Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England
Subtitle: being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest. Volume 1
By: collected and edited by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne.
Contributors: Apuleius Barbarus.; Placitus, Sextus.; Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos.
Series: Rerum britannicarum medii aevil scriptores, or Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the middle ages. (no. 35)
Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons -- Medicine.; Botany, Medical.; Learning and scholarship -- England.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.; Astronomy, Medieval.
Description: Volume 1 of 3.
Table of contents: title: Vol.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) - Vol.2: Læce boc: Leech book, from Brit. mus. ms. Reg. 12. D. XVII. Glossary. Index of propernames. - Vol.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.