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Medical treatises and recipes (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13)
Information about this document
- Physical Location: Trinity College Library
- Classmark: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13
- Donor(s): Gale, Roger, 1672-1744
- Former Owner(s): Gale, Thomas, 1635/6-1702; Gale, Roger, 1672-1744
- Extent: Codex: ii + 2, 35, 3, 10, 1 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 33 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 53 | 32 + ii leaves. Leaf height: 205-235 mm, width: 130-165 mm.
- Part 1: 205-210 x 155-160mm.
- Part 2: 210 x 145mm.
- Part 3: 210 x 145mm.
- Part 4: 225 x 150mm.
- Part 5: 215 x 145mm.
- Part 6: 215 x 130mm [but leaves are mounted onto paper guards to extend their width to 145mm].
- Part 7: 210 x 135mm.
- Part 8: 215 x 145mm.
- Part 9: 235 x 165mm.
- Part 10: 210 x 160mm.
- Collation:
1-38 48-1+1 (1st missing and replaced with a modern leaf) 5three [Three flyleaves] 68 7two | 88 9six | 104-1 (4th missing) 116-1 (6th missing) | 1216 | 1316+?one (?one added after 16) 1418-2 (1st and 17th missing) | 154 | 1612 | 1714+1 or 16-1 (one added to the second half or one missing from the first half of the quire | Collation unestablished for Part 9 | Collation unestablished for Part 10
- Material: Paper.
- Binding:
18th- or 19th-century half vellum (white) binding with marbled paper sides.
Binding height: 250mm; width: 175mm; depth: 50mm.
- Foliation:
Late 16th- or early 17-century pagination and 17th-century foliation: a late 16th- or early 17th-century pagination sequence (pp. 1-70) that is is supplemented by a 17th-century foliation sequence.
The latter sequence is first introduced on p. 65, where the 17th-century foliator starts with the number "62". They have then adapted the page numbers on the rectos of the next two pages to turn them into folio numbers: p. "67" has become f. "63" and p. "69" has become f. "64". However, a modern librarian has rejected these changes and re-written the original page numbers in pencil below the adapted page numbers on p. 67 and p. 69 and confirmed that this page sequence should be followed until p. 70 by duplicating the existing page number on that page. Because of this modern preference and the fact that this is where the original page number sequence ends (there is no pagination on ff. 65r-68r; pagination re-starts at '1' on f. 68v), this catalogue record follows the manuscript's pagination up to page 70 and then follows the added early modern foliation which begins with f. 65 and ends with f. 253. Subsequently, the foliation is continued by a modern librarian's hand in pencil until f. 265.
[a]-[b] + PART 1: ff. [i]-[ii] and pp. 1-70, ff. 65-78 | PART 2: ff. 79-92 | PART 3: ff. 93-95, 95a, 96-99 | PART 4: ff. 100-115 | PART 5: ff. 116-147, 147a, 148 | PART 6: ff. 149-152 | [152a] | PART 7: ff. 155-166 | PART 8: ff. 167-181 | PART 9: ff. 182-235, [235a] | PART 10: ff. 236-265, [265a], [265b] + [c]-[d]
The pagination on pp. 1-70 is written in brown ink in the upper outer corners of both the rectos and versos. The foliation on ff. 65-253 is written both on the inner and outer corners of the upper margins of the rectos.
This pagination and foliation sequence is followed for reference purposes throughout this record. All other historical pagination and foliation sequences (described below) are ignored.For reference purposes in this electronic catalogue record, the manuscript's unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and end ([a]-[b] and [c]-[d]), as well as original blank flyleaves attached to the first part ([i]-[ii]), an unfoliated modern leaf between parts 6 and 7 ([152a]), a stub ([235a]) and original blank leaves (possibly flyleaves) attached to the final part ([265a], [265b]) have all been allocated folio references in square brackets.15th- or 16th-century foliation sequence:
'1'-'22' (on ff. 79-99), and continued by a later early modern hand with the numbers '23'-'102' (on ff. 100-182.
Written in dark ink in the inner corners of the upper margins of the rectos.
15th- or 16th-century foliation sequence:
'i'-'xxxj' (on ff. 119-148)
Written in brown ink at the centres of the upper margins of the rectos.
15th- or 16th-century foliation sequence:
'1'-'33' (on ff. 183-215)
Written in brown ink to the outer upper corners of the rectos.
- Additions:
The manuscript contains a curatorial note on f. [152a] recto about folios 153 and 154, which contain a fragment of a printed version of the Seven Sages of Rome (Pynson, 1493). These leaves were removed from the manuscript and bound separately in May 1913 (now Cambridge, Trinity College, VI.18.19).
- Provenance:
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. 120 (this number inscribed on f. [i] recto) in the list of Gale's manuscripts in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697).
One of the manuscripts of Roger Gale (1672-1744), antiquary and scholar, son of Thomas Gale. Inherited from his father.
- Acquisition: Donated to Trinity College by Roger Gale (1672-1744), son of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), in 1738. The alpha-numerical elements of its current classmark are printed on three labels pasted onto the spine ("O.2.13"), inscribed in pencil on the inside of the front cover, and in brown ink on f. [i] recto. Previous classmarks ("B.54" [crossed out] and "O.15.37" [crossed out]) are inscribed in brown ink on f. [i] recto. its printed ex libris featuring its armorial coat of arms and name ("Collegium SS. et Individuae Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi") pasted in the lower margin of f. 1r. The College's library stamp occurs on ff. 1r and 252v.
