COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911742dc
Reference Number:
English MS 404
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Charms and recipes
Parent Work Title:
Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
Alternative Parent Work Title:
English Medical Manuscript
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
36r
Image Sequence Number:
036r
Description:
Seven medical recipes. Line 1 is mostly torn or eaten away, and a repair has been made between lines 9-13. The right margin of the whole folio is torn away, so many lines end short. Line 2 prob 'trickle' not a 'b' as Lester says. $ = doodles of flowers etc after text on line 3. Line 15 doodle or initials. Lines 15 and 23, 'probatum est'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. undyr þe tounge and when 2. or þe sede þer of and tryakull and dryn[*] 3. shall be holle [$] 4. ffor þe brynnyng 5. ffor man or wo[o]man and chylde þ(t) hutl huyth any sore 6. lette hy(~)m take aquantyte of oyle oll[u]f and as moche of [*] 7. and pute hem to gedyr in to a wessell and lete þem te [*] 8. þey congyle Jn on and waxe vty[nm]ent [*][*]en a[n] 9. w(t) [&] all i(~) it shall make þe sore he[l]e 10. Ad(r)ynke ffor þe hede [*rke] 11. Thake betenye v(er)[m]tyne and wall[*] [*]rte and [*]er cor 12. and [benys] sethe (^þem) jn watt(er) and drynke it ffastynge 13. ffor þe stone 14. Thake of blode of ukyde w(t) whyte [*]oue [*]ake w[arm]e [*] 15. shall breke the stone. p(ro)b [££] 16. Ano[d] for c[l]ensyng(es) of þe hed 17. Thake þe rotte of pelleter and chew it iij dayes an[d] 18. spurge & [þ]y hide and for do þe ache and [sesten] þe[ll] 19. for to do here grow & wexe 20. Thake and make lye of hau(er)stra[n]e askys and washe thy hed 21. for [a]we[bb]e [y]n a mans yee 22. Thake whyte wyne wat(er) & hony portyonly medell hem to gedyr 23. and þe drop it in hys yee & it shall breke þe webbe p(ro)b
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:
375
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Charms and recipes
