Alphita : a medico-botanical glossary from the Bodleian manuscript, Selden B.35 / edited by J.L.G. Mowat.

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1887
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    Mecon affiridis^ eradia'^ dicitur. Hastam habet duarum palmarum longam et folia minuta. Semen et omnis illa herba alba, radix tenuis. Stomachum purget uo- mitu. Melanteria' colligitur in speluncis ubi cravien * inuenitur. Bona est que colorem habet sulphuris, leuis et equalis et munda. Proiectoriam et strictoriam habet uirtutem. Medulla^ omnis [recens] sine sale moUitiue uirtutis est et mirifice. Mediousium aut basilion entati- cum locis asperis nascitur et um- brosis, hastam habet longam, flores maiores purpureos et obrotundos. semen minutum, radices longas, uirtus est redarguentis. Melee folia et cime amaram habent 20 quaUtatem et ideo lumbricos necant. [Melotida * appellatur lana que inue- nitur in coccis ^ illius piscis in quo sunt margaritse et hsec lana max- 25 ime cedat dolorem posita super aurem cum aHquo leviculo ut albumine oui. Melampolionrespice in elleborus niger. 3° Memitha i. celidonia agrestis, respice in celidonia. Memitha, i. uolubilis minor secundum Gerardum super Viaticum, capi- I. affrodes. 7. Malanteria. 9. sulphureum. 10. prolectoriam. 15. nascitur mediousum locis asperis. 17. purpureos maiores. 19. uirtutis. ' Diosc. iv. 67, ii.T]K(»v d<ppujSr]S, v-rrh Se tivwv 'HpdKXeta KKrjOtiaa, KavXhv exft <Jm9aixtaTov, k.t.\. * 'HpdK\tia. = Matth. Silv. c. dxxxvi, ' sed Dia. c. de melenteria dicit quod invenitur et super eramen ipsum coagulatur.' Diosc. v. 117, rrjs 8« fxtKavrripias ft p.iv tis Toh bpvfnaToiv .aTopiiois d<p' Siv hv ntTaXKtvO^ 6 x<iKk6s . . . Staftpei S avrrjs ^ etioxpovs, Ktia, oiiaKri, Kaeapd. * Eramen. ^ Diosc. ii. 95, /xue\ds. * Diosc. iv. 18, ixrjSiov <pvfTai iv naXiOKiois Tuvois Kai irtTp6jSiaiv . . . dver) vop^pvpotiSrj fitfdKa Koi irtpi(peprj, Kaprrbs fxiKpos. . . pi^a . .. arpvipvfj ytvofifvci). Matth. Silv. c. dxxxiv, ' Medion sive basilion encaticum, Plin. lib. xxvii, cap. xii.' See ante, Basilion Entaticum, ' Diosc. i. 159, p.riKtas rrdarjs to. <pvKKa Kat dver] Kal 01 ^KaoTol ajxKpovai. ^ Matth. Silv. c. dxlvii, ' Milotida est tenta cirurgicorum, Melotida grece.' ib. c. dxxxviii,' Melotida, grece, id est lana succida sordida a melotis quod sunt pelles ovium evulse.' Perhaps pir]KcoTTi: but there may be some confusion with pvTiKos, mytilus, the sea-miissel. ' Read cOHckis. 1 fjLtKaixrrdSiov, Diosc. iv. 149. Gerarde, ' Memitha Arabibus, id est Papaver Comutum.' Sim. Jan. ' Memithe .. . ex cuius succo syef memithe quod vocatur in li. de greco translato glautum.' Fabricius, Bibl. Grsec. xiii. p. 125, speaking of the Viaticum of Constantinus Africanus (see ante, Capsia), says, 'aliud Viaticum Parisiense, in quod Gerardi Cremonensis et Gordonii Montipedensis Commentarius MS. in Bibl. Menarsiana pag. 36.* Gerardus Cremonensis seems to have died in A. D. 1187, and must not be confounded with Gerardus Sablonela (cf. Boncompagni, Della Vita e delle Opere di Gherardo Cremonense, Roma 1851).