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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest
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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest. Collected and edited by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne ...
Published
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864-66.
Physical Description
3 v. (v. 1-2; ill. facsims.)
Notes
Anglo-Saxon texts with modern English translations.
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Language
Multiple languages; English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, or Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the middle ages. ; [no. 35]
Contents
v. 1. Preface. Herbarium of Apuleius. Continued from Dioskorides, etc. Medicina de quadrupedibus of Sextus Placitus; all from Brit. mus. ms. Cotton. Vitellius C. III. Leechdoms from fly leaves of mss. Charms (in part)
v. 2. Laece boc:Leech book, from Brit. mus. ms. Reg. 12. D. XVII. Glossary. Index of proper names.
v. 3. Recipes, from Brit. mus. Harl. 585. ... Of schools of medicine Harl. ms. 6258. Prognostics. Starcraft. Charms. Durham glossary of names of plants. Saxon names of plants. Glossary. Index. Names of persons. Historical fragments.
References
Morton, L.T. Morton's medical bibliography, 6534
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