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” ‘d J - tiara qua mar/its ifiafvz zmimilium venemm relinqucntiamfeqauntar. A third; D 5 MM 0’ eqjtione Thefe dight books within thefe two laii centuries of years haue bin tran- ﬁzffé 31:: of Gieeke into Latine, and commented v on by diners, as flermolnm Barfmrzrr, Iaymm, Rug[[m5,Marcellm Virgiliur,c’y*e. But of theft: and the refhas they offer themlelues, 1 {ball fay fomewhat hereafter.There is alfo another Workewhich goes vnder his Harm?» ahd may W611 beihis. It is are; 3b7w'e451av,ﬂ'z)e defaczlepamézlzéugdiuided into two books, tran- ﬂated and conﬁrmed with the confent of other Greeke Phyﬁtions, by the great labor of 10 ,5.” (};,{g;’é4‘ne a Phyﬁtion of Aufpurge, who liued not to ﬁnifh !t)bu[ 1€fHff0 bf’ Perfe- ﬁedﬁud {Ci "gli,e€Mlr:(?’eL)i(:tifii:rI.aborious Caim Plz'm'aafe:zTmdus,who lined in the time ofgeiagiii and vvi s fufibcated by the fulphurious vapours that came from mount Vefu‘-" ’ fallin 1 at that tirne on ﬁl'€5I1C through oucrmuch curioﬁtie to fee and ﬁnde out the iélauusfe themgofa , ,0ch;;«,o too nigh,and this was Anna Dom. 79. He read and writ excee-_ ding mucli,tiioiri_:,h by thbe injury oftime we haue no more of his than 3: 7f_‘I’°kE: D 5 km‘? 7:): Mmm’:?,which alfo haue receiued fuch wounds,as haue med thc be S 1 10 OH! CH- ,;_~k_.,. and yet in my opinion in fome places require Medina mama. From the twelfth to this eiid of the twenty feuenth of thefe books he treats ofplantsmore from_what he found written in other Authors, than ffom 39)’ Cmaill k“°W1ed§ie of his Owe‘ m many Places folxowirie the method and giuing the words ofT/zcapbrajias, and in other places thofe of Dgaﬁgyiaigg though he neuer make mention of the -later of them; he alfo mentions and no ueftion fdllotved many other Authors,whofe writings are long ﬁnce periﬂied. Some- q' he is retry large and otherwhiles fo briefe, that {came any thing can from thence iﬁleiangastheredri From the: feuenteenth vnto the twenty feuenth he yariouﬂy handles them; what method you may quickly fee by his Elena/Jm contained in his bO0ke,b_ut in the twenty feuenth he handles thofe whereof he had made no,0r not lufficient mentiotnafter an alphabeticall order, beginning with u£t&zapzr,i/fg€r»¢ftW;/4/0€s0‘°F. [0 going on to the real. mutt not paﬂi: ouer in filence, neither need I long inliﬂ vpon Galen, Paulw .£gi_mzt4,' and ,1ctz‘m,for they haue only alphabetically named Elants and other ﬁmple medicines, briefly mentioning their temperature and fac_ulties,wi_thout deferiptions (‘fame very few, and thofe briefc ones excepted)and other things pertinent to their hiﬂorie. _ g The next that prefent themfelues are two counterfcits,who abufe the world vnder fei-

ned titles,and their names haue much more antiquitie than theworks themfelues. The ﬁrﬁ goes vnder the title ofwmilim Mater afamous Poet,or'

whom avid makes mention in thefe verfes:

Sxpefimr rziolucrer legit mi/Jignmdiar aw, ﬂirty; miter S eryemgme jzwat /Jerlzrr Maeer./i

F Pliny alfo makes mention of this Maren. He in his lfoetns imitated Ni 1,/Vorke that now is caried about vn-der his iiairieus written in a rude and fomwhat barba- rous ver{e,far different from the ﬂile ofthofe times wherein gjmrcr lined, and no way in the fubieC?t imitating Niczmder. It feemes to haue been written about 4,00 or 500 yeares

e. s i aggfhe other alfo is an vnknowne Author, towhom the Printers haue giueri the title of Apziléim Madam-on/is, and fome haue beene fo abfurdly hold of late, as to put it vnto the Works 0f.~*1f;g[ez";;; .- yet the vncurious {tile and method of the whole VV’orke will con-

uince them of erroriif there were no other argument.I haue feen lome foure Manufcripts of this Authonand heard of a fifth,and all of them fe

em robe of good antiquitie : the Fi- oures of them all for the moﬂ: part haue {ome refemblance each of other. The firﬂof zihefe I faw fome nine yeares agoe,with that worthy loner and l."rorer of Antiquitie,S' Ro- am Cattm-,it was in a faire Saxon hand,and as Irememberin the Saxon tongue,but what title it carried I at that time was not curious to obferue. I law alfo another after that, which fecmed to be of no _fmall iianding, but careleﬂy obferued not the title. But lines 1 beinginformed by my friend M“Gooa’yer (as

you may Hnde in the chapter of Saxifragc ofthe Antien ts) that his Manufcripijiwhich

. was very antient,acknowledged no {uch Au- zhor as Ayialeimgl begun a little to examine fome other Manufc

_ riptssfo I procured avery faire one of my much honored friend 3*‘ ‘T/Jwd. Mayrra : In the very beginning of this is writ, 172 bar raarizrczztar liérz qzmtaar medicine Tporrarn, Plzztnmr i/Iyoolicnﬁs wéis dc dzwerﬁ: Iierérk 5Se,~t-z‘z‘1’zi11>z'rz‘]2l¢zcz'ti ex Amm4lzz5m,d~c. A little after in the fame page at the begin-

ning ofa table which is of the Vertuesy, are thefe words 5 Iaprimo lzérofunt /ieréiz defcriprie,

gm:

amder 5 but this

ii“i:iii:7i;ewt/ire ‘Re;/oz;e~r.i

liiizzlienﬁr Plate a.’cfEripfit,c§“6. and thus alfo he is named in them“ WWW“-M

Proem ; but the end of the work is E.vp/mt /rm Platqna de lverlzzr in all things agrees that of M‘ G'oaa’yrr,as he hath aiilrmed to in one with M‘ 10/22; ‘I‘rizc!uj2‘4m3w.rhich w one may coietfmre by the title.,which is thus at the ver txjjzzr lJ6i‘§0?';z/iii??? Epzrlci Pliztoms qzraa’ ./u"L‘€’])£'! .1 Scalar]; iowes (as aifb in the former and in the Muﬁiﬁc /Jcriia Bcznm'ca.After By this it fa

10,9. thi

amongit {oi ofmany l\/‘lanufcri out can Fe. A

8 Commentv

the W

6 ion

ng not

in very many places

351'} ;_ {OF

mcng

.41!

fi them : and then al ﬁfade the tranfcribers wh aiwaies written Amara: Eyrzzmnic4,the one hath U5. The othe

Iconjeéture the G

_ ‘Md Eheone hath it thus,

W 0ther,Nomcn beréie Iéifmr Omaeor M0[0€bC)é"[. If it

5 in his Lexicon Gcagmp/Jz'ctz«m,That the City Ap ,-of which I can find no‘ mention n it is more than probable that t

afﬁrnic

found Apaliezaﬂsrvrér idler beﬁdes 5 and the may bee thought dine YOU {hall ﬁnde in fo 60o yeares ago.

From the Antients h ule or later times haue had of Plants 3 and al

the books offuch as haue writ ofth e carelefnes ofthe mi

ed out ofthefe Antients,

uffed th

1? ing gain, anttent

eth . name_

moft of

"ﬁve:

Oi‘Ga/en)

general leﬂaand Hide 0

S themfelues : {O that when as l men began tobe loin‘

Authors they 11

But to return to my

th (0

1,

fthe Arabrianswhic

ems the Author of this W

hings

and many ofthern p‘ are only named in Greek, as Hz"ero!mléw,.4r*

iemz:/in Laptop/.2y//0r,and Aﬁezni/1}: t.4ga72tr:,Bz¢rr4- ‘,G’Vr_ymr, (which I iudge rather Greeket

rently tranﬂated

ddlc times it

efe works’ were bythetn ,as they added fornwiiat

t I ofementionedbytheG -EYWH

EIIIIOII

as written ina more ignor

printed bookes) the tra that are thefe words,Lr’i5er me;/z'cza,e Pl, orke either was named, or without example in ti1«;fetimes.This worke was ﬁrﬁ printe ire other works ofpiiylickez and one Aléamrr ’I‘orz'2ms fe

pts,ofwhol‘e imperletCti.ons lie much complains itcr this,G'4érz'r[ Hzlriicl/2érgz'a.r of pan it,who alfo complaines oft orke not perfeét. Indeed both t elp ofthefe Manuferipts I haue feene the their labour) in fome t much tnaruell at middle times,as P[zztezzrimr,Bzzrt/5' Originally written fuch plenty,‘

