COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911685dc
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:
7v
Image Sequence Number:
007v
Description:
Medical recipes. Line 14 Gilbertus Anglicus has 'squillia'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. nat oft (^ofte) sithis / But if the Ache be of malycoly þ(t) is to 2. sey of drinesse And of colde lete hym vse vashynge and 3. þ(e) Anoyntyge And plastres þof þ(e) Ache w(^e)re of the fleume 4. And the same manar of dyetynge in etynge And dryinkynge 5. And slepynge and suche odir doynge but vse he oxemel 6. co(~)pounyd to purge hym of malyncoly or oþ(er) simple oximel 7. Simple oximel is made Take .ij. p(ar)tyes of vynegre 8. And ony p(ar)ty of hony And medil hem to gedir ou(er) the feere 9. Oximel compound / is in .ij. man(er) sume ys made of 10. oximel simple And a noþ(er) þinge put þ(er) to as oximel siswil 11. lytyke And oxemel of radiche þ(t) oþ(er) Oximel Compo- 12. unde / is made of oxemel simple & of many man(er) þinges . 13. Oximel siswyllytyk / is made take an onyou(~) of þ(e) see þ(t) 14. is clepid in latyn siswille And do awey the vttir shallis 15. of þ(e) onyou(~) for þey ben to hoot And as many as þ(u) doyst 16. a wey of þ(e) vtmest so fele do a wey of þ(e) jnmast for þey 17. ben to colde And take þo þ(t) ben in þ(e) myddy And sethe hem in 18. vynegre And þan clense hit And cast þ(er) to þ(e) þirde parte of 19. hony And make it vp Oxemel of radiche is þus 20. made Take þ(e) rote of radich And kitt it in smale rol- 21. lys þynne And sethe hem in venegre And aftir clense 22. it And cast þ(er) to clene þynne hony Oxemel Com- 23. pounde is mad of þinges many hit defieth malyncolye 24. And departith it and makith it þynne And openyth þ(e) 25. weys þ(t) ben stopped of þ(e) lyu(er) And Also of the splene 26. Take the rote merche And of ffenell And of p(er)cele cama- 27. myll tyme rosmarye sengrene And sethe hem in vyne- 28. gre And oþ(er) herbes þ(t) purgith malyncoly And if þ(u) wilt 29. haue hit stronge doo seen þ(er) to and clense it & sethen
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:
90
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
