Harley MS 2378, ff 12r-14r

Text on seven herbs and seven planets. The text describes the therapeutic properties of the seven planets. In the manuscript tradition it was ascribed to Alexius Affricus, Flaccus Africanus or to the tradition of the Liber Kyranidarum Kyrani. Incipit 'Solsequium herba est omnibus nota collige ergo huius herbe flores', explicit: 'nulli reueles est vir sotil wil were he þat had him in hande, Explicit / salgia'.

Other copies (ascribed to Flaccus Africanus) in Sloane MS 73 (ff. 4r-7r), Sloane MS 75 (ff. 131r-132r), Sloane MS 1754 (ff. 45v-57r) and Sloane MS 3992 (ff. 2r-9r). For the text see L. Delatte, Textes latins et vieux français relatifs aux Cyranides, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, 93(Liège, 1942), pp. 213-33; L. Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, 3 vols (New York, 1923), II, p. 233 and n. 3; D. W. Singer, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland, dating from before the XVI Century, 3 vols (Brussels, 1931), pp. 769-771; F. J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation (Berkeley, 1956), p. 57, 7.8a.