steng

noun, m., i-decl., 2 occ.

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 24.08.2011 09:51

Meaning Last Update: 24.08.2011 09:51

  • A: plant-product
    -, pole, Stange
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Comment Last Update: 24.08.2011 09:52

  • Comment on (A): -, pole, Stange

    Probably made from wood: cf. LB 3/30: gif mon mid isene gewundod sie, oþþe mid treowe geslegen, oþþe mid stane, and LB 29/38 gif mon mid treowe geslegen sie oþþe mid stane with the context provided in HA (see our notes 1 and 2.

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Occurrences Last Update: 16.11.2010 06:44

  • HA, 132/4[1] gsg stenges
  • HA, 166/10[2] dsg stence
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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.
[1]:

MS H stænges; Cont.: Wiþ slege isernes oþþe stenges; Hunger (1935,137): AD PERCUSSUM FERRO UEL SUDE; L SUDIS = "short stake, also used as weapon; kürzerer Pfahl, auch als Waffe" (cf. Georges 2007, s.v.).

[2]:

MS H: stæncge; stenge B; it has to be noted that just ten lines later the single record for the OE form stenc "smell, Geruch" of the HA occurs: dsg. stence; cont.: wiþ wunda som hy syn of iserne som hy syn of stence oþþe fram nædran; Hunger (1935,144): AD PLAGAS SIUE A FERRO SIUE A SUDE SIUE A SERPENTE INFLICTAS.