Anglo-Saxon prognostics
Subtitle: an edition and translation of texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii
By: edited and translated by R.M. Liuzza
Series: Anglo-Saxon texts -- 8; Anglo-Saxon texts -- 8.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781843842552
Subjects: Prophecies; Early works to 1800; Forecasting
Description: "Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. [...] This volume provides the first full critical edition, with a facing-page translation, of a diverse and peculiar group of prognostic guides and calendars, in Latin and Old English, found in an eleventh-century manuscript from Christ Church, Canterbury; they are collated with related versions in both Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscripts. A lengthy introduction and commentary examine the transmission and translation of these texts, and shed light on their origins and uses in late Anglo-Saxon monastic culture."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.

Translated from the Old English and Latin.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Prognostics in Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts ; Types of prognostics in T ; Prognostics as a genre ; Conclusion ; Note on editorial principles; title: Anglo-Saxon prognostics : texts and translation.