SC - Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft
Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at admin.is.cornell.edu
Mon Mar 27 08:05:51 PST 2000
>>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
sjk3 at cornell.edu
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