21

biglu jropu, B., also psetu.

'^
''

^oj-an, B.

'=*

eac,

H.

-ptp-, H.

op, v., twice.

20 ^jj,^
;

hipe, B.

'

hip, B. -nan, H.
]>ape,

ne, H. B., but

V. omits.
.-,

apaenb,
^s

H. B.
y^^^^

22

B.

23
2'

-neppe, B.

^4

y^

jj,

adds

pop, B. omits.
2<)

33

mib, H.
^"

^s i^g^ g ceoppan, H. heapbon, H. ^^ ^^ man, H. B. ajwnb, B. popl^iS, Sej'senb, H. " aniiea[l]hne " one word; which alters the construction.

-ban, B.

pjiam

^^ II.
^*

makes

pypce, H.

"

pjja^u,

H.

'*"

ongeanbe, an error, H.

FROM DIOSKORIDES,
4.

ETC.

319
this Staves acre.
^^t. clxxxi.

For sore of teeth and of gums, take seed of

same wort, seethe it in vinegar; let him hold then in his mouth some of the vinegar for a long while sore of the teeth and of the gums, and all the rottenness of the

mouth

shall

be leechened.
CLXXXII.
Eryngium
maritimnm,

Sea
1.

holly.^
is is

This

wort,

which

named

yopyoviov,

another
in

name

sea holly,

born in secret

and by places, and

wet ones. Of this wort, it is said that its root is compared to the head of the monster which men name the Gorgon, and the twigs * have, as is also said, 1,1 both eyes and nose, and colour oi serpents. 2. Also the root will make any man resemble itself, whilom of hue of gold, whilom of silver. And when thou wilt take up this wort with its roots, then beware thou that no sun shine upon it, lest its hue and its might be spoiled through the brightness of the sun. Carve it off then with a crooked and very hard iron, and he who will carve it, then let him be
T 1
1 i>
J

* That is, the root suckers.

averted,
his root

for

it

is

not permitted that

man may

see

unharmed.
evil

avoideth every
against

hath this wort with him, footswathe or track coming on

He who

him

yea, for it the evil

man

turneth himself

about, or giveth

way

to him.

In the mediasval marginal notes to Dioskorides,

a name, and a not
unsuitable one,
for

yopyoviov

is

the
in

Sea

holly,

Eryngium maritimum.
the Vienna

Though the drawings

MS. V. and
Medusa

MS.

are quite different, each has a head of

forming, or ending, the root.

320

IIERBARIVIM

CLXXXIII.
Deoj'
yy]^'^
]^e

man
pyptre

milotij^

nemneS
*j

b3>S cenneb**^

oSpum naman^ on bejanum j'topiim

^

on pfetum

aj'

jcnbuni^ monan^ on
liateS
'J

niman* on pani'Sam mon];e ];e man aujuptup

ycealr

]m

jenim ];onne

J^one'^

pyjittpuman^
]?]ia3be^^
*j

^yY]"^

VS'V^^

jeppiS^ to
]>y

anum
jeape
jip
"j

liepeP^

aholi

to

Smum

ppypan^^
eajena^^
lice

oSSe

jeppiceS

)>u

ne onjitft )7U bymnyppe J)inpa heo ]?e belimpe'S^"^ heo bjijebby ft hal l?ececpaept^^ yr l?ep

apanbub.^^

PiS

sma tojunje jenim

^ heo on

]^y]'pe

ylcan
'^^

pypte pos
eac^^

fmype^'' J^sepmib'^ hy^^ beo^ jelicSejude

\>yYyG pypte^"^ p?eb

yp be
24

jeajie tpijea-^ blope.'

CLXXXIV.

Deop
peab^^

'j

oJ>pum naman^'"' nemnej? yp tpejea^^ cynna^^ )?onne yy ]?eop pi^ J>a)p majan^^ pajie ppemjcnblic*^^ ];onne yp
J)e
*j

pypt

man

bulbuf

o8ep byteppe on
ben^^ eac^^ ]?am

bj^pjmcje^^ peo
nythcjie

}^p

pcillobep [^eepc-

majan

{Tejj^eji

liapaS ptpanj^''

mrojen

^j

li}^

to mete

^ej^ijebe mj^celon

Sone

licliaman**^'

jeptjianjia^S.

'

In margin, melilotis, H.
fol.

'

II.

omits the ineffeclual phrase;

II.

O.,
^

14

= 56

b,

condenses.
"

cxnneb,
'

B.
'-

* ^

nnne, O,

-be, O.

raona, O.
11.
'^

J>ane, ().

-me, O.
11.

"

"^ heyelb, Sei'F)', O. '^ on l^mu ease, O.

;

B.
'^

"'

braibe, O.
'''

j-jKOjiun, II,
H^tcy
1.,

he, O. omits.

hal

l>rc)*

"'-bob, B.
'"his, B.

afonbon, 0.

r^ypa, B.; fmure, O.

" K^p, B.
^^ cj)ij)a,
;

2"-Sobe, B.
^*

^'

eac/ll.

-'

^yr,.

q.
II.
^-

II.

cupa, B.

boge, 0.
-'^

"
II.
^*

11.

omits what comes to notliing

O.
II.

omits two
2"

lines.
II.
^^
^'

tyef,]\a, II.

B.
'"

cynna,

"'*

fieab,

mfisan,

j-pamsebhc,

-m^e, B.
;

secj'epen, O.,

fol.
^^

38 =

10.
II.

eac, II.

fcjisens, II.

omitting man, writing sen,

lichoman,

FROM DIOSKORIDES,

ETC.

.*^21

CLXXXIII.

Melihfua"
ojficinalis ?

and by another name is produced in cultivated and in wet places. This wort thou shalt take up in the waning of tlie moon, in the month which hight August take then the root of this wort, and bind it to a yarn thread, and hang it to thy neck that year thou shalt
1.

This worfc, which

,

is

named

milotis,

not

feel

dimness of thine eyes, or

if it

befall thee,

it

suddenly shall depart, and thou shalt be hale.

leechcraft is a proved one.

This

For tugging of the sinews, take ooze of this ilk wort, smear therewith; the spasm shall be alleviated.
2.

It
it

is

also

said

of this wort,

that

twice in the year

blossom eth.

'^

CLXXXIV.
/3oA/3oV,
;

1.

This wort, which

,

is

named

name
n
1

is

of
n

two kinds
1

and by another the one is red, and

'

Hi/acinthus
('omo.ms (Sib-

beneficial tor sore of the

I*

maw

the other
;

'

thorp), other^^"'^"""

is

bitterisn wise Muscari

to the taste;
profitable
for

it

is

called

(rxiAAcoSr)^

it

is

also

more

the

maw

either

main or

virtue,

and when
the body.

of them hath strong partaken of for meat, they

much strengthen

The

gloss iu H., " mcllilotif corandreg,^^

and the

officinal

character of the herb, favour this identification.

The

figure,

MS. v.,
iii.

fol.

66

a,

does not

make one think

of

it.

Dioskorides,

48, has no such tales.

This

article

came

originally from Dioskorides,

ii.

200,

on the

iSoXjSo^

eUhy-oq.

The

figure in

MS. V.

is

fantastic.

322
pi)7

HERBARIVM
jefpel
-j

pi6

fot able

'j

piS

jehpylce jebepeb-

jenim J>ap pypte pylpe jecnucube^ o^^e mib hunije jemencjebe^ 1^5^^ ''^o ^^i^ pape J^e man J70iiiie
nylTa*
be]?ujipe.

PiS
pe
seji

paetep.

peocnyppe^

jemm

);ap

ylcan^

WV^^

TP^

cpsebon ^ecnucube^ leje

to j^am

hy^ mib
*j

humje

jecnucube^^ hunba

eac^ plitap jelacniaS "

innoSe

hy eac^^ ppylce mib pipope jemencjebe^^ -j tojelebe^^ hy ^sey lichaman ppat jeppiSa]?*^'^ 'j eac^^ fpa pome hy J78ep majan pap^'' ^eli6i-^ai^}^
hy pylpe^^ acennebe^^ beoS jenim J?yppa pypta^^ pyjitpuman^^ jecnucube^^ mib ele j mib-^ hpsetenan-^ melupe *j mib^* papan Sam 5eme'ce
Pi6
punbela
]?e

]?uph

J?e

]7U

cly^an^^ pypce leje to

Sam punbum
J>e

eac^''

hyt^^

apeopmaj)^^

^one^^

leahtop

jpecap

hoftopytupas

hata^

f yp pcupp psep heapbep 'j eac^^ J?one^^ ]?e hy^* achopap nemna^ f yp pceb^^ pe poji opt f heapob
*^^

pexe^^ bepeapa^

esec^^
^'^

huni^e^^ jecnucube
apeopma]?.

mib hy op })am anbphtan*^ nebcopn

PPylce

mib ecebe

o^Se'^^

6ac^^

ppa

pome*^

on
-j

ecebe

jej^ijebe

hy**

)?8epa*'^

mnoSa

toSunbennyppe**^

tobopj'tenyfle*^ jehBeleS.
^seb

be*^ )?yppe pypte*^ yf

f heo op bpacan^^ blobe

acenneb^^ beon pceolbe^^ on^^ upepeapbum^*

muntum^^

on

]?iccon

beappum.^

'

Sebpecebneffa, B.

segabejiunse, H.
^

segseberebnynae, O.

-cobe,

O.; secnocobe, B.

-ma&nsebe, H. B.;
''

semeggeb,

O., a
'

method
H., lay.
;

of expressing the sound frequently seen in old English.

'

le,

peoc-,

H.

-nejje, B.

ylcan,
^

cnube, II., by contraction. " -cna, H. '2e4c, H.

are omitted in V.

eac,
=*

"

-lebe, B.
'

' secnocobe, B. H. omits. ge'" gecnocobe, B. H. " hi^, B. -msens-, B. H.; of this, two letters ' eac, H. geppi^a^, B.
''^

"
'^"

fap, H. acsennebe, H. B.
rape, V.
;

-ega'S, B.

'

J)ur>

he

fulfe,

O.
q^

^^

HfT^

J'lp'ce,
'^^

B.
-'eac, II.

^2 _jjja^

2^

gecnocobe, B,; cnuc, O., imperative.

-"

H, omits from mib

-^

to mib.

"-nil, B.; faecune, O.

cly^am, O.
^'

heo, O.

29%-, H.

'">ane,

O.

Ut2C^, B.; hseta^, O.

=''*rcb,

^2 ^.^c,

H.
B.

^Hn,

O.

311115,

^-

B.

3j:eaxe,

FROM DIOSKOllIDKS,
2.

ETC.

323
Art. clxxxiv.

For swelling, and for gout, and for any injury, take this wort, pounded by itself, or mingled with honey lay it to the sore, for which a man needeth
;

it.

For water sickness or dropsy, take this ilk wort pounded as we before said lay it to the inwards. Also pounded with honey, it cures the rendings of hounds and also further mingled with pepper, and laid on, restraineth sweating of the body and it also
3.
;
; ;

similarly alleviates sore of the

4.

maw.

wounds which come of themselves, take of these worts, pounded with oil, and with wheaten meal, and with soap, in the manner in which thou wouldst work a poultice lay to the wounds. It
For
roots
;

also purgeth the defect which the Greeks hight Tr/Vupa,*

and also that which they name a-x^wpag, that is, scab, which often robbeth the head of the hair. Also, it likewise pounded with vinegar, or with honey, purgeth away face flecks from
that
is,

scurf of the head,

the countenance.
5.

Also, in like wise swallowed in vinegar, they heal

inflation
6.

and
this

fracture.^

Of

wort,

it

is

said that

it

was produced

out

of dragons

blood,

on the top of mountains, in

thick forests.

Kat

itlrvfot,

kou

axui^oc(;

a.'K(i(T\K'i\yjiv<n

dvv

oitrS

yirpu),

Diosk.

So

that the syllables hof to are unaccountable.

^ 'P^y/xara, Dioskor.

^'

eac,

H.
;

eac,

B.

^s

o^^gj.^
*i

39

j^^nj^^

^
Cac,

4o

^ecnocobe
neglecting
*^

his, B.

-cobe, O.
^*

anpican, O., as in other places,

*-

consonants which required an effort to utter.

H.
= 54

j-ame,

B. O.
^'

his,

B.
*^

*5 j,ajaa,

B. O.; B.

J^sejia,
;

H.

"

to^unnyrj-e, V.
oj:

-nerre, B.
ac8&nneb, H. B.

Bi, O.
^2 ^s

pjpte, H.
j-colbe,

pyrt, O.
^^^ jj^
as

bpacan, H.

^1

ss

upearben, O.

uj-'onpeapbon, H.

m^nct^^

jj,. jnute,

Q.

beajiepum, H.

X 2

324

HERBARWM

CLXXXV.

Beos
aj]ie]^tip

pyp'c ]?e^
]?e^

man
piS

colocyn]?!]-

ajjiia

f yf cucupbita

man
heo

eac^ ppijiUam
J?a

nemne]? heo eal ypa

o6e]i

cyjijrsette*
-j -j

eojiSan'"'

bpaebe];^

hapa^
J?am

leap

hype teljpan^ tocucumepe jehce -j

*j

tophtene

heo hapa]? psej'tm pmepealrne

bytepne pe

yf to nymenne^ to
3]iennyppe^^ pealpa^.^^

timan

]?oune

he asptep hip

PiS innoSep aj'tyjmnje jenim j^ypep'^ pa^ptmep hnepcnyppe^^ mnepeapbe butan^** ]?am cypnlun tpejea''
peneja^^ jepihte on
hSan^''

beope

jecnucube^**

pyle

bpmcan hyt

aptypej?^^ J;one

mno^.

'

ha, B.

2 |,a,

B. H.
telgpa, B.

eac,
'

H.

'

-yecte, H. B.

'"

eojvbann,
niraene,

9
'^ '"

V. H.

'"

-bpebe'5, B,

he,

Y.
B.

-nej'j-e,

B.

" jealupa^, H. B.
'^
^''

hyrr^T? H.
tjH'jiia,

-nejje, B.
paene^a, B.
'

" bucon, B.
li'Son, II.

-lum tpeppa,

IT.;
'"

Secnncobe, B.

-pa'5, B.

FllOM DIOSKORIDES, ETC.

325

Coloeynth.^
1.
is,

clxxxv.
xoXox,vv(})g

(Jucuinis
colucijnLlus.

This worfc, which

just as

is

named

uypiu,

that

cucurbita agrestis, wild goiird, which

is

also

named
its

frigilla,^

another gourd spreadeth abroad

earth,

stems upon

the

and

it

hath leaves like the

cucumber, and deeply cut (lohed

and

serratedy),

and
to

it

hath

spherical

fruit

and
ifc

bitter,
is

which
its

is

be

gathered at the time

to fallow.
2.

when

turning

greenness

For

stirring

neslmess of this
of

two pennies

inward fruit, without the kernels, by weight give it, pounded in lithe beer to be
of the

inwards,

take

the

drunk;

it stirreth

the inwards.

Our

text

is

originally from Dioskor., iv. 178.

Not

figured

in

MS. V.
^ Frigilla, gl.

Laud, 567,

fol.

60

c, alo.

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THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

SaeAd' BJET
haten
-^

iECyPra
J?am

cynmjliiy

ibpajituy^

psef

octauiano

cayepe
J7up

ppeonbe^

beelo^

bobabe^ ]7yppum^

pojibum

cpeSenbe

COonejum^
"j

bipenum^^
hpsefiejie^^

ic

eom

^epip piiipa

mrejena^^

pnytjpo

*j

f ];u nseppe to Sup myclep^* msejnep Isecebomum become fpylcum*^^ ppa ic jeppejn^^
ic^^
(Sa

pene

pe

ppam
"j

sepcolapio

pepbon

Ic^^

]3

]?a

pop

Siiijie

cySSe

]7e

peopSne pipre
Isece

J^j^pep

to

jepitanne p yp

be pylbbeopa^^

cpseptum

fpa

pel jesseb yp.^^

Medicina de taxone.

i.

Sum

py}eppete

nyten

yp bpoc^^ on enjlipc^^ cpicum J?a tej? op abo^^ pa jie he msepte hsebbe 'j pup cpeS- on naman pjep gelmihtijan^^ jo^^p ic pe opplea^* 'j pe p>ine tep op abeate -j ponne hy p}^SSan on hnenum^^ hpsejle bepinb -j on jolbe oppe on peolppe~^ bepypc ]? hio'^^ ne msejen^^ pmum hce sethpman^^ hapa mib pe

f pe nemna'S taxonem f S^poh ^ beop 'j him ]70iine op

ip

Sonne ne pceppeS^^ pe ptjianj ptopm ne ypel

ne tunjol -^^ ne hajol ne man ne polbepenbep apiht

'

hep SAT^AD, BL
lapartus, Lat.
^

cynmc, B.
Harl. 4986.
''

^ \>e
'

egypta

t^e

ibparruf ; so O.
^

opens.

MS.
B.

haten, H.
^

j:]xeonba,

B.

frunbe, O.

haele,

bobobe, H.

hifu, B.

'monju, B.
'-

momsum, H.
'^

'"bipau, B.
^^

" maesna, B.
'*

hpsetJpe,
'^
'^

B.
je-

ic,

H.

mycelef, H.
II.
''

rPY^*^^ ^c> ^-j

^^ erasure.

niens, B.; Sen^aeSn,

sentence
'-'

Ic,

H.

^^

j^ylbeopa, B.
-" -'

This
II.

is

incomplete, a verb

is

wanting, as fenbe, ppite.

"^

bpoc,

en^lifc, II.

" abo
then

II.

naman

aelmihcigef ,

H.

ojaj-lea,

B.

2^

-num

cla"Se,

omitting four words,

H.

^^ reolj-jie,

H.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS

327

PAPYRIENSIS.

They say that a king of the Egyptians, Iclpartus be was liigliten, boded or sent a message of
1.

health

to

the

Csesar
:

Octavianus,

his

friend,
I

thus

queathing or saying
of thy virtues and

"

By many

examples
I

am aware

prudence,

and yet

ween that

thou never earnest to know leechdoms of thus mickle main, or such as I learn are those which we obtained from iEsculapius. I then make it known for thine
instruction, to wit,

and
is,

for that I wist

thee worthy of
of wild deer or

this,

that

of leechcrafts
it is

wild

beasts;" as far as

well

said.

Drawing of a brock
2.

i.

There

is

a
is

four-footed

neat,

which

we name

brock in English; catch that deer, and do off the teeth from him while yet quick or alive, those which he hath biggest, and thus say
taxonem,^ that
:

I thee slay, and beat thy teeth In the name of ^ off thee and then subsequently wind them up in a linen rail or garment, and work them in gold or in silver, that they may not touch thy body have them with thee, then shall scathe thee neither heavenly body, nor hail, nor strong storm, nor evil man, nor
.

In mediaeval Latin ;= Italian, Tasso

;

a gray, a brocke, a

badger (Florio)
^

French, Taisson

Spanish, Tejon.
text.

There

is

no need to imitate the irreverence of the

''

hi,

B.

'^

mason, B.

'''^

-lijunan, B.

^^^

yc-^Me^, B.

^'

tungal, H.

328

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

]?e

ne

aemjef^
ypeley

ypelej*

lipfBt

biiS

onhpme^ bepe]; oSSe jyp h]\aj>e liyt byS topliren j-pa

\>e^

ysey

iibbiaj' jypbel]' ])iBy

pitejan

Nim

J^onne ]7one ppyj^paii''

j

pot j;one fupcSpan^ 8ipyum^ popbum

))up

cpej?

on

naman
bome
Sone^
hio
'-j

]?8ep

lijzijenban

jobey

ic''

]?e

nime to
o"S^e

Isece-

fjonne

on ppa hpylcum
yijepaept
]?e
<

jeplite

^epeohte
jip

ypa Su
pa liopp

bifc^

\>n

f jebijep

]m

jzot
l?a

mib

mib hip jelynbe pmyjie^^ pe pyn^^ on peoppe^- o]>])e on senijpe able

hajzayt
*j

him ppam ahylbej;^^ J7eah hyt mycel abl py

hpep tib him opep byS

h]ia]?e

heo on pej

jepire]?.

