Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13

Medical tracts, recipes, and charms

Introduction: Comprising several parts of separate production, each written in cursive scripts by late medieval hands, and assembled into a composite volume of complex structure by an early modern collector, this manuscript yields its information only to the most persistent researchers. When M.R. James came to describe the manuscript in 1902, he spent two pages of his catalogue listing the contents increasingly briefly, defeated perhaps by its complexities and its 'many hands, none very good', and ultimately dismissed the entire final section as 'receipts and miscellaneous notes, save at the end in a hand like that of Dr See [sic, for 'Dee']' (ff. 238-302). The Librarian of Trinity College, W.W. Greg, had similar difficulties, describing ff. 1-82 as simply 'a rough collection of tracts, verses, and receipts, of a medical character and rather confused', written 'mostly in a good plain hand'. As James and Greg observed, Trinity College MS O.1.13 is devoted mainly to medical recipes and treatments, but, because of the nature of its production and the challenge its contents present, it has not received the level of scholarly attention that other manuscripts have attracted. This is partly due to persistent aesthetic biases, which Elaine Treharne detected in manuscript studies. Scientific and medical manuscripts are not usually known for their visual appeal, in terms either of illumination or of script. In consequence, they are generally described in negative terms, catalogued haphazardly, and edited infrequently. A further obstacle is that many are at once composite volumes and miscellanies. Composites comprise two or often more parts of different origins and dates of production, which may have been assembled in stages by different owners, and potentially long after the individual parts had been made. The reasons for their assembly are not always apparent, and therefore it can be difficult to capture effectively the spirit or purpose of the volume as a whole. The miscellaneous contents - of the individual parts, and of the whole - are in turn difficult to navigate. As Arthur Bahr observed, a miscellany is 'a complex assemblage of textual parts that does not obligingly present readers with a clear program or straightforward purpose'. This certainly rings true for scientific and medical texts, and for MS O.1.13 specifically: it does not stand out visually, it is a materially complex assemblage of at least ten parts, and its miscellaneous contents resist easy identification and classification. There is, however, much to appreciate about this manuscript: a veritable treasure trove of largely unedited texts, each awaiting the attention of researchers. There are more than 600 pages crammed full of medical, culinary and alchemical recipes, and medical, herbal, horticultural and uroscopic treatises, and some miscellaneous writings as well. The recipe collections reveal the captivating realm of medieval medicine, and the intriguing aetiology of diseases: tooth decay described as being caused by worms, and the need for a remedy 'ffor any qwyke thynge that is cropyn into a mannys ere' (f. 70r). These texts feature a blend of human and veterinary medicine; of diagnostic, preventative and curative medicine; of recipes, charms, prognostication and divination; of remedies for both physical and spiritual, natural and supernatural complaints. The medical recipes in particular utilise an array of powders, syrups, pastes, treacles, baths, herbs, potions, salves, waters, poultices, purgations, plasters, ointments, juices, oils, prayers and incantations to treat pains, aches, fevers, fractures, stones, worms, wounds, coughs, palsies, swellings, fluxes, sores, incontinence, dropsy, gout, bleeding, baldness, insomnia, speechlessness, epilepsy, pestilence and necrosis, among many others. The new description of the manuscript's contents, presented here by Clarck Drieshen, is so comprehensive that it marks a significant improvement on early descriptions such as M.R. James's, and even upon more recent, outstanding work such as by Linne Mooney for the Index of Middle English Prose. The textual units are identified in detail and in collections of short texts (such as the recipe collections) stand-out items have been described separately, especially those that appear incongruous in the immediate context. Thus, many of the charms and magical items in the medical recipe collections have been identified, to which may be added two strange remedies in the recipe collection on ff. 145r-154v. This collection is a series of short recipes on a variety of common complaints, but on f. 151c recto matters take a sinister turn. Among the recipes on this page, one is 'for a blaste of a wykked spyryt', which the recipe asserts manifests as a physical swelling in the face, and the next recipe is 'ffor the fyr of hell', which is a type of skin inflammation sometimes identified as erysipelas. What these two recipes have in common with charms and magical recipes is that they connect the natural and supernatural realms. Charms and magical recipes often remedy complaints with a natural aetiology by supernatural means, whereas the two recipes on f. 151c recto seem to remedy complaints with a supernatural aetiology by natural means. Presuming supernatural causes or prescribing supernatural cures stands out to us, because the supernatural is now not usually associated with medicine. Yet in medieval medical contexts, the natural and the supernatural were not categorically separate, although it is not uncommon for charms in medieval recipe collections to have been censored by later readers, in particular by religious reformers of the 16th century. Many of the texts in MS O.1.13 circulated widely in the late medieval period, as the indices of Middle English writings by George Keiser and Linne Mooney demonstrate. The treatises on rosemary, some of the recipe collections, the poem on leechcraft, the lunaries, the poem on phlebotomy, the zodiacal texts and the horticultural treatises are attested in ca. 15-25 manuscripts, suggesting that the scribes of what was to become MS O.1.13 drew on an accepted body of scientific and medical learning. With so many text witnesses and scientific and medical manuscripts, it becomes possible to identify clusters of late medieval scientific and medical sources that were produced under similar conditions, as Linda Voigts did for the so-called 'Sloane Group' of manuscripts (see Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.77 for one such textual cluster from this group). Some parts of MS O.1.13 may likewise be connected to other manuscripts, through two potential clusters. The first consists of a poem on phlebotomy or bloodletting, days of the moon good or not good for bloodletting, thirty-two perilous days and prognostications for weather based on the appearance of the moon and sky (ff. 20r-21r). London, British Library, Sloane MS 963 , ff. 71r-73v, has an identical cluster, in the same order, in the same words, in the same script and in a contemporary hand. A connection between MS O.1.13 and Sloane MS 963 is further corroborated by a second cluster, consisting of a tract on the four humours and the method for interpreting dreams using a psalter (f. 23r). Humoral lore and dream divination is not exactly an obvious pairing of texts, yet an identical cluster of texts occurs twice in Sloane MS 963, ff. 13r-13v and 55r-55v. This particular version of the method for interpreting dreams occurs only in the first part of MS O.1.13 and Sloane MS 963, which makes a connection between the two manuscripts even more likely. Dr László Sándor Chardonnens| Senior lecturer, Radboud Institute for Culture and History| Radboud University References

A. Bahr, 'Miscellaneity and Variance in the Medieval Book', in The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches, ed. by M. Johnston and M. Van Dussen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 181-98

W.W. Greg, Catalogue of Manuscripts written in English to the Year 1500 in Trinity College of Cambridge (1939)

M.R. James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue, 4 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902).

G.R. Keiser, Works of Science and Information. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, vol. 10 (New Haven: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998)

L.R. Mooney, Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 11 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995)

E.M. Treharne, 'The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Old English Manuscripts and their Physical Description', in The Genesis of Books: Studies in the Scribal Culture of Medieval England in Honour of A.N. Doane, ed. by M.T. Hussey and J.D. Niles (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 261-83

L.E. Voigts, 'The "Sloane Group": Related Scientific and Medical Manuscripts from the Fifteenth Century in the Sloane Collection', British Library Journal 16 (1990), 26-57

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: A composite manuscript of (at least) ten separate codicological units consisting of paper leaves.

Foliation:

16th- or 17th-century foliation supplemented and corrected by a modern hand:

[a], [notes], [b] + [i] + 1-14, 20-23, 25-29, 24, 30-43, [43a], 44-82 (= Part 1) | 83-100, 100a, 101-115, 115a-115b, 116-124, 124a, 125-144 (= Part 2) | 145-150, 150a, 151, 151a-151c, 152-154 (=Part 3) | 155-163, 163a, 164-165 (= Part 4) | 166-172, 172a (= Part 5) | 173-174, 174a, 175-177, 177a, 178, 178a-178b, 179-184, 184a, 185-192, 192a, 193-194, 194a, 195-206, 208-221 (= Part 6) | 222, 222a, 223-237 (= Part 7) | 238-278, 278a, 279-285 (= Part 8) | 285a, 286-292 (= Part 9) | 293-302, [ii] (= Part 10) + [c]-[d]

Numbering in dark ink in the upper left-hand or right-hand corners or centres of the upper margins of the rectos with corrections and additions in pencil.

This foliation sequence is followed throughout this catalogue record. For reference purposes, unfoliated early modern and modern flyleaves have been allocated, respectively, Roman numerals and letters. These have been placed between square brackets in order to indicate that they are supplements to the foliation found in the volume itself.

Folios [a]-[b], and [c]-[d] are modern blank paper endleaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript; a strip of paper ([notes]) is kept in a 'folder' attached to f. [a] recto; f. [i] is a torn flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript that has been repaired with early modern paper; f. [43a] is a blank stub [not photographed]; the lower part of f. 103 has been torn off; f. 104 is a torn leaf; f. 222a is a torn leaf; f. [ii] is an early modern leaf (perhaps a flyleaf) at the end of the manuscript.

Folios 15-19 are missing; the number '207' has been skipped in the foliation sequence.

Foliation:

16th- or 17th-century foliation:

‘1’-‘26’ (for ff. 145-165)

Numbering in dark ink in the upper right-hand corners of the rectos. Crossed out. The foliator has added a note about the foliation in the left corner of the upper margins of f. 145: ‘Continent in hoc libro fol. 26’. This foliation sequence is ignored in this catalogue record.

Foliation:

16th- or 17th-century foliation:

‘27’-‘87’ (for ff. 160-221); and ‘88’ (for f. 223)

Numbering in dark ink in the upper right-hand corners of the rectos, continuing the foliation sequence on ff. 145-165. Often crossed out. This foliation sequence is ignored in this catalogue record.

Foliation:

16th- or 17th-century foliation:

‘1’-‘62’ (for ff. 238-297)

Numbering in dark ink in the upper right-hand corners of the rectos. Often crossed out. This foliation sequence is ignored in this catalogue record.

Foliation:

16th- or 17th-century pagination:

‘18’-‘26’ (for ff. 265v-269v)

Numbering in dark ink in the upper outer corners of the rectos and versos. This pagination sequence is ignored in this catalogue record.

Foliation:

16th- or 17th-century pagination:

‘4’-‘16’ (for ff. 279v-285v)

Numbering in dark ink in the upper outer corners of the rectos and versos. This pagination sequence is ignored in this catalogue record.

Collation

Due to the complexity of this manuscript, this collation is provisional and should be followed with caution. For some sections, it has not been possible to propose a plausible collation. NB: This deviates from the collation provided by M.R. James (1902): whereas James identifies eight parts, this record identifies ten parts: it considers James's Part ‘III’ to consist of two separate parts (Part 3 and Part 4) and James's parts ‘VII’ and ‘VIII’ (James does not specify separate folio ranges) to consist of three parts (Parts 8, 9, and 10). This record also suggests that Part 8 (ff. 238-285) may consist of a few codicolocal units but since the collation for this part has not been established, it is not possible to confirm this.

