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Wﬁéawhicli is (when he comes to particulars) ﬁrilr of medicines temperat,rhcn of thofe that are hot and dry in the ﬁrﬁ degree,then thofe cold and dry in the fame degree; after that,thofe hot and dry in the fecond degree,8zc. and in each of thefe traits he followeth the order of the Arabick Alphabet. _ —

In or after the times of the Arabians,vntill about the yere 140 o,thei-e were druers ob» fcure and barbarous writers,who by ﬁght knew little whereof they writ,but tooke out of the Greeks,Arabians,and one another, all that they writ, giuing eornmonly rude ﬁgures, feldorne fetting down any defcriptions. I will only name the chiefe of them that I haue feemarrd as neere as I can gue{l‘e,in that order that one ofthern fucceeded anothenfor the particular times oftheir lining is fomewhat difﬁcult to be round out. Que ofthe antien~ ref‘: of them feerris to be L ﬁdore: then P[r1t€tt7‘iu4,Wl10fC work is alphabetical, and inrituled

§§lf£’f§i~ai. Circa i7’lﬂ477J‘.TilC next Matthew Sylrvaticragwho flourifhed about the yeare r 3 I 9.his work

BMW, AM, is called .P.¢ma’cﬁis.A little after him was Bart/zolomaar Angles, whofe Works (as thatof

If)d07c,and moﬂ of the reflrofthofe times) treat ofdiuers other things beﬁdes Plants,as Beaf’gs,Birds,Fi(lies,8(c. His worke 15 called De proprzetméar remm .- the Authors name was Bzirrlmlmew Gl472w‘[Z,whowas defcended of the noble family of the Earles of Suffolk, and he writ this Work in Ea/w. the thirds time,about A7n.Dam.139 7. After all rh.efe',and Har.tasj”a2rZt4f- much like rherri,is the Horrusﬂraitirtmwhofe Author I know not. But to leaue thefe oh- {cure men and their wiitings,letme reckon fome of later time,who with much more lear- ning and iudgement haue endeauored to illulirate this part of l_3liyﬁr:ke. About forne 2 oo years ago learning again beginning to ﬂOul'1fli,dlu€l”S began to leaue and loath the confu fed and barbarous writings oithe middle times,and to haue recourfe to the yAntien-ts , from whence together with puritie of Language they might ac uire a more certain knowledge of the things treated .of,whrch was wanting in the other. One of _,,,, the ﬁrﬂ: that tooke pains in this kinde was Ilermolaur Barézirar Patriarch of Aquileia,who m'"''’!' B“ ' not on/ely tranﬂated Diofcar/a'es,btit_writa Commentary vpon him in fine bookes, which

he calls his Corallmam. In this Work he hath ﬂiewed him felfe bothiuditious and lear- ned., ‘

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Mert.Virg.- r Afterhirn Mme/as» Virgiiiu: Secretary to the State of FIorence,a man of no leife lear-

ning and iudgement than the former, fet forth Dz" Comment vponhim. _

W m,,,-,,,, Much about their time alfo Ialm Raeii’ias a Frencli phyﬁtian,who ﬂourifhed in the yere 7 r48o,tran{lared Diiifrnfzder into Latiiie,whofe tranflation hath bin the moth followed of all the refi. Moreouer,lie fet forth a large VVorke,D.e mzmm Sttr]>zum._,dlllldEd into three bookes,whei'ein he hath accuratly gathered all things out of fundry Writers, the Greeks and Latines : for ﬁrli: hauing(after the to . mmmog precepts and adtrefrtilfementipertrelrrning to and other fuch accidents 0 Pants , ee t en com

I-species. Much about this time the Germanes be

ofcoridc: in Greeke and Latiiie, with a

efpecially aner ofTbeopbrajZm)deliuered fome the forum, life,generation,ordering, es to the particular handling of each

_ gan tobeautiﬁe this its neceffarie part of Phy; also rm/tr. ﬁckc 3 and amongll them who Eranjelﬁm a phyﬁtian of good account, writ of Plants,-and

was the ﬁrlt that gaue the liiiely ﬁgures of them ;but he treated not in all of aboue 2 88 plants.He commonly obferues this method in his particular chaptersﬁril the ﬁgure(yet he giues not the ﬁgures of all he_writ_es of) then the Greeke,Latine,and German names; after that,the defcription and hifiorie out of moit former AlJEi]Oi'S5th€lI the temperature and vertues 3 and lalily the Authors names that had treated of them. His \/Vorke is in thrice parts or Tomes, the ﬁrﬁ was printed in Ariz.153o. the fecoiid in 1531, and the third in 135 26. ‘

