Early Plants

• The Lacnunga and its plants - Also in Old English, a physician's book
  from about 950-1050 CE

• Aelfric's plants in his "Glossary" and "Colloquy," from the late 900s

• Plants of Pseudo-Apuleius: the Bury St. Edmond's Herbal

• Manuscript Sources: Plants, 800-1300 CE

• Charter landscapes, 600-1100 CE: Fields, gardens, and plants in Anglo-Saxon England

• The garden of Henricus Anglicus, c. 1200 CE

  • Identifying medieval plants

• Capitulare de Villis, a Carolingian document c. 800 CE
• "Plan of St Gall," a ground plan, created in Reichenau c. 820 CE, for an ideal monastery
• Charlemagne's estate at Asnapium
• Walafrid Strabo's Hortulus
  • Imagining Walafrid's Hortulus
  • Medicinal Uses of Plants in Walafrid's Hortulus
  • Plants of Walafrid's Hortulus

• A compilation of plant names found in the Capitulare de Villis, Plan of St. Gall, Hortulus, Leechbook, Lacnunga, and Aelfric

• A short list of plants cited most often in these MSS

A sampling of citations from early sources

Other online resources

• The Anglo-Saxon Plant Name Survey, a project of the University of Glasgow

• The Dictionary of Old English Plant Names, a joint project of the University of Graz, Austria and the University of Munich, Germany

• Bosworth and Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

• The Plan of St. Gall, an interactive tool that permits detailed review of the plan itself, and provides a wealth of background information