[2499] There are a large number in the MSS collections of the British Museum alone. Some said to be of the 12th century are Harleian 4346, and at Erfurt Amplon, Octavo 62a and 62b.
[2500] See the British Museum catalogue of printed books. I have used besides Choulant’s text of 1832 an illustrated octavo edition probably of 1489. The poem also appears in medical collections such as Medici antiqui omnes, Aldus, Venice, 1547, fols. 223-46.
[2501] Choulant (1832) Preface.
[2502] Choulant (1832) Prolegomena ad Macrum, p. 14.
[2503] See the description of Ligusticum, lines 900-6.
[2504] Often printed: ed. F. A. Reuss, Würzburg, 1834; in Migne PL 114, 1119-30.
[2505] H. Stadler, Die Quellen des Macer Floridus, in Sudhoff (1909).
[2506] Stadler, op. cit.; Choulant (1832), p. 4.
[2507] “Macer scripsit metrico stilo librum. de viribus herbarum,”—Stadler (1909), 65.
[2508] It was, however, a good deal subject to later interpolation.