Next after him was E1z’era2rymas Tragm, a learned ingenious and hotieﬂ: writer,who fet forth his works in the German tongue, which were afterwards tranllated into Latine by .Daaz‘dKz'éer., He treats of molt of the Plants commonly growing in Germany, and I can oblerue no general! method he keeps,but his particular one is commonly thisrhe ﬁrﬂ: gi- ueth the ﬁgure with the Latine Schigh Dutch name;then commonly a good defcriptions after that,the names,then the temperature,and laftly the vertues, ﬁrlt inw.:irdly,then out- wardlyvfed.He hath figured fome 5§7,and defcribed fome 800. his ﬁgures are g0od,and fo are mofi ofthe reﬂ that follow.His works were fet forth in Latine,A:r. 15 52 .

In his time liued Lermbartas Facbfim a German Phyﬁtian,being alfo a learned and di- “m”E"”' W," ligent writenbut he hath taken many of his clefcriptions as a

_ lfo vertues word for word out of [ha Amierm-,;ind to them hath put ﬁgureszhis generald

_ method is after the Greek Al- phabet,and_ his particuiar one thus: Fir{t,the names in Greeke and'I.atine, together oft-

timer.

gzirrazrffragur.

To t/9(_,»’if&‘Jd;’/1'62"’;

times with their etymologies,as al fo the German and French names,‘then the kind_s,afrer that the form,the place, time, temperature, then the vertues 5 ﬁrﬁ out of the Antients,as .Diaﬁoride:,Ga1m,Plirzy,(&°c.and fometimes from the late ‘writers,wh'o;"rri hedoth not. pmi: eularile,but exprelfes in generall,c:c recenrioriém. His V,Vorke was fetforth at Balfil,r'5,4.2L in F0l.C0ntaining 5 16-ﬁgures ; alfo they were fer forth in 05747/0, the hiilzorie ﬁrP;_, with, al the ﬁgures by themfelues together at theend,wi.th the Latine and high Dutch names; About this time and a little after ﬂouri1"hed‘Czmmc{r’ G

who let forth diuers things oftliis nature,but'y

'\r'Vork ofplantsnvhich he for many yeres in'tended,and about which heha'd'ta‘ken a great deale ofpains,as may be gathered by his Epiftles. He was a very learned,painiull,honcfi, and iuditious \vritcr,as may appeare by his many 8: great works,whereof thofe ofPlarrts' was ﬁrﬁ a briefe alphabetical}. hiilory of plants witliout ﬁgures,gathered out of D'ioy’iw'i~ “"537550}?/3raﬂzar,Plmy,rér'r.w ith the vertues brie ﬂy,and for the molt part taken out of Pars- lib’ e£g;imta,v.rith their names in Greek and French put in the margent. This was printed

at Venice, 1 ;4r,iri ‘a {mail form. He fet forth a catalogue ofplants in Latine,Greek,high I) utch and Frericliprinted at Zurich, 1542 . Alfo another traift De Lemmy: ér 710c7alrrc€;z}- U5/:/: mm mrmtzk ﬁ‘z.c?r',/,1‘

or P,’ [Ari Lrrammtam dcfrriptior7c,Amr. 1 552 . in quarto, He alfo {en forth the foure books ofI’4i’cria.r Cort/m (who died in his time);ind his Sylv.roé_/erwrionam 1n_Strausburgh, 156:, in fol . and to thefe he added a Catalogue of the Germane ardens, with an appendix and Cm/Imam to Cordar his hiliory. Alfo another treatife Ofhis,a'eﬂiI‘- pram ca./led?/o;¢e,was fer forth at Zurich by Wolp/2mr,A7z. I 5 87,in 0c2‘a=vo.