CQenj^*

hyp

blob

py]7

l^^tlum

pealre
)?e

hoppum

-j

on pole pmnen^^ op]>e on senijum yple^^ bo ]?u]ih hopn on muS septep ]?8ep beopep mihte -j epne ymb J^peo niht hy^ beoS hale. Diy bpsejen jepeoS on J>pim peptpum^^ elep on nipon^^
-j

mulum

selcum pi]?eppe'cum neate^^

cpoccan oS

hyt

]?pybba bsel py bepeallen psetelj^a* 'j healb jip hpa py on heapob pp93ce aprep bae]?e pmype^^
]3

mib on ]?pim nyhtum^^ he byS jehseleb '^^ -j ppa eac 24 ]?a pet 'j ]?eah man py on hpylcpe unjepenbenblicpe^^

able

-j

unhalpenblicpe

^^
j

peo pipe

hme

hseleS

-j

lacnab

Nun tum
*j

hip lippe to
]?inpa

bsel

bebealp^^ 9Gt ]7am ymblipj-pp

lanbjemsepa
alypbe

'j

J>inpa

buphftaSola
-^^
-j

-j

];a

heoptan^^ aet ]?inum buphjeatum behele

Jme

)7onne

];u

beoS

hale

to

pepanne^^

ham

to

'

senile)*,

B.
^

anpyuene, H.

onjiyne,

13. 13.
'

\>e,

V.

13.

omit,

'

nn]>]'ian, II.

yup'5 jian, H.
\>u bifc

>yru,

ic,

H.

The

construction required

twice, but not so in

MSS.; rymle,
" yyn^ B.
^'-

inserted in

margin, H.;
'3
'^

r]>a,

B.
*

"'Son,

V.

'*

rmyjia, B.
'^

feyope, B.
jmnien, H,
rmyjia, B.

ah-, II.
yjele,

CDaengc,

H. B.
''

ncate, B.
"

''^

B.

**

hig, B.

refcpej',

B.

niim, B.

->

" ohjium nihcejme,

-^

H.,
2'
-8

the latter
e^^, li.

word having been tampered with.

-* -"

Sehaileb, B.
-bel}-, II.

-bebl-,

II.
^^

-])nb-,

IF.

-^

B.

heopte, B.

behela, B.

jajaenne, B.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
aught of
pestilential,

329
Brock.

damage
rathely

thee,
it

or

if

nor shall the touch of any evil somewluit of evil be to thee,

tlie

shall

be torn asunder, as was

girdle of

Obadiah^ the prophet. Then take the right fore foot with these words, and thus say In the name of the then in whatI take thee for a leechdom
: .
. .

soever conflict or fight thou shalt be, then thou shalt

be victorious,
horses

and thou
thee.

shalt do well

in

it,

if

thou

hast the foot with

With

his

suet

smear the
;

which are in a fever, or in any ailment it shall retire from them, and the hour of life shall be prolonged to them,^ and though it be a mickle ailment,
quickly
3.

it shall

depart away.

Mingle his
mules,

blood with

little

salt

for

horses
are
it

and

and

any

four-footed
or with

neat

which
evil
;

struggling with

pestilence,

any

put

by means

of a horn on the deers (beasts) mouth,

;

and
till

so for about three nights

they will be
oil

hale.

Seethe

his brain in three sextarii of

in a

new

crock,
off,

that the

third
it.

part be boiled
If

away;

bottle

and

be troubled with headracking pain after the bath, smear him therewith for And so also the feet. three nights he will be healed. And though a man be in any chronic^ and incurable disease, this manner will heal and cure him. Take his liver, divide it, and delve it down at the turnings round of thy land boundaries, and of thy borough wall foundations,^ and hide the heart at thy borough
preserve

any

one

Jeremiah

chap.
si

xiii.

Not

in the Latin.

" Dumtaxat

uita

superet," Latin.
clear

If they are not

downright dead.
that, at least.
c
^^

The not very

Saxon text does not say

" Comitiali morbo," Latin.

'

Circa fundus," Latin.

330

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

apej

cyjijienne^ eall pol by);

aptypeb

-j

ysdy nalit pce)?)7eS

CuJ?

^^

'j

by]? lytel
ip

pjiecne^

^ seji jebon ppam pype-*

-j

yp

eac'^

]>

hip

hyb
pi(5

bjiyce^

hunbum

ealluin^

pij^ejipetum

nytenum

polep
^^

hybe^ pellpticceo jepelept^^ ]?u jepm on pmum ic^^ pylle f Su jelype capepe
hapa
]?8epe

on to bonne on Jjinum pceon " ne

jepinne

potum 8u haljupta
])

];ip

pilb

beop^^ pell
);8ep^^

pjiemaS^^
pcBjiefc^''

jip

}>u

pmum
J^ijept

clsenpunj

bajum
50b
pe

pu
je-

jeonb
-j

eapSan

ymbhpyjipt^^ hyp
liyt
byj)

pliepc^^
*j

poben

etept

);inum

peojiubum,^^

Gip

hpam

hpset

ypelep

hyp pynlupta bpucan

peoSe ]7onne hip

ypnenbum

pylle

psetepe

^ebon biS ^ he^^ ne mseje pceallan-^ on on hunije *j 'Sicje )7onne 'j

peeptrenbe J^py^^ bajap

Arts

pona he biS jebeteb.'24

5, 6, 7, 8,

pig blobep pleppan

.

]?onne
,_

eallum

mannum
,_i

sy peo-

are thus placed

intheMSS.,but
are not in the Latin, and do

not belong to the badger.

pontyne nilita eaio mona septep punnan petl janje seji monan upnyne^^ cyme to bam tneope be man hateb ^ , x v u feppel mib pmpe pynptjian mopbeam 'j op Sam mib tpam pmjjmm f ip mib puman^*^ -j hanba mib^^ hpmj pmjpe hpitne^^ seppel pe ponne ^yt^^ ne peabije ahepe hyne ];onne iipp-^^ -j upp apip^^ he bitS bpice to'^^ Sam upepan bsele J>asp lichaman -^^ 6pt bo hyne abune *j on lut^^ he biS behepe to 8am neoSpan^^ bsele ]?8ep lichoman^^ sep Son^'^ pu }7yfne seppel mme.
i
^
*^

i<.

mm

cypanne, H.
" " ''

rc8e)j>e(5,

eac, H*.

An
H.

erasure,

yjisecne, H. B. H. B. bpyce omitted, II.

='

* '

jrepe,

H.

)?ape, B.
'2
'^

hybe, V. omits.
ic,

'"

-jticce, B.
>5

ealbum, H. " j-con, B.

> )>a]i,
-'

seyelfr,

H.
;

"

pilbeoji,

' jTpe^-, II- rPrt, B. "' ho, B. B. till; pepubura, 2' No further goes the Latin " de taxone."

H. hpyPIt:, H.

^-^^araa^,
'

H.

B.

jlr, B.

11.

adds
B.;

"^ j-^allan,
^5 -^

B.
B.

-'

>piS, B.

(^p. jj_

jg j,(iiiian,
'-

3"

mib hir Jjuman, H. ^' upp, H.

'^7

j^^.^

hij.^

u,
'd]ny,

hjjicne,

jqit,

B.

ajiir,

II.

np

B.

^^ j^q^

^^

interlined.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
gates

33 J
Brock.

and thine shall be released ^ in health to go about and home to return all pestilence shall be driven away, and what was ere done shall naught scathe, and there shall be little mischief from
;

then

thou

fire.

Known

also
all

it

is

that

his

hide

is

useful to

hounds, and to
fell

four-footed neat, to put

upon them

as a preservative against the peril of pestilence.

pieces of the hide
;

Have

feel distress in thy feet,

on thy shoes thou shall never I will thou holiest Caesar

!

that thou shouldst believe that this wild deer benefits

on thy cleansing days, where thou travellest through earths circumference, eatest his flesh it shall be good to thee sodden, and partakest of it and to thy hosts 4. If to any one anything of evil has been done,^ so ^y that he may not enjoy his lusts, then seethe a coillon of the brock in running spring water and in honey, and let him partake of it, fasting for three days soon he will be mended. 5. c For flux of blood when to all men the moon is
well,
if

thou

^ knot,

seventeen nights

old,

after the setting of the sun, ere

is

the uprising of the moon, come to the tree which

hight morbeam,

and from it take an apple, that is, a berry, with thy left hand with two fingers, that is, with the thumb and the ring finger, a white apple or berry, which as yet is not ruddy then lift him up, and up arise this is useful for the upper part of the body. Again put it down, and
or mulberry
tree,
; ;

lout

down

over

it

it is

behoveful for the nether part

Per quam tu

ire

et

redire

soles.

Our

text interprets

solveris.

^ Varies
c

from the Latin.

Not

in the Latin,

MS.

Harl. 4986, nor ed. 1538.

33

J?am lichoman,

H.
^7

^i

i^^^^

jj

^^ iiiieo'^it]i3in,

H.; ny'Sepan, B.

3^

-haman B.

^p }>onne, H.

332

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

J^aj'

ppapape pope pantopani opiim temep^ ptanep jenim J>onne J;u )7ap popb jecpeben lisebbe 'pone seppel -j hine })onne bepmb on peolc jieabum'"^ jobpebbe 'j peoS ]70nne ept mib pceate oJ>pep 30bpebbep j behealb f pep Isecebom ne lipme ne psetejiej' ne eop^an ];onne neabj)eapp^ py -j pe upepa bvel pyep lichoman * on sem^um pape oSSe on eappepum ^ jeppmce ppiS on pone anbplitan^ jyp hyt py on pam neoSpan'' bsele ppiS on pa pambe.
CpeiS ]7onne

popb

apj'

app

app

pjiolpapam

emojijiajiam

Pi5 pipep pleppan jenim pone camb pe heo ana liyjie lieapob mib cembe^ 'j nsenij^ man sep mib cembe'^ ne
seprep
pep^^

cembe

^^

Unbep Sam

"cpeope

bype peax^^ ^ psep^* [^epomnije -j aho^^ on upptanbenbe

mopbeame cembe^^ on pam cambe^^ jepolije

tpi^
pjep

moji-j

beamep

'j

ept

ymh

hpile

claene

bi^^

tojepomni^e
(5e

^ehealbe^^

f bype biS lascebom

psepe^^

bype beapob

psep^^ cembep.^^

Gpo jip beo pylle f fet bype blobjiyne cyme to cembe ^^ ept hype beapob unbep mopbeame 'j f peax pe on pam cambe cleopije^^ pomnije*^^ -j bo on anne^^ teli^pan 6e py abune^^ jecyppeb "j jepammje^^ ept f bype byp leecebom. Gyp Su pylle f pip sy jeclsenpob pe na3pjie milite clene^^ beon^^ pypc bype pealpe op^^ pam peaxe 'j bit set hpejo abpij^^ 'j bo on hype lic^^ ponne byp heo
jeclsenj'ob.

aemefcace)', H.; semefcanc)-, B.

'

--ban, H.
;

neoc, H.,

understand ne aec-.
"

lie-, II.

-liaman, B.
^

^ ->o't5-,
^

B.
II.,

-j'latan,

H.
'"

'

ny]?epan, B.
II.

cSbe,

II.

maenis,
'-

comically.
'3pex, B.

caembe,

B,

''

caembe, B., twice.

"*

haji,

B.
IT.

'j'ap,
'

B.

'^caembe, H. B.
''

alio,
-''

B.; aho,

"

hi,

V.

sehealbe, B.
a word.

t>aju',

B. B.

-^o

t>aj),

B.

caembevN, B.;
'-'

caiin, II., half

- caimbe,

II.

-^

clypge, B.

j-oni, II.,

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
of the body.

*^38

Ero
:

tliou
oi^,

take
^^,

tliis

apple or berry, say

uipoo
(re

these
TTucrav

words

a^^,

wg

(^apiJiuxov
ttuv

Trpog

aifjioppctylav

Travro^

aiiiuTog

ts

ul[^0(rTuys:.^

thou hast said tliese words, take the apple or fruit, and then wind it up in a fine purple cloth, and then bag it again in a piece of some other fine linen, and have a care that this leechdom touch When there is need, and neither water nor earth. the upper part of the body labours in any sore, or any difficulties, bind it upon the forehead; if it is on the nether part, bind it on the wamb. Take the comb with which 6. Ad mulieris fluxum.

When

combed her head, and with which no other man has combed nor shall comb. Under the tree morbeam, there let her comb her hair; let her gather what is lost in the comb, and hang it on an upstanding twig of the morbeam, and again after a
she alone
while,

from the twig and preserve it. That shall be a leechdom for her, for the one who there combeth her head. 7. At si hoc optaverit, ut menstrua fluant, let her comb her head again under the mulberry tree, and let
clean,
let

when

her gather

it

her collect the hair that cleave th upon the comb, and
let

turned downwards, and let her collect it again that is her leechdom. 8. If thou will that a woman be cleansed, who never might be clean, work her a salve from the hair, and
her place
it

on a twig which
;

is

dry

it

somev/hat, and put

it

on her body; then

shall

she be cleansed.

The words irpoq

itaa-civ

aljAoppayiav are clearly right.

rest.

It

was

my

duty to attempt to read the

omitting half the word.

carelessly.
^' lie,

-^

eenne, B.
29 ^jg^jj,

-"

abune, B.
^o
5^.^

-^
31

^s

daeue, H. B.

H.

jj

-ran- H., /ibp,^^ h.

H.

334

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

II.

Medicina de ceruo.
plite

[MS. 0.]

Pi]7

nsebpan^

heoptej"
*^

hopn

hapaS
liij"

mjBjen
bpuce)?

?elcne psetan to abpijenne

foji

pam

man
jzij:

on

eajpealjre.^
PiJ? lieajzob

yape heoptej" hojiney axan*

peneja'^'
'z^o.-yiw
'j

^epseje^
psetepef
f>e]'

bjimc''

mm

anne

yefuep

pmep

'j

mm

)78ep

sejlipylce bseje pcenc*^ pulne

bpmce

byienc eac^^

pambe yap

^ehaJ^epaS.

Pi)7
);a

topa pajunje heojitep hojin jebsepneb

"j

jecnucob

teS jetpyme]? jip hip

man

piplice bpuceS.^^

Pi5 pipep pleppan

^^^

heoptep hopn to bupte jebeaten

by]? pel.

bpmce on pme pona him^^

on hatum^^ psetepe
eac^^
]?a

pi6 pypmap to cpellenne^^ heoptep hojm jebsepnebne

bjimce
lit

pypmap he

acpelleS

'j

apeoppe]?.^^

NaGbpan
acxan^^
'j

to

acpellanne^^

mm

)?8ep

hojmep
pej.

ftpeb

j^sep

hi pyn hi^^ pleoS pona

on

PiS pipa eappoSnyflum*^^ J?ap uncypte jpecap hataS hyptem cepmzam heoptep hopnep J^gep fmaeleptan
buptep^^ bpuce }?py^^ bajap
pepopij py bpmce
)?onne

on pmep bpmce jip he^*

on peapmum psetepe

^ bi6

50b Isececpsept.
Pi}>

miltan pape heoptep hopn jebsepnebne

^^^

J^icje
j5

jeppettum bpmce
pes apyppe]?.26

he

]?a

miltan abjiijeS

'j

on pap on

nsebpan, H.
^
^

-SS-5 B, ; abji-,
II.

II.
^

8&Sr->

H.
'

hopner

axan, H.
**

paenesa,

B.
'" ]>8&s
'^
^"^

sepjege, B.

fepinc, II.

senne, B.

fcsenc, B.

bpsenc eac, H.

" bpuce'S, B,
irpbs

H. omits I; but V. B. accept it. '^ hatu, B. " acp-, H. '^ -lenne, '" axan, H. B. H.
'2 2^

hype, B.;
'-^^

rb

(rrifiaipucuSov
'^

ut apyppcS, B.
)>aji

eac, II.
hij;,
-*

hig j-yn

B.

eajijob-,

V.

-nej-pu, B.
-^

--

bufcej-,

B.
^^

-^

I'piSj

B.

heo,

more

properly.

bpince, B.

ScjyjipetS, B.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.

335

Painting of a
1.

hart.

ii.

a harts horn hath main or power to dry up every wet hence it is used for

Against bite of snake

salve.

an eye
2.

Against sore of head, drink by weight of five pennies ^ of ashes of harts horn take one sextarius of wine, and two of water; take of this every day a cup full, and drink this drink. It also restraineth ^
;

sore of
3.

wamb.

Against wagging of teeth, harts horn burnt and pounded steadieth the teeth, if one wisely useth it. 4. Ad mulieris fluxum. Harts horn beaten to a dust, let her drink it in wine soon she shall be well. 5. For worms, to kill them, drink burnt harts horn
;

in hot water
6.

it

killeth

and casteth out the worms.

Also to quell snakes, take ashes of the horn, and spread them where the snakes are; they soon flee

away.
7.

For the

difficulties of

women

this disorder ^ the

Greeks hight va-TspiXY) ttv/^, use the smallest dust of harts horn for three days in a drink of wine if she be feverish, then let her drink it in warm water. That is a good leechcraft. 8. For sore of milt, take burnt harts horn in a sweetened drink; it shall dry up the milt, and put
;

far

away

the sore.

''

This title is in the MS. G., Latin humores," ed. 1538.

^

"

Ad omnes

homines

;"

^ "
c

Dragmam unam," Lat. " Sedat," Lat. " Nequissimi Grgeci," Lat.,

MS. G.

But nequissimum

uitium was the reading of ed. 1538.

X 8

336

THE MEDICIXA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

^

jebaBjinebne menjPiS reteji heoptep hopn eceb pmyjie^ mib* ];ain hjieeblice him cyme]; bou.

pi6

Gjzt piS teteji

0}:

anbplitan to bomie
piS
ele

heojitef bo]\n ])onne

jebaepnebne

menj^
ept;

pmype''

'j

bpujub^ sy

J?u

hit

jempa

bo

]?i]'

on

f beyunnan

upjanje^ hpsebhce hit haele)?. 6pt piS ]7am ylcan heoptep^^

nijon^^ peneja^^ jepaeje bo
peolppe pyx peninja
yyipe
haele]?
^'^

hopn
^^^
-j

jebaepnebne
^^

J^aejito

jeppyppep
*j

op

jepseje
clj^J^an

^emenj^*^
*j

jejnib^^

pel
^'^

'j

jepyjic
pap.

to

j-myjie^^

mib hyt

pel

piS cypnlu patella

]?u

f yy heoptep heajoppmb^^
]?e

jip

hapapt mib

]?e

ne apipa^

apipon^^ mib hyp sethpme

cyjmlu ^ Jja ]?e aep^^ hy^^ on pej jepitaS.

heoptej- pceallan-'^
^^

pip

jemanan to apeccanne Nim**

bsel

bpyj pypc to buj'te bo hyp

apecce}?^^ pip

on pmej' bpmc

^emanan^

lupt.

heoptej- pcytel -j cnuca to bufte Pi^ f ylce bpmc hyt hselse'S J78et ylce. bo on pmep

^^

mm

pi6

nsebpan

bite

heoptep

jecynblimu^^

bpij

to

bupte

-j

jebo^^ popan bupt ];gepto^^ })]ieopa peNmja^^

'

hop, H., from carelessness.

mcenj;, II.
" ^

maenj;e, B.
;

fmyra, B.
'

'Saepmib,

H.
^ ^*

bonne, B.

macng, H.
'^ )>a]a,

raajngc, B.
^^
'*

j-mypa, B.

bebpuncen, B.
pajnega,
^^

sunnan up-, H.
B.
so.
20

heopce]-,

H.
B.
B.,

" nyson,
'^

II.

