Detail View: Medieval Collection: Charms and recipes
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Image Number:
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JRL0911750dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 404
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Charms and recipes
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Parent Work Title:
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Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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English Medical Manuscript
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Date Created:
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15th century
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Page:
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40r
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Image Sequence Number:
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040r
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Description:
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Medical recipes. Marginalia line 10: 'heverose:' Line 25 'anone' as an indecipherable amendment made to it. Line 16, first 'harte' is crossed through. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
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Transcription:
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1. and take an hanfull of comyn & a qyantite 2. vergyn wax & a quantite baruwes grece 3. seth hem al to ged(er) & wryng it thurgh 4. an cloth. & let a byle. & noyntte þ(er) w(t) 5. þ(t) sore whan it is nede & he shal hele. 6. ffor aman þ(t) pyssyth blode drynke the horys þ(t) ys 7. yn þe neste of þe salowe in hote wat(er) & he shall 8. be hold. 9. ffor eche of hede pouude rewe w(t) þe grounde 10. of heuerose & s[m]er þe te(~)pelys. Oþ(er) pounde hyl- 11. wort w(t) his fflourys & yif hym to drynk 12. in hote wat(er) & kepe hym fastyng for to 13. none. Oþ(er) pound rewe w(t) salt hony & 14. lay to þe hede. 15. ffor þe felon þ(t) makyth þe hede swel take þe 16. grece of þe [$harte] harte & hony & barlymele 17. & [hey hone] & þe docke & seth hem al to ged(er) & shaf 18. þ(t) hede of þe seke & lay þe plastyr all [W]ote vpon þe 19. hede & let be þ(er) tile it be hole. 20. ffor rache of mans body w(t) yn take hondestong 21. & morele & seth hem yn ale in a [u]ern pot & 22. hel þe pot þ(t) no hete may oute w(t) a cloth & yif 23. þe seke to drynke anone hote a morow cold it is good 24. ffor sore w(t) yn gott(es) take þe rote of þe clo[t]e & do yn ale 25. & yif þe seke to drynke anone hote amorow cold
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Medicine--History
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Subject:
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Recipes
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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1200 - 1500 CE
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Places Covered:
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England
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Item Height:
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207 mm
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Item Width:
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140 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Acquired by the John Rylands Library as part of Mrs Rylands's bequest; accessioned in September 1928.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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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.
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.49.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-03-13
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Multi Page Number:
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415
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-05
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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