COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911744dc
Reference Number:
English MS 404
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Charms and recipes
Parent Work Title:
Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
Alternative Parent Work Title:
English Medical Manuscript
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
37r
Image Sequence Number:
037r
Description:
Medical recipes. Extensive damage top margin. Down the left margin a note has been written which is too faint to make out. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. Mugwort & modyrwort is [an] [part of folio missing] [ys q ys] in iij de[g(es)] 2. this helpyth to conseyue child & clansyth þe modir and 3. doyth a woman to haue hir floures whan she h[ath] 4. lost hem Also hit doyth away e(~)moradis þ(t) waxen 5. yn amans foundement ou(er) þ(is) man(er) fyrste they shullen 6. ben carsyd & aft(er) ward take poudr of modyr wort & 7. of w(^h)oreswud to gedr & strow apon hem. Also for a 8. dede shyld þ(t) tho yn þe modyr wome take mougwort 9. & stame hit smal & lay þe plastyr ou(er) to þe modr 10. wome al cold & she shall haue chyld w(t) outyn 11. parell & hit is gode a ʒen þe stone & a ʒenst þe gra- 12. vell in þe raynys & yiff a man ber hit vpon hym 13. þ(er) shal no venemys worme n[e] best greue hym 14. & hit is gode for þe [j]aw[n]es who so woll drynk 15. hit w(t) wyne it co(~)fortyth þe stomoke. 16. henban substanse of þe same erbe it is cold in 17. iij deg(es) hit wol make aman to slepe þ(t) is yn 18. þe loude yuele yn þe hote yvyl þ(t) ben al oon take þe 19. erbe & seth it yn wat(er) & w(t) þe wat(er) wassch th[i] 20. te(~)plys & his hede by f[o]re & aft(er)ward bath [*]s 21. fete þ(er) yn as hote as he may suffry hit & þ(an) 22. make an playstyr of henbane sede beten to 23. poudr & womans mylke & leye to þe te(~)plys| 24. Also hit is gode to distroy emoraweys as 25. hote as he may suffr hit.
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:
385
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
