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Lacnunga
Lacnunga is a collection of miscellaneous medical texts, mainly in Old English, included alongside other medical texts in the manuscript London, British Library Harley 585, probably copied in South-Western England around the first decade of the eleventh century. The collection contains many unique texts, including an unusual proportion of charms which providing rare glimpses into Anglo-Saxon popular religion and healing practices.
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