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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149745
Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections
Middle-English medical miscellany, including receipts and charms
1. ff. 1r-8r Medical receipts by a late 14th century hand.
f. 1r Here byggynyth medycyns for the hede ache. Take rywe ... f. 8r [ends imperfectly] ... or els the juys of ...
2. ff. 8v-48v Medical receipts in multiple 15th century hands, with some additions by an early 17th century hand.
f. 8v Cardiaca passio. Take the toppys of horse myntys ... f. 48v ... the morne tyde yn whyte wyne.
3. ff. 49r-53v Glossary of herbs in Latin and English (incomplete).
f. 49r Agnus castus anglice tote sayn. oder parkeleuys ... f. 53v Pes de ligno. Anglice portulakke.
4. f. 54r-v Medical receipts in English.
f. 54r Ffor the modyr. Take moggewort ... f. 54v ... rubbe well hyr stomake with [ ...]
5. ff. 55r-66r De urinis
f. 55r De urinis. In the bygynnyg thou schalte take hede to iiii thyngys that longyth toe the dome of uryne ... f. 66r ... and of wykyd stomake and badde lyuyre and badde longys.
6. ff. 66v-78r Medical receipts.
f. 66v Ffor brennyng in the stomake and hote dropesy. Take sylfegrene plantayne ... f. 78r line 4 ... thy bedde.
7. ff. 78r-79v Regimen for diet, bloodletting, etc. by the months.
f. 78r Januarius. In the monthe of Januaryy wyte wyne ys gode ... f. 79v ... xvii day of the monthe.
8. f. 79v List of names of drugs, incomplete
f. 79v These buth the namys of droggys.
9. ff. 80r-98v Medical receipts by various 15th and 16th century hands. F. 84 is wrongly bound and should follow f. 87.
f. 80r Take ... f. 98v ... thys ys provyd.
10. ff. 99r-108v Medical receipts for the cure of wounds, fractures, etc., incomplete
f. 99r Ffor a brokyn bone. Take creyland ... f. 108v ... ys nowe ...
11. ff. 109r-144v Herbal. By a mid-15th century hand. This herbal is recorded in Thorndike's 'Catalogue of Incipits', Col. 31.
f. 109r Agnus castus ys an herbe that men clepyth Tutsayne other parkeleuys ... f. 144v [Of the herb 'Lappa'] ... bote the leuys hereof be the more scharpyr atto[p] then on ende.
12. ff. 145r-146v Receipts by various hands.
f. 145r ... and model it with ... f. 146v ... avaliball after.
Edwards, Anthony Stockwell Garfield and Pearsall, Derek Albert. Middle English Prose: Essays on Bibliographical Problems (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981), p. 109.
Eldredge, L. M. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IX: Manuscripts in the Ashmole Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), p. 64.
Getz, Faye. Healing and Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), p. xlii.
Hanna, Ralph. The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist I: Manuscripts in the Henry E. Huntington Library (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), p. 4.
Ogilvie-Thompson., S. J. The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), p. 8.
Taavitsainen, Irma. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist X: Manuscripts in Scandinavian Collections (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), p. 16.
Tavormina, M. Teresa. 'The Middle English Letter of Ipocras', English Studies, 88:6 (2007), pp. 632-652.
Tavormina, M. Teresa. Uroscopy in Middle English: a Guide to the Texts and Manuscripts, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, ser. 3, no. 11 (University of Michigan, 2014), passim.
Wells, John Edwin. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, vol. 10 (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998), p. 3822.
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