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- Bald's Leechbook (also known as Medicinale Angli****) is a medical text in Old English and Medieval Latin probably compiled in the mid-tenth century, possibly...
- translation. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology. The preface of Alfred's translation...
- medieval English medicine recorded in the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Bald's Leechbook. It is described as a treatment for a "wen", a cyst or lump in the eye...
- comes primarily from the surviving medical m****cripts, such as Bald's Leechbook and the Lacnunga, all of which describe "pagan" practices persisting well...
- Roffensis) Charters Canons of Edgar Fonthill Letter Scientific texts Leechbook Lacnunga Leechbook III Byrhtferth's Manual Old English Herbarium Ecclesiastical...
- English bleġen, bleġene, having the same meaning. The medieval Bald's Leechbook recommended treating chilblains with a mixture of eggs, wine, and fennel...
- attested in the Cleopatra Glossary (as forneotes folm) and in Bald's Leechbook as fornetes folm. Folm means 'hand, palm', and, lacking a better explanation...
- comparison with a charm containing the sequence ærcrio found in Bald's Leechbook (i.vii, fol. 20v). For this reason, the entire inscription is likely a...
- powers in nature that were created by God; for instance, the Anglo-Saxon leechbooks, which contained simple spells for medicinal purposes, were tolerated...
- from water elves. It is written in Old English and derives from Bald's Leechbook (10th century). Some historians have suggested that the disease referred...