COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911730dc
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:
30r
Image Sequence Number:
030r
Description:
Medical recipes. 'stone . for pesse .' is written in the top margin. Line 2 'p(ro)batu(~) est' is faintly underlined. 'stamp' and 'stomp' lines 4 and 7 have (~) over them. Line 20: ?could be 'shelled', as in 'separated' Line 22: oil of eggs. Line 27-29: in left margin is written 'mogworte for [svell] of fete.' The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. fovnnmete & let þ(e) seke sete bar on þ(e) stolle & þ(s) 2. whyse lete he(~) do til he be holle /p(ro)batu(~) est ffor [a] 3. þ(t) hath an ache i(~) lyndis/ Take weybrode & sansych 4. & stam(~)p he(~) & do þ(t) to borys gres & make a plast(er) & 5. ley þ(er) to warme ffor þ(e) stone/ Take gre[u]yll & p(er)le 6. þ(e) rede nettil vyolet ache cherystonys kernellys 7. & stom(~)p þ(e) kernellys by he(~) selfve i(~) a brasen mort(er) 8. & þ(s) herbis i(~) a stone mort(er) & þ(en) do i(~) apotte of erþ(e) 9. & do þ(er) to whyte why wyne & let seþ(e) ou(er) þe fyr & 10. so let it stonde i(~) þ(e) same vessell & yefe þ(er) of þ(e) seke drenke 11. sumdell warme he shalle holle. ffor aman þ(t) pissiþ(e) 12. blodde/ Take anfull sangurnary [M.j.] þ(t) is to 13. say halfe an hanfull p(er)cely sede . [M.j.] stomp he(~) 14. & te(~)p he(~) w(t) goode mylke & yeve þ(e) seke drenke 15. Who so may not well pysse ' Take rew [G]romet . 16. & p(er)cely stompe he(~) & te(~)p(er) hem w(t) white whyne or alle 17. yefve hy(~) to drenke warme . ffor hy(~) þ(t) hath swolyn 18. ballockys/ Take powd(er) of co(~)yn & barly melle & hony 19. frye he(~) to ged(er) & make A warme plast(er) & byne (^to) he(~) . 20. ffor A man þ(t) is shalled on his pyntill þ(t) is clepyd a 21. pygal/ Take a lynnyn cloþ(e) þ(t) is clene wasschyn & 22. brenne it & make þ(er) of powd(er) & take þ(e) oyle o egys & 23. a novnte þ(e) soor þ(er) w(t) & put þ(e) powd(er) i(~) þ(e) holys whan þey 24. byn a noynted & þ(t) shall helle eny pyntill þ(t) is shallyd 25. or sore . for akyn or swyllyng i(~) þ(e) thyes or jn þ(e) fete 26. Take þ(e) rotte of walworte & seth it i(~) wat(er) & do a whay þ(e) 27. ou(er)yste ryu(~)e & take þ(e) myddelyste & stamppe it & do þ(er) 28. to boris gres & make a plast(er) as hot as ʒe may soffir . 29. ffor ache swelyng of legis /or fette/ Take otemele & cowe 30. mylke & make þ(er) of growell & do þ(er) to þ(e) juyste of syngryn 31. & shepis talowe & let he(~) bowle al to geþ(er) til it be
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:
315
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
