Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England Cockayne Paperback

Description: Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest A fascinating collection of texts, mostly in Old English with translations, revealing early medieval British understandings of medicine and astrology. Thomas Oswald Cockayne (Edited by) 9781108043076, Cambridge University Press Paperback, published 15 November 2012 526 pages 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.76 kg 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. Preface Herbarium of Apuleius Medicina de quadrupedibus Continued from Dioskorides, etc. Leechdoms from fly leaves of MSS. Charms (in part). Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]

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BIC Subject Area 1: British & Irish history [HBJD1]

Number of Pages: 526 Pages

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

Language: English

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Item Height: 229 mm

Subject: Science, History

Publication Year: 2012

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 760 g

Author: Thomas Oswald Cockayne

Item Width: 152 mm

Series: Cambridge Library Collection-Rolls

Format: Paperback