Agrostemma_githago_bd2_tafel_049

coccel

noun, m., a-decl., 17 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 24.04.2011 11:04

Old-English: coccul, cocceles, coccele, coccle, coccelas,

Latin (Machine generated): LOLIUM, ZIZANIA, ZIZANIORUM,

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Meanings Last Update: 03.08.2009 12:48

  • A: plant: introduced "As early as Iron Age." Cf. http://wildseed.co.uk/species/view/4.
    Agrostemma githago L., corncockle, Gewöhnliche Kornrade
  • B: plant: introduced Probably before or in Roman times.
    Lolium temulentum L., darnel, Taumel-Lolch
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Comments Last Update: 03.08.2009 09:47

  • Comment on (A): Agrostemma githago L., corncockle, Gewöhnliche Kornrade

    Cf. Grigson (1974, s.v. 'corn cockle'). The plant is a field weed and in the Middle Ages was denoted by both LOLIUM and ZIZANIA (cf. Marzell 2000,1,153, and 2,1361).

  • Comment on (B): Lolium temulentum L., darnel, Taumel-Lolch

    The plant is a field weed. In the Middle Ages it was denoted by both LOLIUM and ZIZANIA (cf. Marzell 2000,1,153, and 2,1361).

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Occurrences Last Update: 03.08.2009 10:57

  • AldVGo, 2330 ZIZANIORUM coccela
  • ByrM 1 (Baker/Lapidge) (B20.20.1), 1.2.253 coccul
  • C 15, LibSc 101, 1 ZIZANIA coccelas
  • Dur, 224 LOLIUM coccel ł ate
  • Dur, 342 ZIZANIA coccel
  • HA, LXVI, 170/2[1] dsg coccele
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.25 mid coccele
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.26 se coccel hine
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.27 Hwanon hæfde he coccel?
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.29 coccel
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.30 coccel
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.36 þæs hwætes and þæs cocceles
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.38 Se coccel synt soþlice þa manfullan bearn.
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.39 coccel
  • Mt (WSCp) (B8.4.3.1), 13.40 coccel
  • ÆCHom I, 35 (B1.1.37), 480.122 wa clæne corn mid fulum coccele
  • ÆHom 5 (B1.4.5), 265 gemenced wið coccel
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Images Last Update: 24.04.2011 11:04

Agrostemma githago L., corncockle, Gewöhnliche Kornrade

Agrostemma_githago_bd2_tafel_049

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

Lolium temulentum L., darnel, Taumel-Lolch

Lolium_temulentum_bd1_tafel_048

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
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.
LibSc: Rhodes, Ernest Wood. Defensor's Liber Scintillarum. Unaltered reprint [der Ausg.] London 1889. Early English Text Society ; 93. Woodbridge, Suffolk u.a.: Boydell & Brewer, 2001.
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.
Grigson, Geoffrey. A Dictionary of English Plant Names and Some Products of Plants. London: Allen Lane, 1974.
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.
Lapidge, Michael, and Baker, Peter S. (eds.). Byrhtferth's enchiridion. Early English Text Society. Supplementary series. 15. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Marzell, Heinrich. Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen. Mit Unterstützung der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bearb. von Heinrich Marzell. Unter Mitw. von Wilhelm Wissmann. Köln: Parkland, 2000.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C iii.
MS London, British Library, Harley 6258b.
MS London, British Library, Royal 7 C.iv.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Durham, Cathedral, Hunter 100.
Van Arsdall, Anne. Medieval Herbal Remedies. Illustrations by Robby Poore. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
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Cont: 7 eac hyre [=peonia] corn beoþ gelice coccele; cf. Cockayne"s Annu (1962,I,171,a): "Latin "COCCI SIMILE", a cochineal grain or insect: our Saxon gives a wrong interpretation."