Quire 1^6-2 (ff. 1-4: 1st and 2nd leaves missing)
Quire 2^{6-1 or 4+1} (ff. 5-9 one missing in the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half)
Quire 3^{6-1 or 4+1} (ff. 10-14: one missing from the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half)
Quire 4²⁺¹ (ff. 20-22: 1st leaf added)
Quire 5^five (ff. 23-28: 2nd leaf is misbound in Quire 6)
Quire 6^four (ff. 29-31: 2nd leaf is misbound and belongs to Quire 5)
Quire 7^10-1 (ff. 32-40: 6th leaf missing [paper stub])
Quire 8^{10-1 or 8+1} (ff. 41-49: one missing from the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half)
Quire 9^{12-1 or 10+1} (ff. 50-60: one missing from the quire's first half or one added to the quire's second half)
Quire 10¹⁰ (ff. 61-72)
Quire 11¹⁰ (ff. 73-82) |
Quire 12^?8 (ff. 83-90)
The collation for ff. 91-108 has not been established.
Quire 13¹² (ff. 109-118)
Quire 14¹² (ff. 119-129)
Quire 15¹⁰ (ff. 130-139)
Quire 16^five (ff. 140-144) |
Quire 17² (ff. 145-146)
Quire 18⁶ (ff. 147-151)
Quire 19⁶ (ff. 151a-154) |
Folio 155 (single leaf apparently sewn to Quire 20)
Quire 20¹⁰ (ff. 156-164)
Folio 165 (single leaf currently detached) |
Quire 21⁸ (ff. 166-172a) |
Quire 22⁸ (ff. 173-178)
Quire 23⁸ (ff. 178a-184)
Quire 24¹² (ff. 184a-194)
Quire 25⁸ (ff. 194a-201)
Quire 26^8-1 (ff. 202-209: 7th leaf missing)
Quire 27⁴ (ff. 210-213)
Quire 28⁸ (ff. 214-221) |
Folio 222 (apparently a single leaf)
Quire 29⁶ (ff. 222a-227)
Quire 30¹⁰ (ff. 228-237) |
Quire 31^sixteen (ff. 238-250)
Quire 32^8-1 (ff. 251-257: 6th leaf missing)
The collation for ff. 258-285 has not been established. |
Quire 33⁸ (ff. 285a recto-292v) |
Quire 34¹⁰ (ff. 293-302)
Folio [b] (apparently a single leaf)

1^6-2 (1st-2nd missing) 2^{6-1 or 4+1} (one missing in the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half) 3^{6-1 or
4+1} (one missing from the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half) 4²⁺¹ (1st added) 5^five (2nd is misbound in Quire 6) 6^four (2 is misbound and belongs to Quire 5) 7^10-1 (6th missing) 8^{10-1 or 8+1} (one missing from the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half) 9^{12-1 or 10+1} (one missing from the quire's first half or one added to the quire's second half) 10-11¹⁰ | 12^?8 [collation not established for ff. 91-108] 13-14¹² 15¹⁰ 16^five | 17² 18-19⁶ | [? single leaf] 20¹⁰ [single leaf] | 21⁸ | 22-23⁸ 24¹² 25⁸ 26^8-1 (7th missing) 27⁴ 28⁸ | [?single leaf] 29⁶ 30¹⁰ | 31^sixteen 32^8-1 (6th missing) | 33⁸ | 34¹⁰ [? single leaf]

Additions

Folio [i] recto has a paper 'folder' for a strip of ?17th-century paper (measuring 145 x 85mm). This strip contains calculations and notes about books with classmark references.

Folio [a] recto features a 17th-century table of contents for the entire manuscript, highlighting names that feature in different parts: ‘Nathaniel Chierlo’, ‘Dr Stevens water’, and ‘Thomas Bradley’.

Binding

(?)18th- or 19th-century brown leather over pasteboards with blind-tooled triple-line frames around the edges; a curved spine featuring a dark brown leather label with a gold-tooled frame and the gold-stamped inscription: ‘RECIPES [et]c.’ and three paper pastedowns each with one the alpha-numerical elements of the manuscript's current classmark: ‘O’, ‘1’, ‘13’.

Binding height: 210mm; width: 150mm; depth: 55mm.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

One of the manuscripts of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702) , dean of York, antiquary and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.

One of the manuscripts of Roger Gale (1672-1744) , antiquary and scholar, son of Thomas Gale. Inherited from his father. Inscribed his name (‘Rogerus [G]’) in the upper margin of f. 145r [see Provenance of Part 3].

Donated to Trinity College by Roger Gale (1672-1744) , son of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), in 1738. The alpha-numerical elements of its classmark are printed on three paper tabs on the damaged spine: ‘O’, ‘1’, ‘13’. The classmark ‘O.1.13’ inscribed in pencil on the inside of the front cover. The old classmark ‘C.65.’ inscribed in brown ink on f. [a] recto (according to M.R. James (1902), this manuscript is no. 197 in another old classmark system but this number is not found in the manuscript). The College's ex libris is printed on a paper pastedown on f. [a] verso (featuring its coat of arms and name: ‘Collegium S.S. et Indiviudae Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi’).

Part 1 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 1-14, 20-23, 25-29, 24, 30-43, [43a], 44-82]

Language(s): Middle English, Latin, Middle French

1. 1r-14v

On the virtue of herbs Pseudo-Macer Floridus

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 1r This book is drawe be ffesyk . That macer made for hem þat been seeke þe vertu of herbis it discryeth ryght wel . and help of mannys helthe euery dele . fferst þe vertu of synke foyle þe .v. leuyd gras all is oon . it is colde and drye In þe secunde degre. This herbe is goode for ache in þe lendys and for ache in þe hede and for mouth tonge and throte that be soore lat boyle hem in wyne and lat þe seek drynk it first and last at evyn in at morowe and he schal be hool and drynk it with stale ale and it slakes akyng and gnawyng in mannys wombe

Explicit: 14v The vertu of an herbe þat is clepyd Beteyn he hay many wonderful vertuys þat on is if þou haue þe stoon drynk betyn and it brekeþ þe stoon and makeþ a man wel \to/ pysse Also it is good to hym þat casteþ blood owt at his mouth Also beteyne yboyled with hony it is good for þe dropsye also þe water of||

Spuriously attributed to Macer Floridus [see Mooney (1995), p. 66]. At the top of f. 1r is written ‘Ihesus’ by the same hand that has copied the text. Ends imperfectly due to missing folios.

eVK2 7357.00

eVK2 7080.00

IMEV 3578

NIMEV 3578

DIMEV 5657-1

Frisk (1949), p. 17

Mooney (1995), pp. 65-66 [other copies]

Keiser (2003), p. 315

2. 20r-20v

Poem on Phlebotomy or Bloodletting

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: || 20r The myddel veyne be twex þe to / Þe Coral he is clepyd so / That veyn clenseth with owte dowte / A bove be neþe with inne and with owt

Explicit: 20v The .iiij. Euelys þe thar not drede / So þat our lord be helpynge / Þat hay all in his gouernynge / So mote it be say nowe we / Amen amen pour seynt charyte

Begins imperfectly due to the loss of a preceding folio.

eVK2 0501.00

IMEV 3425.5

NIMEV see 3848/23

DIMEV 5395-9

3. 20v-21r

On the days of the moon good or not good for bloodletting, and on the thirty-two perilous days

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 20v Luna .j. good / luna .ij. not good / luna .iij. good at vndryn / luna .iiij. be þe morow

Explicit: 21r luna .xxx. good . and þer be .xxxij. dayes in þe [g]er mor þat ben clepyd perilous dayes on the whiche dayes whoso be ybore schal not leve longe and whoso fall seke he schal neuyr recovyre

eVK2 3426.00

Mooney (1995), p. 66 [other copies]

4. 21r

Prognostications for weather based on the appearance of the moon and sky

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 21r Pallide luna pluit rubium flat alba serenat / Celum crispatum velut campus aratum / Signat pluviam sero vel mane futuram

5. 21v-22v

Collection of 30 medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

eVK2 5539.00

6. 23r

Tract on the four humours (fragment)

Language(s): Middle Engilsh

Explicit: 23r be gyland othirwhyle malencolius he is lykned to wyntyr or to water for he is moiste and coold no[g]t lytel coueytous but muche blak ymenged with pale he is slow dul wytted heuy and slepy þese be þe .iiij. condicions of a man

Full transcription. The tract's beginning is missing due to missing folios.

7. 23r

Method for interpreting dreams using a psalter

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 23r If þu wilt wete what thy swevyne signefyeþ . Take a sawter and holde it betwene þi handes vnclapsyd and say .iij. pater noster in þe worschipe of þe fader sone and holy goost and after þat say blessed be þe tyme þat oure lorde borne was and make a crosse with thy thumbe vpon þi margyn abouyn . and say þis wordes therwyth in nomine patris et cetera and thenne opyn þe sawter and þe first letter of þe pagyned schal expound thi swevyn

Full transcription.

Mooney (1995), p. 66 [other copies]

Chardonnens (2014), p. 480 [edition]

8. 23v-25v + 24r-24v

The Twenty-Jordan Series [Rufus incipit]

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 23v Rubius: A feuer throwht a clensyng of þe lyuer . a feuer quarteyn a posteme on þe longes

Explicit: 25v Medicina: Mak a drynke of gromyl saxifrage parcel sauge boill hem togedyr in stale ale and drynke it and vse powder of hem in thi potage

Illustrated with eighteen urine flasks. A leaf (f. 24r-24v) with part of the uroscopic text has been misbound between ff. 29r-30v.

eVK2 0580.00

Mooney (1995), p. 66 [other copies]

Tavormina (2005), no. 47

Tavormina (2014), p. 21 (no. 1.5)

9. 26r-26v

Lucky and unlucky days for bloodletting

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 26r Her it telleþe in what dayes is goode to blede for dyuerse maladyes in ffebruari

Incipit: 26r In ffebruari it is good to bleede on þe day of saynte valentyne for þe feuer

Explicit: 26v Decembre hath .iij. dayes þe .vj. þe .xv. and þe .xvj. of all þes dayes be riȝht wel ware

eVK2 2788.00

Mooney (1995), pp. 66-67 [other copies]

10. 26v

Dates and times of ascendance of each of the Signs of the Zodiac

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 26v In þe .xiiij. day of Marche . the .iij. houre of þe nyght entreth in ariete

Explicit: 26v In þe .xij. day of ffebruare þe .vj. hour of þe day entreth in pisces

eVK2 2937.00

Braekman (1985), p. 27 [partial edition]

11. 27r-27v

On the hours of the day ruled by each planet

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

Incipit: 27r Here ben þe .xij. planetys of a day natural begynnynge at þe sone rysynge þe nyghte of þe fyrste ferie noctis prime ferie þe saturday nyghte

Explicit: 27v Jubiter et Venus . sunt boni planete . Saturnus et Mars sunt mali planete . Sol . Mercurius . et Luna . sunt mediocres . etcaetera

eVK2 3661.00

12. 28r-34r

Herbarium or glossary of names of herbs

Language(s): Latin, Middle English, Middle French

Rubric: 28r Incipit exposicio siue interpretacio nominum herbarum secundum ordinem alphabeti et vocatur herbarium

Incipit: 28r Alleluya anglice wodsere uel kukkowmete et habet tria folia duo rotunda aliquantulum in superiori parte diuisa florem habet album

Explicit: 34r Zinia id est [apa] factum ex frumento

Written in Latin, and giving equivalents in English and French. A leaf (f. 24r-24v) with part of the uroscopic text that can be found on ff. 23v-25v has been misbound between ff. 29r-30v.

