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Medical writings from early medieval England / edited and translated by John D. Niles, Maria A. D'Aronco

Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023-
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators
D'Aronco, M. A. and Niles, John D.

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Language Note
Facing page translation with Old English on the versos and English on the rectos; includes some Latin and Greek.
Contents
V. 1. The Old English herbal, Lacnunga, and other texts. The Old English herbal / Maria A. D'Aronco -- Old English remedies from animals / Maria A. D'Aronco -- Lacnunga / John D. Niles -- Peri didaxeon / John D. Niles -- Miscellaneous remedies / John D. Niles.
Summary
"This volume represents the first of a projected two-volume sequence on the medical literature of early medieval England. The second volume will treat the tenth-century vernacular treatise known as Bald's Leechbook, together with the work known as Leechbook III that accompanies it in London, British Library, MS Royal 12.D.xvii. The volume at hand covers the rest of the medical corpus, leaving aside a few texts that are readily available elsewhere. No comprehensive edition and translation of the earliest English medical texts has been undertaken since Thomas Oswald Cockayne's edition of 1864-1866, although the need for one has long been felt. This volume is divided into four main parts. The first of these consists of an edition and translation of the major work The Old English Herbal, together with an edition and translation of the shorter work, titled here Old English Remedies from Animals, that regularly accompanies it in the manuscript tradition. The second part is an edition and translation of Lacnunga, a late tenth-century medical miscellany composed chiefly in the vernacular. The third part is an edition and translation of the medical treatise known as Peri Didaxeon, a post-Conquest work that has not been translated into modern English since Cockayne. The fourth part consists of a miscellany of Old English or Latin medical texts recorded in a variety of Insular manuscripts dating from the ninth century to the twelfth"--
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ISBN
9780674290822 hardcover ; volume 1
0674290828 hardcover ; volume 1
Related Titles
Container of (expression): Old English herbal (D'Aronco)
Container of (expression): Old English herbal. English (D'Aronco)
Container of (expression): Medicina de quadrupedibus. English (Old English) (D'Aronco)
Container of (expression): Medicina de quadrupedibus. English (D'Aronco)
Container of (expression): Lacnunga
Container of (expression): Lacnunga. English (Niles)
Container of (expression): Peri didaxeon
Container of (expression): Peri didaxeon. English (Niles)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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