The collection contains a wide variety of recipes, including examples informed by popular beliefs. For instance, a recipe for healing sore eyes (ff. 1:6r-1:6v) uses powder made from a swallow's chick and the gall of a puppy. The recipe instructs one to first prick out the eyes of the swallow's chick with a needle and then return to the next after nine days to find the chick again with restored eyesight. This practice is based on the belief that swallows had a magical stone with which they could heal their young. The recipe reads as follows: ‘Take þe a swalwis brid out þe nest and tak a nedle and prikykyt [sic] in þe eyne til it is blind sithe put aȝen þat brid into þe nest and aftir ix dayes þou schal fynde þat bride wel seande tak þat brid and puttit with al þe fetheris into a clene newe erthene potte and bren it al to pouder take þan þe galle of a sokande qwelpe þat hath sokyd xxx dayes and tak two partes of þe pouder of castor and mdle al þis to gidere and putyt in a sorre eye’ (full transcription).

Other recipes of note include a recipe for an ointment (‘vnguentum diacatum nobilissimum propter omnem gutam etcaetera fit’) that involves and may be named after its first named ingredient, the fat of a ‘yonge blak cat’ (f. 1:8v); a method to make a person sleep and wake them up, entitled: ‘vt homo semper dormiat’ (f. 1:8v); a method to determine whether a woman is pregnant, entitled: ‘To knowen ȝif a wimman be with childe’ (f. 1:12r) and a medical recipe for a venereal disease, entitled: ‘Si virga hominis per mulierem vreatur’ (f. 1:13r); to determine whether a person has leprosy, entitled: ‘To weten ȝif a man be a lepere or not’ (f. 1:13v).

The collection also contains various charms:

• An instruction for making a birthing girdle from cloth and parchment onto which is written a charm to help a pregnant woman deliver a child: ‘To don a wiman be deliuered of a child’ (ff. 1:7v-1:8r) [crossed out].
• Saint William's charm for gout and other ailments: ‘Þis is þe charm of seynt William þat angel gabriel brout him fro oure lord to j armen cristene men for worm and vein and goute and rancle and sor first do singyn a messe in hnour sancti spiritus et tunc dic istud carmen’ (ff. 1:23r-1:23v).
• A charm for healing wounds that involves a lead plate with five crosses on it: ‘A charm to holen a wonde with a plate of led’ (ff. 1:23v-1:24r).
• A charm agains fevers: ‘ffor þe feueris Oracio bona’ (ff. 1:27r-1:27v) [the charm invokes King Edmund the martyr].
• A charm against fevers: ‘Contra febres +’ [the charm invokes 'seven sisters' ('septem sorores'), fever demons who are named after seven types of fever] (ff. 1:27v-1:28r).
• A charm for healing a wound or sore: ‘A charm for a wonde and for a sorre’ (f. 1:28r).

The collection also contains recipes that are not strictly aimed at healing:

• Methods to control animals, including one to to prevent birds from nesting in trees: ‘To kacchen briddis fro here nisterlynge’ (ff. 1:6v-1:7r and another one to drive flies away: ‘ffor to don a wey flies’ (f. 1:8r).
• A method to determine whether a woman is pregnant of a child and whether the child is a boy or a girl: ‘To knowen ȝif a wiman be with childe’ (f. 1:12r);
• Cosmetic recipes, including recipes to whiten one's teeth: ‘To maken qwite tethe’ (f. 1:13v); ‘To maken qwit teth’ (f. 1:14v); and: ‘To maken a manis tetz qwite’ (f. 1:24v).

Further additions have been made in the margins by a hand of the 16th/17th century (f. 1:11v).

The collection contains a reference to an unidentified medical practioner on f. 1:37v: ‘Pouder of lif þat frere John Bacheler mad and it ȝaf men drinkyn for þe feueres and fo enpostemes’.

The manuscript contains a number of gynaecological recipes:

• A ‘Medicine Magistrat for wimmen’ (f. 1:44v).
• A ‘Medicine to þe art of a midwife’ (f. 1:46r).
• A medicine ‘ffor þe matrice’ (f. 46r).
• A medical bath described as a ‘Medicine in þe malade afor þe matrice’ (f. 1:46r).

