CHAPTER II

LATER MANUSCRIPT HERBALS AND THE EARLY PRINTED HERBALS 42

Later manuscript herbals--Copies of Macer's herbal--Treatise on the virtues of rosemary sent by the Countess of Hainault to Queen Philippa of England--Bartholomæus Anglicus, _De Proprietatibus rerum_--Popularity of his writings--Characteristics of _De herbis_--Trevisa's translation--Bartholomæus on the rose, the violet, etc.--Fleeting pictures of mediæval life in _De herbis_--Feeding swine, making bread, building houses, making linen, life in the vineyards, woods, etc.--Wynken de Worde's poem at the end of his edition of _De Proprietatibus rerum_--_Banckes's Herbal_--Possible sources--Later editions--Rose recipes--Mediæval belief in wholesomeness of fragrant herbs--Descriptions of herbs in _Banckes's Herbal_--"The boke of secretes of Albartus Magnus"--Herb lore and magic--The _Grete Herball_--Its origin--Peter Treveris--Characteristics of this herbal--_The vertuose book of the Dystillacion of the Waters of all maner of Herbes_.