Text rubbed away or faded, but the recipes apparently address colic, phlegm in the breast, blockage in the kidneys and boil/carbuncle ('oncombyrs'), for swelling in the spleen and blockages with wind.

The note is partially illegible due to damp on the page: ‘Vrina citria [...] significat et in adolescente [...]’.

Added by a hand of the 15th century (see also ff. 42v-45r).

The collection opens with a text on corrosives with reference to lapis lazuli. Among other issues, the remedies address the following: ailments of the eye (including several recipes for a collyrium, and further treatments for eye complaints, itching, redness and pain towards the end), medicinal waters to improve the face and for scabies, dropsy, and rupture.

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Added by a hand of the 15th-century (see also ff. 10v-13v). They address the following:

• f. 42v: for excess wind; for a water for fevers, gout and ?theria attributed to Gilbert Kymer (d. 1463), the physician of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester; for swelling and pain; for canker; and an 'aqua rubea et sanativa'
• f. 43r: a 'good water' ('aqua bona') for an uncertain purpose; for worms, inducing an abortion, purging the stomach of bad humours; a laxative for urine that frees the kidneys from excess or viscous humours and the stone; for ?lethargy; two for removing a stain from your clothes ('Contra maculam super togam'); a plaster for removing pestilent ulcers for one place or another
• f. 43v: for destorying pestilent ulcers, for severe headache, for gout, for a mundificative for an aposteme after rupture, for aposteme on a woman's breast ('Contra apostema mamillarum') and for mitigating heat/fever and pain before rupture

They address the following:

• f. 44r: for ?making trees bear fruit in the same year ('[...] ferre fructum in eodem anno [...]'), for preventing worms from eating the fruit growing on trees
• f. 44v: for sterility in trees, for propagating fruit ('fructum rubeum' - ?brambles), for making bitter apples pleasant or sweet, for making green ginger, for making fragrant apples

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The collection contains a recipe that is attributed to ‘Per Ricardo york’ on f. 46v.

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Two lines, beginning ‘Postquam posse’; not identified.

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For cold mucous discharge/rheum of the head ('Contra reuma frigidum capitis'). Includes probative statement: 'Hoc ego vidi . t . p .' See f. 195r for reference to 'T. Poppos doctor in medicinis et quondam magister vicarii de Steanton'.

Two decorative banderols with the words ‘ihesus Christus’ and ‘Agnus dei’ written inside them.

Anima enim est vna virtus actu potentia vero plures ex Philosopho 2^o de Anima.

For comforting the stomach, a purgative, and for removing ?thickened phlegmatic humours.

For purging the head through the nose.

A decorative banderol on f. 58r contains the text: ‘hic incipit primus liber phisicorum’.

They address the following:

• f. 73v: for an unspecified purpose, and two recipes for collyria for eye ailments and pain
• f. 74r: for epilepsy; for eye ailments such as scotoma and vertigo occuring in epilepsy, fevers in apostemes, pock-marks (variola) and scabies; for haemorrhoids; for blemishes ('maculas'); for rheum, tightness in the lungs and trachea; for cold gout
• f. 74v: for wind in the stomach and interior and for indigestion; for jaundice; for dropsy

The recipes are in Latin but one contains a Middle English word: ‘ringworme’ on f. 81r. They address the following:

• f. 77v: for sweating, for ?dizziness/vertigo, for knee-pain, for scab ('Contra malum mortuum'), for saucefleem, for stopping breastmilk, two for the flux
• f. 78r: numerous remedies for the flux
• f. 78v: several for colic and constipation of the stomach; for verruca/wart in the joints, for wasting fever in the kidneys and unbearable pain in the back ('Contra ethicam in renibus et intollerabilem dorsi dolorem'), for swelling and pain
• f. 79r: for asthma and difficulty breathing, for kidney pain caused by blockage, two for colic and constipation
• f. 79v: several remedies for colic; an unguent for blockages and kidney pain; for hair loss; for lung problems; for constipation
• f. 80r: for aposteme/swelling in the ankle, for cough ('Contra tussi et pthisi'), for all swellings, for cleansing the breast
• f. 80v: for bad breath, to staunch bleeding, for the stone, for inducing sweating, for all gouts, for fever and pain
• f. 81r: for paralysis, numerous remedies for fever, for serpigo (continuing on f. 81v)
• f. 81v: for serpigo, for burning in the penis, for the pestilence, for swelling in the shin/lower leg, for persistent cold in whichever member of the body, for pain in the knee or joints
• f. 82r: for colic, for hot gout, for cold gout, for internal swelling/ulcer that does not show, for saucefleem
• f. 82v: for paralysis, for wounds
• f. 83r: two for pestilence, for breaking apostemes, for gout and dropsy
• f. 83v: unclear; text faded

For cleansing the face and for cleaning and whitening the teeth.

For cleansing the face.

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For a full transcription, see James (1895), p. 109.

This work is attributed to Alexander Hales in early printed versions entitled Expositio super tres libros Aristotelis de anima.

The collection also contains an instruction for strenghtening parchment: ‘Ad faciendum vistus pro pergameno consolidando’ on f. 101r. Another recipe on this page refers to a Master W. Norham (‘secundum magistrum W. Norham’) [perhaps the Dominican friar William Norham of York, who, in the Durham Abbey Account Rolls for the year 1427-1428, is paid 40 shillings alongside another Dominican friar who is not named but identified as a physician]. On f. 101v one recipe is attributed to a deacon of Lancaster: ‘h. decanus Lanchestre’) and another one to Master P. Multon of York (‘secundum Magistrum P. Multon Eboracensis’; on ff. 101v-102r is a recipe against the plague alledgely made or prescribed for ‘E. de nevyl’, perhaps Eleanor Neville, Countess of Northumberland: ‘quod suff[?olk] [...] pro domina E. de neuyl on tempore pestilenciali et dixit ista medicinam contra istam pestem anno domini 1421’.

