The Old English Herbals
Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 302
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The Old English Herbals
Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05-31
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781514155806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The fairies have almost deserted us, but perhaps they will one day come back to our gardens and teach us that there is something true, though beyond what we can know, in the old astrological lore of the close secret communion between stars and flowers. Do not flowers seem to reflect in microscopic form those glorious flowers which deck the firmament of heaven? In many flowers there is something so star-like that almost unconsciously our minds connect them with the luminaries in the great expanse above us, and from this it seems but a short step to the belief that there is between them a secret communion which is past our understanding." The Old English Herbals, originally published in 1922, is a book about, in the author's words, "that fascinating and somewhat neglected branch of garden literature--the old English Herbals." At the time it was written, herb gardens were scarce; though the author's influence and books contributed to the growth we see in both herb and vegetable gardening today. Still of relevance and interest to modern gardeners, the book includes descriptions of Anglo-Saxon herbals, early printed herbals, herbals from "the New World," the history of the last great English herbalist John Parkinson, and late-seventeenth century herbals. "Offers a careful review of all the important herbals from the eighth to the seventeenth century." -Susan Wittig Albert, "China Bayles' Book of Days: 365 Celebrations of the Mystery, Myth, and Magic of Herbs From The World of Pecan Springs" "A careful and beautiful work on that curiously neglected branch of garden literature, the old English Herbals. It is all very fascinating. Readers who already possess Miss Rohde's first book, 'A Garden of Herbs,' will find here the same delicate perception for detail, and the same charming enthusiasm that attracted them there.....We cannot close this inadequate review of a notable volume without a word of praise for the admirable exhaustive bibliographies." -The Bookman, Volume 63, 1922
Medieval Herbal Remedies
Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1136613889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
The Old English Herbals
Author: Rohde Eleanour Sinclair
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781318984930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Old English Herbals
Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9780243704958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Herbals
Author: Minta Collins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780802083135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.
The Old English Herbals
Author: Eleanour Rohde
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 1822-05-15
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781512220148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writing of this book on that fascinating and somewhat neglected branch of garden literature-the old English Herbals-has been a labour of love, but it could not have been done without all the kind help I have had. My grateful thanks are due to the authorities at the British Museum, to Professor Burkitt of Cambridge, and very specially to Mr. J. B. Capper for invaluable help. I am indebted to Dr. James, the Provost of Eton, for his kind permission to reproduce an illustration from a twelfth-century MS. in the Library of Eton College for the frontispiece. I find it difficult to express either my indebtedness or my gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Charles Singer, the former for all his help and the latter for her generous permission to make use of her valuable bibliography of early scientific manuscripts. I am further indebted to Dr. Charles Singer for reading the chapter on the Anglo-Saxon herbals in proof.
A Garden of Herbs
Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Herbal Remedies
Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1000803090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old English medical texts for the modern world. Here the medieval text is read as an example of technical writing (i.e., intended to convey instructions/information), not as literature. The audience it was originally aimed at would know how to diagnose and treat medical conditions and knew or was learning how to follow its instructions. For that reason, while working on the translation, specialists in relevant fields were asked to shed light on its terse wording, for example, herbalists and physicians. Unlike many current studies, this work discusses the Herbarium and other medical texts in Old English as part of a tradition developed throughout early-medieval Europe associated with monasteries and their libraries. The book is intended for scholars in cross-cultural fields; that is, with roots in one field and branches in several, such as nineteenth-century or medieval studies, for historians of herbalism, medicine, pharmacy, botany, and of the Western Middle Ages, broadly and inclusively defined, and for readers interested in the history of herbalism and medicine.
The Old English Herbals - The Original Classic Edition
Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher: Emereo Classics
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781742445526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a certain pathos attached to the fragments from any great wreck, and in studying the few Saxon manuscripts, treating of herbs, which have survived to our day, we find their primary fascination not so much in their beauty and interest as in the visions they conjure up of those still older manuscripts which perished during the terrible Danish invasions. That books on herbs were studied in England as early as the eighth century is certain, for we know that Boniface, "the Apostle of the Saxons," received letters from England asking him for books on samples and complaining that it was difficult to obtain the foreign herbs mentioned in those we already possessed. But of these manuscripts none have survived, the oldest we possess being of the tenth century, and for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon plant lore we look chiefly to those four important manuscripts-the Leech Book of Bald, the Lacnunga and the Saxon translations of the Herbarium of Apuleius. This book traces all known knowledge of Old English Herbals back to their origins. The writing of this book on that fascinating and somewhat neglected branch of garden literature-the old English Herbals-has been a labour of love. No pains have been spared to make the bibliographies as complete as possible. The rarest printed herbal is "Arbolayre conten t la qualitey et vertus proprietiez des herbes g mes et sim ces extraite de plusiers tratiers de medicine com ent davicene de rasis de constatin de ysaac et plateaire selon le con u usaige bien correct." (Supposed to have been printed by M. Husz at Lyons.) It is believed that there are only two copies of this book now in existence. It has been an exciting and rewarding task, tracing the origins of Old English Herbals through the ages - and now being able to share this with you. The Old English Herbals contents: -The Anglo-Saxon Herbals -Later Manuscript Herbals And The Early Printed Herbals -Turner's Herbal And The Influence Of The Foreign Herbalists -Gerard's Herbal -Herbals Of The New World -John Parkinson, The Last Of The Great English Herbalists -The Later Seventeenth-Century Herbals -Manuscript Herbals, Treatises On The Virtues Of Herbs, Etc. -English Herbals -Foreign Herbals
