Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England
Subtitle: the history of science before the Norman Conquest
By: [collected and edited by] Oswald Cockayne.
Contributors: Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873.; Apuleius, Barbarus.; Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos.; Placitus, Sextus, Papyriensis.
Publisher: Thoemmes Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bristol, England
Language: eng
Subjects: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.; Botany, Medical.; Anglo-Saxons -- Medicine.; Science -- History -- England.; Learning and scholarship -- England.
Genres: Pre-Linnean works.
Other titles: History of science before the Norman Conquest
Notes: Originally published: London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864-1866.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Old English texts and modern English translations on facing pages; citations in Ancient Greek and Latin.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Preface.  Herbarium of Apuleius.  Continued from Dioskorides, etc.  Medicina de qudrupedibus of Sextus Placitus; all from Brit. mus. ms. Cotton.  Vitellius C. III. Leechdoms from fly leaves of mss. Charms (in part); title: v. 2. Laece boc: Leech book, from Brit. mus. ms. Reg. 12. D. XVII.  Glossary.  Index of proper names; title: v. 3. Recipes, from Brit. mus. Harl. 585.  [Peridiclaxeōn]: Of schools of medicine, Hrl. ms. 6258.  Prognostics.  Starcraft.  Charms.  Durham glossary of names of plants.  Saxon names of plants.  Glossary.  Index.  Names of persons. Historical fragments.