The collection contains a few charms: ‘An orison for al maner woondes’ (f. 1:40r); and ‘A charm of blak wolle and oile for wondes’ (ff. 1:40r-1:40v) [this is the so-called Tres Boni Fratres charm].

The collection contains a few instructions for magical applications of the heart of a kite (ff. 1:39v-1:40r: ‘þat no wyld best ne nedder schal harmen no man / Quo bere bere vp on him an herte of a kyte þer schal no neder ne no wild best don him non harm þe herte of a kyte wonden in a lionis skyn or in a woluis fugat demones. þe stalke or þe fedir of a kite bondyn be þe left fot of a wimman and licȝ in gisine schal deliueren hire soon of hire child and qwan þe child is boren do awey faste þe stalke for peril of oþer thinges falande’.

Further additions have been made in the margins by a hand of the 17th century (f. 1:34v).

The recipes have been added by a different 15th-century hand than the collection on ff. 1:34v-1:47r.

The recipes have been added to the lower margin of f. 1:39v by a later 15th-century hand. They are missing the final line(s) of the last recipe due to cropping of the page.

Full transcription; added by a later 15th-century hand.

For making pigments, adhesives and gilded letters. The recipes apparently form a collection. The final line appears to introduce a new section but ends abruptly mid-sentence.

Full transcription.

The tract explains how one can foretell which party shall win a fight, whether the man or the woman in a married couple shall live the longest, and whether a sick man or a woman shall live or die by prognostications based on the letters of their first names.

Part of the text is missing due to cropping of the page.

Below the text is a drawing of the Sphere of Life and Death.

This collection contains tricks with mercury for making a vessel move through the house, bread jump, a bird cry, a finger burn like a candle, and prevent a heated pot from boiling.

Not listed in Chardonnens (2013), 340-366.

Full transcription; the text ends abruptly.

Full transcription; the text ends abruptly.

Full transcription; this is a single line added to the upper margin by another 15th-century hand.

Full transcription.

Full transcription.

The outlines of the sphere are only visible, featuring cross lines to create four fields inside the sphere where information would be entered with which a patient's fate could be determined.

Full transcription.

Added in the late 15th century. For stomach ache, colic, a restorative and a laxative.

The herbal begins mid-sentence in the description of the medicinal uses of an "Pulogium regale". The first complete entries are for ‘Pulogium montanum’, ‘Quinquefolium’, and ‘Rvta domestica’. It is a previously unidentified copy of a late 14th-century herbal known as "Agnus Castus" (after its opening words, which are missing here). The manuscript is not included in Brodin (1950), pp. 30-31, where 29 extant manuscript copies and 5 early printed copies are listed.

They address the following:

• f. 2:7r: for drunkenness, two for making hair fall out and not grown back, for lice, fleas and mice, for fistula
• f. 2:7v: for fistula, for paralysis of the tongue (?loss of speech) for jaundice, general signs of those suffering from ailments of the spleen ('Generalia singna splenaticorum'), for pain wherever the cause may be, for all kinds of swelling/inflammation, two for toothache
• f. 2:8r: for frenzy/delirium, for colic, for stomach pain, for dropsy, for earache
• f. 2:8v: for all manner of aches caused by blows or wounds

They address the following:

• f. 2:9r: for ache in the wrist or sinews or feet, for rupture in the leg ('For brestyng owt of leggys'), for shingles, for erysipelas ('wyld fyre'), to make a man sweat, two to stop sweating, for clearing a man's voice
• f. 2:9v: for sores under the feet, for agnails, for warts, for removing hair, for removing freckles, for a man infested with sheep louse or similar in his hair, for inducing breastmilk, for inducing/expediting labour, for dropsy, three for frenzy/delirium (the last continuing on f. 2:10r)
• f. 2:10r: for leg pain, for epilepsy ('fallyng euyl'), for loss of speech, for lice, two for making hair grow, for catching birds (continuing on f. 2:10v).

The collection is incomplete due to missing leaves: ff. 2:13-2:14.

