Edition and Study of Manchester, Chetham's Library, MS Mun.A.3.127

ISBN-13: 9783034358446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 354 str.

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This book offers the semi-diplomatic edition of the Late Middle English manuscript Manchester, Chetham's Library, MS Mun.A.3.127, which is housed at Chetham's Library in Manchester. This codex contains a number of recipes to cure illnesses, a previous list of herbs and plants and an outline. This volume is accompanied by an introduction, a physical description of the witness and a glossary. Because of that, this book is a primary source of research in historical linguistics and in other fields of study such as the history of medicine.

This book focuses on a Late Middle English scientific codex, the unedited manuscript Manchester, Chetham's Library, MS Mun.A.3.127. It pursues the edition of the text, the compilation of a glossary and the description of the codex, representative of the language in the Late Middle English period.