Appendix Three. Concordance to anglo-saxon prognostics

Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni futuri1

“…On this point, Sàndor Chardonnens asks, in relation to Anglo-Saxon prognostics, 'why else would one revise, enhance or amend a text but to increase its legibility or facilitate its use?' 63 Noticeably, the energetic scribal intervention occurring in the medical texts reduces sensibly in the weather anthology in K, where one encounters only occasional interlinear insertions. It appears that the Kassel scribes were more reluctant to make significant changes to prognosticatory and divinatory texts than to medical and computistical items.…”

The Gift of the Gab in Post-Conquest Canterbury: Mystical “Gibberish” in London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A. xv

“…Chardonnens and Roy Liuzza observe that these texts are not grouped together according to genre in the manuscript witnesses, perhaps reflecting the individual interests of original compilers. 17 Liuzza, however, also says that their appearance in manuscriptsincluding Caligula A. xvseems to mark a point of intersection between medicine and computus. 18 Caligula A. xv has often been perceived as a miscellaneous collection, and its prognostications and rituals have been interpreted as superstitious customs and magical pagan cures that were intermingled with mainstream Christian texts and "scientific" materials.…”