Certain miscellany tracts written by Thomas Brown.

1. Rare and generally unknown Books.

1. A Poem of Ovidius Naso, written in the Getick Language; during his exile at Tomos, found wrapt up in Wax at Sabaria, on the Frontiers of Hungary,

where there remains a tradition that he died, in his return towards Rome from Tomos, either after his pardon or the death of Augustus.

2. The Letter of Quintus Cicero, which he wrote in answer to that of his Brother Marcus Tullius, desiring of him an account of Britany, wherein are described the Coun∣try, State and Manners of the Britains of that Age.

3. An Ancient British Herbal, or de∣scription of divers Plants of this Island, ob∣served by that famous Physician Scribonius Largus, when he attended the Emperour Claudius in his Expedition into Britany.

4. An exact account of the Life and Death of Avicenna confirming the account of his Death by taking nine Clysters toge∣ther in a fit of the Colick; and not as Marius the Italian Poet delivereth, by be∣ing broken-upon the Wheel; left with o∣ther Pieces by Benjamin Tudelensis, as he travelled from Saragossa to Jerusalem, in the hands of Abraham Jarchi, a famous Rabbi of Lunet near Montpelier, and found in a Vault when the Walls of that City were demolished by Lewis the Thirteenth.

5. A punctual relation of Hannibal's march out of Spain into Italy, and far more particular than that of Livy, where about he passed the River Rhodanus or Rhosne; at what place he crossed the Isura or L'ise∣re; when he marched up toward the con∣fluence of the Sone and the Rhone, or the place where the City Lyons was afterward built; how wisely he decided the diffe∣rence between King Brancus and his Bro∣ther, at what place he passed the Alpes, what Vinegar he used, and where he obtai∣ned such quantity to break and calcine the Rocks made hot with Fire.

6. A learned Comment upon the Perip∣lus of Hanno the Carthaginian, or his Na∣vigation upon the Western Coast of Afri∣ca, with the several places he landed at; what Colonies he settled, what Ships were scattered from his Fleet near the Aequinoc∣tial Line, which were not afterward heard of, and which probably fell into the Trade Winds, and were carried over into the Coast of America.

7. A particular Narration of that fa∣mous Expedition of the English into Barba∣ry in the ninety fourth year of the Hegira, so shortly touched by Leo Africanus, whi∣ther

called by the Goths they besieged, took and burnt the City of Arzilla posses∣sed by the Mahometans, and lately the seat of Gayland; with many other exploits delivered at large in Arabick, lost in the Ship of Books and Rarities which the King of Spain took from Siddy Hamet King of Fez, whereof a great part were carried in∣to the Escurial, and conceived to be ga∣thered out of the relations of Hibnu Na∣chu, the best Historian of the African Af∣fairs.

8. A Fragment of Pythaeas that ancient Traveller of Marseille; which we suspect not to be spurious, because, in the descrip∣tion of the Northern Countries, we find that passage of Pythaeas mentioned by Stra∣bo, that all the Air beyond Thule is thick, condensed and gellied, looking just like Sea Lungs.

9. A Sub Marine Herbal, describing the several Vegetables found on the Rocks, Hills, Valleys, Meadows at the bottom of the Sea, with many sorts of Aiga, Fucus, Quercus, Polygonum, Gramens and others not yet described.

10. Some Manuscripts and Rarities brought from the Libraries of Aethiopia,

by Zaga Zaba, and afterward transported to Rome, and scattered by the Souldiers of the Duke of Bourbon, when they barbarous∣ly sacked that City.

11. Some Pieces of Julius Scaliger, which he complains to have been stoln from him, sold to the Bishop of Mende in Languedock, and afterward taken away and sold in the Civil Wars under the Duke of Rohan.

12. A Comment of Dioscorides upon Hyppocrates, procured from Constantinople by Amatus Lusitanus, and left in the hands of a Jew of Ragusa.

13. Marcus Tullius Cicero his Geogra∣phy; as also a part of that magnified Piece of his De Republica, very little answering the great expectation of it, and short of Pieces under the same name by Bodinus and Tholosanus.

14. King Mithridates his Oneirocritica. Aristotle de Precationibus.

Democritus de his quae fiunt apud Or∣cum, & Oceani circumnavigatio.

Epicurus de Pietate.

A Tragedy of Thyestes, and another of Medea, writ by Diogenes the Cynick.

King Alfred upon Aristotle de Plantis.

Seneca's Epistles to S. Paul.

King Solomon de Umbris Idaearum, which Chicus Asculanus, in his Comment upon Johannes de Sacrobosco, would make us believe he saw in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria.

15. Artemidori Oneirocritici Geogra∣phia.

Pythagoras de Mari Rubro.

The Works of Confutius the famous Philosopher of China, translated into Spa∣nish.

16. Josephus in Hebrew, written by himself.

17. The Commentaries of Sylla the Dictatour.

18. A Commentary of Galen upon the Plague of Athens described by Thucydides.

19. Duo Caesaris Anti-Catones, or the two notable Books writ by Julius Caesar against Cato; mentioned by Livy, Salustius and Juvenal; which the Cardinal of Liege told Ludovicus Vives were in an old Li∣brary of that City.

Mazhapha Einok, or, the Prophecy of Enoch, which Aegidius Lochiensis, a lear∣ned Eastern Traveller, told Peireschius that he had found in an old Library at Alexandria containing eight thousand Vo∣lumes.

20. A Collection of Hebrew Epistles, which passed between the two learned Women of our age Maria Molinea of Se∣dan, and Maria Schurman of Utrecht.

A wondrous Collection of some Wri∣tings of Ludovica Saracenica, Daughter of Philibertus Saracenicus a Physician of Ly∣ons, who at eight years of age had made a good progress in the Hebrew, Greek and Latin Tongues.

Notes

• Ah pudet & scripsi Getico ser∣mone Li∣bellum.