LISTER : HERBALS AND ANCIENT BOOKS ON BOTANY. 291
Panckow's Herbal,
"Thomae Pancovii, D. Serenissimi et potentissimi Elector
Brandenburg Aulae Medici. Herbarium Portatilc, oder
Krauter- und Bewachs-Buch . . . verbessert Durch
Bartholomaeum Zornn, Philos. & Medic. D. & Practicum. Leip-
zig. Bei Christian Kirchnern zu linden. 1679.
Small 4to.
The first edition of this book was published in Berlin, 1654.
The present edition contains 1,536 figures, four arranged on
each page, depicting fungi, seaweeds, mosses, lichens, flowering-
plants, seeds and spices : the second part consists of descrip-
tions of the plants illustrated, taken in the alphabetical order
of their Latin names.
[Lent by Miss Willmott]
"A Book of Simples."
8vo.
Published by Sampson Low & Co., London, 1908. Edited
by H. W. Lewer, F.S.A., who states in the introduction :—
"The original of this little book was found in the library of a
distinguished Essex antiquary ; the document has unfortunately
no history, but from its appearance and comprehensive character
it must have been the still-room book of some manor house.
The manuscript is a folio, composed entirely of vellum. . . the
book has been submitted to experts, who are of opinion that
it covers a period of some fifty years, terminating about the
middle of the eighteenth century."
We have here a compilation of many interesting old recipes
for table delicacies, as well as for household medicines.
[Lent by Mr. Percy Thompson]