COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911686dc
Reference Number:
English MS 404
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Medical recipes
Parent Work Title:
Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
Alternative Parent Work Title:
English Medical Manuscript
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
8r
Image Sequence Number:
008r
Description:
Medical recipes. '.vacate.' is written in the top margin. Line 26 Gilbertus Ang has hot and cold the other way around; Line 27 GA has 'woll' where we have 'might'. Line 9 left margin 'þt' is written, with a line pointing, leading down to where the recipe for arabic pillules starts. Line 23 note the triple negation. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. do þ(er) to clene hony And thenne And if þou wolt yeve A man 2. oxemel compound yeve hym fest Oxemel simple /But if þ(e) 3. hedeache come of the sekenesse of þ(e) stomake or off 4. any othir sekenesse of any oþ(er) membre / hele þ(t) membre 5. of sekenesse and þen þ(e) ache woll a wey And yf it come of 6. meche wakynge make hym to slepe And if it come of An- 7. gre or of sorow or of meche ffastynge / lete hym leue suche 8. þinges And if he hathe demygrym þ(t) is þ(e) ache on þ(e) on syde 9. of þ(e) hede lete hym vse pullulees of arabye for þis ben good 10. for eu(er)y sekenesse of þ(e) hede And for eu(er)y Ache of þ(e) heed And it purg- 11. gith all noyfull humours of þ(e) brayne And makith a manglad 12. And þ doþe awey heuynesse And sharpith a mannys witt 13. & A mannys sight And savith his mynde And sufferth nat 14. a manbe hore heded by fore his tyme And helpith men þ(t) 15. hathe þ(e) turnynge of brayne And þ(e) demygrym & þey ben 16. p(ro)fitable boþ(e) to man and woman And þey ben mad in þis 17. wise Take of Alces epatik .iiij. dramys bryony mastik 18. boxes of lorel of shawynge of clowys of eu(er)yche of þes 19. a drame and medis with þ(e) jus of cole of fenel And do 20. þ(er) to a litill hony for to saue hit for hony woll save all 21. man(er) of medecynes þ(t) it is put to fro A peyrynge Also 22. of men that han the hed ache of any hum(ur) in þ(e) 23. hed Ne ete þey not neyþ(er) Comyn Aneys ne oþ(er) Aromatik þing(es) 24. for þey woll ben vp smoke to þ(e) hede þ(t) shulde encrese þ(e) ache 25. And yf þ(er) be any enplaystre leyd on the heed it myght ben 26. warme þoughe it be of colde herbes to abate þ(e) hete of þ(e) heed 27. ffor if it be leyde all colde to þ(e) heed it myght do harme to the 28. brayne And in mannys hed ben many oþ(er) sekenessis
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Medicine--History
Subject:
Recipes
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
England
Item Height:
207 mm
Item Width:
140 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Acquired by the John Rylands Library as part of Mrs Rylands's bequest; accessioned in September 1928.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.49.
References:
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 424-25. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-03-13
Multi Page Number:
95
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Medical recipes
