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cursumbor

noun, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 25.04.2011 10:37

Meaning Last Update: 25.04.2011 10:32

  • A: plant-product: foreign
    -, incense, Weihrauch
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Comment Last Update: 25.04.2011 10:36

  • Comment on (A): -, incense, Weihrauch

    Cf. BTS and BTC, s.v.; should Alphita (Mowat 1887,185) cozimbrum[1] be added here?

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Occurrence Last Update: 29.05.2009 05:55
  • Mt(Li), 2,11[2] TUS cursumbor
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Research Literature

AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
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.
Li, Ru (= Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn): Skeat, Walter William. The Four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1871.
Mowat, John Lancaster Gough (ed.). Alphita. A Medico-Botanical Glossary, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series 1.2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv..
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
[1]:

"TIMIAMA, I. cozimbrum UEL FEX LADANI, CONFITA IDEM. GALLICE FRAUNC ENSENS." Also cf. AldVNa 1,1513: THYMIAMA recels.

[2]:

Cont.: AURUM TUS ET MURRAM gold cursumbor 7 recels; Mt(Ru): gold recils 7 murra b is smerennis. One has to notice that recels "incense, Weihrauch" is glossed MURRAM in Li and not TUS as in Ru.