Mooney (1995), p. 165 [other copies]

13. 34v-36r

Collective lunary

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 34v Dayes in þe monethys of þe [g]er ffor þe leche to knowe and to be ware whiche be good . The fyrste day of þe moneth is goode al thynges to begynne . ffor þat day was adam made the childe þat is borne þat day he schal be trewe and longe of lyfe

Explicit: 36r 30. The .30. day þe childe þat is borne þat day schal be travelyd with many desesys dremynge schal falle withinne .3. dayes withowte perelle

eVK2 6721.00

Taavitsainen (1988), p. 70 (no. 5)

14. 36r

Five medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

The first recipe is ‘ffor to make a bathe for þe axis’.

eVK2 5571.00

15. 37v-43r

Alphabetical list of names of herbs

Language(s): Latin, Middle French, and Middle English

Incipit: 37v Alleluya / Panis cucli / Paynde cukelle / Wodesowre / Scufte worte

Explicit: 43r Lingua aguina / Plantago / [?] Centiuerma||

Left unfinished in the letter ‘L’.

Mooney (1995), p. 165 [other copies]

16. 44r

Medical recipe ‘ffor the pach cowgh’

Language(s): Middle English

17. 45v

Poem on leechcraft

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 45v What man þat wil on leche crafte lere / Reede on þis booke and he may here

Explicit: 45v Ever more in Ioye for to be / In hevyn with þe holy trinite - Amen

Another hand has added the instruction: ‘begynne here’ in the upper margin at the start of the poem.

eVK2 7929.00

DIMEV 5390

IMEV 3422

NIMEV 3422-6

Soreau (2015), pp. 75-76 [edition]

18. 46r-61r

Collection of 112 medical recipes and charms

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

On f. 53v is a reference to the Practica Chirurgiae of Roger Frugard (‘Nota quod Rogerus dicit in practica’.). On ff. 57v-58r is a set of three recipes (found in various other manuscripts) for making ‘Gracia Dei’ that are said to have been used by ‘þe lady beuchampe þe Erlys wyfe of Warwyke’; ‘þe good erle of Hereford [...] þat was holden a noble surgene’; and ‘hopkyn of þe fermorye of kenelworth’.

Final rubric: 61r Explicit optimus liber medicorum in Regno Anglie

eVK2 5033.00

Mooney (1995), p. 67 [other copies]

Soreau (2002) [partial edition]

19.1. 47v

Charm to heal fevers

Involves three Eucharistic wafers inscribed with Latin formulae.

Soreau (2015), p. 89 [edition]

19.2. 48v

Charm to cure dysentry

Rubric: 48v her is a charme for þe blody flux

Invokes Christ's baptism in the River Jordan and Longinus and the piercing of Christ's side by Longinus's lance.

Soreau (2015), p. 90 [edition]

19.3. 50v

Charm for a person who cannot sleep due to illness

Involves a laurel leaf inscribed with a Latin text.

19.4. 50v-51r

Childbirth charm to give a pregnant woman a safe delivery

Involves an amulet with the ‘peperit’ formula that needs to be bound to her right thigh.

19.5. 51v

Charm to cure fevers

Involves three Eucharistic wafers inscribed with Latin formulae.

Soreau (2015), p. 89 [edition]

19.6. 51v-52r

Charms to cure epilepsy in adults and children

Rubric: 51v ffor þe fallynge yuel

Describes the creation of an amulet: the charm text is written on parchment in the sufferer's own blood, and invokes the names of the Three Magi. Once the amulet has been written, gold, myrrh and frankincense should be put in and the amulet closed up and hung around the sufferer's neck. The patient should be blessed, and when he rises in the morning he should say three Pater Nosters and three Ave Marias, and every day for a month drink three roots of peony with stale ale. Further instructions describe a cure if the sufferer is a child: that the names of the Magi should be written in the child's blood in a 'masere' (i.e. a drinking bowl) and washed with either ale or milk, and the mixture given to the child to drink.

19.7. 53r

Charm to cure a wound

Rubric: 53r ffor to charme a wounde on englessh

19.8. 53r

Charm to drive away evil spirits

Rubric: 53r Her is a charme for wykkede wiȝhtes

Involves an amulet that invokes Christ's wounds.

19.9. 53v

Charm to cure fevers

Involves three Eucharistic wafers inscribed with Latin formulae.

Braekman (1997), p. 117 [edition]

19.10. 57v

Charm to cure fevers

Involves three sage leaves inscribed with Latin formulae and three masses.

19.11. 61r

Charm against epilepsy

Rubric: 61r Pro morbo caduco

Describes the creation of an amulet inscribed with magical formulae and the names of the Four Evangelists and Three Magi, which is then closed up and hung around the sufferer's neck.

20. 61v

Verse introduction to a prose medical text (here absent)

Incipit: 61v Thys booke hyȝt ypocras oon of þe beste surgens þat euer was

Explicit: 61v Pray we for all to heuene kynge He ȝeue her soulys goode wonynge - Amen

Final rubric: 61v ffinitus medicinis incipit hic liber coquinare

Although the rubric announces the beginning of a new work, this text does not follow and the remainder of the leaf is blank.

eVK2 7350.00

NIMEV 3577.55

DIMEV 5656-2

21. 62r-66r

Collection of 46 medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

The last recipe ‘ffor þe dropsy’ is in a different ink but apparently copied by the same hand.

eVK2 5975.00

22. 66v

Instructions for making and using a medicinal drink called Save (I)

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 66v A drynke þat is called save

Incipit: 66v Save is a goode drynke . ffor it wil hele all maner of wondes with owtyn any plaster or any other salue

Explicit: 66v and do þus þe thryde tyme and kepe þat in a vessel of erthe for it is þe best drynk for a wondyd man þat may be

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Mooney (1995), p. 68 [other copies]

23. 67r

Instructions for healing broken bones

Language(s): Middle English with Latin charm

Rubric: 67r ffor to helen brokyn bones or armes or any other boon

Incipit: 67r Take firste whan þou comest þerto and make a crosse þeron IN nomine patries et filij et spiritus sancti Amen. Take þan and make a plaster of whete flour and whyte of eyren or of flour of cokyl þat is best or of þe flour of þe seed of woodwyse

Explicit: 67r and kepe hym from contrarious metes and drynkes tyl he be hoole and hym bere a balle of erbys or sumwhat ellys in his hond [g]if þe arme be brooke for crokynge of þe fyngers

24. 67v

Instructions for making and using a medicinal drink called Save (II)

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 67v .Save. her begynys a drynke for woundes withinne a mannys body þat is callede save

Incipit: 67v Take þes erbys þat aren her wrytten . Brunet . betoyne . pympernel . dauk . matfelon . turmentyl . croyser . Bugle . pigle . sauecle . herbe Jon . herbe Robert . erbe water . erbe yvy . Confounde maior . Confound minor . croppe of hempe . fenkyl or elles þe seed þer of

Explicit: 67v with þis schalt þou sauely hele hem ȝif hem drynke þerof arly at the morne and late at evyn þe gretnesse of a mows fyche

eVK2 5975.00

Mooney (1995), p. 68 [other copies]

25. 67v

Three short recipes for heartburn, and evil and swelling in the stomach

Language(s): Middle English

eVK2 5975.00

Mooney (1995), p. 68 [other copies]

26. 68r-72v

Collection of 72 medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 68r Here begynnyth medicynes þat good lechis haue foundyn and drawen owte of bokes galyen and asclypius and ypocras for þai war þe best lechis in þe worlde

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Mooney (1995), p. 68

27. 73r-74v

Collection of 14 medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

eVK2 5975.00

28. 74v-75v

Collection of 18 medical recipes

Language(s): Latin

eVK2 5975.00

29. 75v

Charm to staunch blood

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 75v Contra fluxum sanguinus

Incipit: 75v In nomine patris . et filij et spiritus sancti amen . Coniuro te sanguis per illum sanguinem qui exuit de latere saluatoris nostri et per omnes sanguines qui effusi sunt in terra . pro eius amore

Explicit: 75v Christus vincit . Christus regnat . Christus imperat . tribus pater noster . Credo on in vnum.

30. 75v

Charm for womb ailments

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 75v Carmen pro matrice

Incipit: 75v Coniuro te matrix et dolor vicerum . per patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum et per passionem domini et mortem . et per ominpotenciam ipsius et liberalitatem . et per omnia mirabilia sua que fecit et cotidie facti . in celo et in terra in mari et in omnibus abissis . et per crucem domini . veram ac viuificam et per sanctam mariam matrem saluatoris . et omnis sanctos et sanctas . vt ultra non noceres hinc famulo ^{la / le}, nec mutes sanguinem eius . and [sic] minuas vel . bibas nec colorem deflores . sed constringe te . et collige te . nec addas uel presumas vltra votem . pater noster.

Full transcription. The charm's title (‘Pro matrice’) is repeated in the outer margin.

31. 76r

Charm for any ailment

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 76r Pro quacumque dolore uel firmitate

Incipit: 76r Carmen ad quecumque dolorem . uel infirmitatem . Coniuro te infirmitas . vel dolor . et nomina illo . per . patrem . et filium . et spiritum sanctum . per magnificentiam eius. et liberalitatem . et per omnes miseraciones eius . super omnia opera eius a generacione in generacionem, et per omnia mirabilia eius . que fecit et cotidie facit in celo et in terra et in mari . et in omnibus abissis . et per veram ac viuificam crucem domini et per sanctam mariam matrem saluatoris . et per omnia gaudia que habuit . de filio suo cum oscularetur sanctos pedus eius et manus . os . et aures . nasum et oculos . mentum capud . et frontem et . per sanctum petrum et paulum . Johannem baptistam et Johannem euangelistam

Explicit: 76r Tunc nam uerbo caro factum est etcaetera . usque in finem . hoc carmen sepe probatum est. et verum repertum . si in deum credis . quod petis optinebus

The charm invokes the martyr saints Alban, Amphibalus, Lawrence, Vincent, Germanus, Nichasius, James, Giles, Leonard, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Katherine, and Margaret.

