Detail View: Medieval Collection: Notes on urine

Image Number: 
JRL0911756dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 404
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Notes on urine
Parent Work Title: 
Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
English Medical Manuscript
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
43r
Image Sequence Number: 
043r
Description: 
Notes on the colours of urines, and a description of the four seasons in relation to the four humours. A crude flower drawing appears after 'monthes' on line 12. Lines 28 and 29 are an addendum in a smaller hand in the bottom margin. In the top right corner 'a[m]aris' is written in the same smaller hand as the crude flower drawing on line 12. Lines 28-29, written perhaps by a leech to his pupil, are also written in this hand, as are many of the notes in the margin from around f33r onwards. Line 20 'is colde and dry' is written over 'malancoly'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
Transcription: 
1. vryn whit & clere synyffyes þ(t) malencolye hath þ(e) 2. mastry in þ(e) vryne / cold is cause of whytnes in 3. vryne / & drowhte is cause clernes in vryn:/.: & þus 4. folowys þ(e) q(ua)lytes of þ(e) er the þ(t) is color & dry vryn 5. whyte & thyk ys token þ(t) fflewme hath þ(e) mastry / 6. cold ys cause of whytnesse./. moystyr ys cause of 7. thyknes in vryn:/: and þus folowys þ(e) q(ua)rteys off 8. watyr þ(t) is cold & moste :./: & aft(er) þis iiij q(ua)lites off 9. man(~) /: eyyr. ffyr./ .erthe./ &/. watyr /. blod color ma- 10. lencoly & flewme: þ(e) yieres partyd in four tymys. 11. þ(t) is to say. [*]er. Somer. hareuest. & wentyr / & euery 12. of þ(is) hath: iij. monthes 13. Marche - 14. Apryll – } ber hoot & moyste blod in þ(e) eyre 15. May – 16. June – 17. Juyle - } Somyr hote & drye color manhode fyer 18. Auguste – 19. Septembyr – heruest 20. Octobyr - Colde & dry Age malancoly erthe 21. Nouembyr – 22. Decembr – 23. Janyuer - } Wyntyr colors moyste chylde hode flewme 24. Ffebruar - Watyr 25. And also aftyr þ(is) four /. Eyir/. fyir /. Erthe.& . watyr./ 26. four & twenty oures of þ(e) day ./ rewlys /.blod ./. 27. color : malyncoly :/: & flewme ./ sex houres aft(er) 28. haue you a resspte what daie of þ(e) mone it is / And axce questionys &c(etera) what 29. daie or nygth & owr þ(t) p(er)son fvrste grogeyd & toke his sekenes &c(etera)
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Medicine--History
Subject: 
Urine--Analysis
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: 
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: 
445
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB