BY ELEANOUR SINCLAIR ROHDE AUTHOR OF “A GARDEN OF HERBS” Illustration of the “lilie” from the Saxon translation of the Herbarium of Apuleius Longmans, Green and Co. 1922 HERBS BEING DUG UP AND MADE INTO MEDICINES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A SAGE From a 12th century copy of the Herbarium of Apuleius , now in the Library of Eton College TO MY BROTHER “The Lely is an herbe wyth a whyte floure. And though the levys of the floure be whyte: yet wythin shyneth the lykenesse of golde.”— Bartholomæus Anglic

Manuscripts written in Latin after 1400 are not included in this List. 9th (?) century. Liber dialogorum Gregorii cum libro medicinali in duabus partibus quarum altera tractat de virtutibus herbarum et “Herbarium” vulgo dicitur altera de virtutibus lapidum. Hutton 76. Bodleian. (This is the translation of Gregory’s Dialogues made by Bishop Werefirth of Worcester. The MS. formerly belonged to Worcester Cathedral.) 10th century (Lacnunga). Liber medicinalis de virtutibus herbarum. Harleian 585. Br

(Printed books) The majority of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century gardening books devote considerable space to herbs. See especially:— 1563. Thomas Hill. The proffitable Arte of Gardening. 1594. Sir Hugh Platt. The Garden of Eden. 1617. Gervase Markham. The Country Housewife’s Garden. 1618. William Lawson. A new Orchard and Garden with the Country Housewife’s Garden....

(Printed books) This list includes only the chief works, and those which have some connection with the history of the herbal in England. With the exception of the Arbolayre , copies of all the incunabula herbals mentioned below are to be found in the British Museum. Copies in American libraries are noted in the list. Bartholomæus Anglicus. 1470. Bartholomæus Anglicus. Liber de proprietatibus rerum. Printed at Basle with the type used by both Richel and Wensler. 1470(?) Liber de proprietatibus re