H. B.
;

^efjieajijef,
'^

pajnesa, H. B.
se.
^

-miens, II
'

-maesc, B.,
B.
-'^

^mb,

no
2'

imyjia, B.
II.
^s

hsele-S,

heasospinb, H.
-^

Sep,

B.

22

apisou,
27

^15,
-^

B.

nim, H.
;

j-callan,
=<.

B.

-^

bjienc,

H.

apece-S,

H.
-leomo,

-nan, H.

-manan, B.

xj^jg

leechdom is not in V. enigmatic manner.

^^

The
^"

stops are in
II,

H. given throughout '* ^S^bo, H.

in this
l>ap,

B.

paiueKa,

II.

B.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
9.

337
Hart.
^^^- "

Against
;

tetter,

mingle
tliat
;

with

vinegar harts horn

burnt
10.
oil

smear

with

quickly

cometh
face,

bote

or

amenchiient to him.
Again, to get a tetter off the
;

mingle with
that
is

burnt harts horn

it
it

smear, and

when

dried,

renew thou
sun; quickly
11.

again.

Do

this at the

upgoing of the

healeth.

Again, for the same, apply thereto burnt harts

silver, that

horn by weight of nine pennies, and by weight of six

pennies of the filing of
is,

of litharge

mix and rub

poultice,
well.

together

very

well,
;

and

work

to a

and smear

therewith

it

healeth the

sore

Against churnels or kernels, or swollen glands, if thou hast with thee the patella,^ that is, a harts cheek, the churnels will not arise, and those that
12.

before arose, at the touch of

13.

it,

will depart
;

away.
cervi testi-

Ut

coitus appetitus excite tur

sume

ad pulverem redige, partemque in vini poculum indito; ita appetitum ad congressum cum
culos, siccatos

muliere excitabis.

it

For that ilk; take a harts sharn, and pound put the dust into a drink of wine it will to dust
14.
;
;

heal that

ilk.

Painting of a snake. 15. Against bite of adder, dry to dust a harts membra genitalia, and add thereto dust of rose by
*

Litharge
is,

is

a gloss in

MS. H.

"

Spuma

argenti," Lat.
est,

^ Patella is

knee cap

the Latin adds, hoc

genuinum,

that

grinder tooth.

Of

the signification

of heajofpinb,

though Lye and Somner give no proofs, no one can have a doubt, who looks at the glossary printed by Somner, p. 70 b, line 12, and reads p. 71 a, line 33, with the necessary correction of j-pinb for jpmb fpmb is in the transcript by which is the original of the printed text cf. also Junius, Wachter, jenas hea^aspen. gl. unpublished, also the Lorica. Articles 13, 14, are not in the Latin of MS. G.
;
;

338
j^eydd^e

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

on^
bjiince
'j

J^icje

on bdd^e

j^ceapplice^

ye

^jienc^ hselejj nsebpan bite.

Pi6 ptebe 'j popjebinbe heojitej" hseji* beoS yyi^e ;^obe mib to pmeocanne pijzmannum. piS pijzej^ jeeacnunje ban biS funben on heojitep

hpilum^ on lijiipe ^ ylce^ hyt jejeajipaS^ eapm ahehft jeppiSept [sip Su f ban on pipmannep j'ceapplice hpasj^e^ heo jeeacna^. PiS inno]7a ppsece -j jip jebmb men by)? heoptep
lieoptan

meaph jemylteb lice hyt hselej?.

pyle

him on peapmum

psetepe hpaeb-

pi6 nsebpena^^ aphjenje^^ heoptep meaph ^^ jebeepneb

oS ^ hyt pmeoce
aphjej?
o)?]?e

]?u

hit

mib

]>e

hasbbe

hit

^a naebpan. Pi6 laSum Iselum^^ 'j pommum^^ heoptep pmeopo^^ jemylteb^*^ -j mib oftoppcyllum^'' jecnucub^^'j jemenjeb*^ onjepeteb^^ punbophce hyt haelep. -j to pealpe jebon 'j
III.

Medicina de wipe.

[MS. 0.]

lehJ?deSCT?!
superspersiis'^*^^

P^^ P^F^ eappoSnyppum^^ pe on heojia^^ inpejibhcmn^^ ptopum eappe]?u ]?]iopiaS poxep leo)?u^* -j hip pmeojiu''^^
iTfii^

SSfSribus'^da"^

ealbon^^ ele

'j

mib tyjipan pypc him to pealpe bo

hit
]?a

uSs. Ms!
margin.

h!*^^

on^'' pipa

ptope

hjiaj^e

eappe]?u jehsele]?.

PiS

heapob

pape

pam

jelice

]7e

hyt hep bupan^^

hsele)?

jecpeben^^ yp pmype"^ f heapob

hyt

punbophce.

'

on,

H.
;

T XC-,

H.

=*

bjisenc,

H.

bjiync, B.
"

hsep, B.

hpilu, B.

j)hilum, H.,

may
H.

be suspected of a late date.

^ahohfc, H.,
]

i>ylce,
^

H.,

carelessness?

'-pu'S,

is

not given.

hpa'Se,

lIu, ''" nsebpan, H. " -gee, H. B. B. meaps, H. H. B. '* j-mejio, B.; jTnepu, H. '" ^^ ponnum, II. semyl, H., half a ^o ^^ ^^ secnocob, B. '' fcop-, V. onje-ms&ns-, B. word. '^ hypa, B. -nejjii, B. fecte, H.; with fem. termination? ^i 25 j^mejia, H. 23 -j)eapb-, H. j-mepu, B. ho^^^ B. hu, H.
'^'

-ban, H.
fmyjxa, B.

27 5ii^

h.

28

bu):on,

H. B.

29

cj,e,

H., quoth.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.

839
Hart.
^''<- "

weight of three pennies in a drink, and let the sick take of it on the day; the drink sharply healeth the
adders
16.
bite.

For strangury and harmful binding,^ harts hairs are very good for women, to smoke them therewith. 17. For a womans conception, a bone is found in a harts heart, sometimes in its belly that same effects it; if thou hangest that bone on a womans arm, and
;

tiest it sharply, rathely she conceiveth.

18.

For pain of inwards, and

quickly
it

if

man have

binding

or co7istipation,^ give him a harts marrow melted in

warm water
19.

healeth.

For putting of snakes to flight, a harts marrow burnt till it smokes, or do thou have it with thee;
it

putteth the snakes to

20.

flight.

For loathly weals and flecks,*^ harts grease melted and pounded with oyster shells, and mixed up, and reduced to a salve, and applied wonderfully it healeth.
;

III.

Painting of a

fox.

For troubles of women, who sufler troubles in their inward^ places, work for them into a salve a foxes limbs and his grease, with old oil and with tar quickly it healeth the apply to the womens places
1.
;

troubles.

For head sore,- smear the head with the like to what is here above said; it healeth wondrously.
2.

"

Ad

stranguiriam et aborsiun.

Ex pilis
G-.

ceruinis suffumi-

gabis, et mulier sanabitur," Lat.

MS.

In the old Englisli

text I do not see that sense.

^*Ad intestinorum dolorem si turminata fuerint," Lat. ; which has not the sense of our text but if the bowels be
^
:

griped. ^ " Ad perniones," Lat., chillblains,

rt

<

Inferioribus," Lat. MS. G. " Bitumine," Lat. " Loca " is a frequent eufemism.
'.
.

Y 2

34^0

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

PiS eajiena j'ajie ejrt: jelice J^on^ ]>e hep bii}:an^ jecpeben i]" jenim ^a ylcan j'ealpe hluttjie bjiype on

eajie
]7iS

punboplice hy"c

hselej?.

milran yajie yoxey lunjen^ on* harcjie oej'Can jej'oben '^ ^ sep jecnucub^ j to bpence^ jebon J?a miluan^ h^^t: punbojilice jehoele)? j^pa be)? hyp hpep f

ylce.
]}r6 peajitan

jenim poxep pceallan^

5<^5i^i^ fpijje optr

"j

J?iepmib^^

J?a

peaptan hpa)7e hyt hy^^ tobpece]?

on

pej

abej?.

neapppe fpojietunje poxep lunjen jepoben *j on jeppetrum pme jebon *j jepealb punbophce hit
Pi6
PiS pape cypnlu^^ poxep j'ceallan^^ jenim

'j

jnib

mib jelome hpaj^e hi beo^ hale. PiS jomena^* pape poxep pma jenim -j on hunije jepset -j jnib mib ]?a joman ppij^e opt pona him by)?

pel );8ep bpocep.

Pi^ heapob heapob utan

apyjipeb.

ece
h]ia)7e

jenim
]?8ep

jecynb ympoh^^ ]3 heapobep^^ pap by)? apej^'

poxep

To pip l^mjuiii poxej- tsejlep pe ytemaspta bpel on eapm ahanjen pu jelypeft f )?ip py to pip j^injum on
byj'msep^^ jebon.

Pi^ h]) able jeniin cpicenne^*^ pox 'j peo6 ]5 )?a ban ane beon Isepeb aptije^^ )??ejun^^ ^elomlice j^^ in o)>eji punbojilice hit hsele)? "j b?eS bo he ppa ppi);e opt rejhpylce^^ jeape )?ypne-* pultum he him pceal^^

'

>on, H, omits.
"
'"

bujon, B.
'

lucsen, B.

on,

H.

gefobone, B.
j-callan,

gecnocob, B.

"Sjisence,
^*
'^

H.

-tan, H.
S^n*-) H-

"

B.
:

|>ap,

B.

" hij, B.

rapelu with pe cy over

*

written,
'

'

H. it would baffle conjecture. "^ heaybef, H. B. ymb-, H. B.

abyj'mep, H., crasis of preposition
-)
;

fcallan, B.

'^

onpeg, H., an older form.

'^

bij*meji,

B.
^3

'"

cpicne,

H,

-"

fnse, n.

21

j,aj),

U.

--'

-],

2'

byr, v., but )>irne, B. II.

H. omits. -^ jveal, H.

_hpyi^

n^ half a

word.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
3.

olJ

For sore of ears again, like what is here above drip it into the said, take the same salve luhen clear ear; wondrously it healeth. in hot 4. For sore of milt, a foxes lung sodden ash, and pounded before that, and reduced to a drink,
;
;

Fox
Art.
iii.

healeth wonderfully the milt;

ilk.
5.

so

doth his liver that

For

warts,*'^

take a foxes coillon

;

very often

therewith

quickly

it

rub the warts breaketh them up,

;

and removeth them away. 6. For oppressive hard drawn breathing,^ a foxes lung sodden, and put into sweetened wine, and administered, wonderfully healeth.

For sore churnels,^ take a foxes coillon, and rub often therewith soon they will be hole. 8. For sore of fauces, take a foxes sinews,^^ and wet them in honey, and rub the fauces with them oft
7.
;

soon the sufferer will be well of that plague. surround 9. For head ache, take a foxes naturam
;

the head on the outside

will be banished far
]

quickly the sore of the head

away.
;

0.

Ad
this

congressus

of a foxes tail

oum muliere the extremest end hung upon the arm thou believest
;

that

is

done

for

mockery upon

the

sacra

veneris.
11.

For disease of

joints,

take a living fox, and

left
;

seethe

him

till

the bones alone be

let

the Tnaii

go down therein frequently, and into another bath wonderfully it healeth let him do so very oft and
; ;

"

Ad

parrotidas,"

Lat.,

glandular swellings about the

ears.
^ "
c ^

"

Ad suspirium," Lat. Ad inguinum dolorem."

The same mistake

in

ii.

12.

" Renes," Lat. " Irritamentum ad coitum," Lat.

MS.

Gr.

342
jejeappian

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

-j

ele

bo

J^septo^

Sonne

lie

hme

peoSe

*j

hip Jjypj'um^ jemete to j?eapfe bpuce.

PiS eapena pape jemm poxep^ jeallan menc^ piS ele bpype on J7a eapan^ hyt pel jehgele)?. PiS eajena bymnyjye jenim poxej-^ jeallan je-

menc^eb^ mib bopan liunije

hsele]?.^^

-j

on eajan jebon^ hyr

jelynbe
heel.

Pi6

eapena pape
]7a

jenim

poxep^^

jemylteb
byj>

bpype on
PiS pixenhyb
yoX:

eapan^^ liim cym^^^ 50b

jip pe

ppgece
*j

mnepa

bgel ]}ey

pceop^^

jyp hit py potabl pmype^^ mib

]>?ey
'pe

ele ]?a pet

hy^^ habbaj?

leohtpan janj.^^

IV.

Medicina de lepore.

[MS. 0.]

hapan bpaejen on pine jepealb to bpence^^ punboplice hyt bete];. PiJ? eajena pape hapan lunjen onjepeteb 'j )?8ejito^^
Pi5
opepplsepe
jeppijjen

f pap by)? Pi^ potppylum 'j

neopan^^

jehseleb.
pce))})um^^

"j

tojeppij^en

hapan lunjen upan^^ on punboplice )?a jonjaj* beoS

jehgelebe.^^

Dam
heoptan
pine.

pipum
abpije

]?e

him
pypc

hypa
to

beopSop
bufte
'j

losie

hapan
b?Bl

'j^*

J^pibban

jiecelpep buptej^ syle

bjiincan

peopon bajap on pcipum

oSpealleJ?

pam J?onne )?e^^ hyt opt on pme je on pyptunje.

xxx'^/S^^

baja ^e

'

|>ap,

B.;

Jjgejito,
'

H.

^yj-um, H.
^

B.,

more
"

correctly.

>oxes, H.

me&nsc, B.; mB&nj, H.

yoxey, H.
'"heel's,
^

^g^^ eape, H., singular

number.
13

"

-means-, H- B.

eagon, B.

"bo, B., imperative.

cyme's, H.
"^
'"'

B.
'^

" yoxef, H.
B.
B.
21
i

^'^~]\a,n,K.

"

rcoj-,

B.

fj^^^pa,
'"

his, B.
-"

>'>ec, B.,

for gans.
-'

bpsence,
ni-Son, cig, II.

H.
^^

haji,

scae)>'Sum,

H. B.
^6 ^^.

ujon, B.

B.

_i^.^^

pj

^y

fo^ ^^

u,

J>on e, II.

-*

B. omit.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
every year
let
lie

343 and and let

Fox.
'^^^'

shall prepare liimself this support,

him add

oil thereto,

when he

scethoth

him

"*

him use
12.
oil
;

in this

manner according
ears,
;

to his need.

For sore of

take a foxes gall; mingle with

it

drip into the ears

healeth well.

For dimness of eyes, take a foxes gall mingled with honey of dumble dore,^ and applied to the eyes,
13.
it

healeth.
14.

For sore of
it

ears,

take foxes loin fat^ melted;

drop
15.

into the ears; good health will

come

to them.

For acute pain of foot, if the inner part of the shoe be vixen hide and if it be foot addle or gout, smear the feet with oil; they will have so much the
;

lighter walk.

Painting of a
1.

hare.

iv.

For oversleeping,^ a hares brain in wine given for a drink; wonderfully it amendeth. 2. For sore of eyes, a hares lung set on and bound
fast thereto
3.
;

the sore will be healed.

For foot swellings and scathes, a hares lung bound on above and beneath wonderfully the steps
;

are healed.

women, whose burthen or foetus perishes, hy abortion, dry a hares heart, and work it to dust, and a third part of frankincense dust administer it to be drunk for seven days in clear wine. 5. To them whom this oft befalleth, administer
4.

^^For the

for thirty days, either in wine, or in

a preparation of

worts.

'*

Cum

melle attico," Lat.;

read as " attaci " by

the

Saxon. ^ " Adeps," Lat.

c

"

Ad

submegilos," Lat.

This word

is riglitlj
?

interpreted

in VIII. 12.
d

Did our author read somniculosos

has differences.

The Latin

S44

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

J^am
pijrum
]3

Donne

J>e

aejzteji

beojij^jie

on j'umum

ytopuin j^pmcen

ylce

bo^

to bpence^ jrseptenbum on
by]? jehseleb.

peapmum
Pi6

psetepe pona

hyt

bymnyppe^ hapan jeallan pi6 hunij jemencjeb'* -j mib jepmypeb J7a eajan jebeoptijeaj?.^ Dam mannum J^e ppmclunje ^ )?popiaS ^ hapan lunjen 'j peo lipep pomob jemencjeb 'j peopep
catena
peneja^
jepseje
)?ip

myjipan

-j

Sjieopa

beopep^^

"j

anep

humjef
pyj^j^an

pceal

beon apylleb

on

jobum

ecebe

'j

mib jeppetton^^ pme jepepeb "j septep J^ani bjiince^^ pona hyr hsele]?.^^ PiS blsebpan^"* pape hapan j'lna jebjiyjebe -j raib pealre jebprebbe^'^ 'j jehj^pfre pceap^^ on hip bpinc^^ punbophce h}^t: hsele]?.^^ }h(5 atrcojicoppan bite hapan pina ^ejyjie 'j liim pyle picjan^^ eac hyt ip feltsepe jyp hi mon hjieape ppyl^cj)* eac^^ pi6 plgettan hi beo^ s^^^ jepobene.
Pif)

peallenbum peaxe hapan pambe peo^

ele

o)7)7e

bjiyab

on pannan on jobum
J7onne
peaxej>.

nimej?

]5

pmype^^ f peax "j f heapob peax^^ to "j peo pealp jenybeS ]5 hyt
cenne^'^

hapan hpip'*^* jebpyjeb"^^ 'j jepceapen^^ oS^e jejniben on bpmc bjiincen butu '^^ :5ip f pip ana hyt bjimcej? Sonne cenb^ heo anbjiojmem ne byj) f to nahte naj^ep ne pep ne
]7an
}5

To

pip

psepneb

cilb

pip.

P
^
'

>8efc

bo,

H.
"

bjiynce,
1^-

H.
^

-nej-j-e,

B.
^

'

-meenj;-, B.

-tia^, B.

rpinS-j

)>]i6pia"S,

B.

-rasenseb, H. B.

paeneja, H. B.
y.

of the
'
-'*

'" beyopef, H. B., of beaver ; V. shews erasures " -tu, H. bpincan, plural, " sanabuntur." ^-' For

'hKl-S, B.; bitJ sehaeleb,

fceapjra,

B.
-'

H. " bpinc, H.

'*

bji-,
' -^

H.
h8el,

'^

-gebe sebpaebeb, H.
'
-''

H.

'Sincsan,

H.
II.

eac, 11.
hjii>,

fmepa, B.
-bl>i5S-, B.

jrex,

H.

ceenne, II. B.
27

''

H.
II.;

"

-"

Sefcaien, B.

^uto,

^^

ceenS,

cajnne'JS,

B.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
6.
ill

345
child-birth

Next
them

for the

women, who,
;

after

are

Hare.

at ease in

some places

reduce that ilk to a drink,

for

fasting, in

warm

water;

soon the case will

be healed.

For dimness of eyes, a hares gall mingled with honey, and smeared with, brighteneth the eyes. 8. For the men that suffer giddiness, a hares lung and the liver mingled together, and myrrh by weight of four pennies, and three of beer,^ and one of honey this shall be boiled in good vinegar, and subsequently infused with sweetened wine, and after that let them
7.

drink
9.

soon

it

healeth.

For sore of bladder, shive into the mans drink a hares sinews,t> dried, and roasted with salt, and fried
wonderfully
10.
it

healeth.
sinews,*'

For bite of spider, prepare a hares

and

give

them the rtian to eat; it is also good if one swallow them raw. Also they be good against nausea,
sodden.
11.

if

on a pan in good smear the hair and the head then oil a hares wamb the hair holdeth on, and the salve compels that it
falling hair, seethe or dress
; ;

For

shall grow.

In order that a woman may kindle a male child, a hares belly dried, and cut into shives or slices, or rubbed into a drink; let them both, rifian and ivifcy if the wife alone drinketh it, then will she drink it that is as naught, neither man kindle an avb'^oyuv*)v nor woman.
12.
: ;

/>./ iu
.

f^^^
f

-^ '"'^_,
--f-*

r-/*-**5

Beer, Castorei," Latin.

^ "

Renes," Lat. " Renes," Latin.

