Medical miscellany preceded by leaves from a liturgical manuscript (lectionary?) with musical notation (ff. ii recto-ix verso). Texts include: Treatise on urine (ff. 1r-23v); Regimen of health (ff. 23v-32r); Four medical recipes (ff. 32r-32v).
Treatise on urine in Middle English with chapter titles in Latin. A list of uroscopic symptoms possibly drawn from a number of sources. It appears to differ from the Middle English compilation by Henry Daniel (fl. 1379), a Dominican friar and horticulturist. Incipit: 'Urene is clensyng of blode a...
Medical recipes (four recipes). The recipes relate to gout, stomach and eyes. Rubric: 'A goude medicine for þe goute', incipit: 'Take þe milk of a / cowe of on coloure and bene mele of ynde and seethe / hem'. Listed in Robins 1970.
Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
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This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
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This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
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1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts ...
John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
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A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
