Detail View: Medieval Collection: Charms and recipes
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Image Number:
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JRL0911746dc
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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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Charms and 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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38r
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Image Sequence Number:
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038r
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Description:
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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.
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Transcription:
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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
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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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395
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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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