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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    Attramentum.^, calcantum'^ idem, que- dem terra [est] in Gallia^ cuius due sunt species,] secundum quos- dam] viz. uilior species est attra- 5 mentum* [et] nobilior species est uitriolum, et dicitur a claritate uitria que in electioribus uenis inuenitur. Et quando attramentum per se po- nitur pro uiliori intelligitur. oAttropia% i. extenuacio, et interpre- tatur sine conuersione uel sine succo. Athenum uel attrana, uas alembico ualde simile. 5 Att[r]ocordines ® sunt species ueruca- rum, quales quidam medicorum poros nominant ut in Oribasio. Avencia^ pes leporis^ gariofilata sanamunda, zimis idem, g. et angl. auense-*^. [Aurinalencia^'^, orual, stedfast secun- dum quendam laicum.] Auricula muris, pilosella idem,parua habet folia et multa, aliquantulum piiosa. Gallice, pilousee, angl. moushere uel langbeue. [Respice in mirion.] Aurum [de] uena terre fit per decocti- onem. Auripi[g]mentum '^, due sunt species, I. idera est. 5. species est secundum quosdam atramentum. 6. uitrea. 13. attrenum uel atrena. 15. uerrucarum. 19. (o)zimus. 20. auence. 23. puerosella. 25. pelosee. 26. mousere. lagheue. * Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 32, 'Graeci cognationem seris nomine fecerunt et atramento sutorio, appellant enim chalcantlium.' Diosc. v. 114, xa^«a''^o''. ^ Sim. Jan. 'Item atramentum dicitur qutedam species uitrioli quam vulgo terram franciscam vocant.' * Bart. p. 12, 'Airame?itiim terra qusedam est cuius nobilior species est vitreolum.' See Skeafs Dict. sub copperas. ^ dTpofia, Sim. Jan. ' Atrqfia g. sine conversione, sicque vocatur extenuatio quse fit quando nutrimentum non convertitur in substantiam membrorum, quod et sinthosis dicitur. Theodorus suo ca. Item Cassius Felix ca. de egritudinibus stomachi.' The references are to Theodorus Priscianus, ii. 11, de syntexi {avvrrj^ii) vel atrophia, and Cassius Felix (ed. Rose) c. 42. * dKpoxopSovts. ' irSipos. The passage is mostlike Oribasius (ed. Daremberg), vi. 184, 185. ' Matth. Silv. c. xliv, 'Anantia, i. pes leporis, gariofilata, sana munda idem.' ' Perhaps the Xa-^wirovs of Diosc. iv. 17. Fuchs, H. S. p. 431, ' recentiores Latini caryophyllatam ab odoris suavitate, quam radices de se prsebent, nominant, vulgus herbam Benedictam a divina sua efficacia et sanamundam appellat.' Gerarde, p. 996, ' Avens is called Caryophyllata, so named of the smell of Cloves which is in the roots, and divers call it Sana-munda, Herba benedicta and Nardus Rustica . .. it is thought to be Geum Plinii.' Plin. Hist. Nat. xxvi. 21. Avens, Geum, Herba Bennet. Bart. p. 17, 'Crassula major, aurum valet, an. orpin.' Wright, Prov. Dict. gives, ' Orvale, the plant orpin.* ' Stedfast, the plant palma Christi.^ See post, Barba iouis. Bart. p. 12, 'Auriculus muris, pilocella idem. ib. p. 33,' Pelvette, mouser.' E. P.^N. p. 43, 'Pilosella, peluselle, mus-ere.' Fr. piloselle. '* Platearius, circ. Inst. c. iii, 'Aurum de uena terre fit per decoctionem.* Platearius, circ. Inst. c. xxvii, ' Due sunt species auripigmenti. Est enim rubeum et citrinum. Citrinum competit medicine.' Bart. p. 12, 'Auripigmenlum, orpiment, quando simpliciter de citrino intelligitur.' Cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxiii. 4. D [IV. 2.3