Medieval Medical Recipes : Medical works

Medieval Medical Recipes

This composite manuscript consists of two 14th-century volumes of medical works. The presence of a list of the contents of both volumes, written by the hand of physician Roger Marchall (fl. 1436-1477), shows that the two portions were bound together by this time.The parchment flyleaves at the beginning have been taken from two other manuscripts. The first comes from a 15th-century English account book. The next two comprise a bifolium, including an empty leaf to which the aforementioned table of contents was added, and the opening of a 14th-century copy of De miseria condicionis humanae by Cardinal Lotario dei Segni, later Pope Innocent III.Dr Clarck Drieshen Project Cataloguer Cambridge University Library