Abstract
The main sources of our knowledge of magic in Anglo-Saxon times are medical manuscripts. Principal among them are two treatises to be found among the British Museum MSS, Regius 12 D XVII and Harley 585. They were first edited by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne for the Rolls Series between 1864 and 1866: “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”, in three volumes.
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The information about Pliny, Marcellus and Alexander is taken from Pauly-Wissowa and from Schanz-Hosius, Geschichte d. Röm. Literatur.
They have been partly indicated by Cockayne in the margin of his text.
Cp. Leonhardi, p. 158.
Cf. M. R. James, A descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1912.
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Storms, G. (1948). The Manuscripts. In: Anglo-Saxon Magic. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6312-7_2
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