COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911708dc
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:
19r
Image Sequence Number:
019r
Description:
Medical recipes. Line 2 'Aman' is written above 'heme'; line 15: 'swelowe' is written above 'swill'; line 19 'downge' is written above 'mukke'. Line 17 a scribal error is crossed through and then blotted out with ink. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. liche meche & make litil Ballis þ(er) of & yeve hir one 2. or twoo þ(t) same nyght she shal haue heme & dispose 3. hir to conseyve childe berynge A woman þ(t) t(ra) 4. valith of Childe yeve hir to drinke deteyu(~) in þ(e) mo- 5. rowy(~)n & she shalle ben delyu(er)ed w(t) outyn peryle 6. Anoþ(er) yeue her to drynke Jsape w(t) hoot wat(er) 7. And she shal be delyu(er)yd w(t) out p(er)el þouȝ þ(e) childe 8. be dede borne & rotyn & a none aftir þ(t) she is 9. deliu(er)yd yeve it her w(t) hoot wy(~)n A noþ(er) yeve to 10. drinke þ(e) jus of savyn w(t) hoot watir & it doþ(e) þ(e) 11. same ffor akynge of tetis Take myn(~)tes 12. & wy(~)n & oyle of olyue & sethe he(~) to gedir & bynde 13. he(~) to þ(e) tetis & it shal do a wey þ(e) akynge A 14. noþ(er) for akynge or rankelynge Take þ(e) 15. jus of grounide swill & half so meche jus of daysye 16. & drinke it w(t) stale ale first & laste ffor akynge 17. of tetis þ(t) comiþ of [*] to meche mylle Take 18. poud(er) of hempe sede & yeve it hir in metis & 19. drinkys Also for tetis Take dow(^v)ys mukke 20. & medill it w(t) hony & a litil wax & make a 21. plast(er) & ley it on a cloþ(e) & ley it to þ(e) soore 22. ffor to make a womanys tetis smale 23. stampe þ(e) sede of hemlok w(t) vynegre & þ(er) 24. w(t) a noyne he(~) ofte. ffor make tet(es) harde 25. Anoynt he(~) ofte w(t) þ(e) jus of mynt(es) ffor 26. to make tetis smale Medil þ(e) poud(er)
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:
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.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.49.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-03-13
Multi Page Number:
205
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
