Detail View: Medieval Collection: Notes on urine
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Image Number:
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JRL0911759dc
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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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Notes on urine
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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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44v
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Image Sequence Number:
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044v
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Description:
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Uroscopy up to line 18. Lines 19-21 are a culinary recipe in a different scribal hand, and a third scribal hand from line 22 'To knowe a manys water froe a womanys', also a surgical note on childbirth. $ letterform corrected after intial error. Marginalia in left margin next to lines 7-9: '[*] jn woman [*]e hath [*]oncevd'. The written space is c. 163 x 115 mm and the script is anglicana.
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Transcription:
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1. vryn[e] þ(t) is full of ryoll & la[n]gstond /& brekys noght it 2. is tokyn of wynde closd in þe bowellys /& it is tokyn 3. of spyce of colica passio if þe vryne be reed / vryne fat 4. a boue is tokyn of a bade stomak / vryne þ(t) hath 5. fa[ces] shynende asse in a meror in a ma(n) þ(t) is tokyn 6. þ(t) he is hurt in þe sp(^l)ene or þ(t) he hath a postyme of 7. blod / & in a woman it is tokyn þ(t) sche hath con- 8. seyued a knaue chyld / vryne þ(t) hath smale dyu- (thyngs) 9. uys vndr þe serckyll / it is to kenynge þ(t) rewme of 10. þe hed is fallyn downe to þe brest // B[u]tty vryne 11. is browyn hauend a blak serkyll bytwyx to 12. reed serkylys in cause of hete / Cutty Wayr 13. in cause of cold is white hauend a broune ser- 14. kyll (^b)etwyx towe [*] cytu(ur) serkelis / vryne red as wyne 15. is tok[e]ynyng of gret hete in þe body & all (^so) of þe purpilys // . 16. vryne shynend as gold is token of gode hele & lykynge- 17. nes of herte // vryne of man þ(t) is whit & full of 18. bran is tokyn of þe morfewe & c(etera) 19. Take jariuavnddar the whiche herbe is grenne and stoppe a henne (^or) cappou(~) (^or) come 20. or othir (^fowlys) they beyng holde jn age. othur newe kelid & Roste hym up them forth 21. with and thay shall be tendyr as a yonge chekyn[~] : . 22. To knowe a manys wat(er) froe a womanys . Take ye ere wex and 23. a batt as meche as a penys hedde or more & putte yn(~) to 24. the vryn and if it bydde a bowue it is a manys wat(er) and 25. yeff it gooe downe it is womanys wat(er). 26. To torne a chelde if it lye ou(er) thwart in the motheris belle 27. Take ij croppis of cot[h]n wode & shaffe it in your hondde 28. and putte it in hire nos[*] relys leche meche and þe shelde 29. shalle torne & þe mothir be sovnne be delyu(er)yd w(t) godys helpe
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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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Childbirth
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Subject:
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Urine--Analysis
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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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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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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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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-03-13
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Multi Page Number:
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460
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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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