Detail View: Medieval Collection: Medical recipes
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Image Number:
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JRL0911718dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 404
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Previous Accession Number:
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R24458
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Medical 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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24r
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Image Sequence Number:
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024r
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Description:
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Medical recipes. Written in a later hand in the top margin: '. pale[*] & tremlyn'; 'toþ(e) ache .'; 'clenȝe þ(e) breste .' On line 20 'slepe' is written over 'shepe'. Line 9 'stampe' is cancelled with a line. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is mainly secretary.
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Transcription:
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1. colde caste it out & aftir . take newe & do so þries or 2. foure tymys & it shall hele w(t) oute doute And for 3. a principall medecy(~)n take þis yf þ(u) wilt kepe þi toþ(e) 4. ffor to make teþ(e) to stonde stedfaste . in manys 5. heed Seþ(e) þ(e) rot(es) of verveyne & whasshe þi teþ(e) 6. þ(er) w(t) A noþ(er) yf þey ben ȝelowe & blacke to 7. make he(~) white Take reye mele salt & hony 8. & do in þe same wise rubbe þi teþ(e) ffor teþ(e) that 9. wormys ben jnne Take tansey and (stampe) 10. stoppe þe toþ(e) full þ(er) of & hit shall sle þe wormys 11. ffor þ(e) morfu Take mustarde seed & salt & temp(er) 12. hem in vynegre to gedir & a noynt þe morfu ffor 13. þ(e) palnesy who so dredyþ(e) þ(e) palnesy or þ(e) falyng 14. euyl lette hym drynke .ix. days his owne pisse 15. & he shall neu(er) haue þem Also of þ(e) palnesey 16. þ(t) comyþ(e) to a man in his slepe of coldenesse 17. of þ(e) gronde Take wat(er) Cresses & lete hem 18. seþ(e) in wy(~)n to þ(e) haluy(~)del be sody(~)n a wey & make 19. þ(er) of a plast(er) & ley þ(er) to all hoot ffor tremblynge 20. handys þ(t) is a shepe of þe palnesey Seþ(e) sauge 21. well & whasshe þin hondis ofte in þ(t) wat(er) ffor 22. to clense þ(e) Breste & for rewme Take jsope 23. figgis and hony & seþ(e) he(~) well to gedir & vse 24. þis ffor Scabbis Take poudir of brymstone 25. & medyll it w(t) swynys gres & a noynt it & it 26. heliþ sone ffor þe moyst skabbe & þ(e) drye
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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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255
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by 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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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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