COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911740dc
Reference Number:
English MS 404
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Charms and recipes
Alternative Image Title:
Dies mali et boni
Parent Work Title:
Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
Alternative Parent Work Title:
English Medical Manuscript
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
35r
Image Sequence Number:
035r
Description:
On the 'dies mali' (unlucky days of the medieval calendar) and days not to let blood. The top margin, including much of the first and second lines, and the right hand corner, are missing. Line 3: a mark like an initial at the end of the line. Lines 8-9 have a repair over a tear. Line 19: last words possibly veins? The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. September hath ij d[aye] 2. October hath ij daye þe vj daye 3. Nouenber hath ij dayes þe xv & þe xix(e) 4. December hath ij dayes þe vj and þe viij 5. off þres dayes [b]e be [w]a[r] eche man(er) þ(t) will 6. vse to late blode goode of medycyne takekynge 7. And namelyche of þise dayes þe la[s][d] daye 8. of feuerell and þe fyrste daye of december 9. ffor who þ(t) in any of þise ij dayes doth late 10. hem blode w(t) in x[l] dayes he shall be dede 11. And who þ(t) in þe xvij daye. of marche or in þe 12. xj daye auerell latyth hym blode he shall neu(er) lefyth 13. hye fyʒte. and w[h]o þ(t) in þe ende of maye in þe iiij. 14. daye or in þe v lattythe hym blode he shall neu(er) haue seu[*] 15. There ben iij dayes in þe ʒere in þe whyche no man shal[l] 16. ffor non nede ne for non encheson lesse hys blode ne no ned[e] 17. Take þ(t) is to witte þe laste daye of þe moneth of Auer[ell] 18. And þe fyrste dy daye of auguste and þe daye of þe moneth 19. of december þo iij dayes ben goode to kepe. for all þe [way*] 20. of aman ben full of blode. and who on any of þyse iij d[*] 21. be l[u]te or w(t) woylde beste be smytte w(t) jnne. viij. da[*] 22. he shall be dede. for thoughe he take medcyne wondy[*] 23. he a sc[*] scape. and who þ(t) in oni of þise iij dayes ety[*] 24. fflyeshe of a [gos] or xv dayes aft(er) he shall be dede or ell[*] 25. messell or lepur or what male or female be borne in[*] 26. of þisse dayes w(t) oute doute he shall dye on eue[*]
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Medicine--History
Subject:
Charms
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:
365
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Charms and recipes