They address the following:

• f. 2:11r: two for headache, for toothache, for deafness, for dry cough, two for the heart, two for the stomach, two for the eyes
• f. 2:11v: two for the brain, for ?protuberances caused by leprosy ('For semyng lepyr'), for ?diagnosing measles ('yf þu wylt know ameysel'), for swollen nails, for swellings, for ache in the womb, for saucefleem, for expediting a difficult labour ('ffor a woman þat ys ytrauellyng of chyld') and for treating the mother afterwards, for pockmarks, for a woman with a sore in her head, for sore breasts, for a woman that 'fallyȝth', a charm for stillbirth
• f. 2:12r: for stillbirth, for making hair grow, for scab, for scab on the hand, two for any iron or steel or thorn lodged in the flesh, for swollen glands/glanders, for festered gout, to stop bleeding, for snake or adder in the body, for snakebite, for loss of appetite, for gout
• f. 2:12v: for gout, for cold or hot gout, for dead flesh, for deafness, for menstruation, for rankling/festering, for vomiting, for vomiting of mucus
• f. 2:15r: a charm to stop bleeding (?Longinus charm; begins imperfectly), a charm for toothache, for jaundice, for bleeding in a cow, for toothache, a charm for fevers (invoking Christ encountering St Peter sitting on a stone weeping)

The collection contains a charm for falling evil in a child. The text instructs one to take blood of the patient's little finger and writing the names of the Three Magi in a drinking vessel, wash it with ale or milk, and then give it the child to drink.

This collection largely consists of medical recipes in Latin copied by the same hand, but includes a few Middle English recipes that appear to have been added by a different hand.

They address the following:

• f. 2:15v: a prayer/charm to be recited during bloodletting, to staunch bleeding from a wound
• f. 2:16r: for migraine, two for frenzy/delirium, for eye pain, for toothache, three for bad breath, for stomach pain, for burns
• f. 2:16v: four for swollen penis, for lesion on the penis, for swollen testicles, a plaster for the testicles or penis, for removing all swellings and all pain, for swollen breasts caused by too much breastmilk (citing 'Rog'), for inducing breastmilk, for swelling
• f. 2:17r: for colic, for worms, for stone, for all illnesses or pain present and future as well as itching or scarsm fir for loss of eyesight
• f. 2:17v: for leg pain, for nosebleeds, for swelling, for cleansing the breast, for diagnosing and locating canker
• f. 2:18r: six for red or bloody eyes, for stone in the eyes, for inflammation in the eyes, four for watering eyes
• f. 2:18v: for constipation; for migraine, dropsy, fever or ache in the head; for the spleen; for haemorrhoids
• f. 2:19r: a charm for epilepsy ('Fallyng Euyll') in a young child, to know whether someone has leprosy or not, for speaking in one's sleep, for fleas, for drunkeness

Not in eTK.

Last line crossed out.

This text also occurs in London, British Library, Sloane MS 146, ff. 98r-98v .

Copied by a single hand, imperfect due to a missing leaf between ff. 2:27 and 2:29.

In addition to medical recipes, the collection contains:

• culinary recipes, including recipes for ‘char conse’ and ‘charde wardonys’ (to preserve quinces and warden pears as a sort of jam) on ff. 2:22v-2:23r
• charms, including the so-called Sage Leaf Charm on f. 2:24v; a charm to conjure a sick person to foretell their own fate (whether they shall live or die) on ff. 2:29v-2:30r; a charm against thieves on ff. 2:30v-2:31r a charm for healing a wound (‘ffor to scharme a wond on englyche’) on f. 2:40v; an instruction for making an amulet for a pregnant woman on ff. 2:40v-2:41r; a charm for dysentery (‘blody flyx’) on f. 2:42r; a charm for healing toothache, invoking Sts Apollonia, Nicasius and Cassian, on ff. 2:42v-2:43r; and charm for the falling sickness and fever (‘ffor the fallyng Euylle or for the feuerys’)

Copied by a single hand, imperfect at the beginning due to missing leaves: begins with treatment for stomach ailments and vomiting. Pagination by letter suggests that five leaves of this treatise are missing (first letter is 'F' on f. 2:99r). Medieval foliation skips '101, however does not appear to be missing and the pagination by letter continues without interruption).