346

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

hapan
pine
j'ceallan^ pipe seyteji

Gpt: to )7am ylcan

hype
heo

cla^nj'unje

fyle

on

bpmcan ponne

cen^^

ptepneb

cilb.
.^

ptp to jeeacnijenne
neja^ jepseje pyle on pepe op pepe j J;am
*j

hapan cyplybb^ peopep pej^am pipe op pipe

pme bpmcan
'j

jBptep )?on
'j
.

heo

pop
-j

bpucan

ponne bon hypa^ jemanan hy pophaebben .^ )7onne hjia]?e jeeacna^** mete^ heo pceal pume hpyle ppamma pop baeS pmypenyppe punbophce heo

jeeacnaj;.

PiS pcoppionep bite -j naebpan phte hapan cyplyb jepealb on pmep bjunce f pel jeheele]?.

^ cilbum butan^^ pape teS pexen hapan bpsejen jepoben jnib jelome mib )?a toS peoman hi beoS
PI'S

clsene

-j

unpape.
ppsece^^

jenini hapan helan^^ bep on punbophce hit haeleS. Pi6 eajena pape hapan hpep jepoben yp 30b on pme to bpmcenne^^ 'j mib )?am bpo)7e Sa eajan to^^

Pi6 pambe

})inum heb

claj7e

bejpianne.

Dam
jepeo^

mannum''''*
)?8ep

mib jniben 'j mib pmypjen.^^

pon
"j

ne ylcan bpmcep^^ pmyc^^ heopa eajan^^ on })am bpo]7e pecen }a lippe pseten *j "j
]>e

ppam

)7gepe

teoJ>an

tibe^^

piS blob pyne jebsepneb hapan

lipeji

-j

jejmben

'j

on jeptpebeb hpa]?e hyt jeptiUe]?.

fcallan,

B.
'"

Caen's,
^

B. H.
''

-eacnenne, H.
^ '^
it.

cif,

B.

pseneja, H. B.

"met, B.
'^ '*
'"

hype, B. " ppece, buton, B.

;

habban, B.
drink

-eacn-, H.

li.

hs&lan, II.; hwlan, B.

gebjiuncen, B., if drunk

bpmce,

11.,

" be'Sigeanne, H.

manu, V.
e8j;on, B,

'"

tibc, II.
^o

'^

bjiincer,

H.

* fmic, H.
fmeppen, H.
;

j.mypp^.u, V., with 5 over y;

fmyjiisen, B.

OF SEXTUS TLACITUS.
13.

347
give in
Hare.
^
^** ^^
''

Again, for that

ilk,

after her cleansing,

wine
14.

to drink a hares coillons to the

woman

then will

she conceive a male child.

To make

woman

pregnant,

give to drink in
''"'''

wine a hares runnet by weight of four pennies,^ to the woman from a female hare, to the man from a male hare, and then let them do their concubitus, and after
that
let

^*'y

them

forbear

then

quickly

she

will

be

pregnant; and for meat she shall for some while use

mushrooms, and, instead of a bath, smearings derfully she will be pregnant. {j )

won-

15.

For

bite

Pcdnting of a scorpion. of scorpion and rent by snake,

let the

man
IG.

drink a hares runnet administered in wine; that

healeth well.

In order that for children their teeth may wax without sore, a hares brain sodden; rub frequently therewith the gums they will be clean and unsore. 1 7. For pain of wamb, take heels ^ of hare, bear them on thy frock ;c wonderfully it healeth. 18. For sore of eyes, a hares liver sodden is good to drink in wine, and to bathe the eyes with the
;

broth.
19.

For the

men who from

day see not, let them smoke of the same drink, and reek them with the broth and let them wet the liver, and rub and smear
;

the tenth hour of the receive with their eyes the

therewith.
20.

For blood running, hares

on, quickly stilleth

liver burnt,
it.

and rubbed

and spread

'*

Ad

dragmas

iiii.,

Latin.

b
^

" Talum," Latin. " Uentrem," Latin.

;

Whence Lye

interprets

hebcla)?,

ventrale

it

was however,

as I learn from a gl. unpublished,

^

a thick upper garment of coarse material, like a chasuble.

n"^. ^u/f u.'/M ,,^c/^^AfiHM

^cr

348

THE MEDICINA DK QUADRUPEDIBUS

V.

[Medicina de caprea.]

Pi6 blob jiyJie op nebbe fipjin buccan ^ yy pubu bucca oS6e jat ^^ ysey lypeji^ ^ebjayteb pi6 ecebc* -j on n?eyf>yjil beptunjen punboplice hpaj>e liyt Cone blobjiync
jeptille]?.

To eajena beophtnj^ppe ^ pubu

mencjeb^ piS pelbbeona^ hunije
beoplirnyf Inm to cymS.^
pier
ylce
^j

buccan
*j

jealla'*
^

je-

onjepmypeb

peo

^eallan

msej piS jomena pape jemenj^ )7one hunij tropomne hpm J^a joman mib hyr

hseW
To eallum unc}'frum
pubujate jeallan mib
jneji^'^
J^e

pelb

on jomum beoS acenneb^' beona hunije jemenjeb^^

^ P^pop 'j cjioli peoS call on pme^'^ oJ> ^ liyt: py pel to peaipe jepojilit. pmyjie^^ [onne )a papan joman mib baja jehpylce'^

pceal eac^^ jelice apejen

myppe

o f hy^

halijen.^*^

Pi8 eajena bymneppe pubu jate jeallan 'j lytel piue)' nienj^^ to pomne pmype^^ mib Spipa ]7onne beoS hi"^
jehselebe.^^

Pi6 bpoppajum anbplatan'^* pububuccan^^ jeallan j on jej-mypeb oS6e jate jemencjeb^^ piS pa3tepe

IipaJ^e

hit jelacnaS.^^

PiS nebcopn J^e pexaS^ on pam anbplatan pmyjie^ nub jate jeallan ealle pa nebcopn he op J>am anbplitan
aclsenpa^
'j

ealne ]?one

pom he jebynnaS.

' -nerre, B. * -llan, - li}-]ie, B. H. sat, B. " " -ney, B. -jTnep-, H. cyme^, H. -maens-, B. H. '" heele'S, H. ^ " acsenneb, H. B. -maes, so, H.; -meensc, B. '* to j'omne, for '^ )>ap, B. '2 -rasenj;-, B. " eac, H. ' '" halien, fmyjia, B. " -Icne, B. on j., H. his, B.
'

,*

H.; halisen, B.

^"

raeensc, II. B.
whole.
^*

^i

jTnyjia,
II.

B.

'-''

his,

B.

23iiale,

II.;

Ao/e,

-yht-,

"

tucan, V.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.

349

V.
1.

Pahiting of a common he goat

For blood running from the nose, a mountain buck, that is, a wood buck or goat, a liver of this, broken up with vinegar, and thrust into the nostril,
wonderfully rathely
2.

it stilleth

the blood running.

buck mingled with field bees^ honey, and smeared on; the brightness cometh to them.
For brightness of
eyes, gall of a wild

may, or, is strongy against sore of fauces, mingle the gall and honey together; touch the fauces
3.

That

ilk

therewith
4.

it

healeth.

For
a

all

inconveniences that be produced in the

goats gall mingled with honey of field

iiiuces,

wood

bees,^ there shall be added,

weighed to a

like weight,

myrrh, and pepper, and crocus, or saffron; seethe all then in wine, till it be well wrought into a salve smear the sore chops therewith, each day, till that
;

they heal.

For dimness of eyes, mingle together a wood smear therewith goats gall and a little of wine thrice; then be they healed.
5.
;

For a spotted face, a wood bucks gall, or a goats, mingled with water, and smeared on quickly it
6.
;

cureth.
7.

For granulations which wax upon the

gall
;

face,

smear

with goats
face,

it will

cleanse all the specks off the

and diminish

all

the unsightlyness.

"

Cum

melle attico," Latin.

^ It, in

the neuter, refers to the process, not the gall.

Gall

belongs to a verb suppressed.

-^
-**

-maens-, H. B,
ftnypa, B.

'"

Here H.

fails us.

^s

peaxa"S, B.

350
Pi8

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

eajiena

pape

-j

ypeje

pubu

jate

neopum^ ele oSSe aeppelep peape plsec on J?a eapan jebon liyt liselej?.^ piS "coj? ece pubu jate jeallan mencj* piS pmype^ raib ppy)?e jelome J?onne beoS hi^ hale.
Pi^ hepS^
l^yljep pape oS6e

mib jemencjeb^ *j
jealla
ele

menj^

piS

humj

bo to

]7ani

punbe jzypejate jeallan pape hit haele)? pel.

jeallan

To
pecelp
sd]\

pipep

pillan

pdBy

buccan
paeb

menj^
onpehS^
peoc

piS

'j

piS

netelan
])2Qy

pmype^ pone teopp mib

pojian

to

pept jemanan

f
ip

pip

}8ep

pillan

on Sam hsemebe.
IfBp

py
pcmlac

cilb

sy

hpeopenbe
cilbe

f>

pylle

o])]>e

mete pypejate bpsejen

ppeljan
jehaeleb.^^

teoh
sep

J?uph

jylbenne

hpm^^^ pyle )7am onbypje hyt by)?

J?am

hyt meolc

VI.

[Medicina de hirco.]
jate hopn
'j

PiS

homum

mm

leje

to pype f he

bypne on pype^^ bo )?onne op J>a pcylle on nipe ppet cnuca hyt ]7onne ppi}>e piS j'ceappum ecebe bo on j^a

homan

0)7

f hy hale pyn.

To

plaepe jate

hopn unbep heapob

jelaeb^^ peccan'^

he on plaepe^^ S^cyppe)?.

'

nypu, B.

-ms&iiseb, B.
his, B.
'"
'

hsele'S,

B.

m8&nsc, B.

>

fmypa, B.
"

hypS, B.
" hjiinc, B.
;

msengc, B.,
'2
^

twice.

fmypa, B.
'^

onyeh, V.

B. omits

these words.
''^

lyi^e, thus,

MS.

jyple, V.

Seleb, B.

l^aeccan,

B.

'" flsep,

B.

OF SEXTUR PLACITUR.
8.

351

'

For sore of ears, and sounding in them, a wood goats gall mingled with new oil, or with apples juice,''^ and lukewarm put into the ears it healeth them. a wood goats gall with 9. For tooth ache, mingle oil smear very frequently with that then they, the
; ;
;

Goat.

^^-

'^'

teeth,

shall

be hole.

For sore or wound of the orchis bag,^ mingle a mountain goats gall with honey; apply to the sore;
10.
it

healeth well.

M. ^Ad
capreoli
fel

mulieris voluptatem

commisceto,

et

augendam ; cum cum urticse semine

tori

ture
;

hoc

concubitum iverint sic in ista copulatione mulier voluptatem percipiet. 12. Lest a child be falling, that is, be sick of epilepsy, the falling sickness, or dream of an apparition, draw a mountain goats brain through a golden ring; give it to the child to swallow before it tastes milk; it will be healed.

unge veretrum ante quam ad

VI.

Painting of a

goat,

a he goat

For erysipelatous inflammations, take a goats horn, and lay it to the fire, so that it may burn at the fire then remove the incrustations to a new vessel; then pound it thoroughly along with sharp
1.
;

acid
hole.
2.

apply to the erysipelatous eruptions,

till

they be

To

get sleep,

a goats horn laid under the head

turneth waking into sleep.

" Porri," Latin

read as pomi.
misunderstood
;

"

Ad

ueretri exulcerationes," Latin

see

viii. 2.
^

This

article is not

found in the Latin.

It is Latinized

pudoris causa. ^ " Ad sacrum ignem," Lat.

352

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

Pi^ c^'pnla yape j^meoc J?one man mib jate lifejium lipa}>e he by); ]>sdy yajiep hal. piS blobpyne op noj^um abpyj jate blob j jnib to buj^te bo on f nsefj^yjiP hyt pibptanbej?. Pi^
eajena haetan
J7a

ptice

nipe

jate

cyj'e

ojrep-

jepeteb mib

eajbpsepap him byj> hpsebhce bot.

})8epto jeppij^en

PiS heapob ece nipe jate cype

hselej?.^

h}^
;^e-

Pi^ por able jare

liSeja^.

cype

nipe

onjelejb

^ pap

Pi6
jebe'^

nsebpan
^
-j

plite

pceap

jate
pyllice

hojm

on

]>]\y

pcenceap

)7ape ylcan
pij?ap

jate meolc piS

pme

jernencatroji

on

J>py

bpince

hyt^ f

topceabej).^^

Pi8 mno^ep pleppan jate hopn jepceapen^^ -j pr5 hunije jemencjeb^^ -j jejniben^^ j septep J^am jej^ijeb
psepe^"*

pambe pleppan he

popj^pyce^.*^

PiS hpeope^^ 'j pi^ toplojen he jenim ^ psetep )?e innan jset: by)? 'j heo hpilum^'' ut jeoteS menje^^ pone psetan piS^*^ hunije j pealte j pymle on gepenne
hip heapob^^
-j

hip he

mib py ppea^^

-j

jnibe/22
24

Pi^ mno^ep heapbny/ie^^ ppa hpaet ppa he ete menje*^ pi6 pone psetan "j pone ylcan bpince piS psep innoSep heapbnyppe^^ f peo jetojene pamb py alypeb-^^ ppa he ma bpmce^ ppa hyt pup^oji clsenpaS.

Pi^ pone paetan bo him eac bpince^ jate blob pel f

hyne
'

haelep.
B.
B.
'^
'"

hsejiu,

nor, B.
'

hael-S,
" ''*

B.
i'piS.

fcaf,

B.
*
'^

'

J>pis,

B.

^
>"
'*

fcsencaj*,

-msenj-, B.

corcace"S, B.
i>ape,

" jercajen, B.
JjpicccS, B.

B. -meeng, B.
21
'^s

hyt, B. omits.

secpeben, V,
'^

B.

Bead hpeoyle.
B.
j,pga,

hpilon, B.

'"

raeense, B.

mib, B.
ete
is

20

h%ob,

B.

^2
-"

^u^^^, B.

-*
'-'

-neffe, B.
onlyreb- B,

2'
'*

omitted in V.

maense, B.

-nefpe, B.

bjuncan, B.

OF SEXTUS
3.

PLACTTITS.

353
witli goats

For sore of cburncls,^ smoke the man

;

liairs
4.

rathely he will be hole of that sore.

For blood running from the nose, dry goats blood and rub it down to dust apply that to the nostril
;

it

withstandeth.
5.

For heat and pricking of eyes, new goats cheese set upon the eyes with the eyelids quickly will be amends for him, the man. 6. For head ache, a new goats cheese thereto bound
; ;

it

healeth.
7.

For foot

disease,^ a

new

goats cheese laid on re-

lieveth the sore.

Painting of a snake.
For bite of snake, shave off shavings of a goats liorn into three cups, and let the man drink at three times milk of the same goat mingled with wine rarely doth it scatter the venom. 9. For flux of inwards, a goats horn shaven and mingled with honey, and rubbed faie, and after that
8.

swallowed, suppresses the flux of the wamb.

For leprosy,^ and water which is inside a

10.

beaten body, take the goat, and which it at whiles

for a
salt,

outpoureth; mingle the wet with honey and

and

always at even wash, and rub the mans head and his body with that. 11. For hardness of the inwards,*^ whatsoever he eateth let him mingle with the wet, and let him drink the same for hardness of the inwards, that the according as he tightened wamb may be relieved
;

more drinketh,
12.

so it further cleanseth.

Against the evil humour, have him drink goats

;

blood

that will well heal him.

" Inguiiium," Latin,

''

^ "
c

Ad pedum dolorem," Latin, Ad peduclosos," Latin.

Uentrem strictum," Lat.
Z

"

354

THE MEDICIXA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

J>mbe

Gij: inno'S

mm

jate blob mib

*j

hi]ie

pmeoppe

-^

^ bejiene

jjiyta-

jemenj'*^

on

pambe

iitan

^eppiS

pimbojilice hyt:

L^el)?.^

PiS selcep c5ainep naibbjian bire jate pmeojio^ 'j hype tojib 'j peax my It: ^j jemen^^ topomne pypc yj^a

lilt

man

jelial jzopppeljan

mseje

onjzo ye

\>e

liim Seajip

yy ]?onne bi^ he
pe^
jej^j^b

jeh^eleb.

man

ye

]>e

him yeo
-j

peetep abl jseten ymcojio

to poylum ypelje
'j

bpmce^ mib cealb

}>am

preteji

'j

yomob ypelje
by]; hpseb bot.

bjunce^

^eytep^^

^ate blob liym

^^bjimce
pselpyjite

eyt buccan

micjan

"j

ete najibey
J)

eaji

mojian yeloyt yy ye micja^^

yajie

he yy oytoyt
eajie
]5

mib

pebeb.

Pi(5

eapena

jate micjan bo on f
p}T^^T
tojib
^^^^^ ^^^ ^^f^
'^

yaji

jeliSija^

py

J?8ep^^

^^ ^pyj^P^-

Pi6 cypnlu jate mib yona bi6 yel. PiS )?eoh ppsece
fpylce
hale.

menje^^ piS huni^e fmype^^

topb
cneb ypy)?e f hyt yy
)?a

jate
^^

yealy

'j

ymype

mib

]?eoh

yona

liy

beoS

pi^
ecebe
h8e]7e

li)7a
'j
*j

yajie

mm

jate tojib menj^^ piS yceajipum

haelej?

pel hyt ymype^^ mib ^ ylce on pme bpmce.

'j

fmeoce^'^

mib

PiS cancpe jate tojib jemenjeb''^^ piS hunije 'j on )?a punbe jebon'"^^ hjiaj^e hyt hsele]?. PI'S ypylay gate topb ymj'^jie'^^. mib )?a ypylay hyt

'

fmeppe, B,
hgelj>.
^

spitca, B.
''

'

semjenc, B.
' "

ha&le'S,

B.

V.
in

has

fmejio, B.
**

-maenj;, B.

8e,

B.

The
'''

\>

V. is a rubric letter. fmepo, B. '" veyz, B. bpmce, "V. omits D. " maense, B. '" fmj'jia, B.
'''

B. omits from bpince to mi^^a, B.

l>aji,

'-

B.

j'mj^jia,

B.

''

msengc, B.
'^^

'"

fmypa, B.
fmyjia, B.

'"

fmoca, B.

'^^

-mien?;-, B.

gebon. B.

=2

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
13. If the

o55

inwards puff up, take goats blood with grease^ of the same, and mingle barley groats, and bind this outside on the wamb wonderfully it healeth. 14. For bite of any sort of serpent, melt goats grease, and lier turd^ and wax, and mingle together; work it up, so that a man may swallow it hole let liim, who hatli need thereof, lay hold ^ thereon then
;
;
;

be healed. Let the man on whom may be water addle or dropsy, swallow goats grease squeezed to pills, and let him drink therewith cold water, and let him at tlie same time swallow, and after that drink goats blood ^ he will soon have amends. 16. Again, let him drink bucks mie, and eat nards ear, or spike nard, and more or root of wall wort best is the mie, that he be very often fed therewith.*^' 17. For sore of ears, apply goats mie to the ear; it relieveth the sore if ratten be therein, it casteth that
shall he
15.
; ;

out.

Against churnels, honey smear therewith

18.
;

mingle
;

goats

turd

with

soon

it

will be better.

19.

For thigh

pains,

so that it be as it

knead thoroughly a goats turd, Avere salve, and smear the thighs

therewith; soon they be hole.

For sore of joints, take goats turd, mingle with sharp acid, and smear therewith, it healeth well; and smoke with heath, and drink the same in wine. 21. For cancer, a goats turd mingled with honey, and applied to the wound quickly it healeth. 22. Against swellings, a goats turd smear there20.
;

"
**'

Cum

resina et polline," Lat.

^
c
^i

Saudaraca," Lat. " Accipiat," Lat.

