SC - Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft

[Sandra Kisner]

>>Could your provide a citation? It doesn't _sound_ like an Anglo-Saxon
>>Text, but I'd have to see it first. I take it what you saw was in modern
>>English? Was it a facsimile? A translation?
>
>Unfortunately, no.  As said, I was in Cape Town then (South Africa).  I am 
>now in Israel.  From memory, it was a transcription (i.e.  typed, but using 
>original words and spelling) but I wouldn't bet on it.  I looked through a 
>lot of books at that stage (I was too broke to buy books, and the library 
>didn't have many cookery texts, so I read through all the surrounding 
>literature in the hope of finding something faintly useful).  Maybe one of 
>the Adamestorians would be fool enough to go and look?  It's in the English 
>Lit section of the UCT library, 3 books bound in pale blue cloth...

     I checked the Cornell University catalog, and found the following.  I
haven't been there to see if it is indeed the same book, but I suspect it is.

 Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being
   a collection of documents, for the most part never before
   printed, illustrating the history of science in this country
   before the Norman conquest. Collected and edited by Thomas
   Oswald Cockayne, with a new introd. by Charles Singer.
 Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873. ed. and tr.
 London, Holland Press, 1961.
Olin Library           R128 .C66 1961
LIBRARY HAS:    v.1-3


Sandra Kisner
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