Research Literature
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
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.
MED:
Kurath, Hans and Sherman M. Kuhn.
Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
PS (I), PsCa (I):
Lindelöf, Uno Lorenz.
Der Lambeth-Psalter. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 35/i and 43/iii. 2 vols.. Helsinki: 1909.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
MS London, Lambeth Palace, 427.
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.
Usually bone marrow, here especially referring to plants: LB: Marrow in the flower head of Dipsacus fullonum L.: wuduþistles þone grenan mearh, þe biþ on þam heafde; (→wudu-þistel). The occurrance in PsCa translates 'marrow of wheat'; cf. s.v. →smedma and MED (s.v. marwe): marue of whete 'heart of wheat, fine flour'