Lotium," Latin. " Melius est lotium

''

si

idem (ebulum)

pasti fuerint," Lat.

z 2

35

THE MEDICJINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

tobjiij:^
.

hy

*j

^ehasle)?

'^

^
tojib

jcbe);

liy^

ej-'o

ne

ajuyaS.

PiS

yma

^etoje
]J

jate
liyt

menj^

pit)

ecebe

'j

jnnype'^ inib

j-aji

LselJ^.

PiS ypjiinjum^ jate tojib menj^ prS Imnije pmyjie^ *j on ^eleje eac J>a ppjiiiijap J^e beoS on mannep innoSe acenneb^ liy^t tobjiijze]^.

Gate
0}:abe];
-j

3;eallan

on pine

^ebjiuncen

pipa

lialan"

liim

hi^^ jehrele)?.

[vil]
Pi)?
peajijiaj'

Medicina [de]
'j

ariete.

[MS. 0.]

piS
*j

j'pylaj'

blacu

pammep puP^ on
ele

psetejie

jebypeb

feptep
j'tope

J>am
]3

on

"j

]'y];]nin''

aleb'^
j

on

]?a

papan

j-aji

heo on pej^^

apyjijie]?

jyp hyt bi6 mib jepeceb

]}a

tojiitenan punba heo

fO]i];pycce];.

pa peappaj' 'j t)a j'py^^]* 1-^ beo6 on mannej- hanbum oh^e on oj^pum limum oSSe ymh )7one utr^anj j-inype^"' mib J>ain pretan ];e bjiype op^^ liealjij'obenjie^'' pammejlunjenne^^ hpa]?e heo liy^^ onpej^^ ap\'ppe6.
PI'S

punbj'ppmjum
cojipen
-j

-j^^

anplatan
J^am
j-ape

j-meP^ to
jehaelj;.

to

lunjen jeleb^^ j'ona hyt

menj^"'

piammep

Pi(5
j'Ot^^

j'cuppum
"j

pammej- jnieojiu^^
]'anb
-j

SaBjito^^
^j

j-ealt

"j

hyt

pulla

on pej

a^pteji

j'mype^'^

hyt by J) ept hSpe.

'

Sehsele'5,

B,
^

liij;,

B.
his, B.

maeusc, B.
^

rniyi^a?

B.

' "

fpjiini^a)*,

B.

maensc, B.
'

pnyjia, B.

'^

acaenneb, B.
'^
'''

would read hamlan.

'
'

" jmll, B.

p^-S, B.

"
'"

aleb, B.
h.,

ape^j 1^> the preposition coalescing:.

''

fmypa, B.
'*'

' o).-

V. omits.
'"

pobenan, B.
?

'^

lunsene, B.
-^

hig, B.

apes, B.
St^l<^"^>

Read on
B.

or add a

word?
B.

fmoel, B,
*'^

-^

B.
-^^

^'

pmejiii,

" mtensc,

j^ap, B.

2-

)'6r,

]1.

fmyiia, B.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
witli

357
liealetli

the swellings

it

driveth tlieui away, and

them, and Lringeth about that they arise not again.

For tugging of sinews, or spasm, mingle a goats turd with vinegar, and smear therewith it healeth
23.
;

the sore.
24.

Against carbuncles, mingle a goats turd with

honey; smear, and lay on. It also driveth away the ulcers which be on a mans inwards. 25. Goats gall, drunken in wine, removes womens
afterbirth for them, arid healeth them.

VII.

Painting of a ram.
of

and against swellings, black rams wool dipped in water, and after that in oil, and then laid on the sore place,^ removes away the sore, and if the sore is reeked, or fuonigated,
1.

Against

ulcerations

the

skin,

therewith,
2. b

it

contracts lacerated wounds.

Against ulcerations of the skin, and the swellings which be on a mans hands, or on other limbs, or about the anus,^ smear with the wet which droppeth from a half sodden lung of a ram quickly it removes
;

them away.
For ulcerous wounds on the face,*^^ a rams lung carven up small and laid to the sore, soon healeth it.
3.

rams grease and mingle ^ therewith salt and sand, and wipe it away with wool, soot, and afterwards smear it will be after this smoother.
4.

For and

scurfs

locorum dolorem," Lat. a euphemism and '' prolapsa uulnera," properly " prolapsam uuluam," as in ed. 1539. ^ " Ad glauculos et cauculos," Lat., also " clauculos," which, as appears in the same MS., fol. 68, is calculos.
*
;

"

Ad

c
^^

"

Aut

in ueretro," Lat., see Quadr., v. 10.

"

Ad

liuores et sugillationes," Lat.

" Adraixta sandaraca," Lat.

358

THE MEDICINA DK QUADRUPEDIBUS

Medicina de apro.
bajiej-

[vill.]

[MS.

0.]
'j

Pi^
PiS

selc

jap

bjisejen
j-aji

jej-oben

to bjience

jepojiht^ on pine ealle

hsejij^ena^ j'ape
'j *j

liyt jeliSeja];.
bape]-

teojijej-

bpaejen menj^

piS liunij

ppi^ on punbojilice liyt

liaelej?.

Pi6 nsebbpan^ bite

bapej*

bpsejen

jej-oben

'j

je-

mencjeb^ piS hunij punboplice liyt jelisele)?. 6pt piS papum "j jepunbebum^ potum bapej- lunjcn
jebeaten
j-ealpe^

ppi6e

j-male

'j

piS

liunij

jemenjeb''
lippe

-j

to to

^ebon

lijiape

lieo

j-ap

jeliaele]?.

Pi6

innoSej'

plepj-an
'j

nipe^

bapej-

pypc
j-el.

bpence^^ on pine
^"Opajj'pet]ie
j

]?onne bpmce^^ j'ona liim bi6

on pej

to

abonne^'^

nun

bajiej-

lippe

'j
^'^

ap)ulbpepinbe

pyl toj-omne on pine

pleo^

jemen^eb
liim.

bpmce hpaSe hy^^

Gip eapan j-yn

on pej ppam
-j

mnan
y]'

j-ape
Tpyj^e

)?rep^^

pypmj'^^

j-y

onbo

]7a

ylcan

j-ealpe

heo

30b to

J)am.
bajiej*

pepej' pylla

to jeppemmanne nime
teopj'
"j

jeallan

'j

]'mype^^

mib fone
luj't.

]m hjBpJ^an^^ ];onne liapa^

bapej-

he mycelne
PiS
pylle

j-eocum

men

jxeallan^^

bpence^^
jelijele];.

on pine o^Se on psetepe

]'e

pypc to bpenc^^ hyne

PiS spipcSan^'^ 'j plaettan 'j hnappunje jenim bapejjelynbe -j j-eoS on ];pim j-ej-tpum^"^ paetepef o]> ]5 j-e

5poph, V.
"

hyp'^ena, B.

'

maensc, B.
-bobii,

ns&bbpena, B.,
'

plural.
^

-mjen?;-,

B.
O.

"

B.

-mns-, B.
" bjiiuce, B.

j-ealte,

V.

nife,

'"

bjimce, B.
'^

'2

" -mjens- B.
1"

O, the rubricator of V. omitted. '^ hi^, B. ' >a]i, B.

^^

abonne, B., -with a inserted.

'^

j'ojimf,

B.

'

fmyjia, B.

hyji'San, B.
-^

fcallan, B.
-'

"'

bjiynce, B.

22

^pgn^

bjiync, B.

fpipan, O.

ryftpej*, B.

OF SEXTUS TLACITUS.

.359

VIII.
J.

Draiuing of a hoar.

For every sore, a boars brain sodden and wroiiglit to a drink in wine alleviatetli all the sore. 2. For sore of the coillons and of the yard/'^ mingle a boars brain with honey, and bind it on wonderfully
;

it

healeth.

Dvaiving of a snake.

For bite of snake, a boars brain sodden and mingled with honey, wonderfully healeth. 4. Again, for sore and wounded feet, a boars lung beaten very small, and mingled with honey, and
3.

reduced to a salve
5.

quickly this salve healeth the sore.

For

flux of inwards,

work

to a drink in

wine a
;

new
G.

liver of boar,

and then

let the

man

drink

it

will

soon be well with him.

To do away the seams

of wounds,^ take a boars

;

liver,

and some sweet apple-tree rind ^ boil them together in vdne, when mingled, and let the man drink quickly they flee away from him. and matter be there, 7. If ears are within sore, aj)ply the same salve it is ver}^ good for that. 8. Ut viri voluptas perficiatur, sume apri fel, quo unge j)enem et testiculos ita ingentem libidinem
; ;
<^^

habebit.
9.

For a man who has the

falling sickness, v/ork to

;

drink a boars coillons in wine or in water drink will heal him.

10.

the

Against spewing and nausea, and napping, take boars suet, and seethe in three sextariuses^ of water
^

"

Ad

ueretri

dolorem," Lat.

misunderstood in

vii.

2.,

V. 10.

b "
c
"^

Flegmata," Lat. " Mali pimici," Lat.

in the Latin
;

This article is not found quo minus erubescamus.

it is

here latinized

" Eminis," Lat., that

is,

heminis.

360
^jubba^

THE MEDICINA DE QUADllUPEDIBUS

bgel
)'y

bepeallen
bal

bo
syljz

)?a3jito-

bajiej'j

jzam^

^ bjunce he by)?

'j

he

punbjiaS

peneS ^

hyt ]y
Pi(5

o]?eji

Isecebom f he bpanc.

j'tebe

^j

piS

blsebbjian

j-ajie

jenim
'j

eopepejoj?
]5

blit^bpan

mib ]7am micjan ahepe upp

abib

je
J^e

pa3ta op aplojen* jy ]"eoS pytSSan *j jyle etan ]?am eappo]70 )?popie'^ punbophce hit jeh^ele];.

pam
"j

]}e

unbeji

hy^ mijaS
J^a

jej-ealb

to etanne
bajiej-

bl^bpe jebpsebeb^ unhsele^ heo jehsel)?.

bajiej-

PiS
pine
-j

homnm^

j'ceapii^^'
];a

'j

j'pepel

je^mben on

jelome bpmce

homan hyt

betej?.^^

IX,
Pi]7

Medi[ci]na [de] hipo.

'j

[0.]
jej-ihtSe
pulpej-^'"^
]>e

beopul]'eocny]']'e^~

pic3

yyelpe
j'yle

phej'C pel

jetapob

^^

'j

jej'oben
sep

etan Sam

]7eajip

JT

J'^

j'cmlac

J>e

hiin

retj^pbon

ne jeunjtilla^
]?one pyle
j-e

hy^^ hme.

To
Gip
htXip^^

j'lrepe^^

pulpej-

heapob leje nnbeji

]"po]i

nnhala

jiaepe]?.^''
])\i

jej-yxt^^

piilpe]'

sep'^ ]7onne

hyne

ne

5ejce]7]?e(S^^
'j

he

]?e

jip

Su
]>ii

taejl

hseji
j'lS

mib ];e pulpej' hjiycj ytemseyt^n on j'lSptiete butan

hapaj't^^
]'e

pyphtu

\>n

Sone

jeppemeft ac

pulp j'op^aS

ymbe

'

p ]>nnbau, O.
'

" )>a)i,

B.
^
'^

='

jam, 1^
:>

'

aylojjeu,

15.
'"

'

-j'lSe,

B.

his, B.

-bjJseb-, B.

8 _i^v^^^ II

oij^an,
'^

O.

j-ceajiu,

V.

" sebece'S, B.

_ncnT, B.
'" j-lajpe,

fulfef, O.,

and

so on.
inter-

"

Ketaj'ob, B.
1

'"'

hit;,

B.

B.

later liand in
''

V. has

lined hunbcf, but

'^

ul)e]' is
" luji,

required, andso B.

unhiila
-'

Jlicpe'cN,

B.

Seplirc, B.
haeji,

B.

-"

]-caiS?>e5,

B.

hdjaj-t,

B.

-'-

B.

-^

hif, B.,

but V. omits.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
till

oGl

that the third part

is

boiled

aAvay
;

add thereto
hole.
it

boar,s

foam, and let the

man

drink

he will be

And

he himself will wonder, and will ween that

be

some other leechdom that he drank. 11. For strangury and sore of bladder, take a boars bladder with the mie, heave it up, and abide until that the wet is flown off; afterwards seethe it, and give it to eat to him who suffers the trouble wonder;

fully it healeth.

For them who mie imder them, and cannot retainy a boars bladder roasted and given to be eaten,
12.

healeth the misease.

13.

For erysipelatous
;

inflammations,''^

let

the

man

drink frequently a boars sharn and sulphur rubbed down into wine it amendeth the erysipelatous eruptions.
IX.
1.

Painting of a
for
^

wolf.

For devil sickness and

flesh,
it
;

eat a wolfs
is

well dressed

in need of

an ill sight,^ give to and sodden, to him who the apparitions which ere appeared
a wolfs head under the pillow
the

to him, shall not disquiet him.

2.

For

sleep, lay

unhealthy shall
8.

sleep.

If thou seest a wolfs spoor

him, he will

a wolfs ridge
part
thereof,

shalt perform

than thou seest not scathe thee, if thou hast with thee (back) hair, and tail hair, the extremest without fright thou on thy journey the journey, and the wolf shall sorrow
ere
;

about his journey.

"

Ad

coxios,"

Lat.,

having sciatica,

" Coxus,
1539.
^ "

claudus,"

(Du Cange).
also,
'-

" Coxendica,"

from Coxa, hip. Ed. Sexti,

Umbrosos,"

demonibus uel umbris quoe per

fautasmata apparent," Lat.

c -'

Couditam," Lat.,

seasoned.

362

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

on
pej

6a3p]ia3c

ro
-j

bonne

jennii

pulpej-

)*py)>jie

eaje

liyt;

toj'tnij^

jepjuS to

Sam eajon
];[e]imib^

hit:

je-

pana^
by]..

f jap

jyp hyt jelomlice

jej-myjieb

PiiS miltpjisece cpicej- hunbej-

milte abjieb op pyjic to

haele]?.*

bjience^

on pine

j-yle
'j

bpmcan hyt
on.

8ume nima^

hpelpej' iNylpe^

ppiSaJ)

Pi5
pulpej'
haej\

pi);ejipeapb hsep

onpej to abonne jip

]7U

nimej-t
];a

meaph

'j

j-mypej't^

beoS op apulliib^

mib hpaSe Sa j'tope ]7e ne jeJ^apaS j'co fmypunj f

liy

ept pexen.

8e pipman
he^ bjiinceS

j'e

];e^

hsebbe beab beajm on mno'Se

jip

meolc mib pme j hiinije jenienjeb^^ jelice epne j'ona hyt hyelS. Biccean^^ meolc jip 5u jelome cilba toS peoman^^
pylpene
'^^
'j

mib j'mypeft
Peapjiaj'
-j

?eth]une]'t butan^^ j^ape

hy

pexaS.^'^

peaptan on pej to bonne

J^a

mm
-j

pulle

-j

piX3t

mib biccean hlonbe pjnS on hpa]?e hi beo^ apeje.

peaptan

on pa

peapjiaj-

pam mannum
jelynbe
-j

pe

majon hpon^^ jehypan

j-eap

hunbej-^^

pepmobej*
];a

mib ealbum
jebete]?.

ele

jemylt bpyp
beoG

on f eape^^ hyt
PiS
pic

beapan

pebej'^^

hnnbe]'

jiite

mm
j-y

];a

pypmaj'

J^e

unbep pebe hunbej- tunjan j-m^ on pej ymb

tpeop
j'yle

Iseb

utan

]7am

];e

tojiiten

he bi6

j'ona hal.

^^PiS pepope
pepop.
fcins, B.

mm

blsecej-

hunbej- beabej' ];one j-pyj^pan

toj'ceaceS^'^

poten j'ceancan^^

hoh^^ on eapm he

]7one

>

j,ap,
"

B.
fmyjiaft, B.

^J^ynce, B.
^

"
**

hseleS, B.

milce, B., for inyl}e.

-lob, B.

jpat,

O., qui.

heo, O.
-]ja)t, B.

'"

-mcens-, B.

''

Biccan, B.
^'

'-

hjicoman, B.
'" lij'on,

"
'^
2'

" -ton, B.
'^

j)eaxa(5,

B,
"*'

B.

hunber, B.
yotfcancan, B.

cape, B.
^'^

'='

j'ebe,

B.
B.

p. in B.

is

omitted.

hoh, B.

^^ j'caca'5,

OF SKXTUS PLACITUS.
4.

oGo

To remove away eye pain,^ take a wolfs right eye, and prick it to pieces, and bind it to the bvffering eye; it maketh the sore to wane, if it frequently
be smeared therewith.
5.

For milt pain, snatch away the milt of a living

it

hound, work
be drunk
;

to a drink in wine,

administer

it

to

it

healeth.

Some take a whelps

hairs,

intestines ^

and bind them on. 0. For contrarious

away with them, if thou takest a wolfs marrow ^ and smearest therewith suddenly the places from which the hairs have been pulled, the smearing alloweth not that they again wax.
to do
7.

The woman who may have a dead bairn

if

in

her

inwards,

she drinketh wolfs milk mingled with wine

like quantities, soon it healeth.

and honey in
8.

If thou

frequently

smearest

and touchest

cliil-

drens
sore.

gums with To do away

;

bitches milk, the teeth

wax without

and warts, take wool and stale, bind it on the warts and on wet callosities quickly they be away. the 10. For the men who hear but little, melt with old oil, hounds suet and juice of wormwood drop it into the ear, it amendeth the deaf 11. For tear of mad hound, take the worms which be under a mad hounds tongue, snip them away, lead them round about a fig tree, give them to him who hath been rent he will be soon hole. 12.^ For a fever, take the right foot shank of a black dead hound, hang it on the arm it shaketh
9.

callosities

it

with bitches

off
*

the fever.
"
''

Ad

glancomata," Lat.

^
c

Incisum fissumque catulum," Lat. " Laccanicus," Lat. "Lacca, sicra^

Arts. 12 to 18 are not in the Latin.

iibiay"

Du

Cangc.

Lucanicam hardly.
^'

3G4

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

6u ne mi^e
J^sep^
]?sejv^

Papna he

-J^

ye

hunb jemah j'ume

f
lie

men

j-ecjaS

oncyjipe mannej' licliama

hi]-

ne

mseje J;onne he cyme]? to

pij:e

hype mib jepej-tan.

himbej-

Scmj-eocum men pypc bpenc- oj: hpitej*^ poj'te on birepe leje punbophce hyr hseleS.

JDnite ^ pypmaj' on pej to bonne 8e on cilbura beoS* bsepn hiinbej- Soj't "j jnib j-male menjc * pi'S hunije

j-mype^ mib
eac ^

peo

pelp

mm

ZV^V
hselh.^

]^^]^^

on pej hunb ^ebpite]; cnuca ppi6 on

^

abe]?

Sa

pypmaj-

hpaSe hyt
pi6

paerejx

able
hf^eleS

mm

bpijne
j-eoce.

hunbej'

];o]'t

pypc

to

bjience'^

he

psetep

bpeop5 on^^ pej to bonne hpitef hmibef ]?opt jccnucabne^^ to biij-te "j jemenjeb'^ pi^ meolope^* 'j to cicle abacen pyle etan J?am untjiuman men ?e]i ]7a3pe^^ tibe liyj' tocymep j-pa^^ on boeje ppa on nilite ppcej^ep'^ hyt hi]' to^an biS Seaple ]'t]ianj lejitep ]?aui he 'j ]*y lytla'S 'j on pej jepite]^. Pi^ ])8etep able hiinbe]- ]']:)i])J}an leje ^ ]7pi^ on ]?am mno^e ]?uph ]?one utjanj seo paetep abl ut^^ aplo])e6.

X.

Medicina de
]?]iopien
]'cinlac.

leone.

Da

J>e

]'Cinlac

etan leonpke]'c

ne

)7jio]7ia5

hy^^ ope]i f a3ni5

leon jelynbe^^ PiS eapena bj\ype~^ on p eape ]'ona him by)? ]'el.
]'a]ie

mm

my It

on

]'cylle

'

J)ap, B., twice.

