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Darrera modificació: 2018-03-14
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Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 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 —, Londres, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores (Rolls Series), 35), 1864 - 1866, 3 vols.
- Resum
- 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 on plants, medicine and the heavens from pre-Conquest Britain, mostly in Old English with accompanying modern English translations. They range from a vernacular translation of the substantial Latin Herbarium, formerly attributed to Apuleius, to terse lists of plant names; from brief medicinal recipes and popular charms to Latin prayers for healing; and from observations about equinoxes, solstices, the date of Easter and the length of shadows on various dates to lunar horoscopes and the interpretation of dreams. The editor sets these works in the context of Classical traditions, and also notes their relevance to Victorian interest in subjects such as spiritualism and astrology, and in Oriental science and religion. -- The preface of Volume 2 outlines evidence for early medieval British material culture, particularly foodstuffs, drink, fabrics and metals, and argues against dismissing the Anglo-Saxons and their contemporaries as 'primitive'. The Old English text in this volume [the Bald's Leechbook] is taken from a tenth-century manuscript in the Royal Collection, which Cockayne suggests may have belonged to the Abbot of Glastonbury. It is a careful and thorough compilation of remedies for conditions ranging from toothache to complications of pregnancy, and digestive problems to mental illness, and reveals the influence of Greek medical learning in the Anglo-Saxon world. [Ed. Cambridge 2012].
Contents:
* 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)
* 2. Lc̆e boc: Leech book, from Brit. Mus. ms. Reg. 12. D. XVII. Glossary. Index of proper names
* 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
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
Màgia - Màgia mèdica i protectora
Història natural - Vegetals
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- Notes
- El vol. 3 fou publicat per Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer.
Reimpr. facs.: Londres, The Holland Press, 1961; Wiesbaden, Kraus Reprint, 1965; Bristol, Thoemmes, 2001; Burlington, TannerRitchie - University of St Andrews, 2012; Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- URL
- https://archive.org/details/leechdomswortcun01cock
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https://archive.org/details/leechdomswortcun18642cock (2)
https://archive.org/details/leechdomswortcun03cock (3)
https://books.google.es/books?id=J4XyVOlopJEC&lpg=P ... (Cambridge 2012, I)
https://books.google.es/books?id=KtaiSC1TJYsC&lpg=P ... (Cambridge 2012, II)
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