[1577] The following citations will be to the edition of Lyons, 1510.
[1578] Handerson (1918), pp. 22-24.
[1579] For a treatment of him in English see H. P. Cholmeley, John of Gaddesden and the Rosa Medicinae, Oxford, 1912. The Rosa was printed at Pavia, 1492 (the John Crerar Library, Chicago, has a copy of this edition), and again in 1516 and 1595. Gordon’s Lilium was printed at Venice in 1496 (also in the John Crerar Library); it had previously been translated into French and Spanish. See HL. 25, 329ff. for Gordon’s life and other writings.
[1580] “Gordon’s work does not contain a single chapter on surgery proper,” Handerson (1918), 77.
[1581] Handerson (1918), p. 75.
[1582] Ibid., 76.
[1583] Compendium medicinae, fols. 119v. and 357r.
[1584] Possibly there is some connection between the 15 steps of this ladder of Hermes and the 15 fixed stars of first magnitude and the treatise ascribed to Enoch or Hermes on 15 stars, 15 herbs, and 15 stones.
[1585] fol. 287r.
[1586] Or Midsummer eve.