Medical recipes and a charm
MS. Radcliffe Trust e. 4
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Description
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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
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
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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