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Mary Hogan (fl. 16th century): her name and a monogram of her name inscribed on f. 29v (lower margin)<\/a>: \"Mary Hooggon\" [a second hand has attempted to copy her signature] and \"MH\". <\/p>

Anna Hogan (fl. 16th century): her name inscribed on f. 30v<\/a>: \"Anna Hoogoon\" [a second hand has attempted to copy her name] <\/p>

Anthony (fl. 16th century): his name inscribed on f. 34r<\/a>: \"anthony\". <\/p>

Robert Crondal (fl. 16th century): his full name inscribed on f. 42r<\/a>; possibly also inscribed his first name on ff. 15r<\/a> (\"Robert\") [2x]; and 52r<\/a> (\"Robart\" [2x]). The family name Crondal may be a locative, referring to the village of Crondall in Hampshire. <\/p>

Thomas Johnson (fl. 16th century): his name inscribed on f. 52r<\/a>: \"Thomas Johnsonne\" [2x].<\/p>

?John ?Bareheasy (fl. 16th century): his name inscribed on f. 52r<\/a>: \"J ?Bareheasy\"<\/p>

One of the manuscripts of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), dean of York, antiquary and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. The manuscript is listed as no. 305 (see f. 1r<\/a>) in the list of Gale's manuscripts in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ<\/i> (1697). <\/p>

One of the manuscripts of Roger Gale (1672-1744), antiquary and scholar, son of Thomas Gale. Inherited from his father.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Codex: i + 128 + i leaves. Leaf height: 285 mm, width: 195 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "Wellcome (cataloguing). All images provided by Trinity College, Cambridge." }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Mid-15th century." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.9.37" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Gale, Roger, 1672-1744" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "

Numerous additions on blank pages and in margins by late 15th- or early 16th-century hands, including titles for recipes (e.g. f. 56v: \"Stynkyng\"; f. 57r: \"Guta\"; f. 76r: \"defaute of apet\"; f. 108v: \"Stones\"; f. 115r: \"Siphatie\"; f. 117r: \"for the flower in women\"; f. 128v: \"fleynge of þe moder\") or draft letters and verses: f. 2r (outer margin): \"Jhesus haue you in hys kepyng\"; f. 3r: \"Mendall\" f. 9r: \"ones be werie y put inne þere so þat the wonde be fillid full [...]\" f. 15r (upper margin): \">Received the xth daye of 9 August [...] the xth yere\"; f. 27v: \"with many tribulan[...] hevene so [...]\"; f. 28r (outer margin): \"Mange hathe dessirid to know thers\"; f. 32v (uper margin: \"After my moste harty comended\"; f. 34r: \"thys boke is ?danyffaule[...] and yse stehy\"; f. 37r: \"Raff good andrewe spelt for me malone\"; f. 40r upper margin: \"I walked by pols [...]\"; f. 56r: \"Rex for the same mane that ys god\"; f. 67v: \"Rex et Regina Ano mundi\" f. 75r: \"Yf a bargen thow wyllt be p[..]tpe to\"; f. 83r: \"Roule youre hartes [...]\" f. 87v: \"Rex yf thou wist who\"; f. 102v: \"Howard by what\"; f. 103r: \"Of and in consideracioun of the summe of xli<\/sup> of good and lafull mone of England to be paid vnto the said margeret wheth\" f. 103r: \"This ys to warne all men what Jhon Com kise me [...] John Com kise\"; f. 127r: \"Robert Sippin ys a knave a lought a luber a Rascal a [...]\"; f. 128v: \"to tinke\"; f. 117r: \"and yf thow wist what\"; f. 117r: \"Whan the son shineth\". Other more substantial inscriptions are listed as separate items under the list of contents in this catalogue record. Inscriptions that may refer to owners, readers or users of this manuscript are listed in the Provenance section.<\/p>

17th-century enumeration of medical sections written in brown ink in the upper outer corners of both the rectos and versos of leaves between f 36r and f. 91v.<\/p>

Quire signatures ('1-9' for Quires 5-12, plus f. 128) 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": "Format", "value": "Codex" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "This catalogue entry draws on M.R. JamesThe Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue<\/i>, 4 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900\u20131904), pp. 75-82; and Linne R. Mooney, Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge<\/i>, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XI (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1995), pp. 22-23." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Middle English and Latin" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

18th- or 19th-century half white vellum binding with grey paper sides and plain white paper pastedowns on the inner covers; flat spine with three paper labels with the printed classmark numbers: \"O\", \"9\", \"37\". <\/p>

Binding height: 295 mm; width: 200 mm; depth: 40 mm.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

The original texts in this manuscript were copied by a single hand writing in a cursive script with both anglicana<\/i> and secretary<\/i> features. <\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Trinity College Library, Cambridge" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Hogan, Mary, fl. 16th century; Hogan, Anna, fl. 16th century; Anthony, fl. 16th century; Crondal, Robert, fl. 16th century; Johnson, Thomas, fl. 16th century; ?Bareheasy, ?John, fl. 16th century; Gale, Thomas, 1635/6-1702; Gale, Roger, 1672-1744" }, { "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": "Paper quires with parchment outer and inner leaves. Paper, folded in quarto.

Folios 1r-126v<\/a>: Scissors with a crescent moon<\/i>.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "