COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911689dc
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:
9v
Image Sequence Number:
009v
Description:
Medical recipes. Line 3 Gilbertus Anglicus has 'indorum' and 'Kebulis'. Line 16 note ' blacle', (not black). Line 19, in left margin: 'oraganu(~) oranu(~)'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. p(ro)fitiþ boþ(e) to manys sight and to his heryng And þei ben 2. þus made Take Aloes þ(t) is well wasshen . ij . dramys 3. of myrab mirablanis & Keb indoȝ r rebarb [l] mastik wor- 4. mode rosys violet seneagare cusut(er) of eu(er)yche a drame 5. temp(er) all þes w(t) the jus of fenell And if þ(u) wilt make it 6. sauff cast þ(er) to . vj . dramys and a half of samone pouderid 7. and make þ(er) of gobettis of þ(e) gretnesse of a weche and yeue 8. hym . xij . or .xiij . for þey ben full laxatiff And if þou wilt 9. purge hym of þ(e) Colre double or treble of þ(e) mirablanys 10. And if be for fleume double Keb and egare and if it be 11. for malencole duble ind(er) & Cene . And if hit be for þ(t) þinge 12. þ(t) purgith clore purgith blood A p(ro)fitable salt ffor 13. to ete þ(t) purgith all hum(ur)s of manys hed 14. and ys good ffor akynge of reynys and for 15. Potagre and for the dropsye and is þ(us) made 16. Take of sal armonia & of cost . xij . dra(~)is of blacle 17. pepir . v . dramys of comyn gyng(er) whit pep(er) fenell 18. & canel of eu(er)yche a liche meche . iij . dra(~)mys of clovis 19. sedwhale galinggale quilibȝ Cardamoun . iij . dra(~)ys 20. of jsope tyme origanu(~) Caraway merche p(er)cely louage 21. of eche a dra(~)me & half make of al thes a poudir And 22. let hym vse hit in stede of salte And if þ(u) wilt make it 23. laxatiff cast þ(er) to . ij . dramys of samonye And yeve it 24. hym to drinke w(t) mete Anoþ(er) good salt that pur- 25. gith the hede and dothe a wey derknesse of eyen . 26. And ache of eris And Also the palnesye .
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:
110
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
