Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts
R. M. Liuzza
The various Latin and Old English texts which have come to be called ‘prognostics’ not, in general, been well served by scholars. For some the only available edition is Oswald Cockayne's Leechdoms , Wortcunning Starcraft of Early England from 1864-6; most others are broad but somewhat unsystematic series articles published Max Förster Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 1910s 1920s. Anselm Hughes does not include eight prognostic Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 391 his otherwise fairly thorough much that manuscript; Peter Baker Michael Lapidge omit any discussion such their excellent survey history computus preface Byrhtferth's Enchiridion . mid-eleventh-century Christ Church manuscript now known as London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. iii has attracted notice many fine scholars, including liturgists, linguists monastic art historians, who drawn at beginning (fols. 117-73 2-27), two magnicent full-page drawings (117v 2v) glossed copies Benedictine Rule Regularis Concordia Helmut Gneuss describes this carefully presented interrelated ‘a compendium Reform movements Carolingian Francia tenth-century England’; Robert Deshman argued very sequence ‘laden with meaning’. Despite appreciation these sequences, however, few scholars included study material eighteen follow (27v-47), though same hand arranged, it may argued, equal care.
Anglo-Saxon England