- Funding: Wellcome
- Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on M.R. James, The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge: a descriptive catalogue, 3 (1902); and Linne R. Mooney, Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XI (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1995).
- Author(s) of the Record: Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer in Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge University Library
- Bibliography:James, M.R., The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge: a descriptive catalogue, 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902) 3.Handschin, Jacques, "Aus der alten Musiktheorie, V, Zur Instrumentenkunde", Acta musicologica 16-17 1-10 (1944).Manning, Owen and William Bray, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, 2 (East Ardsley: EP Publishing, 1974) 2.Page, Christopher, "The Fifteenth-Century Lute: New and Neglected Sources", Early Music 9 11-21 (1981).Mooney, Linne R., Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Index of Middle English prose 11 (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995).Braekman, Willy Louis, Middeleeuwse witte en zwarte magie in het Nederlands taalgebied: gecommentarieerd compendium van incantamenta tot einde 16de eeuw (Ghent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 1997).Zaerr, Linda Marie, "Meter Change as a Relic of Performance in the Middle English Romance Sir Beues", Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 21 105-128 (2000).Mäkinen, Martti, Between Herbals et alia: Intertextuality in Medieval English Herbals (Helsinki: 2006).Dumitrescu, Theodor, The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).Fellows, Jennifer, "The Middle English and Renaissance Bevis: A Textual Survey", in Jennifer Fellows and Ivana Djordjević (eds), Sir Bevis of Hampton in literary tradition (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2008) 80-100.Bale, Anthony, "A Norfolk Gentlewoman and Lydgatian Patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and Her Cultural Environment", Medium Ævum 78 2 261-280 (2009).Minamino, Hiroyuki, "Lute Lessons for Fifteenth-Century Amateurs", The Lute: Journal of the Lute Society 49 1-5 (2009).Mitchell, Laura, The Cultural Uses of Magic in Fifteenth-century England (Toronto: 2011).Orlemanski, Julie, "Thornton’s Remedies and the Practices of Medical Reading", in Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press in association with Boydell, 2014) 235-255.Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la, "A medicine for the vanity in the head", SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 21 157-166 (2015).Foreman, Paul, The Cambridge Book of Magic: A Tudor's Necormancer's Manual, ed. Francis Young, Texts in Early Modern Magic (Cambridge: Francis Young, 2015).Stallcup, Stephen, "The 'Eye of Abraham' Charm for Thieves. Versions in Middle and Early Modern English", Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 10 1 25-40 (2015).Fellows, Jennifer (ed.), Sir Bevis of Hampton, edited from Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2.38, Early English Text Society (Series). Original series 349, 2 (Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2017).Timperley, Grace A., The Idea of Disinheritance in Middle English Romances (Manchester: 2019).Kuipers, Nadine, Dulce et Utile: The (Im)practicality of agricultural texts in middle english manuscripts and printed husbandry books (Groningen: 2020).Bower, Hannah, Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 (Oxford University Press, 2022) Accessed: 2023-04-06T11:14:50Z.Honkapohja, Alpo, "Tracing the Early Modern John of Burgundy", in Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen, Jeremy J. Smith and Turo Hiltunen (eds), Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use, Studies in English Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 68-88.Da Silva Baptista, Vanessa, "Playing with the Mind: Magic Tricks in Late Medieval Europe", Open Library of Humanities 9 2 1-22 (2023).Eagleton, Catherine, Monks, Manuscripts and Sudials: The Navicula in Medieval England, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science Series 11 (Leiden: Brill, 210).
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[i]-[ii], pp. 1-70, ff. 65-78: Part 1 (image 11, page 1) Note about astrologers (image 11, page 1) Poetic address to physicians (image 11, page 1) De praeservatione Pestis et eius cura (image 12, page 2) Theological text (image 81, page 65r) Theological text (image 84, page 66v) Dialogus de Peste Corporali et Spirituali (image 87, page 68r) Theological notes (image 107, page 78r) Miscellaneous notes (image 108, page 78v) The number 1100 written in words (image 108, page 78v) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 79-92: Part 2 (image 109, page 79r) Poem on numbers (image 109, page 79r) Notes on arithmetic (image 109, page 79r) Carmen de Algorismo (from the Algorismus) (image 109, page 79r) Medical recipes (image 110, page 79v) Collection of medical, horticultural, magical, and culinary recipes (image 117, page 83r) Tract on the magical virtues of herbs and animals from the Liber aggregationis siue Liber secretorum (image 119, page 84r) Recipes for making azure (image 120, page 84v) Astrological instruction for harnassing the magical properties of herbs from the Liber aggregationis siue Liber secretorum (image 120, page 84v) Collection of medical recipes (image 121, page 85r) Collection of medical, chemical, magical, and trick recipes (image 125, page 87r) Two medical recipes (image 127, page 88r) Magical intruction involving Adder's Tongue to never become subjugated (image 127, page 88r) Explanation of apothecary symbols and measures and weights (image 127, page 88r) Medical recipe for treating scabies (image 127, page 88r) Two medical recipes (image 128, page 88v) Instruction for dyeing clothes black with oak gall ink (image 129, page 89r) List of monarchs of