''

"

bpync, B.

^ ' ^

hpirer, B.
}>ap,

msensc, B.
hjiretSe,

' "

fmyjia, B.
hsele'S,

rcaly, B.

B.
'-

B. B.

bpmce, B. " v-w,~.^v.,.s. TJ ^an-i^r.v.un v sem8enx;eb, B.; semen^en, V. '^ )']a '" }>a)K', B. j^i'pa, V.
B.
'" '"
.
1

bpeojih " bjieojih on, B.

II Tvii.i " melupe, "R B.

Secnocobne, p
'^

])8en
=

v.-

lij'J^cji,

B.

'**

ur, B.

hii,

b!

'">

gelynbe, B.

-'

bjup, B.

OF SEXTUS PLACITTTS.
13.

3G5
Art. ix.

Beware tliee that tliou mic not where the hoTind micd some men say that there a mans body changcth so that he may not, when he cometh to his wife, bed
;

alono:
14.

with her.

For a man haunted by apparitions, work a drink of a white hounds thost, or dung, in bitter ley; wonderfully
15.
it

healeth.
nits

and insects which be on children, burn a hounds thost and rub it small, mingle it with honey and smear therewith; the salve doth away with the worms. Also, take the grass where a quickly hound droppeth his dirt, pound it, bind on
;

To do away with

it

healeth.
16.

For water addle, or dropsy, take

dry hounds

thost,

to

work it to a drink; it healeth the watersick. 17. To do away a dwarf,^ give to the troubled man eat thost of a white hound pounded to dust and

mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs arrival, whether by day or by night it
be
;

his

access

is

terribly

strong,

and

after

that

it

diminisheth and departeth away.

18. Against water addle, or dropsy, lay a hounds vomit upon and bind it upon the inwards the water addle floweth away through the outgang, or anal
;

discharge.

X.
1.

Braiving of a
suffer

lion.
;

Let those

who

apparitions eat lion flesh

they will not after that suffer any apparition. 2. For sore of ears, take lions suet, melt it in a dish, drop it into the ear it will soon be well with it.
;

Gothic races.

These are the dwarves of the old mythology of the The disease meant is convulsions.

z 7

366

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

'j

PiS gelcum yape jemylteb leon^ ^elynbe

jej^myjieb
^

]73ejiinih^

sele j^ap hyt: jeliSijaS.*

'j

Pi5
jelynbe

j^ma

pi^

cneopa
^

leo^a

pajium
'j

mm
^

leon

'j

heojirep meajij

mylt

jemenj

ymype''
hal.9

mib

jpap

Ssep

lichomanj

topomne yona hyt byj?

XI.

Medicina de tauro.

eapbunje ^j aplyjennyppe peappep hopn jebaspnebne to acpan ptpeb J?8ep nsebpan eapbien
PiS
n93bb]ieiia

hy

pleoS onpej.

Pommap

op anbplatan to bonne

pmype mib peappep

blode ealle )?apommap

hyt

op jenime]?.

Feappep jeallan pi's catena J^yptpu 'j jenipe menj piS pelb beona humj bo on J?a eajan punboplice liyt
jehsele]?,

Pambe to aptypijenne

mm

peappep jeallan

on puUe ppi6 unbep f petl neoSan pona he J?a onlype]?* bo f ylce cilbum opep 'Sone napolan be peoppe|? ut J^a pypmap. piS eapena pape peappep jeallan men^ piS hunije j bpype on "Sa eapan pona him byj> pel.
Pi^ cypnlu ^e beoJ> on mannep anbplatan pmype mib peappep jeallan pona he byj? clsene, Pi^ apan bite oSSe mannep pmype mib peappep jeallan pona heo^^ bi6 hal. Pi^ selce heapbnylTe peappep pmepu mylt pi^ typpan

pomna pambe

leon, B.
^

|,ap,

b.
'

-pab, B.
B.

'
^

'

-esa, B.

meaph, B.

-msenc, B.

r^W^,

-haman, B.
his

folio in

B.

-vras
*"

here cut out before the time

when Junius made

transcript.

bite should be masculine.

Ol'^

SEXTU8 PLACITTTS.
melted lion
suet,

HOV

3.

For any
;

sore,

and smeared there-

with
4.

it

relieve th every sore.-^

For sores of sinews and of knee joints, take lion suet and harts marrow, melt them and mingle together smear therewith the sore of the body will
; ;

soon be well.
XI.
1.

Drawing

of a

hull.

Against the dwelling by one of snakes, and for their removal scatter a bulls horn burnt to ashes where the snakes dwell, they will flee away. 2. To remove ugly marks from the face, smear with
;

bulls blood
3.

it

taketh

away

all tl-e

marks.

Mingle with field bees honey^ a bulls gall, against obscurity and darkness of the eyes, put it upon the eyes wonderfully it healeth. 4. To stir a wamb, take a bulls gall, collect it on wool, bind it under the seat, or rum]), below it soon it relaxeth the wamb do that ilk to children over the navel, it will cast out the worms. 5. For sore of ears, mingle a bulls gall with honey, and drip it on the ears soon it will be well with them. 6. For churnels ^ v/hich are upon a mans face, smear them with bulls gall soon he will be clean.
;

7.

Painting of an aioe, For bite of ape or of man, smear with

;

bulls

gall
8.

soon

it

will be hole.

For every hardness, melt

bulls

grease with

tar,<^^

This sentence
remissus

is

ill

worded

in the

Saxon

text.

"

Adeps
sedat,"

leonis

statim
I do not

inunctus

omnem

dolorem

Lat., ed. 1539.

^
^

know
''

that ])8epmib can

mean

statim.

" Melle attico," read as " Lentigines," Lat.

" Kesina," Lat.

attacorum."

868
"j

THE MEDICTNA DE QUADRUPEDIBrS

leje on

ealle

];a

j-aji

'j

heajibe

hv^ jeliSijaS j

jehnej'cea]).
PiJ?

jzoprojonyiTe
betej>.
j'ajie

)-'eaj\]\e[y]

ineajij

on
joji

jelisettrum

pme

b]\mce f pi^ selcum

bjiuice

}:eaji]ie]'

on

Latum
bpyce

paetejie j'ona

hyc
biS

liDel]?.

PrS

bji}'ce

jreapjiejj-el.

joji

peajim

leje on ]?one

]y]?j7an hnii

Pi^

p8ete]\e]'

bjiyne

ocS^e py)^^)' ^^I^n peappej' jojv

'j

]*ceab ]?oep on.

bon beophtne anbpbtan nun }:eapjie]' pcytel cnuca/j bjiyu ^ jnib fpiSe j-male on eceb j-mype mib ]?one anbplatan Sonne byS he beojiht. bpije peappej' j'ceallan pip jemanan to bonne pypc to buj'te o^^e elcop jmb on pm 'j bpmce jelome he bi(S ];y jeappa to pipj^nijnm.
])\i

Gyp

pylle

mm

XII.
Pi(S

Medicina de elephanto.
op

jehpylce

pommap

bchoman on pej to nimenne

jenim y^\)en ban mib hunije jecnucub -j to jeleb punbophce hyt ]?a pomma]'^ opjemme^. 6pt piS pommaj' op anbplatan to bonne jyp pipman mib j)am j'ylpan bujre bsejhpambce hyjie anbplatan j-mype^ heo )?a pommaj' apeopma)?.

XIII.

Medicina de

cane.

\u on pojiepeajibon j'umepa J^ijej't hpylcne lipelpan ]7onne jyt unjej-eonbne^ ne onjiteft

Pi5
ealle j-ap jyp
]?u

sen 15 jap.

'

jjommaf, O.

'-'

gepeoiibne,

V.

OP SEXTUS PLACITUS.

.*30D

and lay on it will make lithe and nesh all the and the hard flesh. 9. For bad spasnij^- let one drink in wine a
;

sores

bulls

marrow
10.

in heated wine; that amendeth.

sore, let

For every
;

one drink bulls dung in hot

water
11.

soon

it

healeth.

For a breach, or fracture}^ lay

;

on the breach
sufferer).

afterwards

it

will

dung warm be well with him {the

bulls

12.

For waters

burning or

fires,

burn

bulls

dung

and shed thereon.

thou will make a face bright, take bulls sharn, pound and break up, and rub it very small in vinegar, smear therewith the face; then will it be bright. 14.^ Ad concubitum perficiendum testiculos tauri siccatos in pulverem redige aut etiam alterutrum in vino comminutes crebris ille haustibus ebibat, qui hoc philtro indiget ita promptior ad venerem erit atque
13. If
;
: ;

citatior.

XII.
1.

Painting of a somewhat fantastic elephant

ill

For any

spot, to take it

from the body, take

elephant bone, or ivory, pounded with honey and ap-

removes the disfiguring marks. 2. Again, for blemishes, to remove them from the face, if a woman with the same dust daily, smeareth her face, she will purge away the spots.
plied; wonderfully
it

XIII.
1.

Painting of a

dog.

thou in the early part of summer takest for food any whelp, being then still blind, thou shalt not be sensible of any sore.

For

all sores, if

'*

^
^

"

Ad torminosos," Lat. Ad alopicias," Lat., baldness.

is

This article

not in the Latin.

Caput velamus.

A A

370

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

bpmce
hunbej-

PiS pojitojenyjye
punboplice.

blob hyt

hsele)?

Pi^ jej'pel J^sejia jecynblima hunbep heajzobpanne jecnucab -j to jele^b punbojilice heo hselej?. PiS cynelice able pebe hunbep heapob jecnucub *j mib pme jemenjeb to bpence hyt haele]?.

"j

'j

Pi^ cancoji punb hunbep lieapob to acxan jebeepneb on jej'tjiebeb hit )?a cancop punba jehsBle]?. Pi^ j'cujxpenbum ^ nsejlum jebsepneb hunbej- lieapob peo acxe J?8ep6n jebon J>a unjepij-nu hyt on pej
]}r6

apyjipe);.

pebe hunbej-

j'lite

hunbej-

heapob jebsejineb to

acxan 'j J^seji on jebon eall f attop 'j )?a pulnyjye hyt ut apyppeS -j ]?a pebenban bitaj' jehsele]?.

6pt
jej-ealb

pebe

hunbep heapob 'j hij- lipep jepoben *j to etanne ]?am pe topliten bi^ punboplice hyt
aleb on pulle

hyne

jehsele]?.

To jehpylcum bpyce hunbep bpsejen

-j

f tobpiocene to jeppijjen peopeyityne bajaj- ponne by}7 hyt psepte jebatob *j ]?8ep by^ )?eapp to psej'tepe
jeppiSennypj-e.

Pi^ eajppaece

"j

j'tice

tobpec

hunbe]^'^Z^
'

heapob
5^F

jip

I'pyj^pe

eaje ace

mm

f rPyfP
*j

eaje ace
pel.

Nim f

pynj'tpe

pjii^

^ pmptjie utan on hyt hsele]?

PiS to]? ppsece hmibep tuxaj' baepn to acxan haet pcenc pulne pmep bo f buj't on 'j bjimce -j bo j'pa

jelome
PiS

)?a te)?

beo'S hale.

to);

peomena

jeppelle^

liimbej-

tux jebaepneb

'

-enbu, V.

pi'^

i>

te\>

jjexon

butan

fhre,

O.

OF SEXTUS PLACITUS.
2.

371
it

For

gripingj^- let

the sick drink hounds blood

healeth wonderfully.

For swelling of the naturalia, a hounds head pan, or skull, pounded and applied, wondrously healeth. 4. For the kingly disease, jaundice, the head of a mad dog pounded and mingled for a drink with wine,
3.

healeth.

For cancer, the head of a mad dog burnt to ashes and spread on, healeth the cancer wounds. 6. For scurfy nails,^ a burnt hounds head, and the ash thereon put; that application removes away the
5.

improprieties.

For a laceration by a mad dog, a hounds head burnt to ashes and thereon applied, casteth out all the venom and the foulness, and healeth the maddening
7.

bites.
8.

Again, a

mad

dogs head and his liver sodden and

given to be eaten to him

fully healeth him.
9.

who has been

torn,

wonder-

For any fracture, a hounds brain laid upon wool and bound upon the broken place for fourteen days; then will it be firmly amended, and there shall be a need for a firmer binding up. 10. For pain and pricking sensation in the eyes, break to pieces a hounds head if the right eye ache,
;

take the right eye

eye,

if

the

left

eye ache, take the

;

left

and bind it on externally 11. For pain of teeth, burn

teeth of
in,

it

healeth well.
ashes the tusks or
full of
;

to

canine

a hound, heat a cup

let

wine, put
fre-

the dust

and

the

man

drink

and so do

quently, the teeth shall be whole.

12.

For swelling of the gums, a hounds tusk burnt

"

Ad
fol.

torminosos," Lat., ed. 1538.

'*

Thus

Ad scabiem unguium " among

receipts

MS.

Sloane,

146,

43.

A A2

27'2

THE MEDICINA DE QUADRUPEDIBUS

jejniben
'j

'j

j-male

on

jebon

t:o)?peomena

I'pylaj'

jebpoej'ceaS.

hunba pe^nyfle j Imnbej' heojitan mib him

Pi(S
'

piSeppsebnyj-j-e
iie

^^

se

'pe

hajraS

beo^ onjean lime himbaj'

ceNe

hpe^nefj-e, B.

-nefj^e, B.

OF SEXTUS TLA-CITUS.

373

and rubbed small and

of toothroonis.
13.

applied, extinguishes swellings

For savageness of hounds and contraiiousncss he who hath a hounds heart with him, against him shall not hounds be keen.

End

of Mediclna do quadrupedibus.

374

FLY LEAF

FLY LEAF LEECELOMS.

In a
Diy
'j

different hand*
-j

ly

feo

j-elej'te
'j

eahj^alp pi^ clipsepce*

pi^ mi]*te

pi^

penne

piS

teojienbum eajum

*j

pujean

bloj-'uman

^j

jihSum *j piS selcum cu^um j-pile jenim pepep bilej- bloptman 'j 'Sunopclapjian

p^'pmum

*j

pi^

bloj'tman

'j

hamop

fj]^'^^

bloj'tman

"j

tpejpa c^iina

pepmob
bile

'j

pollejian
*j

'j

neoSepapbe

lilian

*j

hgepene

"j

lupeptice

bolhpunan

to fomne

^ psel to

on hi]' pmeopupe 'Sa eajan mycel pype 'j Seoj' palp ^

pomne m menj ele to bo 'j

jepuna ^a pypte heoptej- msepije o^^e

*j

];onne
*j

teala

*j

j-mypa
piS

utepapbe
sejhpylcum

pj'jim

to
to
j-pa

help

jej-pelle

J^icjanne

'j

to

j-mypianne

jpa hpylcum lime

hit on biS;

Diy
ptan
*j

nisej

to eahj-alpe
'j

jenim jeolupne

j-tan

*j

jalt
'j

pipop

peh on paeje
'j

'j

bpip ]?uph claS

bo

ealpa jelice micel

bo eal tojsebepe

"j

bpip ept J>uph

Imene claS

])iy

ly

apanban

Isececpaept.

In a
PiS lunjen able
j

different hand.

Gemm

hpite hape

bpyj-e pypt jalluc *j pyjit puban 'j "j pube mepce 'j jpunbe j-pylian op eelcepe J^ij'jie pypte XX pene^a piht -j jenim senne j-efteji pulne ealbaf

hunan ^ bpun

^j

yj'opo

ealo6

'j

peoS

]?a
"j

pyptan* oSSet

j-e

j-efteji

ealo^

py

healp jepoben*
calbep'
"j

bpmc

selce

baej fseftenbe
leetft

neap pulne
halupenbe

bote.

on sepen peapmeja b

hit

ij-

A later

hand has

inserted e to

make

realp.

Read

help's.

LEECHD0MI5.

^^75

1.

This

is

the best eyesalve for eye pain,

and

for

and for worms, and for itchings, and for eyes running with teardrops, and for every known swelling take feverfue blossoms, and dills blossoms, and thunder clovers blossoms, and hammer worts blossoms, and wormwood of two kinds, and pulegium, and the netherward part of a lily, and coloured dill,<^ and lovage, and pellitory, and pound the worts together, and boil them together in harts marrow or in his grease, and mingle oil besides put them a good mickle into the eyes, and smear them outwardly, and warm at the fire; and this salve helpeth for any swelling, to swallow it and to smear with it, on whatever limb it
mist,

and
:

for pin,

''^

^^

may
2.

be.

stone {ochre),

for an eyesalve take yellow and salt stone (rock salt), and pepper, and weigh them in a balance, and drive them through a cloth, and put of all equally much, and put all together, and drive again through a linen cloth this

This

is

efficacious

is

a tried leechcraft.
8.

For lung

disease,

take white horehound, and hysart.

and rue, and galluc,^^ and brysewort, and brown- * Herb. wort,e and wood marche, and groundsel, of each of these worts twenty pennyweight, and take a sextarius
sop,
full of old ale,

lx.

and seethe the worts till the sester of ale is half sodden away, and drink every day a cup full of it cold, and at evening a very little of it warm, the last thing it is a healing remedy.
;

*
^

Aiuga

reptans, gl.
?

^ Parietaria officinalis.

Achillea tomentosa

Various herbs are known by this name.

376

FLY LEAF

In a
pyjit
oSeji

different

hand

of the xii. century

Pi^ pot able

'j

piS J?one
titnilofa

nama

pef leacef heajzba "j bjij-j fpi^e jpeata cjiauleac Sep op )?pibban liealuef pemncjef jepihte -j j pepetpeo *j pomamfce piiiba 'j cymen -j peopSan bel laupepbepian 'j J?epa o^ejia pypta selcef liealuef

mm

bpopan ijon J)

mm
ujie

batuluf
jej^eoba

)7a

mm

penincjef jepihra
ealle

"j

vj.

pipep copn

to bufte

'j

bo

pm
men

Isecaecpsept fyle j^an

unpejen 'j jpmb tpa sej fcille puUe \\i if fo^ bpmcan of> Sset he hal fy.

In a

different

hand,
cor[poris].

AD corrvp[ti]onecd
Polleio

Aneto

Centauria

mmore

Ruta

Saluui

Grana pionie

de his equaliter fume

&

tribula

cum

umo aut

ueteri ceruifa

&

da bibere

leuino.

AD VOCEM UALIDFICANDACC.
Peretro
Pipero

Cmamomo

Smapif femme
tere
&

de hif equaliter

Cumino confice cum

afib

melle

despumato 7 uterif cum opus habueRis.

AD FLuxuM
^ulfum

Sanguinis.

Accipe de confirma hoc est confolida

&

fac

inde

&

da bibere femme

patienti fluxum fanguinis

&

fanabitur.

AD RECIPIENDAM
Warantipe^ luf
fraxini

iiienftruam.
ei

cum umo da

bibere aut de

foliif

Aliter

Accipe fatureiam

&

bulk cum lacte

&

da

ei bibere.

glossed ppec.

LKECIIDOMS.

377

4.

Against gout, and against the wristdrop

take the

wort licrmodactylus, by anotlier name titulosa, that is, in our own language, the great crow leek ;^ take this leeks heads and dry them thoroughly, and take thereof by Aveight of two and a half pennies, and pyrethrum and Roman ^ rinds, and cummin, and a fourth part of laurel berries (o?ie fourth as onuck), and of the other worts, of each by weight of a half penny and six pepper corns, unweighed, and grind all to dust, and add wine two egg shells full this is a true leechcraft. Give it to the man to drink till that he be hole.
;

Allium ursinum. Leac is masculine on the construction with Juliet, see St. Marharete fe Meiden ant Martyr, p. 89. ^ Cinnamon.
a
:

378

FLY LEAF

Pi6 mnopep aptyjiunje.

AD VERTIGINEM.

