The Old English Herbals

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Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. The Old English Herbals

The Old English Herbals

Table of Contents

PREFACE

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER I. THE ANGLO-SAXON HERBALS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER II. LATER MANUSCRIPT HERBALS AND THE EARLY PRINTED HERBALS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III. TURNER’S HERBAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN HERBALISTS

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CHAPTER IV. GERARD’S HERBAL

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CHAPTER V. HERBALS OF THE NEW WORLD

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CHAPTER VI. JOHN PARKINSON, THE LAST OF THE GREAT ENGLISH HERBALISTS

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CHAPTER VII. THE LATER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HERBALS

FOOTNOTES:

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

I. MANUSCRIPT HERBALS, TREATISES ON THE VIRTUES OF HERBS, ETC

II. ENGLISH HERBALS

III. FOREIGN HERBALS

INDEX

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Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Published by Good Press, 2019

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There is occasionally the instruction to bind on the herb with red wool. For instance, a prescription against headache in the third book of the Leech Book enjoins binding waybroad, which has been dug up without iron before sunrise, round the head “with a red fillet.” Binding on with red wool is a very ancient and widespread custom.[28] Red was the colour sacred to Thor and it was also the colour abhorred not only by witches in particular but by all the powers of darkness and evil. An ancient Assyrian eye charm prescribes binding “pure strands of red wool which have been brought by the pure hand of … on the right hand,” and down to quite recent times even in these islands tying on with red wool was a common custom.

Besides their use as amulets, we also find instructions for hanging herbs up over doors, etc., for the benefit not only of human beings but of cattle also. Of mugwort we read in the Herbarium of Apuleius, “And if a root of this wort be hung over the door of any house then may not any man damage the house.”

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