COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911719dc
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:
24v
Image Sequence Number:
024v
Description:
Medical recipes. Written in top margin: 'straytenes of þrotte . To clence voce [*] horsȝenes .' Line 3: 'brose' is written above 'banne'. Line 28 in left margin: 'checke sed . sen*r'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
Transcription:
1. stampe horehounde and temp(er) it w(t) hony & a noynt 2. þe scabbe ffor wormys in handys Take hen- 3. banne seed a good quantite & caste it in þ(e) fire & 4. holde þin handys þ(er) ou(er) & aft(er) wasshe þyn handys 5. in warme wat(er) and shalte see þ(e) wormys come 6. oute a boven on þ(e) watir ffor a stynkynge 7. mouþ(e) seþ(e) mynt(es) in good venegre & whasshe 8. þi mouþ(e) & þi gomys þ(er) w(t) & aft(er) rubb hem well 9. w(t) dry mynte ffor a sekenesse in þ(e) þrote a 10. namely whan þ(e) þrote is strayt Take þe 11. jus of woodrof w(t) stale ale ffor to clere þ(e) 12. voys and þ(e) horsnesse Take þ(e) jus of horhounde 13. & wat(er) cresses & sene synecrene of eche myche 14. & seþ(e) hem w(t) hony & make it in a letuarie & vse 15. it ffor . A stynkynge mouthe Take þ(e) jus of 16. blake mynt & þe(~) jus of rew of iche meche & put it 17. in to þe nose þryllys ffor to staunche blood of 18. þ(e) nose Take betayne & stampe it w(t) a litil 19. salt & put in þ(e) nose þrellys ffor þ(e) flix of 20. blood Take ȝarowȝ & whybrode & stampe 21. hem & take þ(e) jus of hem & faire floure of whyete 22. & te(~)p(er) hem to gedir & make a cake & bake it 23. in asschis & lett hym ete þ(er) of as hoot as he may 24. suffre ffor hy(~) þ(t) may not slepe Take 25. letuse seed & smalache seed & stampe hem in a 26. morter & temp(er) hem w(t) þ(e) white of an eye 27. & bynde it to þ(e) forhede Also take chesse seed 28. & stampe it & te(~)p(er) it w(t) wy(~)n & drinke it Also
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:
260
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
