With the assistance of Gwynneth M. D. Mills and Adrienne Pedder.
An essential resource for scholarly research, this new series of annotated bibliographies covers Old and Middle English literature outside those major subject areas already served by existing bibliographies. Coverage includes editions of texts; manuscripts and textual studies; lexical, grammatical and stylistic studies; bibliographies and indexes; interpretive and critical studies; commentaries on metrics and versification.
The Old English writings usually termed 'secular' are particularly relevant to the development of cultural studies, especially the study of education and the assimilation of classical learning in the Anglo-Saxon period. The annotations of this volume cover the prose proverbs, dialogues and romances, the computistical texts and Byrhtferth's 'Enchiridion', as well as the magico-medical literature and associated texts (including the prognostics and the lapidary).
Author(s): Stephanie Hollis, Michael Wright
Series: Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature, 4
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: XII+404
City: Woodbridge
General Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xii
General Introduction 1
I: Proverbs
"Dicts of Cato"
Introduction 15
Annotations 26
Durham and Other Proverbs
Introduction 34
Annotations 41
II: Dialogues
"Solomon and Saturn" and "Adrian and Ritheus"
Introduction 51
Annotations 62
"Elucidarium"
Introduction 76
Annotations 82
III: Romance
"Apollonius of Tyre"
Introduction 89
Annotations 101
"Alexander's Letter to Aristotle" and "Wonders of the East"
Introduction 117
Annotations 128
IV: Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Computus
Byrhtferth of Ramsey
Introduction 149
Annotations 163
Computus
Introduction 185
Annotations 190
V: Magico-Medical Literature
Magico-Medical Literature (Explanatory Note) 199
"Lapidary"
Introduction 200
Annotations 205
"Leechbook", "Lacnunga", Recipes and Folk Lore Introduction
"Leechbook" 211
"Lacnunga" 219
Recipe Collections 230
Prose Charms and Headings 239
Concordance to Editions 250
Prognostics, Alphabet Divination, Tables of Lucky and Unlucky Days, Prohibition against Bloodletting 257
"On the Human Foetus" 270
Annotations 271
Herbal and "Peri Didaxeon"
Introduction
Enlarged Herbarium and "Medicina de Quadrupedibus" 311
Plant Names 325
"Peri Didaxeon" 327
Annotations 329
General and Miscellaneous Magico-Medical
Annotations 341
Index of Authors 385
Subject Index 391