32. 76v

Four recipes for equestrian medicine

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 76v ffor þe malelawnder of an hors. Take hony and a schyn of eldir tre and make a plaster and bynd it to þe soor all a nyght and a day and looke yt it be but warme and take a rede doke rote and boyle it in fresche gres . and lay it þer to .ij. dayes . and .ij. ny[g]tes and leede hym [?] not to water

Explicit: 76v ffor þe corlbyges. Take and froote þe legges||

The last recipe has been left unfinished.

eVK2 5530.00

33. 76v

Two medical recipes for horses

Language(s): Latin

The recipes are entitled: ‘Si equus infunditur’ and ‘Si equus de naribus spirat’.

34. 76v

Charm against farcy in a horse

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 76v Contra farcinum

Incipit: 76v Contra farcinum. Quando deus natus fuit . quicquid fecit bene fecit . et qui d. b. d. hoc verum est si sanet equum istum . albinum . aut nigrum . and c⁹ .c. sit de facino quod habet

Full transcription.

35. 76v

Charm against worms in a horse

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 76v Pro vermibus equorum

Incipit: 76v Ad idem. Adiouro te vermis per patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum et per sanctum Job qui vermes insaniem radebat de corpore et per sanctum eutropium ne habeas ultra potestatem in hoc equo . in cute and in carne in ossibus and uernis . agyos . o . agios. yskiros . etcaetera quod est sanctus deus sanctus fortis

Full transcripion.

37. 81r (lower half)

Short medical recipes

Language(s): English

Added by a 16th-century hand.

38. 82r (lower margin)

Account notes

Language(s): English

Incipit: 82r (lower margin rychard ipaid / W^m Cartar of hull lxx [...]

Full transcription attempted. Added by a 16th-century hand.

36. 77v-82v

Treatise on rosemary Henry Daniel

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 77v Rosa Marine

Incipit: 77v This is þe lytil boke of þe vertuys of rosmaryn þat þe scole of selerne gaderyd and compiled at instance of þe cowntese of henowde and sche send to þe poope and rosmaryn þerwith to her doughter qwene Philyppe of yngelonde abowten þe ȝer of oure lord .CCC. \and/ xlij. for before þat tyme was neuer rosmaryn knowyn in engelond . swiche a lytil boke \qwat/ sent at þe prayers of many and worthy in qwat also for maner pouere latyn folke . I daniel haue translyted into uulgare ynglysh worde for worde a sstond in latyn . and at þe laste ende I made a table concordant . þe more redily forto fynden . þat on qwyle han þer in be letterys of þe abete. A. þe ynglysch in conteyned vp in þe nvmbre in þe mergyn and thus I fond þe tytle begynnynge in latyn fayre begynnyth þe lytel boke of þe vertuese of rosmaryn sey in þe scole of salerne and þus begynnys ve lytel booke

Explicit: 82v And take good heed . þat of alle erþely treys weⁱle han most of sethynge and rostyng in bakynge and þe more it haueht þe more effecte it hath

eVK2 7433.00

eVK2 4396.00

Harvey (1972), 14-21 [edition of selections from this manuscript]

Mooney (1995), p. 69 [other copies]

Soreau (2019), pp. 92-100 [edition]

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: temper it

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in octavo. Folios 1-82: scales.

Extent: Codex: 78 leaves. 195 × 135 mm.

Collation

Quire 1^6-2 (ff. 1-4: 1st and 2nd leaves missing)
Quire 2^{6-1 or 4+1} (ff. 5-9 one missing in the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half)
Quire 3^{6-1 or 4+1} (ff. 10-14: one missing from the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half)
Quire 4²⁺¹ (ff. 20-22: 1st leaf added)
Quire 5^five (ff. 23-28: 2nd leaf is misbound in Quire 6)
Quire 6^four (ff. 29-31: 2nd leaf is misbound and belongs to Quire 5)
Quire 7^10-1 (ff. 32-40: 6th leaf missing [paper stub])
Quire 8^{10-1 or 8+1} (ff. 41-49: one missing from the quire's second half or one added to the quire's first half)
Quire 9^{12-1 or 10+1} (ff. 50-60: one missing from the quire's first half or one added to the quire's second half)
Quire 10¹⁰ (ff. 61-72)
Quire 11¹⁰ (ff. 73-82)

Layout

140-150 × 90-100 mm. No ruling visible. Mainly single columns (except ff. 37v-43r which have two columns). 25-36 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Largely copied by a one or two hands writing in an anglicana script but with secretary features.

Decoration

Drawings of urine flasks (jordans) in brown ink (uncoloured) on ff. 23v [2], 25r-25v [2 x 4], and 24r-24v [2 x 4].

Small (1-2 lines) plain initials in dark brown ink.

Underlining in brown ink.

History

Origin: 15th century. ; England.

Provenance

Richard Wistowe [Wystowe] (fl. 16th century) : his (previously unnoticed) ownerhip inscription in a late 15th- or 16th-century hand on f. 82v: ‘Ryche wystowe oeth this booke’. He probably is Richard Wistowe, barber-surgeon of London and keeper of Leadenhall market from 1562, who served in the household of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579) and was still alive in the mid-1580s when he received an annual fee as recorded in the Chamberlain's Account of 1584-5. On Wistowe, see Ian W. Archer, 'Patronage and Clientage in Elizabethan London', Patronages et Clientelismes 1550-1750 (France, Angleterre, Espagne, Italie), ed. by Charles Giry-Deloison and Roger Mettam (Lille: l'Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion, 2018), pp. 137-148.

Part 2 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 83-100, 100a, 101-115, 115a-115b, 116-124, 124a, 125-144]

Language(s): Latin, French and Italian

1. 83r-143v

Collection of medical and alchemical recipes

Language(s): Latin, French, Italian

Folios 83r-119r predominantly contain features recipes in Latin and French with a few recipes in Italian (e.g. ff. 117r-117v). From f. 119v onwards, there are only recipes in Italian.

The collection includes various references to France and Italy. One recipe on f. 132r is entitled: ‘Olio di San. Bernardino’. Various recipes are attributed to specific (?) French and Italian medical practitioners:

‘M. Malkean’ (f. 83r)
‘Operatio secundum domini Chamberlanti de ☾’ (f. 85r) [unidentified]
‘Mr Augustin’ (f. 84v) [unidentified]
‘Dom. Chamb.’ (f. 84v) [unidentified]
‘M. Cham.’ (f. 87r) [unidentified]
‘J.b.’ [3x] (ff. 92r, 93v) [unidentified]
‘M. de la Baulm’ and ‘M. Bourd’ [2x] (f. 93v) [unidentified]
‘M. de Beaulieu’, ‘M. Li.’, ‘De Burd.’ (f. 94r) [unidentified]
‘Dominus de Burdalow’ (f. 84v) [unidentified]
‘Receypt de madame de Nemours’ (f. 94v) [unidentified]
‘M. de la Pierre’ [4x] (ff. 95r-95v) [unidentified]
‘Chamberlant’ (f. 95v) [unidentified]
‘M^r Bourdalou’ (f. 96v) [unidentified]
‘M^r Rodamont’ (f. 97r [unidentified]
‘M^r Claud de Auig.’ (f. 98v) [unidentified]
‘M. Galli’ (f. 113r) [unidentified]
‘Prouato - Nathaniele Chierlo’ (f. 122v) [unidentified]

The collection also features a recipe for Weapon Salve on (ff. 88r-88v) that is attributed to Paracelsus (1493–1541): ‘Vnguentum ad vulnera Parakel[sis]’. Further references to Paracelsus occur in the collection's alchemical recipe (e.g. see f. 111v-112r [‘Paral. in Chirurgia Magna’, referring to his Grosse Wundarznei of 1536], and f. 113v [‘Paracelsus in libro Hospitarum’]).

Many recipes have been crossed out. On f. 84r, a few words of the recipe's title and instructions have been written in a cypher. Words have been crossed out and replaced with the same cypher on ff. 120v and 121r.

2. 100v

Two medical recipes

Language(s): English and Latin

Incipit: 100v Ad Fluxum ventris - Recipe the claws of a hos foot new kild and put it into an oven

Incipit: 100v Plaster to mak sleep - Seed of whit poppey . aquavitae . wheat flower .3. spoonfuls . of ony .1. spoonful . of creame [crossed out: ‘2. spoonfuls’] and henban seed .2. spoonfuls [crossed out: ‘M’] Jde

Full transcription.

3. 101r

Prayer to God

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 101r O aeterne deus et domine misericors qui es a principio α et ω: des mihi (obsecro) veniam, vt ex intimo corde et animo tibi gratus siui pro beneficijs tuis infinitis

Explicit: 101r et omnia alia a te peto in nomine angilorum et arcangilorum Michiel . Gabriel . Raphiel . Zaphiel [crossed out: ‘Raziel’] . Agiel . Raziel . et pro meritis vnici filij tui Amen

4. 103r

List of the months of the year with specific dates highlighted

Language(s): Latin

5. 103r

Three unlucky days for bloodletting, medicine, and eating goose

Language(s): Latin, French, English

Incipit: 103r Tres etiam dies [crossed out: ‘quibus’] anno in quibus si aliquis missionem sanguinis patituit aut sumit medicinam intra 6^tam vel .13. diem mensis morietuit. Scilicet .1.^us Augusti et vltimus Decembrius .8.^us Aprilis. Quicunque mange de vn ousean or goose en vn de ces deux ioures \[...]/ il sera maladi dedans .ii. ioures apres et en peril de mort

Full transcription attempted.

6. 119r

Medical recipe for fever

Language(s): English

Rubric: 119r ffor Hot agues

Incipit: 119r Buttermilk is excellent good in hot agues especially in a quotidian

Full transcription.

7. 144v

Short index of recipes

Language(s): Italian

Incipit: 144v 19. Oleo de stomaco D. Cosm. 3

Explicit: 144v 28 et 30: Agqua magni D. pro conseruationem dentium

Most of the recipes have references to their (?) sources, which are identified as ‘D. Cosm.’ and ‘D. Ferd.’. Below the 'index' are two items without page references: ‘Oleo per fenite’ and ‘Oleo per vermi’.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 84r: Oleum

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 83-144: Jug (? with initial).