England from William I until Herny VII (with later additions) (image 131, page 90r) List of male names with their etymologies (image 132, page 90v) Verses on the four murderers of St Thomas Becket (image 133, page 91r) Prognostics about three days and nights of the year on which only men are born and the special qualities of their bodies after death (image 133, page 91r) Prognostics about thee perilous Mondays in the year for childbirths (image 133, page 91r) Verses on the numerical equivalents of letters of the Roman Alphabet (image 133, page 91r) Poem on commemorating Christ (image 134, page 91v) Mnemonic poem on the liturgical year (image 134, page 91v) Mnemonic verses on the liturgical year (image 134, page 91v) Mnemonic verses on the liturgical year (image 134, page 91v) Mnemonic indicating that Easter is the third Sunday after the third new moon after Epiphany (image 134, page 91v) Mnemonic for finding Easter (image 134, page 91v) List of prices or payments for fish (image 135, page 92r) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 93-95, [95a], 96-99: Part 3 (image 137, page 93r) List of the bishoprics in England (image 137, page 93r) List of numbers of parish churches, villages, military and religious fiefs, counties (image 138, page 93v) Legal form for taking a deer (image 139, page 94r) Legal form for a warrant for a dear (image 139, page 94r) Legal form for a warrant (image 140, page 94v) Legal forms from the reigns of Henry VI and Henry VII (image 141, page 95r) Lists of numbers (image 143, page 95a recto) Legal form dated to 6 Henry VII (image 145, page 96r) Legal form for beginning of a petition to the king (image 145, page 96r) Two untitled legal forms from the reign of Edward ?IV (image 146, page 96v) Poem (image 148, page 97v) Instructions for tuning a lute (image 148, page 97v) Mnemonic verse about tones for antiphons and psalms (image 148, page 97v) List of the Seven Liberal Arts (image 148, page 97v) Verse couplet (image 148, page 97v) List of the Seven Sacraments (image 148, page 97v) Formula for making testaments (image 149, page 98r) Banns (image 150, page 98v) Banns (image 151, page 99r) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff 100-115: Part 4 (image 153, page 100r) Collection of about 200 medical recipes and charms (image 153, page 100r) Instruction to attract wild deer (image 180, page 113v) Recipe for treating an aching hollow tooth (image 180, page 113v) Virtues of the herb basil (image 180, page 113v) Medical recipe for a facial ailment (image 180, page 113v) Recipe against lice and fleas (image 180, page 113v) Recipe for tootache (image 180, page 113v) Medical recipe for a cure for abcess, jaundice palsy, or blurred vision (image 181, page 114r) Medical recipe for curing a bladder or gall stone (image 181, page 114r) Charm for healing an ulcer or abcess (image 181, page 114r) Medical recipe for toothache (image 181, page 114r) Distance between Merton (Surrey) and Lamberhurst (Kent) (image 181, page 114r) Encrypted instruction for harnessing the magical properties of vervain in order to open locked doors (image 181, page 114r) Medical recipe (image 181, page 114r) De navicula (image 182, page 114v) John Norton's note about a total solar eclipse on Sunday of 17 June 1433 (image 183, page 115r) Recipe for making the best green pigment (image 183, page 115r) Recipe for making sugar (image 183, page 115r) Recipe to make rice flour (image 183, page 115r) Encrypted magical recipe to multiply a grain of salt (image 183, page 115r) Medical recipe for jaundice (image 183, page 115r) Medical recipe to break a swelling (aposteme) (image 183, page 115r) A (?) medical recipe (image 184, page 115v) Medical recipe for treating migraine (image 184, page 115v) Recipe for treating ague (image 184, page 115v) Two medical recipes for treating diarrhea or dysentery (image 184, page 115v) Recipe for a medical plaster (image 184, page 115v) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 116-147, [147a], 148: Part 5 (image 185, page 116r) Collection of veterinary recipes for treating horses (image 185, page 116r) List of the seven planets (image 190, page 118v) A list of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the parts of the human body to which they correspond (image 190, page 118v) De pestilencia [Tractatus de morbo epidemiae] (image 191, page 119r) Instructions for making herbal medicines throughout the year (image 194, page 120v) Advice for conduct (?) (image 194, page 120v) Medical recipe for excess of phlegm (image 194, page 120v) Collection of medical recipes (image 194, page 120v) Medical recipe for the migraine (image 215, page 131r) Form for or draft of an indenture (image 215, page 131r) Medical recipe for treating a swelling or ulcer (image 216, page 131v) Medical recipe for treating a swelling or ulcer (image 216, page 131v) Prayer to God for protection against the Sweating Sickness and French Pox (image 216, page 131v) Dietary (image 217, page 132r) Collection of medical recipes (image 219, page 133r) Medical recipe for the toothache (image 248, page 147v) Two medical recipe for the toothache (image 252, page 148v) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 149-152: Part 6 (image 253, page 149r) Bevis of Hamptoun (fragment of a variant) (image 253, page 149r) Letter (image 260, page 152v) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 155-166: Part 7 (image 263, page 155r) Formulae and rules for stewards of manors (image 263, page 155r) Formulae and rules for stewards of manors (image 269, page 158r) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 167-181: Part 8 (image 287, page 167r) List of payments (image 287, page 167r) Treatise on distilled waters (image 289, page 168r) Collection of medical recipes (image 290, page 168v) Treatise on the medical virtues of distilled waters (image 292, page 169v) On the virtues of gentian (image 310, page 178v) A tretys of diverse herbis [A Tretys of diverse herbis] (image 311, page 