printstān
noun,
m.,
a-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant-related
Last Update: 24.08.2011 09:06
References Last Update: 26.12.2022 08:57
Meaning Last Update: 13.09.2010 08:21
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A: plant-related
-, stone, Stein
Comment Last Update: 13.09.2010 08:34
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Comment on (A): -, stone, Stein
Occurrence Last Update: 15.11.2010 13:53
Research Literature
BW II:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
HA:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
Berberich, Hugo, ed.
Das Herbarium Apuleii nach einer früh-mittelenglischen Fassung. Anglistische Forschungen 5. Nachdruck Amsterdam, 1966. Heidelberg: Winter, 1902.
D'Aronco, Maria Amalia and M. L. Cameron, eds..
The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius C.III. Early English Manuscripts in Faksimile 27. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1998.
DeVriend, Hubert Jan (ed.).
The 'Old English Herbarium' and 'Medicina de Quadrupedibus'. Early English Text Society. Original series 286. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hilbelink, A.J.G. (ed.).
Cotton MS Vitellius C III of the Herbarium Apuleii. Diss. Amsterdam: 1930.
Howald, Ernestus und Henricus Sigerist (eds.).
Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Bd.4. Antonii Musae de Herba Vettonica Liber. Pseudoapulei Herbarius. Anonymi de Taxone Liber. Sexti Placiti Liber Medicinae ex Animalibus etc. Leipzig: Teubner, 1927.
Hunger, Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias (ed.).
The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius. From the ninth-century manuscript in the abbey of Monte Cassino [Codex Casinen-sis 97] together with the first printed edition of Jon. Phil. de Lignamine [Editio princeps Romae 1481] both in facsimile, described and annotated by F.W.T. Hunger. Leyden: Brill, 1935.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C iii.
MS London, British Library, Harley 6258b.
Van Arsdall, Anne.
Medieval Herbal Remedies. Illustrations by Robby Poore. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
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Cf. s.v. sunnancorn.
The term refers to the hard seeds of the plant Lithospermon, which again is named after this characteristic (lit. 'stone-seed, Steinsamen'); cf. Dioscorides III,158 (Berendes 1902,355): "Die Zweige [...] haben an der Spitze eine gespaltene stengelartige Fortsetzung mit kleinen Blättern, zwischen denen der steinige, runde weisse, einer kleinen Erbse gleiche Same sitzt."