ABSTRACT

This 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.

chapter 1|34 pages

Oswald the Obscure

The Lifelong Disappointments of T. O. Cockayne

chapter 2|33 pages

Cockayne's Herbarium

chapter 4|18 pages

The Herbarium

Manuscripts, Illustrations, and the Need for a New Translation