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Medical recipes and a charm

MS. Radcliffe Trust e. 4

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Title

Medical recipes and a charm

Shelfmark

MS. Radcliffe Trust e. 4

Place of origin

English

Date

15th century, second half

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Latin

Contents

1. (fols. 1–5) Medical recipes
Incipit: Who so hath wrake or turment in his hed. mak lye of verueyne oþer of betoyne. oþer of fillye. oþer of wormod
Fol. 3v breaks off in mid-recipe and a new hand begins a new recipe at fol. 4r, suggesting the loss of at least one central bifolium.
(fol. 5) Incipit: For wormys in a mannys wombe. tak þe jus of sowþerinwode and of wormod of rue. and lityl jus of saueyn and dryng with a stale ale
Incipit: R'. id masis. ob' saffron'. ob' likoris. sawetrappe an handful
2. (fol. 5v) Charm to heal open wounds

Form

codex

Support

parchment, the leaves irregularly shaped

Physical extent

viii + 37 leaves (fols. i-viii, 6–37 are 20th century paper flyleaves and padding

Hands

Two cursive hands, fols. 1–3v, 4–5v

Binding

Marbled paper covers and parchment spine (from a reused document), perhaps 18th-century English, but the whole binding was completely reworked in the 20th century; lettering stamped down spine, probably 20th century, 'MEDICINE'.

Acquisition

Transferred from the Radcliffe Science Library, 1928

Provenance

Scribbles, 16th century, by one hand, fol. 5v, including the name 'John'.

Clipping from a mid 19th century English bookseller's catalogue, fol. 1r, advertisting the MS. as item 585 at 3s. 6d., with Rodd 4/11 41 pencilled alongside (presumably Thomas Rodd's catalogue of 1841, cf. MSS. Radcliffe Trust e.30 [item 584] and others).

Radcliffe shelf-mark 'G.161.E.19' (front pastedown)

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Title

Medical recipe book

Shelfmark

MS. Radcliffe Trust e. 4

Summary

Collection of medical recipes in Middle English headed 'Here begynnyth medecinis pat gode lechis han foundyn… out of bokis Galeyn asclepeus and ypocras…', with a few charms in Norman French and Latin, 2nd half of 15th century.

Date

2nd half of 15th century

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

Radcliffe Trust Archive

Papers relating to the Radcliffe Library and Radcliffe Science Library

Radcliffe Trust manuscripts and collections acquired by the Radcliffe Library

Papers relating to science and medicine

Other papers relating to science and medicine

Medical recipe book

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