COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911696dc
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:
13r
Image Sequence Number:
013r
Description:
Medical recipes. On line 4, 'take' is written twice. Line 8 above rode: 'rodis'. Line 9 to line 13 in left margin, in what seems to be the same hand as the scribe of folio 3v; 'wynde of the bode that wylle aryse'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. good bundell (^hanful.) and bynde it & put it in þ(i) drinke. ffor the peste- 2. lence Take Aloes & make it in to poudir and medill it with 3. clarefie hony And vse a sponfull first & last ffor the modir 4. of þ(e) euyll take Take an onyon and Cutt out þ(e) myddill 5. and fill þ(e) hole ful of poudir of Aneys & comyn and cou(er) it 6. well w(t) þ(e) ou(er) pele & rost it in þ(e) fere & anon ete it & vse it oftyn 7. ffor the whynde of the body þat wol a rise vpe 8. Take radishe rotys p(er)sley rotis & sauge & rode floures of hok 9. kes & boyle hem in faire watir w(t) a messe of fresshe motou(~)n & dri- 10. nke þ(e) broþ(e) þ(er) of and wasshe þi feet in crop madir ffor wormys 11. in an hors bely Take a man(er) of seed þ(t) is called senecreke 12. & vse hym w(t) otys Also arnement stampyd & temp(er) it w(t) ale & 13. yeve hym Also Arsmynt on þe same wise ffor the syke or de- 14. faut of wynde and oþir sekenesse Take enula Cam- 15. pana rote in þ(e) herte of may pare hit dight it & kitt it small 16. & put it in venegre till it be softe And þan drey it þan take 17. puryd hony And caste hem boþ(e) in a chaffroir Take rotis of lilis 18. of hokys of dokke rotis And whassh hem clene and Cutt hem 19. smale and boyle hem in watir til it be nesshe þen take hem 20. out of þ(e) watir and bray hem small in a morter and take 21. half as meche of soure douȝe and stampe þ(er) w(t) & frie it w(t) 22. swynys gres & as hoot as it may be sufferid ley it on þ(e) 23. bath for it shall also gedir and brke ffor Ache A prevyd 24. medecyn Take hony boris gres & barowes gres & lelys 25. or þ(e) rotis & bray hem and make an oynment of hem & a 26. noy(~)t þ(e) place w(t) þ(e) licoure ayen þ(e) ofte And make A plastre
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:
145
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