d at Balil, i 5283. t it forth by the helpe

, and I think not with- Rauenlpurge in Germany let it Forth with he irnperfeﬁrions ofhis copies,and thinkes

he editions are fault in man laces - and b the Y Y P ,

y might be mended (ifany thought it worth ,asl obferued in curforil

,which is,’fhat I ﬁnde not this Aut

y looking ouer them. One thing I hot mentioned in any Vvriter of the

orfoiimw ﬂ72glm,é°c. Now Ieoiijeéttrre this Vvorke was .in (3reeke,for tliefe rea10‘ns;ﬁrﬁ,becaL'i{i: it hath the Greeke names in l'OpCl.‘,ﬁgll1ﬁCaDt, and in the Hill: place.

Secondly, fome

han Latine) 8.4:. Bcﬁdes, in both rhewritten

git the names I ﬁnde this word 0m2z‘er,but diuerﬂy writ-

reeke names were written in the Greeke charaéter, and 5,441.; a-

Nomcn /Bzrjm /aeré

aue fprung all or the gr‘eaterLi part

neuerend

Authors .

y were writte-

aiph

abians that wen hhath come torv

fo when the ref} of the Wotke was tranﬂated,which afterwards

o vnderﬂzood it not to write it variouﬂy,for in the one book it is ,and in the other,0moea':,an'd foineti it thus. N omen /9676.: i_/fins Britaﬂim = r thus,Namm I've;-he Brzfztamc

mes omm,as in the chapter of , .4mm dmmt etim 1) amaﬁﬂium,’

a,0meor Damn/mz'm,¢/ya. And in the chapter of

is Alter: Amara} rvacam /mm her6amMo!oc'/J'e,&c‘.

be certain which Pbilzp Ferrziriwr oley is Conftantiiiopleﬁien haue in any antient or modern Geogra-V his was written in Greeke-, and it

,which occaﬁons fuch diuetﬁtie in the Copics,as the places. Now I con jei‘?ture this VV

Orkc was written about forne

ofrhe knowledge that the mid- ! the eoiirrrrircyriies that of late time haue fo

is f_ui2iei:;‘.é,liad the‘ ' beginniiig by reafon that as fucii,tliat they knew little but what they tranlcri, eauoring to acquire any perr”e6?t lznowledge of the earning (after a long winter) what more curious,and by the notes and aue labored to reftore this lot ‘' er it were knownc by 'r“£'eii1z>i’;ri'/zji‘

began to fpring vp a- defcriprions in thefe iinotvledge,inaking in.quiri'e,firf’c,

:r:',Di4§;’Z‘oria‘€*5,0r any of the Antients,then"by what

ﬁr out A22.Dom.r roo,or a little after lined the Arabia’- in ‘rind Serapiogmoﬂ Ofthefe 's‘.-Tit“. but brie C rabicke wherein the

its .»frz2i’c‘c;a,rI'i'/crriiacr,Mefué,R/5.z-

ﬂy of this .‘irl)ie.5t,ti«3itlier hauc we their Works n, butbai'baro:.t£l_y tranilated into Latine, and taken out ofthe Greeks,el‘pecially D.»oﬁorz'de: and G4-

oftheit own,and otherwhilcs confounded other things i } reeks,hecaiife they t. Awcen, Aazerrhoegand Iii/Evzﬂs

Se” l_0 giue the names,temperatute, I’ after a particular Tta

comes to treat of th Pdﬂluxnand diners Ar

did not well know the things whereof abetical iy and brieﬂy(following the method

and verrues of the chiefe it 1": tn ple medicines. But (St ofthe Temperature

em in particulaiyand therein 1

and Qualitiiesofﬁmple medicines in ollowes chiefly Diqfcoride:,G4- t before him. This is the chiefe work in this s zhe liimfelfe tells vs his method in his pre-

face,‘

title of the Epiitle or mafcz;lz'nz35,(§“5.V'VitI1 this ’ e. Beﬁdes thefe , I found ant and barbarous timeﬁas y beginning 5 In aomzne domiai za- iojér C/iiroaze Cemauro rm-zgzﬂrzl . Then fol~ Brat afcribed to <.,/Jizfoiriw itomk /Jcrbizticznc explicit, elfe called him{elfP[4~

The Aiabiuri

Aaiceno _ ,4 uerrbmc’

Rlmfzk. , scrapie;