At the fame time liued xldmz Loﬁicerus a phyﬁtian of Frankford,wh(;fe naturalh iﬁory L‘"‘7“”""‘n was there printed,/122.1551. and the ﬁrﬂ part thereof is of plants,and foure years after he added anothe rpart theretqtrearingalfo ofplants. I ﬁnd no general method obferued by

Im,-but his particular methodvfually is this ; ﬁril he glues the figure,then the names in atine and Dutch,then the temperature,&c.as in T ragar, from whom and Com/as he bor- rowes the moft part ofh oridifrom lltattb. 8: Amer Laﬁriums.

et liued not to ﬁnifh thegreat and general ’”"‘

_ .. is ﬁrii t0me,as he doth the fee it his time the I talia

_ n phyﬁrian Perm: Andrea: Mattbiolrir fer forth his Commentaries 1’?.“”"’°W"7“’ii 1‘/pon Dzofcoria’e:,ﬁrﬂ: in

_ Latine -{I1 Latine at Venice,with the in qu_arto,wi-th 921 fmaller Ii l_‘3_‘h 111 them deliuered the li 19 lufﬁly reprehended by tom

,with 9;7 large and very faire ﬁgures, and then afterwards ma’/M“ fame ﬁgures,An. r 5 68. After this he fer forth his epitome gures. Now thefe his Conimentariesare very large,and hee iftory of many plants not mentioned by Diofcoride: ; but he _ e,for that he euery where taxes 8; notes other writersgwhen ﬁamtr§Ef)elfe_runs into many errors, 8: fome of them wilfiill ones;as when he giues ﬁgures C_ ‘ y his Own fancie, as that of Drzrcontzrmz mayar,Rbzil3aréara‘m,&«c.and falliﬁed other fonie in part,the better to make them agree with Dzafcor.his defci-iption,as when hee pi. (lures 4’50’1t¢_6t':e with prickles, and giues it for the true Amie :—-and hee oft times glues‘ 1;:/C’ ﬁgulres without defcription of his_owne,but faith it is that deferibed by 1_)z'o[barz'_der, hivn;r5I2;els;r4énl;:r1ttéu5 mom, for which the Authors of the Aclvcrfarza much declairn againﬂ: d -_ _.a ‘ .1D ﬁt for him,or any one thattakes fuch a worl-:.e in hand,to haue {hewed by c cribing the plant he giues,and conferring it with the defcription ofhis Authounthat ‘I39’? 15 not any one note wanting in the defcription, vertues, or other particulars which

:18 Author fets down 3 and if he can ihew that his is fuch, then will the contrary opini- DS ofall others {all ofthernfelues,and need. no confutation.

a l._/Imtflti Li‘/lﬂZdﬂtt.€ alfo about the fame time fer forth Commentaries vpori Diofcomler, Aararwtrjirrg

mg the trainee in diners languiiges,but without ﬁgures,at Strausburgh, /Ism.1554,in""“- pO‘;(")’(:9. He.diff'eir_ted from Mzzrtlziolas in many things,wli_ereupon <,Ma_r:bm'zrr Wrlttll/I, 4“ btatevﬁgalﬂgﬁ him.He hath performed no great matter in his enarratrons vpon Dzoyciirz-_ Mt-b Co as atfiaurhor of the honeﬁy Of(.3{‘zltt/1102145 3 for asthe one deceiued the‘./V/0Ild\ im 0 d unte_r eit ﬁgures, fo the other by feined cures to Prrengthen his opinion , A as Cram’

eff of his Curmoim Msrlzczmlrr (another ‘Norke of his) which he Ihlﬂk€Sf0tlfi5ﬁ¢7£ qﬂamﬁgl; (vr§‘;”(’)5f9;)I‘l#té!sn1t':ad'o7I7;zIett:,f2;Iahyﬁtian bornat Mecliliii in Brabant, about this time beganto ,“,,,;,;;;.,,r,,,i,;‘- French wit { . eded_ r_ fer forth an hillory in.Dutch,which by Cluﬁur was turned into ﬁg, by’Mr. Hw°m]‘: 3 ( 1FlODs,v4(¢- I_56.o.i Andﬂthls was tranilated out of F_rench_into Eng— primed ry yie,-and fet forth with ﬁgures, Amavam. 1378. and diners times ﬁnce

lﬂoria £3‘ ﬁgures. In the yeare 15 5' 2, Dodbmezrr fet forth in Latin: his Fragzms > Wlt nn a while a’fter,his

wards h _ Flaram, pI1rgzzr7t‘irmz,(§“ delcteriorum bijfloriaf. And after- imo E put them all together,his former and thofe his later Works,and dluided them ‘ 3° °°k‘5»3‘ﬂd‘ fer them forth with I go 34 ﬁgures,in fol. A!‘/4”. I 5 83 . This edition was

alfo

c[irer,a Gerrnane phyﬁtiari alfo, Cqfmde Gs?