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COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911746dc
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:
38r
Image Sequence Number:
038r
Description:
Medical recipes. Line 1: 'oil of roset' = a distillation of roses (OED). Line 2 '.ache' is written in the right margin. Line 7: ?'recis'. line 8 this colon is added by a later scribe. Marginalia: line 9 'fever(s)' is written in left margin. Line 11 left margin: 'bjtyng of a wodh-owne' Line 15 left margin: 'lecher' Line 17 left margin: 'feve' Line 22 % = ink blotch. In the top margin, 'hede ache' can be made out where the rest of the writing is torn away. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. it wyth oyle roset odyr wyth wat(er) of Rose & make an 2. plast(er) þ(er) of an lay to þ(e) temple þ(t) shall sese þ(e) hede ache 3. & make hym slepe & to haue good rest / Also drynk 4. popy wat(er) a gode quantite & þ(t) wol make a man 5. to slepe þ(t) is seke. / Also þ(e) seede þ(t) is white it is gode 6. yn A lectuar & yn syryp for þ(e) (teth) & for hosnesse. 7. [*]etis is for to drynk w(t) old wyn for styngyng of a neddr 8. & it helyth wondurfully: for þ(e) feuerys ʒif hym to drynk 9. in hys acces / Also for þ(e) kankyr in þ(e) wonde seth þ(is) 10. erbe yn wat(er) & whashe þ(e) wonde þ(er) w(t) for bytyng 11. of an woude hownde stampe þ(is)erbe w(t) grete salte 12. & lay hit to þ(e) wounde & it shall draw oute þ(e) venu(~) 13. & aswage þ(e) akyng & þ(e) rankelyng. 14. Honnystong cher lang is all on it is cold & moyst 15. yn iij deg(es) hit confortyth. lecchery. / Also seth it w(t) þ(e) 16. seede & þ(e) rote & lete þ(e) seke drynk it for þ(e) feu(er)e quar- 17. teyn & it shall saue hyme by þ(e) iij daye / Also it is 18. gode for houndys bytyng & yif an damysel whassch 19. hir pappis whith & venegr it shal hold hym long 20. smale & hard. 21. Garleke þ(is) ben þ(e) vertues stampe hit & temp(er)e it w(t) hony 22. & hit wol hele þ(e) bytyng of an wodehonde & for [%] al 23. man(er) strokys þ(t) ben venomousse & it shall for nedder(s) 24. & for all man(er) venemousse best(es) þ(t) they shul not com 25. negh þ(e) for to do þ(e) harme Whylis yt is vpon the / 26. Also stampe yt & te(~)p(er)e it w(t) hony & it drawyth oute
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:
Creative Commons License
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:
395
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

Charms and recipes