printfelterre, smale
noun,
f.,
n-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 06.02.2012 20:32
Meaning Last Update: 02.10.2009 12:12
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A: plant: native
Centaurium erythraea Rafn., common centaury, Echtes Tausendgüldenkraut
Comment Last Update: 02.10.2009 12:38
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Comment on (A): Centaurium erythraea Rafn., common centaury, Echtes Tausendgüldenkraut
Occurrence Last Update: 29.10.2010 07:26
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Research Literature
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
LB:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Leech Book." 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. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Britten, James, and Robert Holland.
A Dictionary of English Plant-Names. London: Trübner, 1886.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
Olds, Barbara M..
The Anglo-Saxon Leechbook III: A Critical Edition and Translation. Diss. Univ. of Denver. 1985.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.).
Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
In recipe 99/19ff. there is an occurrance of curmeallan (cf. →curmealle), so felterre has to be specifyed as 'little', analog to CENTAURIA MINOR. Also cf. Britten / Holland (1886,178): "Feltrike. 'The small centaury.' Prompt. Parv. Hal. Erythraea centaurium L. This appears to be only a corruption of the old Latin name FEL TERRAE."