Extent: Codex: 66 leaves. 200 × 145 mm.

Collation

Quire 12^?8 (ff. 83-90)
The collation for ff. 91-108 has not been established.
Quire 13¹² (ff. 109-118)
Quire 14¹² (ff. 119-129)
Quire 15¹⁰ (ff. 130-139)
Quire 16^five (ff. 140-144)

Layout

170-195 × 125-145 mm. No ruling visible. Single columns. c. 25-50 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Copied by several hands in humanistic cursive scripts.

Decoration

Medical and alchemical vessels drawn in brown ink on ff. 84v, 141r, 142r, 143r, 143v, and 144r.

Drawings of vessels and instruments in brown ink within the texts (e.g. see ff. 86r, 86r, 110r, and 114r).

History

Origin: Second half of the 16th and/or first half of the 17th century ; ?Italy. ; ?France.

Part 3 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 145-150, 150a, 151, 151a-151c, 152-154]

Language(s): Middle English with a Latin addition

1. 145r-154v

Collection of 88 medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

eVK2 5389.00

2. 148r-148v

Tract on Aqua Vitae

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 148r-148v The Propertys of Aquavite

Incipit: 148r Thys watyr hath many fayr vertuous his helpith man or woman from all maner colde maledyes and hoso can vse it kyndely it is comfortatyfe ayen all maner maledyes and it ys better at þe furst dystillyng of þe serpentory hit comfortes a man and kepys hem in kyndlykyng het and comforthe þe colde stommoke

Explicit: 148v of colde humeres yf a man drynke yt xv days furst and last and to alle þes thynges berys wytnes the goode phylosophere ypocras

Mooney (1995), p. 96 [other copies]

3. 148v-150r

On the virtues of Rosemary

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 148v Þe xxvj vertuys of rosmari

Incipit: 148v Take þe flour of rosmary and bynde hym in a lynnen clothe and swethe hym in clene watyr tyl halfe be sothen away and drynke it and yt schall hele all þe evell of thy body

Explicit: 150r and make þerof poudyr and ley it on a kankyr and it schall destroith yt and make hem hole be godis grace

eVK2 6097.00

Mooney (1995), p. 96 [other copies]

4. 154v

Copy of an indenture in which Richard Trwtayll released his manor in Loughton, Essex, to William Gerge

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 150v Hec indentura etcaetera testatur quod Willelmus Gerge de Assakeby - Hec indentura fact. testatur quod Rcardus Trwtayll dimisit si ad firmam tradidit Willelmo Gergo manerium suum in lowghtoun cum omnibus pertinenc. suis et proficius tam in villa quam extra villam provenienter

Full transcription. Added in the 15th century.

5. 154v

Instructions for taking cuttings from orchard trees

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: || 154v To make a ochard in schortt space in the monythe of december cut a away the barke of a brawnch or tree a fott frome the tre and after wynd itt well with mosse and cley and after the xv day of feueryer with a saw cutt itt itt [sic] and sattȝ in the grond and itt

Unfinished text. Full transcription as in Mooney (1995). Added in the late 15th or early 16th century.

eVK2 2950.00

Mooney (1995), p. 96 [other copies]

6. 154v (upside down)

Prayer exhortation

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 154v (upside down) Jhesus mercy lady helpe

Full transcription; added by a 15th- or early 16th-century hand.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 146r: To make oyle

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in octavo. Folios 146-154: Letter P.

Extent: Codex: 14 leaves. 195 × 140 mm.

Collation

Quire 17² (ff. 145-146)
Quire 18⁶ (ff. 147-151)
Quire 19⁶ (ff. 151a-154)

Layout

140-145 × 105-110 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame (vertical lines) only. Single columns. 24 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Copied by a single hand in a cursive anglicana script.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: 15th century (probably second half). ; England.

Provenance

William Pykworth [Pickworth] (fl. 15th century) , owned or accessed this part of the manuscript: his name inscribed in a 15th-century hand in the lower margin of f. 150v. Unidentified.

Anne Pole (fl. 15th century) , owned or accessed this part of the manuscript: her name inscribed in a 15th-century hand in the lower margin of f. 151v. Unidentified.

Roger Gale (1672-1744) , antiquary and scholar, son of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), dean of York, antiquary and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge: inscribed his name ‘Rogerus [G]’ in a 17th- or 18th-century hand in the upper margin of f. 145r. The location of his signature may suggest that this part was initially kept separately and joined to the rest of manuscript by Roger Gale.

Part 4 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 155-163, 163a, 164-165]

Language(s): Middle English

1. 155r-165v

Collection of culinary recipes

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 155r Longe wortys de chayre j [T]ake befe and maribonys and boyle hem in fayre water and than take wortys and wesch hem clen and parobyle hem in fayre water and take ham vppe of þe water aftyre þe furste bolynge

Explicit: 165v make a cofyne and put in þe lampray and pur in þe galentyne þat it be als hy as þe lampray and hill it with a lide put apene betwyze þe lide and þe cofyne and blaw þe pene þat||

The last recipe for baked lamprey is incomplete probably due to the loss of leaves.

eVK2 5880.00

Hieatt (2008) [edition of selected recipes]

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 156r: Take whyte benys

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 155-165: grapes.

Extent: Codex: 12 leaves. 195 × 140 mm.

Collation

Folio 155 (single leaf apparently sewn to Quire 20)
Quire 20¹⁰ (ff. 156-164)
Folio 165 (single leaf currently detached) |

Layout

150-155 × 110-115 mm. Ruled in hardpoint (ff. 155r-165r) and ink (ff. 161v-165v), frame only. Single columns. c. 30-35 lines to the page, written below the top line.

Hand(s)

Copied by a (?) single hand in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.

Decoration

Underlining in brown ink.

Additions

'Wroght', written by a 15th-century hand in the top margin of f. 165v.

History

Origin: 15th century. ; England.

Part 5 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 166-172, 172a]

Language(s): Middle English

1. 166r-166v

Verse prologue to leechraft

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 166r [T]he man þat wol of lechecrafte lere / Reede ouer thys booke and he may here

Explicit: 166v Euer more in ioye to be / Inne hevyne with the trinite

eVK2 6910.00

IMEV 3422

NIMEV 3422

DIMEV 5390-6

2. 166v-172a verso

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

eVK2 6011.00

Mooney (1995), p. 70 [other copies]

3. 172a verso (lower margin)

? Account note

Incipit: 165v (lower margin) iiiij [crossed out: ‘delyuered’]

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 167r: the syke schal

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 166-172a: fleur-de-lis.

Extent: Codex: 8 leaves. 195 × 135 mm.

Collation

Quire 21⁸ (ff. 166-172a)

Layout

160 × 115 mm. Ruled in ink, frame only. Single columns. 26-27 lines to the page, written below top line.

Hand(s)

Copied by a single hand in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.

Decoration

Three added marginal drawings of body parts in dark ink, illustrating the subjects of the recipes on the pages: an ear, accompanying a recipe ‘ffor euyl heryng’ on f. 167r; an ear, accompanying a recipe ‘ffor a schepis lowse or any oþer thyng þat is cropyþ in to a mannys ere’ on f. 171r; and a tooth, accompanying a recipe ‘ffor the toth ache’ on f. 172a recto.

Regular (1 line) initials and letters highlighted with red ink.

Underlining in red ink.

History

Origin: 15th century. ; England.

Part 6 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 173-174, 174a, 175-177, 177a, 178, 178a-178b, 179-184, 184a, 185-192, 192a, 193-194, 194a, 195-206, 208-221]

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

1. 173r-175r

Alphabetical index to medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 173r Here after ensuith the table of this present boke

Incipit: 173r .A. Abstynence fo. .8.

Explicit: 175r Z.

Final rubric: 175r .ffinis.

2. 175r (lower margin)

Medical recipe for treating ‘canker’

Language(s): Middle English

Added in the late 15th or early 16th century.

3. 175v

On the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 175v The xij signes

Incipit: 175v 1 Aries - Gouerneth the hede and the face of man

Explicit: 175v 12 Pisces - The feetes only

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Mooney (1995), p. 70 [full transcription and other copies]

4. 175v

Notes on the relation of the complexions to the Signs of the Zodiac

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 175v Coleryke - Aries / Leo / Sagittarius - be of the nature of fyer and be hote and drye

Explicit: 175v Melancoly - Taurus / Virgo / Capricornus - be of nature of ff the erthe and be codle and drye

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5. 175v (lower margin)

Medical recipe for ‘canker in the mowthe cheekis or lyppis’

Language(s): Middle English

Added by a late 15th- or 16th-century hand.

6. 176r

Notes on which signs are good, which indifferent, and which bad, for bloodletting

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 176r Aries / Libra / Sagittarius - These signes be good for lettyng off bloode

Explicit: 176r Taurus / Gemini / Leo / Capricornus - These signes be very evyll for lettyng of bloode

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7. 176r

Notes on the influence of planets over parts of the human body

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 176r Off the vij planettes

Incipit: 176r Luna - Governeth the hede

Explicit: 176r Mars - Governeth the gall

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Mooney (1995), p. 71 [other copies]

8. 176r

Note on the (?) order of the planets

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 176r Nota / Saturnus / Jupiter / Mars / Sol / Venus / Mercurius / et Luna - Aliter / Sol / Venus / Mercurius / Luna / Saturnus / Jupiter/ et Mars

Full transcription.

9. 176r (lower margin)

Medical recipe ‘for to voyde the stone and gravell’

Language(s): Middle English

Added by a late 15th- or 16th-century hand.

10. 176v

Note on the relationship between the planets and the Signs of the Zodiac

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 176v Venus - Taurus / Libra

Explicit: 176v Saturnus - Capricornus / Aquarius

11. 176v

Notes on dispositions of the Signs of the Zodiac

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 176v Off the xij signes whiche be good or bade to take jorneys bi water or lande or to begyn any other thynge

Incipit: 176v Aries is good / Taurus is nott so / Gemini et Cancer will make the glade butt beware hardely of Leo and Virgo / Libra for frendshippe / full harde is Scorpio / Sagittarius good / Capricornus perllous / Aquarius by water good / Clerkes provith so / ffor best is Pisches and most plentyouse

Full transcription.

