Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses, in Middle English
MS. Wood empt. 18
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses, in Middle English
Shelfmark
MS. Wood empt. 18
Date
15th century, late
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
ii + 127leaves
Acquisition
Bought by the library in 1690
Provenance
Anthony à Wood
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Title
Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses
Shelfmark
MS. Wood empt. 18
Summary
Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses, of which the more important are:
Fol. 1. Medical recipes followed by a description of the qualities of each month, a cabbalistic incantation (fol. 9), and prayers for travellers
Fol. 12. 'Here comes a tretis of oyles and of wateres medsinabil'
Fol. 30. Charms for detecting thefts, and love potions, followed by (fol. 36) further medical recipes
Fol. 57. 'X vertewes of treacle', 'To make a whyte spott on a blake hors' (fol. 58), the properties of a good horse (fol. 60)
Fol. 61. 'Here begynnethe alle manere of medesyne for an hors of whatt manere of grevance that he hath', ending at fol. 79 with 'explicit per Sothebe', and followed by 'the best season to putt a horse to the mare' (fol. 81)
Fol. 82. 'The booke of merschelsy here hit schalle begyn', with a verse prologue of 14 lines, beg. 'Yff you have stede foles to kepe', and (fol. 112v) further recipes
Date
Written in various hands of the late 15th century
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
127 Leaves
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Collection contents
MSS. Wood empt.: Medieval manuscripts acquired by Wood
Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses
