COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911750dc
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:
40r
Image Sequence Number:
040r
Description:
Medical recipes. Marginalia line 10: 'heverose:' Line 25 'anone' as an indecipherable amendment made to it. Line 16, first 'harte' is crossed through. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription:
1. and take an hanfull of comyn & a qyantite 2. vergyn wax & a quantite baruwes grece 3. seth hem al to ged(er) & wryng it thurgh 4. an cloth. & let a byle. & noyntte þ(er) w(t) 5. þ(t) sore whan it is nede & he shal hele. 6. ffor aman þ(t) pyssyth blode drynke the horys þ(t) ys 7. yn þe neste of þe salowe in hote wat(er) & he shall 8. be hold. 9. ffor eche of hede pouude rewe w(t) þe grounde 10. of heuerose & s[m]er þe te(~)pelys. Oþ(er) pounde hyl- 11. wort w(t) his fflourys & yif hym to drynk 12. in hote wat(er) & kepe hym fastyng for to 13. none. Oþ(er) pound rewe w(t) salt hony & 14. lay to þe hede. 15. ffor þe felon þ(t) makyth þe hede swel take þe 16. grece of þe [$harte] harte & hony & barlymele 17. & [hey hone] & þe docke & seth hem al to ged(er) & shaf 18. þ(t) hede of þe seke & lay þe plastyr all [W]ote vpon þe 19. hede & let be þ(er) tile it be hole. 20. ffor rache of mans body w(t) yn take hondestong 21. & morele & seth hem yn ale in a [u]ern pot & 22. hel þe pot þ(t) no hete may oute w(t) a cloth & yif 23. þe seke to drynke anone hote a morow cold it is good 24. ffor sore w(t) yn gott(es) take þe rote of þe clo[t]e & do yn ale 25. & yif þe seke to drynke anone hote amorow cold
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:
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.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.49.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-03-13
Multi Page Number:
415
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
