17th- or 18th-century blind-tooled dark brown leather over pulpboard; spine over five raised band featuring two paper labels with the printed classmark references 'B' and '15'; blue-tained fore-, top-, and tail-edges.<\/p>
According to a note in pencil on the rear pastedown<\/a> the manuscript was \"[r]esewn, rebacked, repaired (leather mending and guarding leaves) by John P. Gray and Son Ltd November 1967 for £4.10s'.\"<\/p> Binding height: 200mm; width: 150mm; depth: 40 mm.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Physical Location",
"value": "St John's College Library"
},
{
"label": "Extent",
"value": "Codex: iii + 2 + 57 | 51 | 52 + iii leaves."
},
{
"label": "Funding",
"value": "Wellcome"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Medical treatises and recipes"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer, Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Part 1 consists of paper quires with parchment outer and inner bifolia. Part 2 consists of paper leaves. Part 3 consists of parchment leaves."
},
{
"label": "Collation",
"value": " This collation deviates from James (1913) and Claire Jones (2000). These differences are further explained in the collations for the separate parts. 112-2<\/sup> (1st and 2nd leaves missing) 210<\/sup> 312<\/sup> 412-1<\/sup> (7th leaf cancelled) 510<\/sup> 6four<\/sup> | 712-2<\/sup> (1st-2nd leaves missing) 818-4+1 or 20-5<\/sup> (1st, 2nd, and 16th leaves missing, and 13th leaf cancelled) 912+2<\/sup> (?2 added leaves after 12th leaf) 108<\/sup> 118-4 (or 8-5+1<\/sup> (5th-8th leaves missing; 1st leaf may be from another quire) | 126<\/sup> 13-1412<\/sup> 1510<\/sup> 1612<\/sup><\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "Cambridge, St John's College, MS B.15"
},
{
"label": "Acquisition",
"value": "Donated to St John's College by John Gent (d. 1651), BA St John's College 1625-6, Rector of Birdbrook, Essex, 1632-51: according to a 17th-century donor inscription on the front pastedown<\/a>: \"Ex dono Magistri Gent. Ecclesiae Burbrooke in Essexia rectoris hujusque Collegij alumnij nuperi\"."
},
{
"label": "Donor(s)",
"value": "Gent, John, d. 1651"
},
{
"label": "Additions",
"value": " The manuscript features a table of contents added by the same 17th-century hand that recorded its donation to St John's College on the front pastedown<\/a>.<\/p> A note on hours of daylight in September added in a 16th-century hand to f. [i] recto<\/a>: \"September xij nocte vel xiij mane\".<\/p> A description of the Four Elements in Middle English has been added by a 15th-century hand to f. [i] verso<\/a>: \"ffyre hote and drye / herthe colde and drye / water cold and muste / Eyre hote and muste / ffyre acordyth wyth erthe in dryed hete\" (eVK2 1607.00 (v0072470000)).<\/p> A medical recipe in Middle English has been added by a 15th-century hand to f. [i] verso<\/a>: \"Scabyose stampid rie flore anaye \\and/ hony / Scabiose qwyhsyluer gres\".<\/p> A tract on the Four Elements and Humours in Latin has been added by a 15th-century hand to f. [ii] verso<\/a>, beginning: \"[E]lementum dicitur vnius cuius rei inicium de quo sumitur incrementum in quo soluitur sicut sunt in anno .4. anni partes. sic sunt .4. elementa et .4. humores in homine. Que sunt in .4. qualitates sibi inuicem conueniencia vel discrepancia in modis istius figurae\"; and ending: \"Cum igitur dicta ista figura autumptnis est tempus malancolicum [sic] sic nulla parte anni malecolicis amittatur causa ex qua peruenit huius modi passio et sic effectus .i. ille morbus\".<\/p> Quire signatures ('1-16') in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, written in pencil by a hand of the 19th/20th century. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Medicine, Medieval"
},
{
"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "This catalogue entry draws on the description provided by M.R. James, Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge<\/i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913); and the description of the hands by Claire Jones, 'Vernacular literacy in late-medieval England: The Example of East Anglian Medical Manuscripts' (unpublished dissertation, University of Glasgow, 2000), pp. 197-198.."
},
{
"label": "Foliation",
"value": " Part 1 was foliated continuously in brown ink in the early modern period, perhaps the 16th century. Part 2 was foliated continously in brown ink in the 15th century. Part 3 was foliated partially in pencil in the 20th century. <\/p> [i]-[iii], [a]-[b] + 1:1-1:55, [1:56]-[1:57] | 2:3-2:12, 2:15-2:27, 2:29-2:44, 2:99-2:100, 2:102-2:107, 2:130, 2:141-2:143 | 3:1-3:52 + [iv]-[vi]<\/p>The leaf that is here identified as f. 44 does not feature the number '44' but this number almost certainly was once written on its original upper right-hand corner. However, this corner was torn off and later repaired with blank paper. Since this leaf was originally intended to be foliated, the number '44' is here not placed between square brackets.Part numbers were added to the manuscript's foliation in order to differentiate repeating folio numbers between the three parts (e.g. f. 1:1; f. 2:1; and f. 3:1); and the numbers [i]-[vi], [a]-[b], and [1:56]-[1:57] were assigned to unfoliated leaves for the purposes of this electronic record when the manuscript was examined in 2023 for the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": "