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12. 177r

Notes on how the planets influence mankind

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 177r Saturnus - Significat hominem nigrum et croceum ambulando mergentem in terra

Explicit: 177r qui cum omne fuerit dum modo dig[...]em habeat locum eius insequitur naturam

13.1. 177v-177a recto

The boke of husbondrye [first part] Walter of Henley

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 177v The boke of husbondrye

Incipit: 177v This ys the tretyse of husbrondye that magister Grosthed made the whiche was byshoppe of Lyncolne he translate this boke owt of ffrance into Inglisse / The begynnyng of this boke techez all maner men for to gouerne the landes tenementes and there demaynes ordinatly to rule there begynnyng the Chapytouris and the tabill according to the same

The text runs to the bottom of f. 177a recto and breaks off there. A later hand has added the note: ‘Vid. fol. 188’. The text continues on f. 188v (see below).

Attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253) , bishop of Lincoln, in the incipit.

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Oschinsky (1971), p. 37 (no. 50)

Mooney (1995), p. 71

14. 177a verso-178r

Two medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

The second recipe ends ‘probat quod M^r Jamez \Markade Jonour/ att þe whyte ffryers’ [Mooney transcribes: ‘Magister Jamez ^{markid e Jam^s} att þe i ffreres’].

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15. 178r-178b recto (margins)

Nine medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

Some recipes have been written sideways, added to the margins by one or different late 15th- or early 16th-century hands.

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16. 178v

Regimen sanitatis Saleritanum (opening)

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 178v ffrancorum regi scripsit scola tota salerni

Explicit: 178v Hec tria sunt signa subtilis in omne dieta

17. 178a recto

Names and symbols of the Signs of the Zodiac

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 178a recto ♈︎ Aries

Explicit: 178a recto ♓︎ Pisses

18. 178a recto

Names and symbols of the planets and lunar nodes

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 178a recto ♄ Saturnus

Explicit: 178a recto ☋ cauda

19. 178a recto

Astrological notes

Language(s): Latin

The notes describe the relationships between the planets and signs of the Zodiac, featuring the sub-headings: ‘Amici Saturni’ and ‘Amici Martis’

20. 178a verso-178b recto

Astrological tables

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 178a verso Aries | Taurus | Gemini / Calidum humidum / ver

Explicit: 178b recto Orien: 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 / dies / Cholera / C S

21. 178b verso-188v

Collection of 152 medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

On f.185v is a recipe for ‘The kinges medsyn for the sweting sycknes’.

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22. 194v-201v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

Various recipes in this collection are attributed to medical practitioners: a recipe for curing yellow jaundice (‘yellow jawnes’) is said to have been made by the physician of the bishop of Lincoln: ‘per medicum episcopi Linolniensis’ (f. 195v); a recipe for curing toothache is attributed to an unspecified King Henry: ‘ffor a tothe ache þat Kinge Henry healed’ (f. 196); a recipe for curing a ‘hot stomake’ is associated with a certain ‘M^r doctour Wen[...]r’ (f. 197v) [unidentified]; a recipe for curing the plague (‘pro smythe’) is attributed to ‘doctour Walker’ (f. 198r) [unidentified]; a recipe ‘ffor the Rewme in the hedd’ is said to have been proved by ‘doctor Stansby’ [Mooney (1995) reads ‘Stansly’] (f. 199r) [unidentified].

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13.2. 188v-194v

The boke of husbondrye [second part] Walter of Henley

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 188v more of the boke of husbondrye

Explicit: 194v and ye b and sell b weight beware of||

The text runs to the bottom of and breaks off there. A later hand has added the note: ‘Vid. fol. 188’. The text continues from the bottom of f. 177a recto, and ends imperfectly in Chapter 15. A later hand (the same hand of the previous note) has added the notes: ‘vid. fol. 177’ at the start and ‘finis vid. 106^b ’ at the end.

Attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253) , bishop of Lincoln, in the incipit on f. 177v.

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Oschinsky (1971), p. 37 (no. 50)

Mooney (1995), p. 71

23. 202r

Verse couplet

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 202r Tempore felici multi numerantur amici / Cum fortuna perit nullus amicis erit

Full transcription.

Walther, Proverbia, no. 31228

24. 202r

Sum of al the churches, villages, and military tenures in England

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 202r Summa ecclesiarum Anglie - xls^ml .xxj. / Summa villarum Anglie - lij^ml iiij^xx / Summa feodroum militum - lij^ml ccxv / De quibus fuerunt in manibus religiosorum - xxviij^ml .xv.

Full transcription.

25. 202r-203v

Seven medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English with some Latin

The last recipe, entitled ‘for to make a ffatt man slender’, has been left incomplete.

26. 203r-204r

Ten medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

The penultimate recipe is entitled: ‘A good salve for any soore called Colman’ and has a marginal note that states that is has been proved ‘att the potycaries’ [at the apothecaries].

27. 204v

Note of dukedoms, bishoprics, monasteries, abbeys, and parish churches in France

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 204v There be in ffraunce: xxiiij grett dukedomes / iiij^xx alle populus Contreys / ciij famus bushopprickes / M^l ffatt monasteres and abbeys / x^m parishes churches

Full transcription.

28. 204v

Note on a bill in parliament

Language(s): Middle English with a Latin heading

Rubric: 204v Note in anno secundo regis Henrici v^ti

Incipit: 204v There was a bill of supplicacioun putt into the parliament house then theffecte wherof was thatt the temporall landes douetly gyven and disordynatly spent by religious and other spirituall persons myght suffyce to mayntene yerely to the honour of the kynge and defence of the realme xv. erles xv^C knyghtes vj^Ml ij^C esquiers C of almeshuses And xx^M li yerely to the kinges coffers before the mayntenaunce provisions and valewes of yerely pensions lymyted vnto dyuers sufficient housez of regioun whiche was then thought necessari to stand and to mayteyne

Full transcription. According to Mooney (1995), the dating given in the heading is incorrect; the bill would concern a request to seize alien priories that dates to the second year of the reign of Henry IV (1402); see Mooney (1995), p. 72.

29. 205r

Notes on kings of arms in different countries (France, Spain, England, and Scotland)

Language(s): French

Incipit: 205r Mountioye est Roy de Armes en France

Explicit: 205r Lynney est Roye de Armes en Scotelond

30. 205r

Titles of officers of Arms in England

Language(s): French

Rubric: 205r Royes de Armes en Angloys

Incipit: 205r Gartier / Clarensius / Norwaye - York / Lancaster / Richemond / Wyndesor / Chester / Surrey - Parculleys / Ruggcrosse / Huggse dragon [added: ‘blew mantell’] - Pursyvauntes

Full transcription. The text is signed ‘Harroldes’.

31. 205r

Note on disgracing a knight

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 205r A disgracynge of a knyght ys to cutt of his gilt spurres to rent his cote armore and to breke his swerd ouer his hede

Full transcription.

32. 205v

Note on the officers of Waltham Forest

Language(s): Middle English text with a Latin heading

Rubric: 205v Waltham fforrest infra Comitatu Essex

Incipit: 205v Therle of Sussex Justice of Oyer there

Explicit: 205v M^r Scott Regardorer there

33. 205v

Poem on women Robert Jernegan

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 205v What women be in dede / Whi shold nott all men know / ffyckell to there ffrende / And spytfull to there ffoo

Final rubric: 205v quod Robert Jernegan

Full transcription.

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NIMEV TM 1842

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34. 205v-209r

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

On f. 208v is a recipe that is called ‘M^r doctour Aschars purgacion’

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Mooney (1995), p. 73 [other copies]

35. 209v

On the perilous days

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 209v Nota

Incipit: 209v Hij sunt dies periculose [‘e’ corrected to ‘i’] qui sunt in anno quas inuenit quidam M. Philosophorum

Explicit: 209v Caueat vnus quisque ne incipiat aliquod opus in hijs diebus / ego tamen non dubio quin in deo et eius nomine omnia prouenient

36. 209v

List of Scots prisoners taken by Sir Giles Capell in the Anglo-Scottish Wars, known as Rough Wooing (1548/9)

Language(s): English

Rubric: 209v The namez of certen Skottes taken by my M^r Sir Gylez Capell knyght that brake out of Colchester Castell in Anno primo R. E. sexti

Incipit: 209v Prysoners - Jamez Nobill esquier of Arderden

Explicit: 209v Patrike Borron burger of the same [Edinburgh]

Sir Giles Capell (1486-1556) of Rayne Hall, Sherrif of Essex, was a loyal servant of Henry VIII, and one of the knights who jousted with the French at the Field of Cloth of Gold (1520).

37. 210r-212v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

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38. 213r-213v

Table of contents for Geoffrey of Vinsauf's text on Palladius's Husbandry

Language(s): Middle English text with a Latin heading

Rubric: 213r Hic incepit Galfridus super Palladium de agricultura anglifficatum - Tabula

Incipit: 213r To make appelles growe without sores

Explicit: 213v To make wyne þat wyll easely clense the wombe and bludde

Final rubric: 213v Explicit tabulae - Incipit Materia

The text to which the title and the table of contents refer occurs on ff. 215v-219r.

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39. 214r-215r

Alphabetical index to medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 214r Tabula extrauagentes

Incipit: 214r A - Aversion - fo. 2.

Explicit: 215r Y - Yaynyng

40. 215r

Magical method to win games

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 215r Take of Rybworte three leavez and writt in the first leaf .Dan. in the secound .Can cora. in the thirde Teelera. and holde itt in your hand and playe

Full transcription. The text has been written sideways.

41. 215r

Magical method to win card games

Language(s): Middle English text with a Latin heading

Rubric: 215r / Alias aut cartis aut / Take virginis parchement and writt the blind of a lapwinge or peakocke Jalieni tartebri / and stwe ytt in your right sleve and playe / And yow shall wynne all thatt yw playe for probatum est et verum est quod Ed. Eyre

Full transcription. The text has been written sideways; and is followed by a later (?) 16th- or 17th-century transcription that gives another name: ‘quoth Ed. Dig.’.

42. 215r

Medical recipe for pain in the belly or flanks, or for hernia

Language(s): Middle English

43. 215r

Medical recipe to stop the ‘blodye ffluxe’

Language(s): Middle English

44. 215v-219r

Godfridus super Palladium (extract of English translation) Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Language(s): Middle English text with a Latin heading

Rubric: 215v Certen nottes to be obserued

Incipit: 215v The maner of settinge of trees ys many dyuers wyse and so comyn that we wyll nott att this tyme speke therof butt of pryvie werkinge that ys touchinge the same matter as shal be spoken of herafter more playnly yf thow wylt graffe a tree where fruytte shall have no sores

Explicit: 219v some men saye thatt all thinge thatt ys putt in pure wyne vnmeddled wyll fleete butt in wyne medled ytt wyll syncke

The title and table of contents of this work occur on ff. 213r-213v.

This text is continous with the next item.