179r) Three short recipes for staunching blood (image 315, page 181r) Three short recipes for medicines for the eyes (image 315, page 181r) Notes on foods to give a sick man (image 316, page 181v) Recipe for making anal suppositories (image 316, page 181v) List of planets and signs of the zodiac with parts of the body governed by the signs (image 316, page 181v) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 182-235: Part 9 (image 319, page 183r) Medical compendium (image 319, page 183r) De diebus criticis (image 363, page 205r) Tract on fever (image 379, page 213r) Medical diagrams and notes (image 381, page 214r) List of plants and animals and their medical purposes (image 404, page 225v) Tract on Water (extracted from different works) (image 418, page 232v) Tract on 'Mania' (extracted from different works) (image 419, page 233r) Extracts on natural science (image 421, page 234r) Table of contents (image 422, page 234v) Medical recipes (image 424, page 235v) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13, ff. 236-265, [265a], [265b]: Part 10 (image 427, page 236r) Instructions for gathering herbs and their medical uses (image 427, page 236r) Instructions for gathering herbs on the days of the week (image 431, page 238r) Astrological table (image 432, page 238v) Astrological diagrams (image 433, page 239r) Instruction for theft divination (image 434, page 239v) Astrological diagram showing the correspondence between the days of the lunar month and the seven planets (image 434, page 239v) Two alchemical recipes for making Aqua solis and Aqua lunae (image 435, page 240r) Instruction for obtaining grace (image 435, page 240r) Eye of Abraham charm (Magical method for finding stolen goods and identifying a thief) (image 436, page 240v) Medical recipe for toothache (image 437, page 241r) Recipe to prevent drunkeness (image 437, page 241r) Medical recipe against inflammation (image 437, page 241r) Medical recipe for improving memory (image 437, page 241r) Method to make gold-coloured water (image 437, page 241r) Method to write in gold (image 438, page 241v) Horticultural recipe to make a rose grow in winter (image 438, page 241v) Method for catching rabbits (image 438, page 241v) Method for catching fish (image 438, page 241v) Method for catching birds (image 438, page 241v) Method to make a horse white (image 438, page 241v) Method to make someone incessantly break wind (image 438, page 241v) Method to make a flame of fire emerge from water (image 439, page 242r) Method to make an everlasting light (image 439, page 242r) Collection of medical recipes (image 439, page 242r) A recipe to make ink that can only be read by night (from the juice of glowworms) (image 440, page 242v) Method for restoring the weight of gold (image 440, page 242v) Recipe to make gold ink (image 441, page 243r) Methods for capturing fish and birds (image 441, page 243r) Recipe for making red ink (image 441, page 243r) Medical recipe for shoulder pain (image 442, page 243v) Recipe to make purple ink (image 442, page 243v) Recipe to make ale taste like cloves (image 442, page 243v) Recipes for making red or green wax for seals (image 442, page 243v) Recipes to make gold and silver ink (image 442, page 243v) Recipe to make a dissolving water (image 443, page 244r) Method for making figures onto apples and pears (image 443, page 244r) Method to create the illusion of worms in meat (image 444, page 244v) Recipe to make invisible ink (image 444, page 244v) Method to repel bees from stinging (image 444, page 244v) Method to make someone look diseased (image 444, page 244v) Method to create the illusion of headlesness (image 444, page 244v) A medicinal water for the plague (image 444, page 244v) Method to remove thorns and splinters (image 445, page 245r) Three recipes to clean clothes (image 445, page 245r) Lapidary (image 446, page 245v) Magical method for catching any animal (image 451, page 248r) Magical method for obtaining anything one desires from their master or mistress (image 452, page 248v) Method to make a lamp burn perpetually (image 452, page 248v) Magical method for understanding bird language (image 452, page 248v) Method to brighten a face (image 453, page 249r) Encrypted magical method for non-consensual sex with a woman (image 453, page 249r) Method to make a face clean (image 453, page 249r) Collection of medical recipes (image 454, page 249v) Alphabetical Latin-English glossary for plant names (image 484, page 264v)
- Physical Location: Trinity College Library
- Classmark: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.13
- Donor(s): Gale, Roger, 1672-1744
- Former Owner(s): Gale, Thomas, 1635/6-1702; Gale, Roger, 1672-1744
- Extent: Codex: ii + 2, 35, 3, 10, 1 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 33 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 53 | 32 + ii leaves. Leaf height: 205-235 mm, width: 130-165 mm.
- Part 1: 205-210 x 155-160mm.
- Part 2: 210 x 145mm.
- Part 3: 210 x 145mm.
- Part 4: 225 x 150mm.
- Part 5: 215 x 145mm.
- Part 6: 215 x 130mm [but leaves are mounted onto paper guards to extend their width to 145mm].
- Part 7: 210 x 135mm.
- Part 8: 215 x 145mm.
- Part 9: 235 x 165mm.
- Part 10: 210 x 160mm.
- Collation:
1-38 48-1+1 (1st missing and replaced with a modern leaf) 5three [Three flyleaves] 68 7two | 88 9six | 104-1 (4th missing) 116-1 (6th missing) | 1216 | 1316+?one (?one added after 16) 1418-2 (1st and 17th missing) | 154 | 1612 | 1714+1 or 16-1 (one added to the second half or one missing from the first half of the quire | Collation unestablished for Part 9 | Collation unestablished for Part 10
- Material: Paper.
- Binding:
18th- or 19th-century half vellum (white) binding with marbled paper sides.
Binding height: 250mm; width: 175mm; depth: 50mm.
- Foliation:
Late 16th- or early 17-century pagination and 17th-century foliation: a late 16th- or early 17th-century pagination sequence (pp. 1-70) that is is supplemented by a 17th-century foliation sequence.
