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 / collected and edited by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne.

Date:
1864-1866
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Publication/Creation

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864-1866.

Physical description

3 volumes : frontispiece (volumes 1-2: folded facsimiles) ; 25 cm.

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

References note

GM 6534

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  • Vols. 1-3
  • Vols. 1-3

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  • v.1

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    BW.41.AA2
  • v.2

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    BW.41.AA2
  • v.3

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