Nim
eala^
]?
'j
-j

betonica
psefc

*j

psell

fpy^e

on

pin
pofe
*j

oj7)7a
'j

on alb

f heapob mib
]5

)7ara

lej fi^^en

pypu fpa psepni abutan

Iset fpa

heajrob

ppiS mib claSe

beon
l^get;
*j

ealla niht.
ilce

Gpt
'j

piS

mejic

lauma* 'j betonica j pejimob* feo^ on pin o^Se on oSeji pset fpy^e j

mm

mm
op
leja

calfcoccef

'j

bsejxn

to afcen
)?a

'j

mm
-j
'j

]7onne

^ pof
fpa to
]7a

)7a
"j

pyptaf
psefc

'j

opepjeot

afcen mibe

mac

)7a

heapob

)78ejimibe

mm
'j

fi66on

pyjitaf

psejima

alia

pi^utan

fauma

bmb

to J>am

heapbe alia niht.

AD PECTORIS DOLOREM.

Nim
fpySe

hopfellenef pota
'j 'j 'j

*j

ept jepeexen bajic

*j

'j

bpy

mac to
feoS
ftyjie
fij.

bufte

bjiip

]7upli

claS

*j

mm
nota

himij
j78ejito

fpySe

nim
piS

fiSSen

bujt

*j

mencj
'j

fpy^e tojaebepa

^ bo on box
ilce

Jjenna

neob

Gpt

mm

jieabftalebe

hapbuna

ftemp 'j bo on aenne neopna pott an plepmj op Sa hapbuna 'j oSep op yfopo 'j ept ]?a pypt -j fpa J^a butjia 'j Spibbe op pepfc butep pop^ ^ fe pott beo pull -j feoS bij fpySe tojsebjia "j *j nota J^onna peapp fij ppmj fiSSen )?upli cla^S *j pseftenbe calb on nilit on hat ala oS8e bpo'S oS8e
-j

yTopo

-j

peetep.

LEECHDOMS.

879

0,

For

giddiness.

Take betoiiy, and boil thoroughly in wine or in old ale, and wash the head with the infusion, and tlien lay the wort, so warm, about the head, and wreathe with a cloth, and so let be all right. 1 0. Again, for the same take savine, and betony, and wormwood, and marche, and seethe in wine or in other liquor thoroughly, and take cabbage stalks and burn them to ashes, and then take the infusion from the worts and pour over the ashes with it, and so make it into a ley and wash the head therewith and afterwards take the worts warm, all except the savine, and bind to the head all night.
:

11.

For pain in the

chest.

Take elecampane roots and bark that has grown again, and dry thoroughly and make into a dust, and drive it through a cloth, and take honey and seethe after that take the dust and mingle it it thoroughly therewith, and stir thoroughly together, and put Again, for the into a box, and use when need be. same, take redstalked horehound, and hyssop, and stamp, and put into a new pot, a layer of the horehound, and another of hyssop, and a third of fresh butter, and again the worts and butter, and so on till the pot be full, and seethe them thoroughly together, and afterwards wring through a cloth and use when need be, fasting cold, and at night in hot ale, or
;

broth, or water.

B c

380

FLY LEAF

MS. Cotton.
PiS
*j

Titus, D. xxvi.,
1113011
]5

fol.

16
feot)

b.

J7a
];a

blejene jenim
jeolcan j 66

sejpa

*j

Inj ytefue

mm
.

lipite

apej

[fjmejia
];iiph

Sa

jeolcan on anpe pannan j

claS
'j

mm
j

ppmj p

pof uu

senne fejia
elef
"j

eall

Ppa

pela
pela

bjiopena

pnieC

fpa

aDjpa beo

eall

[fpa]

bpopena unlialjobcf

eall fpa pela liunijeC bjiopena

'j

op

pinoleC

more

eall

fpa pela
*j

bpopena ^enini
tir

j^oniie

^ ^ebo Inr
"j

ppinj

pupil
fel.

agnne cla^

fyle

tofomnc )7am nienn eran

call

him by^ fona

MS. Harl. 6258,

prS
pulle

fol.

42. [51].

eafob
ele

ece

on

on englif bpyrc^e bpofle t obSer on clane butere % fmyre f lieafob

pollege

mib.

De
prcS ealba
^t

Beta.

iin^alum lieafob ece ciiuca pa purb pat: bete liatab 1 gnib on pa punpunge 1 ufan f heafob 6fu pip pat ylce cnuca pu punbraffc paf lacebomef.

cylepene on ecebe

1 fmu'e

pyrce bretS. eajen fona by5 liym fael. Nim f mycele fearn mSepearb ^ eallan rmbe cnuca to fomne % mebe brofna bo }ar to 1 beppeli lime pel pearnie. Gif fyna fcrtncon ntm mucgpyrte ^e

p lieafob pi^ flapenbe lice

1111b

bufan

]a

beatene

^emengeb jelogobe fmyre mib. feop on ele fiiiTra mib. OOucgpyrte feap piS heafob jentm bettontcan 1 pipor ^^igntb to gabere Ifet ece ane niht hangie on cla^e T: fmira mib J7at heafob. PiS fceancena farnyfni 1 fot ece bettontca T: jeornia

pib

ele

LEECH DOMS.

381

Against blains, take nine eggs and boil them bard, and take the yolks and throw the white away, and
grease the yolks in a pan, and wring out

the liquor

many drops of wine as there are of the eggs, and as many drops of unand hallowed oil, and as many drops of honey from a root of fennel as many drops take and then
through a
clotli
;

and

take as

put
him.

it

all

together,
to the

and wring
to eat,
it

it

out through a

clotli,

and give

man

will soon be well

with

For head ache,

gium, that
is
it.

boil in

oil,

or in clean butter, pule-

in English,

dwarf dwosle, and smear the

head with

Of

Beet.

For old and constant head ache, pound the wort which hight beet, and rub upon the temples and top of the head, thou shalt wonder at the leechdom. Again, for the same, pound celandine in vinegar and smear the head therewith, above the eyes the man shall soon be better. For a paralysed body, work a batli. Take the netherward part of the mickle fern,^ and elder rind, pound them together, and add thereto dregs ofmede, and wrap^ the man up warm. If sinews shrink, take beaten mugwort mixed with oil; when settled, smear therewith. Again, seethe juice of mugwort in oil, smear therewith. For head ache, take betony and pepper, pound together, let them hang one night in a cloth, and smear the head therewith. For soreness of
:

'

Aspidium filiv.

Kead

bej'jaeh.

B B 2

382
leaf

FLY LEAF

finul

^.

ribb<an

pyb mylc

1 pyS

pseter

neruorum.
sale

Plantaginis

% jemeng 1 be)?a imb. % Ad tumorem folia contunde cum modico

ealra

efenfela

et

bibe ieiunus.

Bete nigre succus

:^

et

radicis

minus dimidio melle admixto si naribns infundatur pituitas omnes defluunt et ita ut palatum transeat naribus et dentibus dolentibus prodest. Item ysopi
satureie

sicce

origani

fascicules siugulos

in

saponc

optime per triduum macerabis hoc per singulos menses non solum capite sanus sed et pectore et stomaclio

Cui capud cum dolore findi uidetur. Succum edere cum oleo miscetur et accetum et unge narcs
eris.
IF

et statim sedabitur.

MS.
]?ap

Cott. Domit. A.

1,

fol

55

b.

pyjita
pgebic

fceolon

to penpealfe

elene

japleac
'j

cepuille

naep

lipemnep
-j

pot

liunij

pipuji
-j

cnucije ealle Sa pypta

]?onne

ppmje

)?upli

claS

pylle

on j^am hunije.

MS. C.C.C.

41, p. 228, margin.

ptepce).

PiS eahppsece (altered to

jemm
AsZ
"J

Iseppe neo'Sopeapbe

enupa

"j

pjnnj Supli hjepenne

J;am eajan.

bo fealt to

ppmj

]?onne

LEECHDOMS.
shanks and foot ache

t383

bctony and mallow, and fennel and ribwort, of all equal quantities, and mingle with milk and with water; smear therewith.
;

These worts must do for a wensalve inula, garlick, chervil, radish, turnip, ravens foot, honey, and
;

pepper.
cloth,

Pound
and
boil

all

the

worts,

and wring through a

honey.

them then

in the

For pain in the

eye.

Take the netherward part of a bulrush, pound it, and wring it through a hair cloth, and add salt
then squeeze
it

into the eye.

384

CHAliaiS.

MS. C.C.C.

41

.,

p.

22G, in the margin.

Ne
na^

jiojiptolen

ne
ic

jiojiholen

nanuht
bjiilien.

J^sey

^e

ic

aje ]e
j'ce

on pobe alianjen j'pa ]?ence ^ly jreoli to pinbanne* mey to o]; jreopji ic janne* ^ to pitanne nvdy ^o o^pypceanne *j to Gapmunb ^obep tSejen lupianne* neep to o^lyebanne.
5e);ohte
cjii]"c

mihte Eabelenan* anb

Se

liejiob

ujme

Ic

jcj^olite

pmb
j

J^iet

peoli*

-j

pejie ]786t

peoh anb hapa

J?aet

peoli

healb

]??et peoli

anb pepe

ham

pset peoh

J>a3t

he

nseppe

lanbej- j^set he hit oSlaebe ne polban ]5 ne hupa J^set he hit oS hit^ healbe jyp hit hyt hpa jebo* ne ^ebije hit him nseppe bmnan J>pym nihtum* cunne ic hip mihta hip m?ejen anb hip mihta* anb hip munbcpjeptaf eall he peojinije ]'pa se pyep^ pubu peopnie ppa bjieSel ]7eo fpa J^yftel peoh o^pepjean J^ence o'bSe Sip ojip oSehtian (5e J^ip

nabbe

oSpejiie

Scnce

amen.

MS. C.C.C.

41, p. 202, margin.

PiS ymbe.

nim
ic

eoji];an

opeppeojip
'j

mib

)?inpe

fptj^jian

hanba
pi6

unbep |7inum
anban
*j

fpi}7pan pet

epet po ic unbep pot puiibe

-j

hit hp?et eopCe

-j

maej piS ealpa pihta jehpilce

*j

picS

iTDmmbe

piS

]:a

micelan maiine]' tuni[;an

]7onne
hi

prS

on
fitte

poppeopp

opep

5jieot

fpijiman

*j

cpe^
bits

je pije pip fijaS to

fj-a
"j

eojij-an

na3ppa je pilbe
fpa

tu puba pleojan beo je

jeminbije mincj' jobep

c];elef.

manna

jehpilc iiietep

'

l\cad ma.

-'

Strike out Inc.

'

Kead

jyeji, jyp.

CHARMS.

385

To find

lost cattle.

Neither stolen nor hidden be aught of Avhat I

own

any more than Herod could our Lord. I remembered Saint Helena and I remembered Christ on the rood
liung; so I think
to

find

these

beeves,

not to have

them go far, and to know where they are, not to work them mischief, and to love them, not to lead them astray. Garmund, servant of God, find me those beeves, and fetch me those beeves, and Iiave those beeves, and hold those beeves, and bring home those beeves, so that lie, the wAsdoer, may never have any land, to lead them to, nor ground to bring them to, nor houses to keep them in. If one do this deed, let Within three nights I will try it avail him never. his powers, his might, his main, and his protecting Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, crafts.
as thigh of bramble or of thistle,
he,

who may be

thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this

cattle.

Amen.

For catching a swarm of

bees.

throw it with thy right hand under thy right foot and say, " I take under foot, " I am trying what earth avails for everything in the world and against spite and against malice, and " against the mickle tongue of man, and against dis" pleasure." Throw over them some gravel where they swarm, and say,

Take some

earth,

''

" Sit ye,

''

my

ladies, sink,

Sink ye to earth down

" "
*'

Never be

so wild,

As

to the

wood

to

fly. is

Be

ye as mindful of
estate."

my

good as every man

of

"

meat and

386

CHARMS.

MS.

Cott. Yitell. E. xviii.,

J;iy

fol.

13

b.

ly )?inaii yjipe

to bote.

ypf e selce sejieii liim to helpe agios lante [ticcau [jenim tpejen] AGIOS AGIOS on as^Sejine Cticcan [be] hpa^lcejie jieSejiecjebe 'j pjiit 06 enbe -j let pone [Cticcjan ecje an pateji nopteji ];one^ be[pjiitenn]e on }?a plopie ^ J^one oS[e]pne oN

[Smj]

ymb

})in

0}:ep ]?am

oSpum

r"cicc[a]n.

MS.

C.C.C. 41, p. 292, margin.

PiS ealpa peo[n]ba jpimneffum.

bextera
altauit

dommi

me

uirtutem dextera domini exnon moriar fed muam et narrabo opera

fecit

domini

dextera

glorificata

est

in

uirtute

dextera

manus tua confrmgit inimicof

mageftatif tuge contreuisti

multitudmem adversariof meof mifiCti iram

et per
fie

tuam
cedite

et comedit eof

fic

per uerba amedatio

erif

mmundiffime

spiritus fletnC oculorum tibi

gehenna ignif

a capite

a capiUis

a labiif

a lingua

a coUo

a pectoribus

ab uniuerfif* compagmibus membrorum

de

ems ut non habeant potestatem diabuluf ab hommc

isto

N.

de capite

capillif

Nee nocendi

Nee

tangendi
Sfendi o nee

nee dormiendi

Nee tangendi
nee

nee mfur-

nee

meridiano

m
Sed

uifu

nee

risu-

fulgendo Ne[c] ef
cliristi

fine.

nomine domini
fancto per
fancti

noftri lesu

qui

cum patre
unitate

et fpiritu
fpiritus

unuf

seternuf

deuf

omnia secula seculorum.

Ki,

MS.

CHAllMS.

387

This
[Siug]
to

is

to cure thy cattle.

helj)

over thy cattle every evening to be a

the
Tersanctus.

[Take two] four edged and write on either stick, on eacli sticks and let fall the edge, the pater noster to the end inscribed stick on the door, and the othej*
them,
;

....

MS.

C.G.C. 41, p. 346, margin.

"PrS

fajium eajum.

Domme
occulof
tobi ec

sancce pa"cer omnipotens seterne deuf fana

ifriuf

hominif

N.

ficut;

fanaPci

occulof

filii

cecorum manuf aridorum pef claudorum faniraC egrorum refurrectio mortuorum feliciraC marrirum et omnium fanctorum oro domme ut

mulrorum

erigaC

&

mluminaC occulof famuli

"cui

N.

qua-

cunque ualitudme confcratum medelis celestibuf fanare dignenC tribue famulo tuo N. ut armif lufritie
inuniatur
diabolo

refifuat

et:

regnum

confequatur

seuernum

per.

]}r6

Capum eapum.

Kex
dorohel

giorie christe

auribus

raphaelem angelum exclude fanfamulo dei lUi mox recede ab

annum

torquenti

fed

raphaelo

angelo

faniuatem

auditui componaf* per.

prS majan

[eocnette.

Admrer noC deuC falutariC nofcer exclude angelum lanielum malum qui Cromachum dolorem fromachi facif
ted

dormielo fancto angelo tuo fanitatem ferui tui

ranat;ione[ni]

tuo Cancro nomine

ad ad tribuere

per.

388

CHARMS.

MS.

Cofct. Vitell.

E. xviii.
i

[Gij: hjiy]]7epu

beon on liinjen coSoN

.

:on
fuinejiej'

hylle
.

"j

basjm
]?9Djito

to
liali

axan on mibban
preteji

mnelFe [bvo^

bo]

-j

jeot
'j
-j

on

lieojia

miro on mibban [fumepcf

mrejj^j'e

mepjen*
nostri

iin^ ];ar

J?jiy

iealmaf
-j

]-ee]\

ojieji

[Miyepepe]
uulr.

Exiipgat:

dommup

Quicumque
Ibid.

Gi]:

fceap Ijonyl on.*

[Deniin] lytel nipef ealoS

fceapa

-j

jeot;

mnon
fpcljon

a;lc

]7fe]ia

mu6

-j

bo

-p

[In

hjiaSJop

f hconi

cym6

to bote.

MS. C.C.C.
I'artly allitera
tivc.

41, p.

400
j
J

margin.

Ic

me on

jnyye "^jji^e beliice

]7ane fapa ftce prS

on

jobe]' helbe
]

be-

beobe

])\]>]>

ane fapa Heje y\^ ane

jpymma 5pype
j

piS Sane micela ejfa fe biS ejlipam laS

]7e

pi6

eal

la5
ic

into

lanb

pajie

fx^je

jealbop

ic

bejale fijejypb

me

peje popbfije

popcfije fe

me

beje ne

me mep

ne jemyppe ne

me maja ne
jaft

jejpcnce ne

me me

nseppe

mmum
anb

peope pojiht ne jepupj^e

ac ^elisele
pulbjief

felmihtiji

funu
fpa ic

pjioppe

eallef

pypbij bpyhten

fpa

jehypbe lieopna fcyppenbe

abpame anb
bauit
"j

Iface

anb
^j

fpilce

men
-j

mo^^fej'

-j

lacob

lofep

'j

cuan
xpcj'

annan

elizabet

ftihajiie

ec inapie

mobup

'j

eac Suj'cnS Jnjua cnjla clijnje

'

Of

uncertain signification.

CHAllMS.

389

If cattle
.

have disease of the lungs.

:

and burn to aslies on midsummers d.iy add holy water, and pour it into their mouth on midand sing these three psalms over summers morrow them Psalm li.st, Psalm Ixviii.th, and the Athanasian
. . .

creed.

If sheep

be

ailing.

Take
of eacli

a little

new
;

ale,
;

of
it

the

sheep

and pour it into the mouth and manage to make them

will

swallow
them.

quickish

that

prove of benefit to

A
I fortify

charm or

'prayer.

myself in this rod/ and deliver myself into

against
the
sore
sigh,

See VVanley,

Gods

allegiance,

against the^^'^^^"

grim horror, against the mickle terror, which is to everyone loathly, and against all the loathly mischief wdiich into the land may come: a triumphant charm I chant, a triumphant rod I bear, let this ^ avail me, w^ord victory and work victory let no night mare mar me, nor my belly swink me, but may the nor fear come on me ever for my life Almighty heal me and his Son and the Paraclete Spirit, Lord worthy of all glory, as I have heard, heavens Abraham and Isaac and such men, Moses and creator. Jacob, and David, and Joseph, and Eve, and Hannah and Elizabeth, Sarah and eke Mary, mother of Christ, and also a thousand ^ of the angels I call to be a guard
sore blow, against the
:
:

Probably a holy rood.

le as feo
;

^
j

Perhaps, thousands.

Syjib

is

feminine.

890
ic

CHAllMS.

me

to ape piS eallum peonbum hi

me

pepion anb

}:]ii]?ion

anb

mme

pope nepion eal

me

jehealbon men^
liyht;

jepealbon

papcef

fcopenbe
]\op

fi

me
J78et

pulbpef
j'ceote

hanb

Ofep lieapob halijpa

enjla bibbu

j'ljepojipa

j'oSjrsej'tpa

ealle bli'Su

mobe
anb

me

beo hanb
hjiej-

ojzep

heajiob mattheuj'
locoj'

helm mapcuj' bypne leohr

j'ceajip

pop

mm

j'pupb

j-cipecj

J'cylb
ic

lohannej-

pulbpe jephtejob peja j-epajzhm pop5

ic

jepape

fpmb
ic
'j

jemete

eall

enjla

blseb
fi6

eabijef lape bibbe

pset

nu

pijepe jobep miltfe

50b

jobne fm^^re
psetep
ic

hhte

pmb

pepe)?um
pi^

pmbaf
eallum

jejzpan

cipcmbe
ppeonb

fimble
piS

^ehalej^e

jzeonbum

jemete

Yddt ic

on
pi]?

]7ep

selmilitian
la)?an pe

on hip ppiS punian mote

belocun
blseb

)7a^

jefraj^elob
^

anb
ic

me lypef elit on enjla bla^ mna halpe hanb hopna picep

lijze

blseb

j;a

hpile

];e

on

punian more.

Amen.

MS.
See Wanlcy,
p. 114.

C.C.C. 41,

p.

