Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, Volume 1: Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest

This three-volume work, published in 1864–6, was edited by Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807–73), a Cambridge graduate, much-published early member of the London Philological Society, and teacher of the philologists Walter Skeat and Henry Sweet. It is a collection of writings from pre-Conquest Britain on...

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Other Authors: Cockayne, Thomas Oswald (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:Cambridge library collection. Rolls
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Summary:This three-volume work, published in 1864–6, was edited by Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807–73), a Cambridge graduate, much-published early member of the London Philological Society, and teacher of the philologists Walter Skeat and Henry Sweet. It is a collection of writings from pre-Conquest Britain on plants, medicine and the heavens, mostly in Old English with accompanying modern English translations. Volume 1 begins with a substantial preface outlining the Anglo-Saxon reception of Greek and Latin medical texts. The main work in this volume is an Old English version of the late Latin Herbarium formerly attributed to Apuleius, augmented by material deriving from Dioscorides' De Materia Medica. The volume concludes with an Old English translation of the fourth-century Roman physician Sextus Placitus' writings on animal-derived medicines, and some short medicinal recipes in Old English and Latin taken from the fly leaves of manuscripts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (526 pages)
ISBN:9781139168793
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139168793

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