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
- Books
About this work
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
Languages
Holdings
- Vols. 1-3
- Vols. 1-3
Where to find it
v.1
Location Status Access Closed storesBW.41.AA2v.2
Location Status Access Closed storesBW.41.AA2v.3
Location Status Access Closed storesBW.41.AA2