COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911715dc
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:
22v
Image Sequence Number:
022v
Description:
Medical recipes. In the top margin is a grotesque drawing of pair of eyes with the words: 'Be War of met(es) & drenkys þ(t) hvrþ(et) þ(e) sitht of jyn' written in a later hand. Line 1: 'ortith þ(e) syȝeth .' is written in the left margin. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. loke meche inshynynge þinge & to rede meche smale 2. lett(er) to slepe a none aft(er) mete & he þ(t) haþ(e) defaute 3. in his eyen syght þ(t) he must be ware þ(t) he ete 4. nat til his raþ mete be defijd & be ware of 5. dronkynnesse And þ(t) he brake nat be fore mete 6. Ne take nat to meche slepe ne to meche blood 7. letynge w(t) cuppynge all man(er) met(es) þ(t) ben sharpe 8. salte & stronge ne wy(~)n þ(t) is trowbly ne lek(es) 9. ne onyons ne ete wust(es) of cold ne figges 10. ne garlyke benys wynde smoke fire sound 11. hote blode grete travayle ches wepynge grete stok(es) 12. pepir mustarde & meche walkynge. Al þese ben euyll for þ(e) 13. sighte ffor Akynge of ey(~)n Take new fresshe 14. chesse & ley vppon þ(e) eyen & it shall A voyde þ(e) akynge 15. Anoþ(er) for þ(e) same. Who so anoynt his ey(~)n w(t) þ(e) 16. mylke of too wemmen þ(t) is of þ(e) mod(er) & of þ(e) dowet(er) 17. he shal neu(er) hau Akynge in his eyn ffor ey(~)n þ(t) 18. ben ronnynge & blerid þoughe þ(e) ledys ben 19. ou(er) tervid w(t) jnne Take Arment hony and 20. white of an eye evynly & temp(er) hem to ged(er) 21. wel & take fflex & whete it þ(er) jnne & wrynge 22. it & þan bat(er) of þ(e) same aȝen þ(er) on as it were 23. aplast(er) & ley it to þ(e) eyen Also take þ(e) jus of 24. wormode & temp(er) hit w(t) hony & a noynt þ(er) w(t) 25. & helpith meche al man(er) akynge & manye oþ(er)e
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:
240
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
