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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873
Other Authors: Apuleius, Barbarus, Placitus, Sextus, Papyriensis, Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864-66.
Series:Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores ; no. 35.
Subjects:
Anglo-Saxons > Medicine.
Botany, Medical.
Learning and scholarship > England.
Botany > Pre-Linnean works.
Astronomy, Medieval.
Anglo-Saxons.
Learning and scholarship.
Botany.
England.
Early works.
Table of 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. Læce 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

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