Medical recipes — 15th century; English

Title

Medical recipes — 15th century; English

Treatise on urine — 15th century; English

Poem on lucky and unlucky days — 15th century; English

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 84

Date

15th century

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Owned by 'Tho: Martin' of Palgrave.

Taylor Combe who gave the MS. to:

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Title

Medical recipes, treatise on urine and poetry

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 84

Summary

Made up of three MSS.

A. 1 (foll, 1, 37). Medical recipes, in English: beg. 'Ipocras this bok sende to the emperor Sesar': there is an index at fol. 3V to 209 recipes, of which 1-161, 163 (?)-208, are here.

B. 2 (fol. 25). 'Here begynneth Jugement of Vrinis': beg. '[V]rine is as moche to say as o thinge gadrid in the reynis': imperfect at end.

C. 3 (fol. 46a). A poem on lucky and unlucky days: beg. 'Yhe that welyie here of wytte', in six-line stanzas rhyming aabccb.

A few religious and other pieces are interspersed: and the names of John Crowe (fol. iii), John Wykkynges, of Horsham, co. Sussex (fol. vi), both 16th cent., occur.

Date

written in the 15th cent.

Language

English

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

55 Leaves

Custodial history

Owned by 'Tho: Martin' of Palgrave, and T. Combe who gave the MS. to Douce.