The latter sequence is first introduced on p. 65, where the 17th-century foliator starts with the number "62". They have then adapted the page numbers on the rectos of the next two pages to turn them into folio numbers: p. "67" has become f. "63" and p. "69" has become f. "64". However, a modern librarian has rejected these changes and re-written the original page numbers in pencil below the adapted page numbers on p. 67 and p. 69 and confirmed that this page sequence should be followed until p. 70 by duplicating the existing page number on that page. Because of this modern preference and the fact that this is where the original page number sequence ends (there is no pagination on ff. 65r-68r; pagination re-starts at '1' on f. 68v), this catalogue record follows the manuscript's pagination up to page 70 and then follows the added early modern foliation which begins with f. 65 and ends with f. 253. Subsequently, the foliation is continued by a modern librarian's hand in pencil until f. 265.
[a]-[b] + PART 1: ff. [i]-[ii] and pp. 1-70, ff. 65-78 | PART 2: ff. 79-92 | PART 3: ff. 93-95, 95a, 96-99 | PART 4: ff. 100-115 | PART 5: ff. 116-147, 147a, 148 | PART 6: ff. 149-152 | [152a] | PART 7: ff. 155-166 | PART 8: ff. 167-181 | PART 9: ff. 182-235, [235a] | PART 10: ff. 236-265, [265a], [265b] + [c]-[d]
The pagination on pp. 1-70 is written in brown ink in the upper outer corners of both the rectos and versos. The foliation on ff. 65-253 is written both on the inner and outer corners of the upper margins of the rectos.
This pagination and foliation sequence is followed for reference purposes throughout this record. All other historical pagination and foliation sequences (described below) are ignored.For reference purposes in this electronic catalogue record, the manuscript's unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and end ([a]-[b] and [c]-[d]), as well as original blank flyleaves attached to the first part ([i]-[ii]), an unfoliated modern leaf between parts 6 and 7 ([152a]), a stub ([235a]) and original blank leaves (possibly flyleaves) attached to the final part ([265a], [265b]) have all been allocated folio references in square brackets.15th- or 16th-century foliation sequence:
'1'-'22' (on ff. 79-99), and continued by a later early modern hand with the numbers '23'-'102' (on ff. 100-182.
Written in dark ink in the inner corners of the upper margins of the rectos.
15th- or 16th-century foliation sequence:
'i'-'xxxj' (on ff. 119-148)
Written in brown ink at the centres of the upper margins of the rectos.
15th- or 16th-century foliation sequence:
'1'-'33' (on ff. 183-215)
Written in brown ink to the outer upper corners of the rectos.
- Additions:
The manuscript contains a curatorial note on f. [152a] recto about folios 153 and 154, which contain a fragment of a printed version of the Seven Sages of Rome (Pynson, 1493). These leaves were removed from the manuscript and bound separately in May 1913 (now Cambridge, Trinity College, VI.18.19).
- Provenance:
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. 120 (this number inscribed on f. [i] recto) in the list of Gale's manuscripts in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697).
One of the manuscripts of Roger Gale (1672-1744), antiquary and scholar, son of Thomas Gale. Inherited from his father.
- Acquisition: Donated to Trinity College by Roger Gale (1672-1744), son of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), in 1738. The alpha-numerical elements of its current classmark are printed on three labels pasted onto the spine ("O.2.13"), inscribed in pencil on the inside of the front cover, and in brown ink on f. [i] recto. Previous classmarks ("B.54" [crossed out] and "O.15.37" [crossed out]) are inscribed in brown ink on f. [i] recto. its printed ex libris featuring its armorial coat of arms and name ("Collegium SS. et Individuae Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi") pasted in the lower margin of f. 1r. The College's library stamp occurs on ff. 1r and 252v.
- Funding: Wellcome
- Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on M.R. James, The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge: a descriptive catalogue, 3 (1902); and Linne R. Mooney, Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XI (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1995).
- Author(s) of the Record: Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer in Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge University Library
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- Title: Part 1
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: After 1542 and before c. 1625.
- Physical Description:
3: Nunquid ergo
- Extent: Codex: 2, 35, 2, 10, 1 leaves.
- Collation:
- Quires 1-38 (pp. 1-48)
- Quire 48-1+1 (pp. 49-64: 1st leaf missing and replaced with blank leaf)
- Quire 5three (pp. 65-70: probably a quaternion with 4th-8th leaves missing)
- Three flyleaves (ff. 65-67)
- Quire 68 (ff. 68-75)
- Quire 7two (ff. 76-77: probably a quaternion with 3rd-8th leaves missing)
Leaf signatures written in brown ink at the centres of the lower margins of the rectos of the first halves of quires plus the first rectos of the second halves. These consist of combinations of letters from the Roman alphabet and Roman numerals: Quires 1-5: "A" to "E"; and Quires 6-7: "A" to "B".
- Format: Codex
- Script:
The main text is copied by (?)1 hand working in an italic script.
The texts on p. 1, and ff. 65r, 66v-67v, 78r-78v were added by different hands working in a mixture of cursive scripts.
- Layout:
Written height: 170-180 mm, width: 110-120 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame only. 28-30 lines to the page, written below top line.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.
- Origin: After 1542 and before c. 1625. England.
Pages 1-70 and folios 68r-77v may have been copied separately, as is suggested by the two different paperstocks and the re-start of the letter sequence of the leaf signatures at f. 68r, but they were pobably produced by the same scribe and joined or kept together from an early stage onwards.
