Detail View: Medieval Collection: Charms and recipes
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Image Number:
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JRL0911747dc
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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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38v
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Image Sequence Number:
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038v
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Description:
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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.
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Transcription:
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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
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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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400
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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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