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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest.
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ISBN: 1139168797 1108043070 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This three-volume work, published in 1864-6, was edited by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, 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.


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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest.
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ISBN: 1139168819 1108043097 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This three-volume work, published in 1864-6, was edited by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, a Cambridge graduate, much-published early member of the London Philological Society, & teacher of the philologists Walter Skeat & Henry Sweet. It is a collection of writings from pre-Conquest Britain on plants, medicine & the heavens, mostly in Old English with accompanying modern English translations. The preface of Volume 3 discusses questions including the identity of the Anglo-Saxon translator of Bede's De Temporibus & the similarities between Classical & medieval dream-interpretation & divination, & the Victorian penchant for spiritualism & astrology. The texts in this volume include remedies, charms & prayers for the sick, in Latin & Old English, lists of plant names, works on solar & lunar calendars & horoscopes, & explanations of the prophetic meaning of dreams.


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The book of quinte essence or The fifth being, that is to say, man's heaven
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Year: 1866 Publisher: London : Pub. for the Early English text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,

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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England
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ISBN: 9781139168816 9781108043090 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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