COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911716dc
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:
23r
Image Sequence Number:
023r
Description:
Medical recipes. In the top margin: a grotesque ink drawing of a pair of eyes, with the words '. Exp(er)iment þ(t) jpocras vsid .' written in a later hand. Line 19 seems to be a scribal error: 'cloþe' instead of 'cup'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. oþ(er) sekenesse of þ(e) eyen ffor a stroke in a manys eye 2. Take þ(e) jus of smalache & of fenell & þ(e) white of an 3. eye & medill he(~) to gedir & put it in þ(e) eyen Anoþ(er) 4. & þ(er) be blode in the eye þoroughe smytynge 5. Take .v. leuyd gras & stampe it w(t) swynys gres 6. & w(t) a litill salte & bynde it to þ(e) eye ffor to 7. claryfie þ(e) syght Take þ(e) galle of a swy(~)n & 8. þ(e) galle of an elle & þ(e) galle of a cokke And temp(er) 9. þis to geþ(er) w(t) hony & clere wat(er) & kepe it in a ves- 10. sell of bras & a noynt þ(e) eye þ(er) w(t) þis was ypo- 11. cras is exp(er)yment þ(t) ypocras vsed ffor þ(e) web 12. in a manys eye Take þ(e) Galle of an ele & 13. drey it in þ(e) sonne and make poudir & put it in þ(e) 14. eyen. Also Take rede pymp(er)nell & stampe it in a 15. morter & aft(er) þ(t) put it in a panne w(t) clene capons 16. gres or w(t) bores gres & sett it ou(er) þ(e) fire. & friȝe it 17. to gedir & aft(er) wrynge it þo(ur) a cloþ(e) into a vessell 18. of bras & lett it stonde þ(er) jnne .iij. days & aft(er) þ(t) put 19. it in to a cloþe of horne or of cop(er) & whan þ(u) wilte 20. put a litil of þis vppon þ(e) webbe in þ(e) eye & þis 21. is a souereyn medecyn ffor watryn[g] yen 22. Ete rawe betayne & it doþe a wey þ(e) watryng of 23. þe eyen Also for þ(e) same Take þ(e) leuys of þ(e) rede worte 24. & a noynt hit w(t) an eye & leye it to þe watrynge 25. eye whan he goþ(e) to bede ffor wormys þ(t) etyn 26. þ(e) eye liddis Take salte & brenne it in lynnyn
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:
245
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
