COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911698dc
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:
14r
Image Sequence Number:
014r
Description:
Medical recipes. Line 4 coperos = 'copperose'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. vnknde eyre to do awey þ(e) ache & a swage the swellynge 2. Take an honne (^& a) eye and rost it harde & do a way þ(e) yelke & 3. take þ(e) white and do it in a brasyn morter and do þ(er) to a 4. q(ua)rt(er) of an unc(e) of coperos & grinde hem well to gedir þ(t) it 5. be small as oynement & a noynte þ(er) w(t) þ(e) seke face & þ(t) shal 6. sees þ(e) ache And do a wey þ(e) swellynge for it is kynde þ(er) 7. for & aftir warde whan it is almost hool Anoynt þ(e) seke 8. w(t) a litill popyliou(~) & þ(t) woll douge þ(e) skyn and make it 9. hesye ffor the morfewe Take horhonde & sethe it in 10. clene rynnynge watir from a potill in to a quarte & putt 11. þ(er) to good whyte wy(~)n or ellis stale ale & þan seth it vp 12. And þis drinke at morow hoot & at evyn Also At eu(er)y tyme 13. as meche as a sauserfull at onys And þ(e) morfew shall 14. go a wey w(t) jnne .viij. days To drey up bocchis 15. And woundes Take lelye & droop out þ(e) jus & me- 16. dil it w(t) vynegre and sethe hem w(t) hony of þ(e) jus shall 17. ben .v. partis and of þ(e) hony & venegre two p(ar)tes A 18. noþ(er) boke seith þ(t) hony & venegre shulde be in four p(ar)tys 19. And of þ(e) jus þ(e) .v. p(ar)te þis woll drey vp bocchis olde 20. woundes & new & close hem faire & best of all oþ(er) ffor 21. brynnynge & scaldynge Take a q(ua)rte of swete creme 22. & an hanfull of rotis of ferne & wasshe hem clene & 23. cutt hem in smale gobett(es) & cast hem in þ(e) creme & boyle 24. hem to gedir in an erþyn pot And asay w(t) a knyf & 25. loke if it wol turne into jule þen take it & kepe it 26. fro it his p(re)cious for al man(er) of brennynge chauf a 27. litil þ(er) of as þ(u) wilt do pappe & þ(er) w(t) a noynt þ(e) till þ(u) be 28. hole A good Plastir for hoot postomys & sodeyn
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:
155
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
