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Alchemilla_xanthochlora

lēon-fōt

noun, m., root decl., 9 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:04

Old-English: leonfet, leonfot, leonfort, lionfot,

Latin (Machine generated): LEONTAPODIUM, LEONTOPEDIUM, PEDEM LEONIS, PES LEONIS,

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Meanings Last Update: 12.07.2011 12:15

  • B: plant: foreign
    ? Leontice leontopetalum L., lion's foot, Löwen-Trapp
  • A: plant: native
    ? Alchemilla vulgarisL., lady's mantle, Frauenmantel
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Comments Last Update: 12.07.2011 12:18

  • Comment on (A): ? Alchemilla vulgarisL., lady's mantle, Frauenmantel

    Hunger (1935,167): VIII: PES LEONIS = A. vulgaris; also cf. Fischer (2001,208).

    Etymology: loan translation of L PES LEONIOS referring to the lobed leaves (cf. Marzell 2000,I,177f).

  • Comment on (B): ? Leontice leontopetalum L., lion's foot, Löwen-Trapp

    For the HA D'Aronco suggests Leontice leontopetalum L., lion's foot, Löwen-Trapp, also cf. André, s.v. LEONTOPODIUM.

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Occurrences Last Update: 22.11.2010 06:46

  • Br,WW, 297,21 LEONTOPEDIUM leonfot
  • C 71.2, Meritt 73b, 6 PEDEM LEONIS leonfot
  • ClSt, L 293 LEONTOPEDIUM lionfot
  • Dur, 219 LEONTAPODIUM leonfet
  • HA, VIII, 10/6 nsg PES LEONIS ƀ is leonfot
  • HA, VIII, 98/10[1] nsg Leon fot
  • HA, VIII, 98/12 asg þe man PEDEM LEONIS 7 oþrum naman leonfot nemneþ
  • HA, VIII, 98/16 asg leon fot
  • Laud, 1143 PES LEONIS leonfort
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Etymology Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:04

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Image Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:04

? Alchemilla vulgarisL., lady's mantle, Frauenmantel
Alchemilla_xanthochlora

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: www.veronica.host.sk/fytote...

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Research Literature

Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
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.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
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.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
André, Jacques. Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique. Paris: Société d'édition 'les belles lettres', 1985.
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.
Fischer, Hermann. Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde. Geschichte der Wissenschaften. Geschichte der Botanik II. Nachdruck der Ausgabe 1929. München: 2001.
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.
Lendinara, Patrizia. "The Glossaries in London, BL, Cotton Cleopatra A. iii." In: _Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen: Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999._ Ed. Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 189-215.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
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MS London, British Library, Harley 6258b.
MS Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dc. 160+187+186+185.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1828-30.
MS Durham, Cathedral, Hunter 100.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Sauer, Hans. Patterns of loan-influence on the Medieval English plant names, with special reference to the influence of Greek. In: Foreign Influences on Medieval English, Eds. Jacek Fisiak, and Magdalana Bator. Studies in English medieval language and literature. 28. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2011. 55-76.
Van Arsdall, Anne. Medieval Herbal Remedies. Illustrations by Robby Poore. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
Varnhagen, Hermann. De Glossis Nonnullis Anglicis. Erlangen: Typis Friedrich Junge, 1902.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
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MS B: leones fot.