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Mooney (1995), p. 73 [other copies]

45. 219v-220r

On Planting and Grafting (extract) Nicholas Bollard

Language(s): Middle English

Incipit: 219v Here I purpose to teche yow to make cherry thatt some men call pyment after the men of florence ys made thus they putt in a corke or in a mesure of wyne the half parte or as much of hony and putt in powder thatt ys made of fyne canell synamoun .iiij. ounces gynger .iiij. ounces galingale cordamoun graynes to þis

Explicit: 220r a beringe frute ches a full mone from the myddes of october vnto the myddes of desember hauynge vppe he roottes

This text is continous with the preceding item.

Braekman (1985), p. 21

Mooney (1995), p. 73 [other copies]

46. 220r-221v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Middle English

The collection contains two magical recipes on f. 220v [see below]

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47. 220v

Magical recipe to become invisible

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 220v To make a man invisible

Incipit: 220v Take the tonge of kyte and the tonge of a crowe and putt them vnder the syde and thow shalt nott be seen

Full transcription.

48. 220v

Magical recipe to win someone's favour

Language(s): Middle English

Rubric: 220v To gett ffolkes favor

Incipit: 220v Have euer vppon the these letters / A / x / h / b / k / o / u / v / m / i x / o /

Full transcription.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 174r: fflees

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 173-221: owl and hand with five-pointed star.

Extent: Codex: 56 leaves. 195 × 140 mm.

Collation

Quire 22⁸ (ff. 173-178)
Quire 23⁸ (ff. 178a-184)
Quire 24¹² (ff. 184a-194)
Quire 25⁸ (ff. 194a-201)
Quire 26^8-1 (ff. 202-209: 7th leaf missing)
Quire 27⁴ (ff. 210-213)
Quire 28⁸ (ff. 214-221)

Layout

180-185 × 100-120 mm. Ruled in leadpoint and occasionally in hardpoint, frame (vertical lines) only. Single columns (except ff. 214r-215r (upper half) which have two columns, and ff. 173r-175r which have four). c. 30-35 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Copied by several hands in cursive anglicana scripts.

Decoration

Drawings of a woman with a ruff and a swan in brown ink added to the margins of ff. 181v-182r.

History

Origin: First half of the 16th century. ; England.

Part 7 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 222, 222a, 223-237]

Language(s): English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew

1. 222r

Off-set of medical text

Language(s): ? Latin

Off-set of a page of medieval text (unidentified), written in a ? textualis script, that once sat opposite this page, probably as a flyleaf.

2. 222v

Medical recipe

Language(s): English

Rubric: 222v ffor suffocation of the mother

3. 222a recto

Fragmentary text

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 222a recto Per me iam videtus [...]

Below this text are other inscriptions in Latin and English that are too fragmentary for itemisation in this catalogue record.

4. 223r-235v

Grammatica linguae Syriacae Santes Pagnino [Sante Pagnini] (1470–1536)

Language(s): Latin, Greek, Hebrew

Rubric: 223r Annotationes quaedam de Grammatica Sanctes Pagnini

Incipit: 223r Ratio inveniendi radices veborum

Explicit: 235v in sairis literis augendi gratia

Below the text on f. 235v another later hand has added the following note: ‘From shinis rockes in faire riuers flwe away’.

This work contains text in characters from the Greek and Hebrew alphabets.

5. 236r

Text on vices and virtues

Language(s): English

Incipit: 236r with all vices bond them \that/ be of gretest s[.]ote are covered with the names of bestws as a sport for the covetous cormorant

Explicit: 236r the ignorant practise lernid menis s[...]

Final rubric: 236r Per me Els [for 'Elisabeth' or ‘Cls’ for Charles] Ra[ne] [or ‘Rant’]

Added by a later (?) 16th- or early 17th-century hand.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 223r: Annotationes

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 222-237: Jug.

Extent: Codex: 17 leaves. 195 × 145 mm.

Collation

Folio 222 (apparently a single leaf)
Quire 29⁶ (ff. 222a-227)
Quire 30¹⁰ (ff. 228-237)

Layout

130-180 × 110 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame only (vertical lines only). Single columns. c. 30-40 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Folios 223r-235v have been copied by a single hand in a humanistic cursive script.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: Late 16th century. ; England.

Provenance

Elisabeth/Charles Rane/Rant (fl. late 16th or early 17th century) : owned or accessed the manuscript. Added an English text on vices and virtues to f. 236r and inscribed their name below: ‘Per me Els [for 'Elisabeth' or ‘Cls’ for Charles] Ra[ne] [or ‘Rant’]’.

Part 8 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 238-278, 278a, 279-285]

Language(s): English and Latin

1. 238r-240r

Collection of recipes for medicines, cooking, ink and pigments

Language(s): English

The collection includes a few recipes with attributions to medical practitioners:

‘M^r Rancklins [or ‘Raucklius’] medicine of Curbige by witnye for that cured of my wifes brest April 26. 1609’ (f. 238v) [unidentified]
‘M^r Cogans water for a canker or to wash any wounde to clense it or remoue the deade flesh’ (f. 240r) [perhaps referring to Thomas Cogan, physician of Manchester, who published The Haven of Health in 1584 or 1586 (subsequent editions in 1589, 1596, 1605, 1636); see George Eric Simpson, 'The Haven of Health', The Scientific Monthly, 10:1 (1920), 26-37 (pp. 26-27)]

Aside from medical recipes, the the collection contains a few culinary recipes: ‘To make surger plate’, ‘To make all kind of concertes of march[e]pane’, ‘To presarue apricots or pere [or] plumbes’, ‘to take [...] the molthe out of rose water’.

2. 241r-242v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): English

3. 243r

Two medical recipes for purgation

Language(s): English and Latin

Rubric: 243r Dr Andrews Purgation

4. 244r-246r

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): English

The collection contains a charm for staunching nosebleeds (f. 244v) with different instructions for male and female patient: ‘ffor a man þat bleedeth at the nose. Take and write in his forhead this word (berenix), and if it be a woman this word berenixa +’.

Another hand has added a recipe to ‘To stap vrine and pissing in bed’ in which the first instance of the word ‘patient’ has been crossed out and ‘women’ has been supplied above.

5. 247r

Index of recipes

Language(s): English

Rubric: 247r Index

Incipit: 247r ffor an ach in any parte of the body coming of could

Explicit: 247r ffor swelling in the stones

The 'index' is simply a list of recipes without page or folio references.

6. 248r

Poem (Octet) on death [unfinished]

Language(s): English

Rubric: 248r A table of good Counsell

Incipit: || 248r Let men apply to serve and please but pleasing rather set before / ffor service sometymes, but pleasing often getteth more. / Time past remember while wee may and thinges foresee which will ensue / So shall wee seldome rane astray and haue as seldome cause to rue / In fickle life no trust repose, whose state enioyes noe certantye / ffor in each place the bodye goes, death as a

Full transcription. Unfinished version of the complete poem on f. 249r. This poem was printed together with ‘A Salue for a sick soule’ (see the item after the next one) on a broadside sheet which Valentine Sims registered for publication in 1598. In 1599 he transferred his rights to John Brown. See Hyder E. Rollins, Old English Ballads, 1553-1625 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), p. 405.

7. 249r

Poem (Octet) on death [complete]

Language(s): English

Incipit: 249r Let men apply to serve and please, but pleasing rather set before / ffor service sometymes gets some case, but pleasing often getteth more / Time past remember while wee may and thinges foresee which will ensue / Soe shall wee seldome run astray . and haue as seldome cause to rue / In fickle life noe trust repose whose state enioyes noe certayntye / ffor in ach place the bodye goes, death as a shaddow followes thee / Remember death but feare him not, though death to life be mortall foe / ffor by mans death doth fall his lot, a lasting ioy or endles woe.

Full transcription. Finished version of the incomplete poem on f. 248r. This poem was printed together with ‘A Salue for a sick soule’ (see next item) on a broadside sheet which Valentine Sims registered for publication in 1598. In 1599 he transferred his rights to John Brown. See Hyder E. Rollins, Old English Ballads, 1553-1625 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), p. 405.

8. 249r

Mock medical recipe for curing the soul (unfinished)

Language(s): English

Rubric: 249r A singuler [crossed out: ‘Saul’] Salue for a sick soule

Incipit: 249r Take a quarte of þe repentaunce of Ninivie, and put thereto both thy handfull of fervent faith in Christs blood, with as much hope and charities of þe purest you can gett in Christs shopp a like quantitie of each, and put it into the vessayle of a cleane conscience and let it boyle well togither in the fire of loue

Explicit: 249r and anoynt therewith thy eies, thy eares, thy lips, thy hart, and thy hand throughly, þat they may

Unfinished at the end. This poem was printed together with ‘A table of good Counsell’ (see previous items) on a broadside sheet which Valentine Sims registered for publication in 1598. In 1599 he transferred his rights to John Brown. For a transcription of another copy of this text in London, British Library, Add MS 15225 (‘A Singular Salve for a Sick Soul’), see Hyder E. Rollins, Old English Ballads, 1553-1625 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), pp. 405-406.

9. 250r

Poem (Quatrain) on a rich man

Language(s): English

Rubric: 250r The credit of a rich man

Incipit: 250r To let the world know his honesty / His wife his loyaltye / The poore his liberalitie / And the straunger his courtesie

Full transcription.

10. 250r

Poem (Quatrain) on a wise man

Language(s): English

Rubric: 250r The care of a wise man

Incipit: || 250r To keepe his pocket from the pickpurse / His stable from the theife / His / And

Unfinished. Full transcription.

11. 250v

Three culinary recipes

Language(s): English

The recipes are entitled: ‘To make ?quidderioc of any fruite’, ‘To make grene marmelade of the same pul[...] that you made quidde[...] with all’ and ‘To make marmelade of quinces’.

12. 251r

Tract on the medicineal virtues of wormwood

Language(s): English

Rubric: 251r The phisick helpes of the sayd hearb

Incipit: 251r And first þe wormwood is hot in þe first degree

Explicit: 251r And þe wormwood layd among clokes doth dried away mothes and þei often swelling vnto wormwood, Procureth sleepe ?or ?laying þe same onder þe bolster þe partie not knowing of hit

13. 251r-256v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): English

on f. 252r-252v is a recipe called ‘Doctor Stephens water’ that is commonly found in 16th- and 17th-century recipes collections.

14. 257r-258v

Index of medical recipes

Language(s): English

Incipit: 257r A posset to be taken with the plaster above if it be applyd for the stone .p: 12

Explicit: 258v ffor an ache

15. 260r-271v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): English

The collection includes recipes against a variety of ailments. It also contains several culinary recipes: ‘To make vinigr of verges’, ‘Gelly of Quinces’, ‘Synamon cakes’, ‘ffor fine cakes’, ‘Sirop of roses’, ‘Violet primrose rosemary flowers or any other flower what you will haue to make sugar cakes to beare þe taste of þe same flower’, ‘ffor to make a lute to clse with’ (=instruction to make a lid with which to close a glass vessel), ‘ffor to draw oyl out of graines’, ‘ffor to make oyle of any seedes’.

