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41. Harley MS 2378, ff 17r-61v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 17r-61v
Title:
Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes (c. 250 recipes), imperfect. This collection was apparently put together by Nicholas Spaldyng or Spalding. Title 'For to make pelots of antioche', incipit: 'Take croppes of the rede / coole of the rede netle tansey hemp and of sparge', expl. 'ley it on þe pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

35 folios.

42. Harley MS 2378, ff 61v-62v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 61v-62v
Title:
Medical recipes (6 recipes)
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (6 recipes). Rubric (f. 61v) 'Gargaris / ius pro pro/gacione cap/itis dencium / et gingiuarum', incipit: 'Recipe senapii sangie pireter de spayn et sucus istarum herbarum', explicit: 'fratris ricardi Barton'; rubric (f. 61v) 'Pro febribus', incipit: 'Tak of wormewode scabiose fumi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

43. Harley MS 2378, ff 118v-120v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 118v-120v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (c. 15 recipes). Incipit: 'Take v graynes of catarpuse and þe quantite of hony / as a bene and put þerto ij sponful of lewke water'. Recipes copied by a number of hands. One recipe on f. 120v published in G. Henslow 1899. Listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

44. Harley MS 2378, ff 121r-135v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 121r-135v
Title:
Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of medical recipes compiled by Nicholas Spalding; the continuation of this text is included in ff. 137r-154v (circa 167 recipes, two less than the 169 quoted in the table of contents); Imperfect. The collection was popular and can be found in many manuscripts: see Robbins 1970; Hargrea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
15 folios.

45. Harley MS 2378, ff 136r-136v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 136r-136v
Title:
Medical recipes (8 recipes)
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (8 recipes). Rubric 'For þe rede flixe', incipit: 'Take a penny wyhte of lapis caluminaris'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 4767.00.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

46. Harley MS 2378, ff 137r-154v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 137r-154v
Title:
Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes. The text continuation ofthe text on ff. 121r- 135v. Title (f. 137) 'For þe gout þat comyth sondenly', incipit: 'Take / þe leuys of sauge and of anys', explicit (f. 154v): 'late hym lye stille on þe hol syde', including a charm (ff. 143v-144r) agai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
18 folios.

47. Harley MS 2378, ff 155r-168v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 155r-168v
Title:
Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes)
Scope & Content:
Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes). Rubric 'To clarifie suger', incipit: 'Take a quarte of fayre water and put it in a panne / and þerto þe whyte of iij egges', explicit 'as in mystes / and glommyng weders / Explicit'. Two recipes (ff. 157r-158r) published in Henslow 1899, pp. 120-22...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1395
Extent:
14 folios.

48. Harley MS 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
227 folios.

49. Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v
Title:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms
Scope & Content:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
5 folios.

50. Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:
Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:
Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 folio.