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brād-bisceopwyrt

noun, m., n-decl., hapax legomenon

Last Update: 28.11.2011 10:36

References Last Update: 21.11.2022 11:02

Meaning Last Update: 03.04.2008 15:30

  • A:
    -, unsolved, ungeklärt
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Comment Last Update: 07.07.2009 08:43

  • Comment on (A): -, unsolved, ungeklärt

    The lable brād- seems to point towards a broad leafed species of →bisceop-wyrt; also cf. →brāde-lēac.

    Cf. LA 166/20 þa bradan biscopwyrt; the compound (?) brād-bisceopwyrt (Cockayne 1962,III,4/30 reads brad bisceopwyrt) is not recorded in any dictionaries except the DOE; and the occurrence þa bradan bisceopwyrt in BT, s.v. bisceopwyrt.

    Pettit (2001,XIV,41) also records other occurrences which possibly point towards the lemma being an autonomous plant name: "a remedy in Wellcome Historical Medical Library MS 46, fol. 144 (ed. Napier 1980: 325a) genim brade bisceopwyrt 7 and feldbisceopwyrt" and "BL MS Cotton Faustina A.X, fol. 115v (Ed C. vol. III, p. 292): twegra cynna bisceopwyrt".

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Occurrence Last Update: 21.04.2011 09:11
  • LA, 100/18 nsg bradbisceopwyrt
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Research Literature

BT: Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
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.
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: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Grein, Christian-Wilhelm-Michael (ed.). Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. Göttingen: Wigand, 1864.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
Pettit, Edward, (ed. and trans.). Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms and Prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: the 'Lacnunga'. Vol. I: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Appendices. Vol. II: Commentary and Bibliography. Mellen Critical Editions and Translations. 6A and 6B. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2001.