16. 261r

Tract on the physical properties of spikenard

Language(s): English

Rubric: 261r Of the ordering and care of the spicknard

Incipit: 261r The spicknard groweth like onto þe lavendere saving þat þe leave be thick and big and beareth also a long stalk and bigger flowers which be purple of coullor like onto þe lavendere and hath besrees [sic] great vertues

16. 261r-261v

Tract on the medicinal properties of spikenard

Language(s): English

Rubric: 261r The phisick helps

Incipit: 261r In þe first degree it is hot and dry

Explicit: 261v also the oyle doth help the swelling of the tomack the deseses of the liver, the kidneys and the kings evell and the decoction of the spicnard helpeth against the

Seemingly unfinished.

17. 264v

Tract on the physical properteris of wormwood

Language(s): English

Rubric: 264v Of the ordering and care of þe hearb wormwood

Incipit: 264v And first þe wormwood is an hearb so well knowen throughout England þat it needith smalis instruction of þe forme of it

Explicit: 264v wormwood ought to be gathered in July at what tyme the seeds appere to be dried in the shadow

18. 272r-272v

Index of medical recipes

Language(s): English

Incipit: 272r Inke of Lumbardy page 1

Explicit: 272v A plaster agaynst the stone or any other inflamation of the raynes pa: 12

19. 274r

Question of natural philosophy (I)

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 274r An Simile patiatur a Simili

In the margin is the following reference: ‘Gen. l. 1. c. 7.’

20. 274v (upside down)

Biblical sentence (upside down)

Language(s): English

Incipit: 274v (upside down) From this time forth for euermore

Full transcription.

21. 275r-276r

Question of natural philosophy (II)

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 275r An sol possit comprimere et coencere ventos

in the margin is the following reference: ‘Meteo: li. 2. cap. 5.’.

22. 277v

Question of natural philosophy (III)

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 277v An Generatio vnius sit corruptio alterius

The title is accompanied by the following reference: ‘Gen. 11. cap. 3^tio ’.

24. 280r

Instructions for sowing herbs at different times of the year

Language(s): English

Rubric: 280r ffor sowing of hearbes

Incipit: 280r Cayge lettis Opinage . white Endive , are to be sowne in þe wayne of þe moone

Explicit: 280r Cabige, Coleworts to be sowne in January or February in þe new of þe moone and remoued in Aprill or May when they be very smale about 2 or 3 inches long, and before þe setting let them ly ij or iij howers in so shal they be free from wormes after they be set water then vj dayes

23. 278a recto-285v

Collection of recipes for medicines, cooking, ink and pigments

Language(s): English with some Latin

The collection contains a few recipes that have been attributed to medical practitioners: ‘Mistris Clares medicine for an ould sore’ (f. 284r) [unidentified]; and a recipe ‘ffor a red pumpled scurvie and itching face’ that is said to have been ‘proved by M^r Doyly’ (f. 284v) [unidentified].

Aside from medical recipes, the collection contains recipes for making inks and pinks: ‘Inke of Lumbardy’, ‘To make verdigrece or verdit’, ‘To make gum Edrek’, ‘To write golde with mead’, ‘To counterfayt quielles and to make turpentine’, ‘To make white varnish’, ‘Colours in varnish’, ‘To make black varnish’, ‘To sublime marcury’, ‘To make a graving with the grave in Iron or steele’. It also contains various culinary recipes: ‘To claryfy hony’, ‘To make comfets’, ‘To make lossinges’, ‘To make white marmelad’, ‘To make whole sugar of þe poio’, ‘To conserve quinces’, ‘To make sucket of lettis cheries’, ‘To make suckit of quinces or wardens or pares’, ‘Syrrop of roses’, ‘To make greene ginger’, ‘To preserue þe drie figes’, ‘ffor my brother Carye’, ‘Synaman water’.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 239r: of crumes of breade

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 238-285: Jug.

Extent: Codex: 49 leaves. 195 × 145 mm.

Collation

Quire 31^sixteen (ff. 238-250)
Quire 32^8-1 (ff. 251-257: 6th leaf missing)
The collation for ff. 258-285 has not been established.

Layout

180-190 × 105-135 mm. o ruling. Single columns. c 35-45 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Copied by several late 16th- and/or 17th-century hands in cursive scripts with both anglicana and secretary features.

Folios 274r-277v have been copied by a single scribe in a humanistic cursive script (probably the same hand that copied ff. 287r-292v).

Decoration

Drawings in brown ink of a hand (manicule) pointing at text and a human face in the lower margin of f. 271r.

History

Origin: Late 16th- and/or early 17th century. ; England.

Provenance

Thomas Norton (fl. c. 1575-1650) : owned or accessed the manuscript. His name ‘Thomas Norton’ written in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script in the lower margin of f. 251v. Perhaps the Thomas Norton who was licensed to practise medicine by the University of Cambridge in 1628 (see John H. Raach, 'English Medical Licensing in the Early Seventeenth Century', Journal of Biology and Medicine, 16:4 (1944), pp. 267-288 (p. 283 fn. 31)); or the Thomas Norton (d. 1669) - possibly the same as previous - who was appointed physician in extraordinary to King Charles II in 1668 (see Peter Elmer, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), p. 346).

Part 9 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 285a, 286-292]

Language(s): English and Latin

1. 285a recto

Off-set of medieval text

Language(s): Latin

Off-set of a page of medieval text (unidentified), written in a neat textualis script, that once sat opposite this page, probably as a flyleaf.

2. 286r

Medical recipe

Language(s): English

Rubric: 286r for a spraine or swelling about any horse eyther leggs or limmes

3. 286r

Name inscription

Language(s): English

The name ‘Emanuell’ in mirror writing.

4. 286r

Allegorical poem on the Seven Deadly Sins as members of a royal court

Language(s): English

Incipit: 286r Tiraunie his servaunt monie is his master / Pride is his page and gluttony his taster / Flatterie his attendaunt alwaies at his heele / Drunkenes his companion that [crossed out: ‘made’] caused him to reele / Anger his foole envie is his seate / ?Jealusie his God and luxury his meate / My tonge \nor pen/ can his imperfections tel[l] / Therefore my penne shall \in/ his dispraises ?d[well]

Full transcription. Added in the late 16th or early 17th century.

5. 287r-288v

Oration on natural philosophy by a certain J. P. dated to 28 November 1586

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 287r Oratio J. P. cum esset decimus pl[...]s 28 Nouembri 1586

The text contains quotations from Cicero, Hippocrates, Plato. In the lower margin of f. 292r is an inscription seemingly by the same hand (but using lighter ink) that copied the oration: ‘Per me Thomam Bradley’.

6. 289r-292v

Notes on natural philosophy

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 287r: Oratio

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 285a-292: Jug.

Extent: Codex: 8 leaves. 195 × 145 mm.

Collation

Quire 33⁸ (ff. 285a recto-292v)

Layout

155-185 × 105-120 mm. No ruling. Single columns. c. 30-45 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Copied by a single scribe in a humanistic cursive script (probably the same hand that copied ff. 274r-277v).

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: In or after 1586. ; England.

Terminus ante quem non based on date of Oration on ff. 287r-288v.

Provenance

Thomas Bradley (fl. 1580s-1590s) : perhaps copied and owned this part of the manuscript. His name inscribed in a late 16th-century script in the lower margin of f. 292r: ‘Per me Thomam Bradley’. Unidentified.

Part 10 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 293-302, [ii]]

Language(s): Latin and English

1. 293r-296v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Latin and English

Folio 293r is blank except for a recipe's title: ‘An spoera recte statuatur’. The collection contains a few recipes that have been attributed to medical practitioners: a recipe ‘Contra omnes dolores’ (f. 295r) is said to have been proved ‘Per S^r Thomas Terril eques’ [unidentified]; a recipe ‘To cause a man to speake þat hath lost his speech’ (f. 296v) is said to have been proved by ‘John Mosly’ [unidentified].

2. 297r-297v

Collection of medical recipes

Language(s): Latin with some English

The first recipe is attributed to a King Henry (‘Ad sciaticam passionem . experimentum . Regis Hen[rici]’), perhaps King Henry VIII who was associated with various medical recipes, a collection of which survives in London, British Library, Sloane MS 1047 .

3. 298r-302v

Index of medical recipes

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 298r A. Antimonij secret 297b

Explicit: 302v Z. Zinzyber 280b

This index covers recipes in Parts 7, 8, and 9 and refers to the foliation sequence that can be found throughout the manuscript. Consequently, it must have been added at a point when all parts of the manuscript had been joined together, presumably in the 17th century.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 294r: Contra Hæmroides

Form: codex

Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 293-[302a]: Jug.

Extent: Codex: 11 leaves. 200 × 140 mm.

Collation

Quire 34¹⁰ (ff. 293-302)
Folio [b] (apparently a single leaf)

Layout

170 × 130 mm. Ruled in ink (ff. 293r-297r) and hardpoint (ff. 298r-302v), frame only. Single columns (except for ff. 298r-302v which have two columns). c. 30-40 lines to the page, written below top line.

Hand(s)

Folios 297r-297v are (largely) written by a single hand in a humanistic cursive script.

Folios 298r-302v are (largely) written by a single hand in a humanistic cursive script.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: Late 16th or early 17th century. ; England.

Provenance

John Dee (1527–1608) , mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: perhaps copied and owned this part of the manuscript. As M.R. James (1902) notes, the script in this part resembles his handwriting. More specifically, the hand seems identical to that in part 4 of Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.9.39 ; Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson [ John Dee's Library Catalogue (London: Bibliographical Society, 1990)] identify this hand as that of John Dee.

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws on M.R. James, The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge: a descriptive catalogue, 2 (1902); and Linne R. Mooney, Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XI (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1995).

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Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13

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Part 1 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 1-14, 20-23, 25-29, 24, 30-43, [43a], 44-82]

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Part 2 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 83-100, 100a, 101-115, 115a-115b, 116-124, 124a, 125-144]

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Part 3 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 145-150, 150a, 151, 151a-151c, 152-154]

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Part 4 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 155-163, 163a, 164-165]

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Part 5 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 166-172, 172a]

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Part 6 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 173-174, 174a, 175-177, 177a, 178, 178a-178b, 179-184, 184a, 185-192, 192a, 193-194, 194a, 195-206, 208-221]

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Part 7 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 222, 222a, 223-237]

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Part 8 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 238-278, 278a, 279-285]

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Part 9 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.13, ff. 285a, 286-292]

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