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Myrrhis_odorata_bd3_tafel_068

myrra

noun, f., n-decl., 20 occ.

Possible Types: plant, plant-product

Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:36

Old-English: miere, mirre, murra, murræ, murre, myrra, myrre,

Latin (Machine generated): MIRRAM, MIRRATUM UINUM, MURRA,

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Meanings Last Update: 20.07.2011 09:26

  • A: plant: native Doubtfully native (Calpham 1962,506).
    Myrrhis odorata (L.) Scop., sweet cicely, Süßdolde
  • B: plant-product: foreign
    Resina Commiphorae myrrhae (Nees) Engl., myrrh, Myrrhe
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Comments Last Update: 02.03.2010 09:21

  • Comment on (A): Myrrhis odorata (L.) Scop., sweet cicely, Süßdolde

    This identification is valid for the occurrences where myrra is denoted by an additional þa wyrt.

  • Comment on (B): Resina Commiphorae myrrhae (Nees) Engl., myrrh, Myrrhe

    Gk μύρρα is the fragrant resin myrrh, extracted from various Commiphora species; cf. Marzell (2000,I,1116; s.v. Commiphora abyssinica, and 2000,III,265; s.v. Myrrhis odorata).

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Occurrences Last Update: 14.04.2010 10:08

  • AntFö, 106,53 MIRRATUM UINUM gemenged mid myrran
  • HA, CXXXVIII, 256/10[1] nsg myrre[2]
  • LA, 102/20[3] asg murran
  • LA, 112/12[4] asg myrran
  • LB, 6/24 nsg murra hatte wyrt
  • LB, 89/19 asg myrran
  • LB, 89/24 asg myrran
  • LB, 89/25 gsg myrran
  • LB, 90/1 asg myrran
  • LB, 90/11 nsg murre
  • LB, 90/9 nsg murre
  • Mt(Ru), 2,11 MIRRAM murra ƀ is smerennis
  • PD, 45/9 asg myrra[5]
  • PD, 47/15 asg mirra[6]
  • Ps(A), 44,9 MURRA myrre
  • Ps(B), 44,9 MURRA myrre
  • Ps(C), 44,9 MURRA mirre
  • Ps(E), 44,9 MURRA murræ
  • Ps(F), 44,9 MURRA murre
  • Ps(J), 44,9 MURRA myrre
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Etymology Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:36

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Image Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:36

Myrrhis odorata (L.) Scop., sweet cicely, Süßdolde
Myrrhis_odorata_bd3_tafel_068
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

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BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
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.
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.
LA, Lor: Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
LA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "[Lacnunga] Recipies." 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. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 2-81.
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.
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.
PD: Löweneck, Max (ed.). Peri Didaxeon. Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 12. Erlangen: Junge, 1896.
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Ps (H): Campbell, A. P. (ed.). The Tiberius Psalter. Ottawa Medieval Texts and Studies. 2. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1974.
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[1]:

Cont.: gyf þu hy [=spreritis] betweonan þinum fingrum gebrytest þonne hafaþ heo swæc swylce myrre.

[2]:

MS B.: myrræ.

[3]:

Cont.: murran þa wyrt.

[4]:

Cont.: myrran þa wyrt.

[5]:

For myrran?

[6]:

For mirran?