- Title: Note about astrologers
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Added in a 17th-century script and partly illegible due to damage to the page.
- Excerpts:Incipit: [i] recto Astrologorum praedictiones non fuit perpetuo verae [...] fallunt
- Title: Poetic address to physicians
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: De praeservatione Pestis et eius cura
- Author(s): Antonius de Santacilia
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Consists of two parts: Part 1 has 10 chapters and Part 2 has 4 chapters.; This text perhaps is a copy of a lost printed work, published in London in 1542.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 2 Antonii de Santacilia Maioricensis Lovaniensium capitanei tempore Martini van Rossem Anno 1542. Et nunc Regiae magestatis Angliae Servitoris - De praeservatione Pestis et eius cura libellus feliciter incipitIncipit: 2 Praefatio. Multis atque variis discriminum turmisExplicit: 70 Deus preseruet, custodat protegat atque deffendat regiam magestatem vna cum su[...] nobilissimo consilio
- Title: Dialogus de Peste Corporali et Spirituali
- Author(s): Antonius de Santacilia
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): This text perhaps is a copy of a lost printed work, published in London in 1542.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 68r Antonii de Sanctacili Maioricensis Lovaniensium Capitanei Tempore Martini van Rossen Anno 1542 Et Nunc Regiae Magestatis Anglie Servitoris De Peste Corporali et Spirituali Dialogus. Londini apudIncipit: 68r Antonii de Sanctacilia Maioricensis Lovaniensium Capitanei Tempore Martini Van Rossen Anno 1542 . Et Nunc Regiae Magestatis Angliae Servitoris - De Peste Corporali et Spirituali Dialogus - Studens et Pastor - Heu o bone pastor est ne hec via OxoniensisExplicit: 77v et interum in christo valeas quousque inueniamus illum quem querimus filium \dei/ vnigenitum dominum deum nostrum per quem redempti sumus et saluati erimus et tunc mediante sua gracia vna cum angelis et omnibus sanctis suis laudavimus cum in secula seculorum
- Title: Theological notes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Not transcribed. Added by a (?) 16th- or 17th-century hand.
- Title: Miscellaneous notes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Not transcribed. Added by (?) 16th- or 17th-century hands.
- Title: The number 1100 written in words
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Written upside down on the page by a (?) 16th- or 17th-century hand.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 78v 1100 a millessimo centessimo
- Title: Part 2
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: Second half of the 15th century (probably after 1485).
- Physical Description:
80r: ffor savssflem
- Extent: Codex: 14 leaves.
- Material: Paper, folded in quarto.
Folios 79r-92v: Hand with a five-pointed star (and one other unidentified watermark: see f. 79).
- Format: Codex
- Script:
Various cursive scripts added by 15th- and 16th-century hand, typically contianing both anglicana and secretary features.
- Layout:
Written height: 150-160 mm, width: 110-115 mm. No ruling. Single colums. The original texts of this quire contain c. 35-c. 45 lines to the page.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.
- Origin: Second half of the 15th century (probably after 1485). England.
For a likely terminus ante quem non, see the list of monarchs on f. 90r. Added to by various hands in the 15th century and/or in the first half of the 16th century.
- Title: Poem on numbers
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The poem is followed by a table of roman numerals. The same poem has been added to the so-called Holyrood Ordinal Edinburgh, Palace of Holyroodhouse, RCIN 1018778).
- Title: Medical recipes
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Copied in the (?) 16th century.
- Title: Collection of medical, horticultural, magical, and culinary recipes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The collection includes a medical recipe to treat scabies ("Pro Scabie"); culinary recipes, including instructions for preserving fruit to serve fresh at Christmas ("ffor to kepe Cheries or bolas or plumbes ffresh vnto Christmasse") and to make ale that has gone sour drinkable again ("ffor to make ale that is sower to turne into his own kende ayen"); horticultural recipes, including instructions for making roses grow throughout the year ("Ad custodiendas rosas per totum annum") and to make them grow faster ("vt roras cicius habere possis");. a chemical recipe to carry fire by hand without hurting oneself ("Ad portandum ignem in manibus tuis sine lesura"; magical recipes, including instructions for making a herbal amulet invoking the names of the Archangels against enemies ("Vt inimicus fugiet te"); for making an amulet with celandine collected in the morning of the feast of St Peter ad Vincula (1 August) in order to enable its user to escape any prison; to secretly open a wax seal ("Ad aperiendum ceram") by placing violet roots under an altar for nine days and then blowing its powder onto the seal [this recipe also occurs in the so-called Cambridge Book of Magic; see Paul Foreman (attributed) The Cambridge Book of Magic: A Tudor's Necromancer's Manual, ed. by Francis Young (Cambridge: Texts in Early Modern Magic, 2015), p. 59]; to make an amulet from hart's tongue in order to learn the art of jesting ("Ad sciendum qualiter ioculatores faciunt"); to make a drink from chamomille to determine whether a woman is a virgin ("Ad sciendum an mulier sit virgo vel ne"); Ink and pingment recipes:, to soften steel ("Ad mollificandum calibem"), to harden steel ("Ad indurandum calibem"), to make coloured gilded or silvered letters "Ad colorandum litteras sculptas in metallo quocumque colore" and a recipe for catching fish ("Ad capdiendum pisces").
