Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries ... in a letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary / [George Stephens].

  • George Stephens
Date:
1844
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Credit: Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries ... in a letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary / [George Stephens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dots occur; but where two rhyming lines are written in one, the distinction is marked by one, two, or three dots promiscuously. 6. In copying the extracts, the most literal exactness has been observed, except that I have every where, to save unnecessary trouble, used the easier written y both for y and p. 7. To save trouble I have written out all the contractions in full, (the “ excepted) but have distinguished the same by marking them as italics. 8. As the u and n are for the most part absolutely alike, I may possibly here and there have confounded the one with the other. 9. Occasionally the text exhibits evident omissions and corruptions, but it was not worth while to trouble myself with corrections. ] 0. The Latin botanical synonymes exhibited in the glossary are those of the MS. itself. GEORGE STEPHENS. Stockholm, April, 1843.
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