216.

Dip

man

fceal

cpe^an Sonne hif ceapa hpilcne

8ep

man

poptpolenne.

C[p]y^

he^ ^enyj

oj:ep

pojib cpebe*

Bethlem^
pyp]?e
\)e

hattse feo

buph ^e
m*jie.
'j

cpipt on jebopen pef.

feo if jemiBpfob ofep ealne mibbanjeajkb

Ipa Seof biBb

-j

fop

mannum
)7pipa

per crucem xpi

jebebe

J>onne

Eapt

cpeS ))pipa
cpe'S

xpi ab oriente

reducat

pe]-c

anb

crux xpi ab occidente

'

men, MS.

read meli.

pieces
]'

is
/'.

often transitional between

lie ad ]vaui.

and
*
''

'
'

Strike out.

Kead

)>u.

The shape

of

tlic

s in

these

Observe the

alliteration.

CHARMS.
to

891
they bear

me

against all fiends.

May
;

keep
a

me

in

peace and protect

altogether,

ruling
glory,

my

conduct

me up and uphold me may there be to me

my

life,

hand over head/ the hall of the hallows, the regions of the glorious and triumphant, of With all blithe mood I pray, that the truthful angels. for me, hand over head,^ Matthew be helmet, Mark brynie,^ a light lifes bulwark, Luke my sword, sharp and sheeredged, John my shield, embellished with glory. Ye Seraphim, guardians of the ways Forth I shall
hope
of
!

depart,

friends

shall

meet,

all

the glory of angels,

through the lore of the blessed one. Now pray I to the victor for Gods mercy, for a good departure,^ for
a good, mild, and light

wind upon
Friends

tJiose

shores

the
I

winds
against

know, the encircling water, ever preserved

all

enemies.
the

I shall
yea,

meet,
in
his

that

may
for

dwell

on the Almightys,

peace,

protected

against

loathsome one,

who hunts me

my

life,

established in the glory of angels, and in

the holy hand of the mighty one of heaven, while I

may

live

upon

earth.

Amen.

char'in to recover cattle.

must sing this when one hath stolen any one of his cattle. Say before thou speak any other Bethlehem was hight the borough, wherein word. Christ was born it is far famed over all earth. So
:

A man

may

deed be in sight of men notorious, per crucem Christi. Then pray three times to the east, and say thrice, may the cross of Christ bring it back from the east and turn to the west, and say, may the cross of Christ bring it back from the west; and to
this
;

'

That

is,

as

in

game

easily

in

won. Coat of mail.

^

some other places, to be neuter. See J. M. K. in Gentlemans Magazine, 1834, p. 604.

Si'Syaec

appears here, as well as

392
reducar
.

CHARMS.
-j

in fu]?

-j

cpe^
-j

]7jiipa

crux

xfji

amendie

reducanc'
funt'^ et

anh in

nojiiS

cpecS

crux

xpi

abfcondita

muenta

esu lubeas cpij^t

ahenjon jebibon him

pophelan ne mihton
pyjij^e

ba3ba pa pypfran liselon

J^get

hi

ppa nseppe Seop bsob popholen ne

xpi.

peji

crueem

Ibid.
See Wanloy,
p. 114.

Gip peoh fy unbejmumen jip hit jy hojip sm^ }nf on liif petepa o^^e on hif bpibel jip hit pi obep
peoh
bjij^p

finj

on

)?8et

hopjiec

anb

ontenb

iii

canbella

^pipa ^ peax ne mrej hit nan man pophelan. Gip hit yy o}7ep opp ]7onne fmj Su hit on. iiii. healpa
Sin

'j

finj

fejiej't

uppihte hit

'j

Petup Pol
dei

Patpic

Pihp

Mapie. Bpipt. Fehc. in nomine

-j

chipic.

qui quejnt inuenit.

MS.

Bibl. Bodl. Junius, 85.

pip

PrS
AYanley,
p.

beapn eacenu.^

Maria virgo peperit Christum, Elisabet sterelis peAdiuro te infans si es perit Johannem baptistam. mascuhis an femina per patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum ut exeas, et recedas et ultra ei non noceas neque insipientiam illi facias amen. Videns dominus flentes sorores lazari ad monumentum lacrimatus est coram iudeis et clamabat lazare veni foras et prodiit

ligatus

inanibus

et

pedibus

qui

fuerat

quatriduanus

mortuus.
pyjice
.

Pj^it Sip

'j

bmb

on pexe Se na3ppe ne com to nanen unbep hijie ppiSjian pot

;'"'

'

2 ^

Read Read

reclucat.
est.

From

a trimscript forwarded by

For childbirth. Write this on wax which has never been applied to any work, and

a friend.

bind

it

under her

ri^^lit

foot.

CHARMS.
the
soutli,

o93

and say tlirice, may the croRR of Christ bring it back from the south and to the north, and say, the cross of Christ was hidden and has been The Jews hanged Christ, they did to him the fonnd. worst of deeds they concealed what they were not able to conceal. So never may this deed become conPer crucem Christi. cealed.
;

For
If cattle be

the same.
if it

taken away privily

be a horse,
If

sing this over his foot shackles, or over his bridle.

it

be another sort of cattle, sing over the hoof track,

light three candles
the hoof track.

and
into
it.

and drip the wax three times

will be able to conceal
it

No man
goods,^
first

If

it

be

other

then sing
it

on the four
up.
;

sides

of thee,

and

sing

looking

Peter,

Paul, Patrick, Philip, Mary, Bridget, Felicitas

in the

name

of

God,

and

the

church

he

who

seeketh,

findeth.

Charm.-

Pi(3 jej^tice.

ppiS Cjuytey m^el

nosteji
titit
.

-j

ymj

(Sjupe

(Soeji

on ^ly ^ pater
et res-

longinus miles lancea ponxit

dominum

sanguis et recessit dolor

'

As

furniture

see

Thwaites,

Ilept. Genes, xxxi. 3G.

-

Christ,

For a stitch. Write a cross of and sing over the place this

From

a transcript forwarded

by

thrice.

a friend.

394

CHARMS.

Pi^ uncuSum

fpyle.'

ymj on

Sine IjBcepmjeji

pater noster

*j

ppit
se;

ymb f
quitur
feptjuji

j-ajie

-j

cpeS

Fuge diabolus Christus

est
'j

te

quando natus
pater noster.

Christus

fugit

dolor

-j

i.i-i.

Fuge diabolus;

Pi?3

toS

ece.2

Sanctus Petrus supra marmoream

MS.
Pib blobpene

St.

Johann. Oxon. No. 17.

ppiht to
liiy

of nofu

forheafob

on

xpf mel.

ct

Scomen

calcof

4-

+
For bloodrunning from the
nose, write on the

mans

forehead in the shape of a cross.

For a strange swelling. Sing upon thy little finger a pater noster, and draw a line about the sore, and
'

For tooth

ache.
It is con-

The

rest is wanting.
fol.

tained in Lacnunga,

183.

say.

CHARMS.

305

MS.

Cott. Vitell. E. xviii.,

fol.

13

b.

piC ly Cce coiumcille cipcul.

mib J^mef cnifeC opbe on anum ]?am mealan fcane 'j fleah senne Cuacan on mibban ymbha^an *j leje J^one Cuan on uppan J^am ftacan unbep eopSan . butan ^am jeppitenan. f he beo eall
P|ut
l^yj-ne cijicul

This

is

the circle of Saint Columbkill.

Write this circle with the point of thy knife upon a meal stone or quern, and cut a stake in the middle of the hedge surrounding thy fields ; and lay the stone upon the stake, so that it be all under ground except
the inscribed part.

c c

;96

CHARMS.

A(jainst theft.

ponne fe ma[n] hpet fopfuele apjut on ]7inne pmCupan fco unbeji ]nnum ho
]ni hit: fona.

]?ir

fpijeube j bo

j^onne jeacfaxt:

er

hx

n
b

xh

hx

When
and put

a
it

man

stealeth anything, write this in silence

shoe,
it.

into thy left

under thy

heel.

Then

thou shalt soon hear of

CHAllMS.

397

MS.
. .
.
.

Cott. Vitell. E. xviii.,

fol.

13

b.

mjebejie
];ine

ci(S

nfponS nan
pojiluelan
J>a

man
hpile

on pmjie beon ne hi
ci5

liyj:e

)70iine

ne

pe fe

on

])Sd\ie

ma[n] ne hype biS.

mijej

Against
. .

loss

of

bees.

a plant of madder, on thy hive

then no
is

man

will be able to steal them, the while the plant

hive.

on the

Ibid. fol. 16 a.

Ut

furicef jarbaf
pi]'

non

noceantr.
]??ejito.

if

];eo

bletfunj

Haf
tent;

precef

fuper

jarbaf dicif
ciuitate

&

non

dicto

eof

fufpenbif hiejiofolimam

ubi furicef nee habicolli gene

nee habent poteftatem nee grana

nee

triuicum conganbent:.

398

CHARMS.

MS.

Cott.

CaUg. A.

vii.,

fol.

171

a.

HER YS SEO

Bot: )>v

DV MEA?>T
o]7]?e
j^seji

fine
hpilc

secejiaf

betan

jip hi nella]? pel

pexan

unjebefe J^mj

onjebon bi5 on bpy oS6e on lyblace jenim ]?onne on

nilit
]78es

8ep

byt bajije
'j

peopeji

t^pp on peopep healpa

sep
*j

lanbes
ele
'j

jemeapca
bunij
^j

bu by

ptobon.

Nim
meolc
]?e

]7onne
]?e

beopman
selcep

aelces

peop
bsel

on psem lanbe py

'j

tpeopcynnes

on

J78em lanbe

py ^epexen butan beapban beaman *j selcpe namcu)7pe pypte bgel butan jlappan anon -j bo ]?onne
peetep
"Ssepon
'j *j

babj

bpype

]?onne ]?pipa

on

)7one

PcaSol J^apa tuppa

cfepe Sonne "Sap popb

Cpefcite

pexe

&

multiplicamini

anb jemsenijpealba

& peplete

anb jepylle
fol.

teppe
sci

pas eopSan

In nomine patpis

171 b.

&

pilu*

et ppp

Sit benebicti.

Anb patep noptep

pi]?]?an

ppa

opt
'j

ppa

)78et

oSep

'j

bepe

'Sa

tupp

to

cipcean

msesse

ppeoft apmje peopep mseppan opep

ban tuppon
pi]7]?an

'j

penbe

man f
J?a

5pene to 'San peopobe

]78ep

-j

jebpmje man
fetljanje.

tupp

hi

sep

paepon sep
cpic-

punnan

Anb

hsebbe him
'j

jsepopht op

beame peopep
COattheus

cjuptep mselo

appite

on

selcon

enbe

'j

mapcus Lucas

'j

lohannep

leje

f cpipuep

mael on ]?one pyt neo]?epeapbne cpeSe Sonne

Cpux

mattheus
lohannep
j

Cpux

mapcus
]7a

Cpux
'j

lucap

Cpux

Sep

Nim

Sonne
nijon

tujip

pete Ssep upon

on

cpe]7e

"Sonne

pi]?on

)?ap
]}e

popb

Cpepcite

'j

ppa

opt

patep

rp

"j

penbe

J?onne eapt
"j

peapb

'j

onltit

nijon

piSon

eabmoblice

cpeS

ponne

]7ap
ic

popb eaft peapb Ic ptanbe ajiena

ic

me

bibbe bibbe

CHARMS.

399

A
Here
acres, if
is

charra for bewitched land.

the remedy,

anythey will not thing improper have been done, by sorcery or witchcraft.

how thou mayst amend wax well, or if therein

thine

four quarters of the land, and

dawn, four turfs on the mark how they formerly Then take oil and honey and barm and milk stood. of exQYy cattle which is on the land, and part of every kind of tree which is grown on the land except hard beams, and part of every wort known by name Acer pseudo ^^'*^'*''''^* except the buckbean(?) only, and add to them holy water, and then drop of it thrice upon the place of Crescite, that is the turfs, and then sSiy these words wax; et multiplicamini, that is and multiply; et terram, that is this earth, etc. replete, that is and fill And say the Paternoster as often as the other formula, and after that bear the turfs to church and let a mass priest sing four masses over the turfs, and let the green surface be turned towards the altar, and then let the turfs be brought to the places where they were
at night, ere it
:

Take then

before ere the setting of the sun.

And

let

the

man

have wrought for him four crosses of quickbeam, and let him write upon each end, " Matthew, etc." Let him lay the cross of Christ upon the lower part of the pit, and then say, etc. Then take the turfs and set them down therein, and say nine times these Crescite, as hefore, and the Paternoster as words often, and then turn eastward, and lout down nine times humbly, and then say these words
: :

I stand towards the east

For grace
I pray the

entreat

Lord glorious I pray the Lord good and great

400
)7one

CHARMS.

msepan

bomiiie

bibbe 6one miclan bjiihten bibbe

bibbe

fol.

172

a.

Ic J70ne halijan lieojronjiicer peajib* eojiSan

ic

'j

up

heojzoii

-j

oa yoj^an

j^ancta

majuan
]?]]'

-j

heoponep
jijie

meaht

^ lieah jieceb

ic

mote

jealbop mib

bjiilirnes

ro^um ontynan

)?ujih

rjiumne jej^anc apeccan

polban mib

]?a]'

psefcmap us to pojiulb nytre jepylle

]?ay

pcpte jeleapan plitijijan

Cj^seS
]?8et

)?ap

pancj tupp ppa pe piteja

eopJ?pice fe

pe hsep be ape on

];e

selmyppan

bselbe bomlice bpihtnes j^ances

penbe pe

];oniie

iii

j'unjanjep
letaniaj'

aptpece

]7onne

on anblan^ anb apim peep

anb cpeS );onne SCS

afenebon

SCS

SCS

o]>

enbe

pmj

J^onne

benebicite

eapmon

"j

majmpicat
'j

'j

pateji noptep

in

-j

bebeob hit cpipte

to lope
^j

pancra

mapian
1 ]^^^

'j

)?9epe lialjan jiobe

to peopj^mja

fol.

172

b.

^"^P^

f ^^^^ ^5^ ^ eallon J^am pe him un

bep^eobbe pynt

Sonne ^

call

pie

jebon ponne
pelle

nime
trpa

man uncup
ppylc ppylce

p?eb jBt

almesmannum anb

him

man

set

him nime anb jejabepie

bojnje

ealle

hip

pulh

^eteojo

tojiubejie

ponne

on

pam

CHAKMS.
I

401

pray the holy

ruler

Heavens

Earth I pray And heaven above

And And And

That

the sooth

Saintly

Mary

heavens might halls on high

I

may

this gibberish

By

grace of the Lord,

teeth disclose

With

Through firmness of thought, Wake up the quanting crops For our worldly Aveal, Fill up the fields of earth

With

firm belief

Prank forth these grassy plains As said the prophet, That he on earth honour should have

Whoso his aims Hath dutifully dealt

Doing
his

out

Lords

will.

Then turn thyself thrice according to the suns course, and then stretch out along and there count the litanies,^ and then say the Tersanctus to the end then sing the Benedicite with arms extended,^ and the Magnificat, and the Paternoster, thrice, and commend it to Christ and to St. Mary and to the Holy Rood, for love, and for reverence, and for grace for him who owneth the land, and all them who are subject to him. When
;

all

one take strange seed of almsmen, and give them twice as much as was taken
that
is

done,

then

let

from them, and gather all his plough apparatus together then let him bore a hole in the iDloiigh beam
;

Evei7

saints

name counting

as

In the position of the crucified

one.

Jesus.

402

CHARMS.

beame ftop
fealr

'j

pmol

anb jehaljobe j'apan

'j

jehaljob

mm

J?onne

jseb pete

on

faey pules bobij

cpe^S

]70nne

ejice

epce

ejice

eop]?an

mobop jeunne

J?e

j'e

alpalba ece bpihten

secejia

pexenbpa anb ppiibenbpa

eacmenbpa anb elmenbpa pceap ta henpe ^ pcipe psestma

'j

]?8epe

bpaban bepe psestma*

'j

psepe

bpitan

hpsete

psestma

-j

ealpa eop]?an

psej'tma

jeunne him ece

bpiliten

'j

hip

hahje

J?e

on

[hjeoponum

pynt

j78Gt

hyf
heo

yp)7

j'l

5eppi)7ob

pi^

ealpa

peonba

jehpsBne

pi

jebopjen
jeonb

piS

ealpa

bealpa

jehpylc

fol.

173

a.

]7apa^

lyblaca

lanb

papen.

Nn

ic

bibbe

'Sone

palbenb

pe

'Se

Sap

populb

jepceop

ne

py nan to

]>xy

cpibol

ptp

ne to
popub
^

faes

cp^ptij

man

]?8et

apenban

ne

maeje

]?uf

jecpebene

henfe requires emendation as an interim reading I would

> ;

'

hajia

]7e ?

offer

\>iyy(i.

The

genitives

are

Read

yo]\b

the

penman had
1.

partitives.

Bejie, ]>])oete, are

made

written ])0]iulb and then erased

feminine.

CHARMS.

403

and put

therein sty rax and fennel and hallowed soap

and hallowed salt, then take the seed as above, and put it on the body of the plough, then say,
Erce Erce Erce Mother Earth *
!

May
The

the Almighty grant thee,

eternal Lord,

Acres waxing

With
The

sprouts wantoning,

Fertile, brisk creations,

rural crops,

And

the broad

Crops of barley And the white

Wheaten

crops

And

all

the

Crops of earth.

Grant the owner God Almighty

And

his hallows

In heaven who are. That his farm be fortified

Gainst
all fiends,
it

gainst each one,

And may
Which

be embattled round Gainst baleful blastings every one,

sorceries

may
all,

Through a land sow.

Now

I pray the wielder of

this

world of yore That there be none so cunning wife That there be none so crafty man Who shall render weak and null

Him, who made

Words

so deftly neatly said.

eojiJ>an is vocative.

Loquacious woman,

D D

40 4<

CHARMS.

)70iine

man

J?a

j'ulh

pop(5

bpiijre

anb
)7U

j^a

jzopman

fuph

onj'ceote.

Cpe^

J?oniie

hal

pef

polbe

ppa
jiobpe

mobop

beo

)7U

jpopenbe

on

jobes

jrsefjme

^epylleb pipum to nytte.

Nim

j7onne aelces cynnep

melo anb abacse

hlap
"j

man hme
J?a

In-

nepejibne

lianba

bpabnse

jecneb

mib
pop-

meolce

"j

mib halij
cpej>e

psetepe

*j

lecje

unbep

man

pupil

]7onne

pul

secep

pobpep
]78e]'

ppa cmne
habjan noJ:e

beopht blopenbe Jm

jebletj'ob

peop)?

man
bpiaj?

}e

^as

heopon jepceop
]'e

'j

Saj'

cop)7an

pe

on

pe

50b

J^aj'

jpunbaj-

jepophte

jeunne up

jpopenbe ppe
cpeS ponne
benebicti

'^

uy

copna

jehpylc

cume to nytte

111

Cpepcite
^ patep

In

nomine patpip

pit

Amen.

rip

);pipa.

CHARMS.

405
^

Then
first

let

one drive forward the plough

;

and cut the

furrow

then say,

Hail to thee, mother earth Mortals maintaining

;

Be growing and

fertile

By
Our
broad

the goodness of God,

folk to feed.

Filled with fodder

Then take meal

loaf,

of every kind

and

let

one bake a

two hands, and knead it with milk and with holy water, and lay Then say, it under the first furrow.
as big as will lie Avithin
his

Land filled with fodder Mankind to feed

Brightly blooming
Blessed become thou

For the holy name Of him who heaven

created,

And this earth On which we live, May the God who made

these grounds

Grant to us his growing grace, That to us of corn each kind May come to good.

Then say
thrice.

thrice, " Crescite, etc."

and the Paternoster

'

Sulh

is

feminine, ^|>elstans

Dooms,

xvi. p. 83

Edgars Laws,

i.

p. 111.

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