- Bibliography:eVK2 4099.00Mooney (1995), pp. 85-85 [other copies of individual recipes]
- Title: Tract on the magical virtues of herbs and animals from the Liber aggregationis siue Liber secretorum
- Language(s): Latin
- Excerpts:Incipit: 84r De Solsequio - Est autem quedam herba que vocatur Solsequium. Huius virtus est mirabilis . quod si colligatur in estate . sole exunte in virgine in mense Augusti cum trina oracione dominica ieiunio stomacho ante solis ortum siue apparet intra planeta que dicitur iupiter siue non et involuatur in folijs lauriExplicit: 84v De ove - Huius virtus est quod si stercus accipiatur et cum aceto emplastetur tollit vercuas . Item pulmonem ouis ea alicui aue comestionem et non est ebriosus quantumcumque illa die bibat
- Title: Recipes for making azure
- Language(s): Latin
- Excerpts:Rubric: 84v Ad faciendum azoreum
- Title: Astrological instruction for harnassing the magical properties of herbs from the Liber aggregationis siue Liber secretorum
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 84v Nota quod modus agendi talis est . vt effectus bonus fiat sub planeta . vt sub ioue et venere . et effectus malus sub malo vt saturno . et marce .i. in diebus et horis eorum
- Title: Collection of medical recipes
- Language(s): Latin and Middle English
- Note(s): The collection largely includes medical recipes in Latin, e.g. treatments for haemorrhoids ("ffor the emrodes") and the pestilence ("Conra Pestem"), and an instruction to make Aqua Vitae ("Ad faciendum Aquam Vite"). It also includes a Middle English recipe for catching rabbits with one's hands by coating gloves with an ointment ("To take Conys with thy handes") and another Middle English recipe for gilding.
- Bibliography:eVK2 4098.00eVK2 4110.00
- Title: Collection of medical, chemical, magical, and trick recipes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The collection includes recipes to stop someone from sleep-talking ("Pro loquentibus in sompnis"); whiten teeth ("Ad dentes dealbandum"); grow hair ("Ad faciendum caput habere crines carens crinibus"); depilate ("Ad tollendum glabram"); make it seem that one's house is filled with wild beasts ("Vt aliqua domus appareat plena feris"); make prunes fall from a tree without touching the tree or fruit ("Vt pruna cadant de arbore et non appropiabunt arborem nec fructum manus nec lapis nec lignum"); give a black horse a white colour ("Ad faciendum nigrum equum . album"); carry fire by hand without hurting oneself ("Si vis ferre ignem in manibus tuis"); make a non-extinguishable candle ("Vt candela non extingeatur propter ventum nec per pluviam"); make headless persons appear in a house ("Vt homines existentes in domo appareant sine capitibus"); clear one's voice ("Ad vocem clarificandum"); turn vinegar into wine ("Vt acetum in vinum redeat"); turn wine into vinegar ("Vt vinum acetum fiat"); shoot an arrow or thorn ("Ad sagittam vel spinam eiciendum"); learn whether or not a disease will kill a patient ("Si vitam vel mortem alius aegri inuestigare volueris"); turn a red rose into a white one ("Ad rosa rubea deueniant alba"; pull teeth ("Ad depondendum dentes"; whiten one's face or hands ("Ad faciem vel manus dealbandum"); stop a 'harlot' from lusting ("Ad faciendum meretricem cessare de luxuria"); make someone dream ("Ad faciendum ipnkmsn semetipsum tppnkbsf", which can be decrypted as: "Ad faciendum hominum semetipsum somniara"); make a donkey follow you ("Si vis quod as sequitur te"); make oneself invisible ("Si vis esse invisibilis"); and catch birds ("Ad aues recoligendum similiter").
- Title: Two medical recipes
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The recipes are for treating the pestilence and gall or bladder stones.
- Bibliography:eVK2 4892.00
- Title: Magical intruction involving Adder's Tongue to never become subjugated
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 88r Accipe linguam serpentis et super eam legantur .4.or tunc si quis eam portuerit numquam prosternetur
- Title: Medical recipe for treating scabies
- Language(s): Latin
- Excerpts:Rubric: 88r Ad speciem scabiosa deprimendam
- Title: Two medical recipes
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The recipes are for treating ulcers, entitled: "ffor the Canker" and "A water to washe the canker withall or he wys thys medicyn").
- Bibliography:eVK2 4785.00
- Title: Instruction for dyeing clothes black with oak gall ink
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Added in the (?) 16th century.
- Title: List of monarchs of England from William I until Herny VII (with later additions)
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): A later hand has added entries for the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I but has not noted the duration of the latter's reign. A second later hand has simply added the name of Queen Elizabeth I ("Elizabeth regina").
- Title: Prognostics about three days and nights of the year on which only men are born and the special qualities of their bodies after death
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 91r Tres dies sunt in anno cum tribus noctibus in quibus mulier numquam nascetur. Vir qui natus fuerit in hijs diebus numquam corpus eius putredine soluetur usque ad diem iudicij videlicet Primo kalendis Januarij. Secundo kalendis Januarij. Et quarto nonis februarij
- Title: Prognostics about thee perilous Mondays in the year for childbirths
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription, as in Mooney (1995), p. 86 who states that this Middle English prognostic is preceded by a 'Latin version of the same'. However, the two items are very different and provide prognostications for different days of the year.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 91r Ther ar .iij. perlous mondais in the yere that is to say. The first monday of ffebruare. The last monday of may. And the .iij.de monday of september . That what child is begoten or borne in ony of thes daies he shall owder be brente or drownyd or go to a shamys dethe or dye sodenly . And if she be a mayden child she shall be a strumpet or a comune woman and haue a ill ende without the grace of god be . And if ony man or woman ete ony goosse flesshe thes dayes / he shall haue þe falling evill and no werk shall cum to gode ende that is begun in thes daies
- Bibliography:eVK2 7130.00Mooney (1995), p. 86 [other copies]
- Title: Part 3
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: Late 15th century or early 16th century.
