Detail View: Medieval Collection: Medical recipes
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Image Number:
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JRL0911719dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 404
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Medical recipes
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Parent Work Title:
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Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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English Medical Manuscript
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Date Created:
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15th century
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Page:
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24v
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Image Sequence Number:
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024v
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Description:
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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.
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Transcription:
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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
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Medicine--History
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Subject:
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Recipes
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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1200 - 1500 CE
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Places Covered:
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England
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Item Height:
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207 mm
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Item Width:
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140 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Acquired by the John Rylands Library as part of Mrs Rylands's bequest; accessioned in September 1928.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.49.
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References:
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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.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-03-13
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Multi Page Number:
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260
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-05
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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