A commentary on the works of Henri de Mondeville attributed to 'Albertus' [?Magnus].

The recipes address the following:

• f. 140r: a note on a plaster called 'apostolicon'; for defective eyesight, for recent blemishes, for bad breath and foetid mouth, for paralysis
• ff. 140v-142v: numerous remedies for paralysis
• f. 142v: for cold gout and migraine, for removing an 'arista' (grain husk?) or thorn or iron implement wherever it is in the body and curing the fistula; for saucefleem and gout
• f. 143r: for saucefleem and gout, for purging excess/thickened and burning humours, for gently purging choler, for dropsy (continuing on f. 143v)
• f. 144r: for extracting teeth without pain, for paralysis of the tongue, three for urinary incontinence, for tempering the stomach, for toothache
• f. 144v: for dropsy, for stomach pain, for paralysis of the tongue, for rheuma and dryness in the breast
• f. 145r: for four medicines named '[Ale]xandrinam', 'Adrianum', 'Acharistum' and 'Athanasia'
• f. 145v: for all illnesses ('contra omnes egri[tudines]'), for a laxative attributed to 'Eben mesue'

They address the following:

• f. 146r: for contraction of the joints and nerves in the feet, hands and knees; two for the cough ('Contra ptisim') whether there is ulceration in the lungs or not
• f. 146v: a laxative / decongestant ('Laxatiuum flantis')
• f. 147r: for fatness/excess weight, for haemorrhoids, for dysentery, for swelling of the spleen, for ?persistent blockage of the matrix or anus, for swollen testicles and breasts
• f. 147v: for pain in the intestine, side, liver, breast or lungs, for asthma, for stopping breastmlik, for dropsy

For making a buckle/brooch of seven loops, as is common for pendant/hanging purses (Ad faciendum fibulam de . 7 . bughtis [...] et ista fibulam usualis est et communis ad ad [sic] bursas pendendas').

The recipe, for an unstated purpose, is recorded as being made for a nun of Sheriff Hutton: ‘hic pro monaiali apud sherefhoton’. This probably refers to the Augustinian nunnery of Moxby Priory in North Yorkshire, situated near Sheriff Hutton.

The recipes sometimes refer to a physician ‘G.’ and include one of this testimonies: ‘Cum isto Ego G. curaui vnum monacum album qui fuit sciaticus’ (f. 165r).

On f. 155r in the upper margin are written the words ‘Jhesus . Maria.’.

Continued from previous collection. On f. 168v the last recipe ends: ‘et hoc est unum de secretis Galieni’.

The collection contains a reference to: ‘medicus de Sothewell [...] Willelmus plummer’ on f. 178v and a ‘M. Ro[bertus] Co[w]per [or: "Collper"]’ on f. 181r. The ‘Medicina bona ethicis’ on f. 176r is also attributed to William Plummer in the table of contents on f. 3r (with thanks to Peter Murray Jones for providing this reference).

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Written vertically in the outer margin of the page; full transcription.

The collection contains various references to medical practitioners and patients, see: ‘Emplastrum pro stomacho fratris johannis institoris [merchant]’ (ff. 182v) [possibly the Dominican friar John Marcaunt (Mercaunt), who was licensed to hear confessions by the bishop of Ely between 1415 and 1425, was Prior of the Cambridge Blacfriars in 1416, still in 1428 (see C. F. R. Palmer 'Black Friars of Cambridge', Reliquary, 25, p. 138; with thanks to Peter Murray Jones for this identification]; ‘Emplastrum Magistri Gilberti Kymer contra guttam calidam’ (f. 186v); ‘Emplastrum sancti Cuthberti’ (f. 189r); ‘Hanc medicinam domina Elizabet Scrop dixit mihi esse expertam in seipsa quando impugnabatur’ (f. 192v); ‘secundum Gilbertum Kymer’ (f. 193v) ‘Hanc medicinam T. Duncan doctor medicinarum pro domino suo comite March Anno domini .1421. Londoniensis’ (f. 194v; ‘Hanc medicinam T poppos Doctor in medicinis et quondam Magister Vicarij de Stranton’ (f. 195r; ‘Hic Ricardus Griffelde’ (f. 195v); ‘secundum Willelmum Caldray’ (f. 195v); ‘secundum Johannes Richardson iuxta Whitteby’ (f. 195v); ‘Et est medicina Henrici haxby de Eboracensis’ (f. 196r); ‘Medicina vxoris Bulton de pycrynglithe qui habuit duriciem magnam’ and ‘fuit cariata in lecto equorum Eboracensis Et fuit in cura fratris Multon’ (f. 196r); ‘Quidam generosus Johannes Woodebury’ (f. 196r); ‘Pro qua egritudine M. T. Wilton’ (f. 196r); ‘secundum Willelmum de saliceto’ (f. 196r); ‘Mulier de vynyse’ (f. 197r); ‘Medicina vxoris Bulton de pycrynglithe’, ‘Johannes Woodebury’, and ‘Magister T Wilton’ (f. 196r).