The Old English Herbals Part 24

_Inc._ "Water of wormode is G.o.de ... grete lordes among the Saracens usen to drink hitt."

Addit. 37786 (I). British Museum.

_15th century._ Of the Herb Moon-wort.

_Inc._ "I schal you tel of an Erbe at men cal Lunarie, He ys clepit Asterion; wych ys an Erbe at men calleth Lunarie."

Harleian 2407 (IX). British Museum.

 

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

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

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

_15th century._ Miscellaneous recipes and extracts from herbals.

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

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

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

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

Sloane 67 (II). British Museum.

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

Begins, "Carabana id est wylde hempe."

Sloane 297 (I). British Museum.

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

Sloane 965 (VII). British Museum.

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

Bodley 463 (B. iii).

_15th century._ Liber de herbarum virtutibus.

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

Laud Misc. 553 (II). Bodleian.

_15th century._ Vertues of Herbes.

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

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

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

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

Ashmole 141 B (II. v).

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

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

Ashmole 1481 (II. iii). Oxford.

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

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

Ashmole 1489 (II. ii).

_15th century._ Alphabetical Herbary.

_Inc._ "Agrymonia is an herbe."

Bodley 463 (B. ii).

_Late 15th century._ Virtues of herbs.

_Inc._ "Here a man maye see."

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

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

Jesus College, Oxford.

_15th century._ Names of herbs.

(Given by Humphrey Moseley, 1649).

69. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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

(Given by W. Moore.)

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