melwe

noun, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant

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References Last Update: 18.10.2022 22:17

Meaning Last Update: 22.02.2010 10:49

  • A: plant: native Several native species.
    Malva L., mallow, a species of ~, Malve, eine Art von ~
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Comment Last Update: 19.07.2011 09:22

  • Comment on (A): Malva L., mallow, a species of ~, Malve, eine Art von ~

    Hunger (1935,139): HIBISCUM DECOCTA CUM MALUA ERRATICA & FOENO GRAECO MEDETUR. Cockayne translates 'meal', but it is possible that the original had mealwan, the dsg. of mealwe 'mallow, Malve', which is also suggested by the L text. But we have to note that the OE text differs from the L original in another aspect (mid linsæde) and that the respective chapter describes the plant Althaea officinalis L., OE →mersc-mealwe.

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Occurrence Last Update: 23.11.2010 06:44

  • HA, XXXIX, 140/13[1] dsg melwe
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Research Literature

BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
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.
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.
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.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C iii.
MS London, British Library, Harley 6258b.
Van Arsdall, Anne. Medieval Herbal Remedies. Illustrations by Robby Poore. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
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MS H: melewe; Cont.: Wiþ æghwylce gegaderunga þe on þam lichoman acenned beoþ genim þas ylcan wyrte seoþ mid wylle cærsan 7 mid linsæde 7 mid melwe.