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Title: The Old English Herbals

Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Release Date: September 6, 2010 [EBook #33654]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

Greek text has been transliterated, and is marked with plus signs,
e.g. +Peri Didaxeon+.

Oe ligatures are indicated with [oe].

Superscripted characters are surrounded with braces, e.g. y{e}.

Characters with macrons, which usually indicate omitted letters, are
marked with square brackets and an equals sign, e.g. tha[=n]e.

Yogh is indicated as [gh], e.g. wyrt[gh]erd.

Apostrophus symbols, resembling a backwards C, are indicated with [C].

Tironian ampersands are indicated with [et].

A letter q with a small c above it, meaning the word 'qui', is
indicated with [qui].

A letter u with a small o above it, indicating pronunciation, is
marked as [ou].

Asterisms (three dots arranged in a triangle point-up) are indicated
with [.'.]. Reverse asterisms (three dots arranged in a triangle
point-down) are indicated with ['.'].

Other symbols are noted descriptively, and are enclosed in square
brackets and marked with tildes, e.g. [~Sun~].

The parallel-column text referred to on page 67 has been transcribed
as two separate paragraphs in this version of the e-text.

THE OLD
ENGLISH HERBALS

BY

ELEANOUR SINCLAIR ROHDE
AUTHOR OF "A GARDEN OF HERBS"

[Illustration: Illustration of the "lilie" from the Saxon
translation of the _Herbarium of Apuleius_]

Longmans, Green and Co.
1922

[Illustration: HERBS BEING DUG UP AND MADE INTO MEDICINES UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF A SAGE
From a 12th century copy of the _Herbarium of Apuleius_, now in the
Library of Eton College]