The Old English Herbals

by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Inc. “Mogworte or brotheworte ys clepid archemisia ... and this medicine ys a nobil medycyne.”

Ends, “Here endeth the third part of Macer. And here begynneth a fewe herbes which Macer foryete noȝt nor thei ben nort founden in his book.”

Addit. 37786 (II). British Museum.

15th century. The treatise of Macer intitled “De viribus Herbarum,” translated into English.

“Here followeth the cunnynge and sage clerk Macer tretynge and opynly shewy^th the vertuys worthy and Commendable propyrtes of many & dyuerse herbys and her vertuys of the whyche the firste is mugworte or modirworte.”

Sloane 393. British Museum.

15th century. The vertuys of Erbys aftyr Galyon Ypocras and Socrates.

Lansdowne 680 I. British Museum.

15th century. Here folwythe the vertu of Erbis. Isop is hoot and drie in ij degreis so seith Ipocrace if a man drynke it fastynge.

Ashmole 1477 (III-IV).