HERB - Leech Book of Bald

[Nordmarc]

I seem to remember reading (somewhere) that the Leechbook was commissioned by
Alfred the Great (849-99 AD). The task was taken up by Bald (apparently a friend
to Alfred) who then commissioned Cild to actually write it. I've seen it called
the Leechbook of Bald and Cild, but it does exist under whichever name.

Isrith.


Jenne Heise wrote:

> At least two of my sources mention a manuscript called 'The Leech Book of
> Bald'. (Rohde's _The Old English Herbals_ and Clarkson's _Green
> Enchantment_). It was a Saxon manuscript, supposedly, dating from 900-975
> AD.
>
> However... I was reading along in _Puck of Pook's Hill_ and the mention of
> _The Leech Book of Bald_ was footnoted by the editor. She says, "No
> surviving Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon leech-book, or medicinal hand-book
> is attributed to Bald."
>
> Is she making an obscure point, is she just ignorant, or has the
> Leech-Book of Bald been discredited since Clarkson and Rohde wrote?
>
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise        jenne at tulgey.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me...
>
> "You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault,
> not leadership." Dwight D. Eisenhower
>
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