Signature p2v
Folio 51r, Quire p
British Library, London — C.60.o.12
LOW Unverified
Annotations
“cock”
minum.25
There is also a further indication that the annotator may have had some acquaintance with
Arabic. In a list of ‘celebrated simples’, Benedetto wrote the term ‘Alicababus’ above the
word ‘cachile’
Nelle fracture dil quale et lassate compacture il salsiphilo et littoreo Critani germinava, et in alcuni
lochi vidi il litorale Cachile, et molto Kali et lo odoroso Abscynthio marino, et per il Aggere
sabulaceo Irringi, et Portulaca, et Eruca marina, et assai altri celebri simplici. ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 131 (Ch. 6)