Pseudo-Apuleius
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Pseudo-Apuleius refers to the author of a Herbarium
Herbarium Apuleii Platonici
Herbarium Apuleii Platonici depicts 131 plants with their synonymy and instructions for their use in medicines and was first published in 1481 at Monte Cassino near Rome by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, a Sicilian courtier and physician to Pope Sixtus IV...

or De herbarum virtutibus
Herbarium Apuleii Platonici
Herbarium Apuleii Platonici depicts 131 plants with their synonymy and instructions for their use in medicines and was first published in 1481 at Monte Cassino near Rome by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, a Sicilian courtier and physician to Pope Sixtus IV...

, also referred as Herbarium Apuleii Platonici
Herbarium Apuleii Platonici
Herbarium Apuleii Platonici depicts 131 plants with their synonymy and instructions for their use in medicines and was first published in 1481 at Monte Cassino near Rome by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, a Sicilian courtier and physician to Pope Sixtus IV...

; it is a medical herbal of the 5th century.
A 10th century manuscript
Manuscript
A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the work is in the Musee Meermanno Westreenianum, The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

 http://collecties.meermanno.nl/handschriften/showmanu?id=1524&page=0&page_size=40.

There are two 11th century versions of the herbal (in colour) at Oxford University:
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