Detail View: Medieval Collection: Medical recipes

Image Number: 
JRL0911709dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 404
Previous Accession Number: 
R24458
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: 
19v
Image Sequence Number: 
019v
Description: 
Medical recipes. ' . megryme .' is written in top margin. Line 3: 'selendyn' is written above 'solydoyne'. Line 14 'yel' is written above 'white' , and 'yelke' is writen in the left margin. Line 18 above 'chew' what look like several and graphs. Line 19 an amendation to the recipe ?? by a later scribe. '. herbe. endjve . endef ' are written in the bottom margin. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription: 
1 of encens w(t) vynegre & noynt he(~) þ(er) w(t) ffor Cankr 2 in tetis Take þ(e) torde of a goos & þ(e) jus of 3 solydoyne & grynde he(~) wel in a mort(er) & ley þ(er) of 4 on þ(e) sore tete & it shall sle þ(e) cankre and hele it 5 Anoþ(er) for þ(e) same Take dowys donge hony & 6 vyrgyne wex floure of barly & of benys & lyn 7 sede & sethe he(~) in venegre or wy(~)n & put þ(er) to 8 Ramys talowe & make þ(er) of a plast(er) & ley þ(er) on 9 Take sede of henbane & breke it & seþ(e) it in wy(~)ne 10 & ley it on þ(e) breste & it shal do a wey þ(e) bolnynge 11 ffor Akynge of þ(e) heede Take þe jus of jvy 12 & poudir of pep(er) & medill he(~) to gedir and drinke 13 it for it is p(ro)ved Anoþ(er) for Akynge of þ(e) heede 14 be hynde Sta(~)pe sauge w(t) þ(e) white of an eye 15 & temp(er) it wel w(t) vynegre & make a plast(er) & ley 16 þ(er) to ffor þ(e) Migry(~)m Take staffagor and pe- 17 luc(er) rotis of spayne kitt hem in to gobettis bynde 18 he(~) or sowe he(~) in a cloþe and chew hit in þ(e) cloþe 19 ofte to þ(e) sore side & it shall a mende ffor lise 20 or nettis in þ(e) heed &oþ(er) man(er) virmy(~)n 21 Take quyke lyme & temp(er) it w(t) þ(e) jus of Walwort 22 & whasshe þ(e) face þ(er) w(t) & þey shal deye ffor þe 23 mygrayn and þ(e) postu(~) in þ(e) heed & for the 24 dropsye & þe fenerys and al man(ner) of Ache 25 in þ(e) heed Take .iiij. peny weyht of þ(e) rote 26 of peletter of spayne and a oo wheyhte of spyke-
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: 
Creative Commons License
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: 
210
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB