Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England - Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England 3 Volume Set, Volume 1
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	August 2012
Editors:	Thomas Oswald Cockayne
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	526
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-04307-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General
LSN:	1-108-04307-0
Barcode:	9781108043076

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