Old English Lapidary

The so-called Old English Lapidary (Cotton Tiberius A.iii) is a 10th or 11th century Old English lapidary, a translation of older Latin glosses on the precious stones mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

## References

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* Peter Kitson, 'Lapidary traditions in Anglo-Saxon England: part I, the background; the Old English Lapidary' in: Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 7, eds. Martin Biddle, Julian Brown, Peter Clemoes, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-03864-5, 9-60.
* Joan Evans and Mary Sidney Serjeantsen (eds.), English Mediaeval Lapidaries, Early English Text Society Original Series 190, 1933 (reprinted 1999), ISBN 0-85991-925-0.
* Robert Max Garrett, Precious stones in old English literature (1909)[1]

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Old English prose

Texts|

| Hagiography|

* Old English Martyrology
* Lives of Saints
* On the Resting-Places of the Saints
* Visio Leofrici

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Homilies|

* Blickling Homilies
* Lambeth Homilies
* Vercelli Homilies
* Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
* De falsis diis
* Judith

Historiography|

* History of the World
* Ecclesiastical History of the English People
* Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
* Winchcombe Annals
* Old English Hexameron

Wisdom literature|

* The Prose Solomon and Saturn
* Adrian and Ritheus
* The Durham Proverbs
* Old English Dicts of Cato

Ælfredian|

* Froforboc
* Hierdeboc
* Blostman
* Psalms 1–50
* Dialogi

Legal texts|

* Law codes
* Geþyncðo (Textus Roffensis)
* Charters
* Canons of Edgar
* Fonthill Letter

Scientific texts|

* Leechbook
* Lacnunga
* Leechbook III
* Byrhtferth's Manual
* Old English Herbarium

Ecclesiastical texts|

* Handbook for a Confessor
* Hatton Gospels
* Wessex Gospels
* Gospel of Nicodemus
* Vindicta Salvatoris
* Old English Hexateuch
* Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesim

Genealogies|

* Kentish Royal Legend

Other|

* Apollonius of Tyre
* Old English Lapidary
* Wonders of the East

Authors|

* Ælfred
* Ælfric
* Byrhtferth
* Werferth
* Wulfstan

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