COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911691dc
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:
10v
Image Sequence Number:
010v
Description:
Medical recipes. Note line 28 when the word is split, the consonant is doubled. Line 11 in left margin: 'A glyst(er).' Line 16 in left margin: 'To make A glest(er)'. Note that a similar recipe is extant in Liber de diversis medicinis approx f 305v. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. here will and þret men and mysseyn and misseyn hym but if 2. it be nat a verre ffransye and come nat but of som odir postom 3. of þ(e) stomake or of þ(e) brist or of þ(e) woman þ(e) postom of þ(e) skynne 4. þ(t) a j childe is conceyved jnne And þ(e) cause þ(er) of is ffor þ(e) colerik 5. mat(er) þ(t) shulde make þe vryne reed and shulde come dou(~)n wt 6. þ(e) uryne it passith into þ(e) heed and maketh a man ffrantik 7. and this sekenesse odir whiles is a sekenesse be hym self . 8. and oþ(er) whilis it folowith anoþ(er) sekenesse . If it is seke 9. nesse of hym self hit may þus be holpyn ffirst late 10. rubbe well and softly the soles of his ffete wt 11. vynegre and if he may nat well take a purgaciou(~) 12. of his heed make hy(m) a glistere in þis wise Take þ(e) 13. hokke and þ(e) holy hokke and þ(e) holy hokke flax se[n]e 14. fenel and salt and mercurye and seþe hem in watir 15. Ano(~) and aftir clense hit & cast þ(er) to hony and oyle 16. and let hym receyvyn hit by his foundement aftirwar- 17. de shave his hede and ley þ(er) to a warme plastre of 18. colde herbes to dryve jnne ayen þ(e) smoke þ(t) comyþ(e) to 19. þe bray(~)n and aft(er)warde if it nedith take a yonge welpe 20. and slitt hym atwoo and cast a wey þ(e) quitis And 21. ley it all hoot to his hide And whan he is colde ley 22. þ(er) to a noþ(er) for moo þ(t) þ(u) hast þ(e) bettir hit is And if þ(u) 23. hast but one whan he is colde caste hoot watir in to 24. hym and ley hym to efte sones And aftirwarde take 25. an unce of popylyon and.ij. unce of henbane & 26. an unce of opiu(~) and .iij. unce of blacke pope And 27. poudir þis and medil h(t) w(t) popylyou(~) And w(t) wo(~)man- 28. nys mylke þ(t) fedith a maydyn childe And w(t) the 29. jus of syngrene and make þ(er) of a plastre and make
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:
120
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
