COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911702dc
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:
16r
Image Sequence Number:
016r
Description:
Medical recipes. In the top margin: '. stone .' is written, and again on line 6 '. stone' is written in right margin. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. tile ston glowynge hoot & put leuys of an herbe þ(t) men 2. clepyn moleyn & ley it on þ(e) tile stone vpon þ(e) Colys 3. & put it vndir a chayer or a stole w(t) a sege & lete þ(e) 4. smoke a(^c)sende in to þ(e) foundement As hoot as þ(u) maiste 5. suffre A dragge (^dren*) for þ(e) ston Take an(^e)ys Colyaunde 6. þ(e) seed of saxfrage Cheristone kernellys stanmarche 7. seed gromel seed & þ(e) seed of brom or þ(e) floure & make 8. hem in a dragge or in poudir & vse hit first & last in þi 9. potage & in warme ale use þ(e) poudir ffor þ(e) pilys 10. or þe ficchis Take þ(e) rotis of leke & boyle hem & stampe 11. hem & frye he(~) w(t) shepis talowe & as hoot as he may suf- 12. fre bynd it to his foundment And he shal be hool ffor 13. laxatiff Take hokkis & boyle hem wel w(t) stale ale 14. medil hem when þei be strayd þorouȝ a col cloþe þen 15. drinke hit ffor a canker in þ(e) mouthe Take Alym glas 16. .ij. p(ar)ties & þ(e) þirde parte of verde gres puder hem well & 17. temp(er) hem w(t) hony in man(er) of a plastir & ley to þ(e) sore A 18. noþ(er) for þ(e) same Take loueache Aur[*] & Aneys & stampe 19. hem to gedir & seth he(~) wel in vyn(~) & yeve he(~) to drink 20. as hoot as he may suffre & A none he shall cast al þ(e) 21. poysou(~) ffor tee*is teeris Cankris & scabbis Tak 22. pymp(er)nel reede nettil croppis & blacke sepe & suffurwyffe 23. & make an oynment & ley on þ(e) soore & on þ(e) fire & a 24. non yitte þ(e) sore ffor spuynge (^pisyng) of bloode Take Ache 25. rew mynte & betayne. And boyle he(~) in gotis mylke 26. & drinke it Also or take puliol or betayn & make þ(er) of 27. poudir & put þ(er) of in An eye and ete þ(er) of .iij. days
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:
175
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
