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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.

Medicine, Medieval --- Anglo-Saxons --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon --- Medicine. --- Sources. --- Anglo-Saxon civilization --- Medicine, Anglo-Saxon --- Medieval medicine --- Civilization