Comprises lengthy passages that often encompass multiple remedies, which address the following:

• f. 2:99r: for swelling or inflammation of the penis
• f. 2:99v: for dead flesh, for removing an arrow or thorn, for skull fracture
• f. 2:100r: to stop bleeding; for curing, opening and cleansing wounds, for pain, for dead flesh and for removing tumours (continuing on f. 2:100v)
• f. 2:100v: for broken bones, for rupture/hernia (continuing on f. 2:102r)
• f. 2:102r: for apostemes, for virulent ulcer ('Contra antracem')
• f. 2:102v: for all tumours whether or hot or cold cause ('cure ad omne Ranculum'), for pricking/stinging nerves/sinews/muscles
• f. 2:103r: for relaxing the nerves/sinews/muscles, for gout, for all burns (continuing on f. 2:103v)
• f. 2:103v: for haemorrhoids ('Contra fficubus'), for all kinds of eye ailments (continuing on f. 2:104r)
• f. 2:104r: for deafness, to stop bleeding
• f. 2:104v: for toothache, for bad breath, for whitening the teeth
• f. 2:105r: for freckles
• f. 2:105v: for cough, for ?gangrene ('Contra rancedinem'), for lung ailments (continuing on f. 2:106r)
• f. 2:106r: for pain in the breasts, for restricting the stomach ('Ad stringendum ventrem')
• f. 2:106v: for worms, for stomach pain (continuing on f. 2:107r)
• f. 2:107r: for erysipelas ('De sacro igne'), for insomnia ('Ut homo dormiat') (continuing on f. 2:107v)
• f. 2:107v: for fevers

Copied by a single hand, imperfect due to missing leaves between ff. 2:138 and 2:141. They address the following:

• f. 2:138r: for strangury, for swollen penis, for blood in the urine, for gonorrheam, for kidney pain, for swollen penis
• f. 2:138v: for inflammation of the penis ('For þe yarde scallded'), for burning of the penis ('For þe yarde brent'), for swollen testicles, for burning of the penis, for kidney pain, for scabs on the body
• f. 2:141r: for broken bones, for broken collarbone ('For canell bone broke'), for skull fracture, for aching bones, for blackness after a blow or bruising, for bruising
• f. 2:141v: two for a preparation called oxycroceum ('Oxiracrocium'), for a preparation called nerval ('Narvall')
• f. 2:142r: for a preparation called deute ('dewtye'), for an entreat for cleansing wounds and dead flesh, for a preparation called colman
• f. 2:142v: for a white unguent for the kidneys, mormal, felon, itching, scab and heat arising from corrupt humours; for a red unguent for drying wounds, healing flesh, for canker and fester; for a green unguent for all manner of wounds; for a preparation called populeon ('Popilion')
• f. 2:143r: for making preparations using scammony or aloes, for making turpentine, for an unguent for treating paralysis, for ulceration/swelling of the kidneys, and another added by a 16th-century hand for an unstated purpose
• f. 2:143v: for expediting a difficult labour, for uterine cramps after labour ('For þe afterthrowys'), for stillbirth, for stopping menstruation (blank), for swollen breasts as a consequence of milk, for aching breasts, for swelling/lesion/eruption in the breasts ('For boche in woman breste')

Written in red ink on f. 3:5r is: ‘Dedicacio ecclesie Noricensis.anno domini .M.^o cc.^o ix .lc.’

The feasts of Thomas Becket and papal titles have been crossed out.

An early modern hand has added Latin and English words with letters of the Greek alphabet, featuring, on f. 3:5r, the year ‘1607’.

According to Carrillo Linares (2005), this is a partial translation of "Group B" of the Antidotarium Nicholas. However, Green (2019), pp. 4-5 fn 15, argues that "Group B" is the Antidotarium magnum on which the Antidotarium Nicolai is based.

A similar if not near-identical version of this text survives in London, British Library, Harley MS 2378, ff. 113r-117r .

Added by different 15th-century hands; only the first recipe is in Middle English. They address the following:

• f. 3:51r: for breaking a boil, for snakebite ('Pro tyryaca')
• f. 3:51v: for a balm for unspecified purpose, for a laxative powder, for uncertain purpose ('Pro le [?]prosus'), two more for unstated purposes
• f: 3:52r: for the stone

Written upside down, but almost completely erased and crossed out.