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PREFACE.
contain a problem, which, in our imperfect knowledge
of the works of the physicians of the lower empire, is,
it seems, beyond solution. If the prescription of celandine
for the eyes, Lb. I. ii. be supposed to have been
derived from Marcellus 272 g., then the other passages
cannot, as far as, after repeated examination I see, be
discovered in that author. A mark which comes near
to F. is set, in the MS., over against the words pi^
eajna mifre, fol. 10 b., line 3, and it does not occur
again ; compare Marcellus 272 b. It adds to the difficulty
of the investigation, that recipes became a tradition
passing from one author to another. A cypher
rather differing from H., which I will call h., occurs at
fol. 10 b. at the words 6j:t piS 'Son ilcan cele]onian
nearly the same on the same folio, towards the end, at
Gyt finolej'. That this prescription is found in Plinius
Valerianus does not help us. Another like a plummet
line, sometimes as in the facsimile, and at fol. 30 b.
for angnail, with a ring at top, sometimes with a cross
line, as at fol. 30 b., line 4. Tip nsejl fie, is so much
like that called I., that it may be meant for the same
name. There is another like F. reversed, occurring at
ol. 11 a. 6]:t pyj-laj', also at fol. 32 a., towards the
end of the leaf, J^onne Ipu j:yp, at fol. 55 b. as in the
facsimile, twice with a shght difference,
at fol 56 b. top
line, with another small variation, at fol. 57 b. at last
line but one ; at fol. 94 a., ejzt jenim ipiep leap ; at fol.
125 b., by the third line of chapter Ixiiii., with these
words, " quia omni potu et omni medicinfe maleficia-
" torum et demoniacoi-um a[d]miscenda est aqua bene-
" dicta, et psalmis et orationibus vacandum est, sicut
" in hoc capitulo plene docetur." At fol 31 b. by the
word eallunja is a mark with a blot, meant probably
for I. At fol. 55 h. jip ]7u pdle, at 55 b., as in facsimile,
at 56 a., chapter Ixxv. Ixxvi, is a sign like H.,
with legs of varied length, thus running into reversed
F. At folio 5G b., chapter Ixxxii,, is an orna-