COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911747dc
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:
38v
Image Sequence Number:
038v
Description:
Medical recipes. Line 23: note the h-dropping. Marginalia next to lines 4 and 5 in the left margin, the second half of both words 'narow brest'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. venom of bytyng of styngyng of eny man(er) bestys enemouse 2. & hit wol seese a kyng & rankelyng / Also g(a)rleke stampe 3. it w(t) hony & salt is gode to sese ache./ Also stampe garleke 4. & botur to gedr & te(~)p(er) hem w(t) whyne & boyle hem yn 5. apan & yif hym to drynk þ(t) ys narow brestyd wel 6. warm & þ(t) shall make hym solible & delyu(er) þe brest 7. of glet & of felth & yff þe seke man may not drynk it 8. for swete put þ(er) to a gode quantyte of salt & þen let 9. hym drynk it & þ(t) shal make dylyu(er)aunce & garlek is 10. gode to use to many met(es). 11. Wormode take wormode or is rote & þe seede of rewe salt 12. & pep(er)e & stampe hem & te(~)p(er)e hem w(t) wyn & seth hem 13. & dryng hem for [for] to dystroye raw humouris of þe 14. stomak stamp to gedr wormode & gladen & drynke it 15. & it helpyth þe brest wondyrly ete þ(is) erbe & smalache 16. to gedyr for þe ja[un]es. Wormoude dro(~)kyn helpyth 17. aye[n]st þe bytyng of benemuse bestys wormode stampy(d) 18. & medyll with hony cleryn þe iʒen þ(t) ben an entyd. 19. þ(er) w(t). and yif thy erys be stoppyd seth wormode & 20. let þe sau(er) þ(er) of go yn to thyn erys yif they ryn ou(er) 21. qwytyr stamp hem & laye it ou(er) hem & medle it 22. w(t) hony & yif thy chekys ben swollen put þe same 23. w(t) yn forth & stamp hit & it elpyth fres[c]h wound(es) 24. seth it in wyn & hony & lay it in plast(er) to boche or 25. to wounde in þe hede / a bath of wormode woll dys 26. troy ych / drynk it w(t) Wyn & it wol staunch
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:
400
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
