_14th century._ ? Gardener. Of the virtues of the herb rosemary, etc.
In the Earl of Ashburnham's library at Ashburnham Place. 122 (2. II).
_14th century._ Diversitates herbarum omnium que ad medicinas pertinent.
(The above has fine pen-and-ink drawings of 68 English wild plants, with their names written in English. The MS. belonged to the Countess of Hainault, Philippa, Queen of England, and, lastly, to Mr. Pettiford.)
Dd. VI. 29. VII. University Library, Cambridge.
_14th (?) century._ List of herbs: English names also given.
198 (III). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
(The above once belonged to John Argenteux, Provost of King's.)
_14th (?) century._ A list of remedies with English equivalents and marginal additions in another hand.
200. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
_14th century._ [Recipes in Physicke] Glossary containing many herbs.
Pepys Library 1661. Magdalene College, Cambridge.
_14th century._ Here begynneth medecines gode for divers euelys on mennes bodys be callen erchebysschopes auicenna and ypocras Icoupon̄ (? cophon) _i. e._ de and on hole materie aȝen brouȝt and ferst of herbis.
Pepys Library 1661. Magdalene College, Cambridge.
(Various simples are described. After the "vertues of rose maryne" a series of sections in verse written as prose beginning "I wil ȝou tellyn by & bi as I fond wretyn in a book. Þat in borwyng I be took of a gret ladyes prest þat of gret name þe mest." The following sections are on centaurea, solsequium, celidonia, pipernella, materfemia, mortagon, pervinca, rosa, lilium, egrimonye. Ends "Oyle of mustard seed is good for ache and for litarge and it is mad on þe same maner.")
_Circ. 1400._ A treatise in rhyme on the virtues of herbs.
"Of erbs xxiiij I woll you tell by and by Als I fond wryten in a boke at I in boroyng toke Of a gret ladys preste of gret name she barest At Betony I wol begyn at many vertuos het within."
_14th century._ De virtutibus herbarum quarundam.
(On the medical uses of some herbs. Begins, "Bytayne and wormewode is gode for woundes.")
_14th (?) century._ List of names of herbs in Latin and English.
_1352._ De preperacione herbarum. A treatise on the medicinal qualities of and modes of preparing herbs, quoting Serapion. A short list giving first the Latin and then the Irish name, etc.