- Physical Description:
94r: The fourme
- Extent: Codex: 8 leaves.
- Collation:
- Quire 104-1 (ff. 93r-95v: 4th leaf missing)
- Quire 116-1 (ff. 95a recto-99r: 6th leaf missing)
- Material: Paper, folded in quarto.
Folios 93-99: Jug with a cross (and one other unidentified watermark: see f. 79).
- Format: Codex
- Script:
Various cursive scripts added by 15th- and 16th-century hands, typically containing both anglicana and secretary features.
- Layout:
Written height: 150 mm, width: 115 mm. No ruling. Single colums. The original texts of this quire contain c. 30 lines to the page.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.
- Title: Legal form for taking a deer
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The form as given by Cecily, mother of Edward IV, dated to the 20th year of his reign (1480-1).
- Excerpts:Rubric: 94r The fourme how warantes be madeIncipit: 94r By cicyly moder to the kyng and late wiff vnto the ryght hyȝ and ryght myȝty prynce richard by ryght kyng of ynglond we wol and charge you that vnto our welbeloved a b or to the brynger herof in his name ye delyuer or do to be delyuerd oon buk of this season to be taken of our yest within our park of EExplicit: 94r Superscript. To our trusty and welbelouyd the keper of our parke of C and in his absens to his depute or deputeis here
- Title: Legal form for a warrant for a dear
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The form as given to Thomas Hert, keeper of the park at Wyverston, in the fifth year of King Henry VII (1490-1).; Full transcription, as in Mooney (1995), p. 87.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 94r The duc of SuffolkIncipit: 94r To Thomas hert oure parker of Wyuerstone greting we wole and also streitly charge you that ye incontinent after the sight herof deliuere vnto our rygt dere beloued sone william or to the brynger herof in his name a buk of this season to be had and take withinne your office and this our waraunt signed with our hand shal be your sufficiaunt auctorite and discharge at alle tymys for delyueraunce of the same writen at our castell of wyngfeld the last day of july in the vth yer of kyng henry the vijth.
- Title: Legal form for a warrant
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription, as in Mooney (1995), p. 87.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 94v The Duchesse of SuffolkIncipit: 94v To John C our bailiff of .S. and B. gretyng we wole and also streitly charge you that of the revenues of your said office in this michemesse next coming ye pay and content vnto .E. D. the some of xl s. to hym by vs dew and owyng for his wages not failyng therof as ye intende our pleasure and this our writyng signed with our hand shal be your sufficiaunt auctorite and discharge before our auditours at your next accoumpt for payment of the same yoven at ff the xiij day of July in the vjth yere of kyng henry the vijth.
- Title: Legal forms from the reigns of Henry VI and Henry VII
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The forms are entitled: "fforma littere atornat.", "fforma littere acquietanc.", "fforma Obligacionis", "Condicio", and "Alia Acquietancia".
- Title: Lists of numbers
- Language(s): [no language]
- Title: Legal form dated to 6 Henry VII
- Language(s): Latin
- Excerpts:Rubric: 96r Copia Vacacionis beneficij temporalis patroni
- Title: Legal form for beginning of a petition to the king
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription, as in Mooney (1995), p. 87.
- Title: Two untitled legal forms from the reign of Edward ?IV
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: Instructions for tuning a lute
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription, as in Mooney (1995), p. 87.
- Bibliography:eVK2 3403.00
- Title: Mnemonic verse about tones for antiphons and psalms
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The text is accompanied by music staves and neumes. The same verse, accompanied by an explanation, can also be found in the tonary (tonarium) of Jacobus Twinger de Königshofen (1346-1420).
- Title: Verse couplet
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 97v Versus: lacte lava vinum oleum liquore fabarum / Incaustum vino cetera mundat aqua
- Title: Banns
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Added by a late 16th-century hand.
- Title: Part 4
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: 15th century (probably first half of the century).
- Language(s): Middle English and Latin
- Associated Name(s): Norton, John, d. 1459
- Physical Description:
101r: Tak Betayne
- Extent: Codex: 16 leaves.
- Collation:
- Quire 1216 (ff. 100-115)
Leaf signatures in brown ink at the centres of the lower margins of the rectos of the first half of the quire. These consist of a Roman numeral ("[i]"-"viij") followed by the letter "A".
- Material: Paper, folded in folio.
Folios 100-115: Mountain with cross.
- Format: Codex
- Script:
The larger part of the recipes are copied by one 15th-century hand working in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features (additions on ff. 115r-115v were made by comprable cursive hands).
- Layout:
Written height: 190 mm, width: 110 mm. Ruled in ink, frame only. Single columns. 41-43 lines to the page, written below top line.
- Decoration:
One large (4 lines) green initial on f. 100r.
Large (2 to 3 lines) plain initials in red ink throughout.
Headings for recipes written in red ink.
Linefillers consiting of horizontal wavy lines in red ink.
Regular initial in brown ink occasionally highlighted with red ink.
Underlining in red ink.
Paraphs in red ink.
Crosses in charms drawn in red ink.
- Provenance:
John Norton (d. 1459): perhaps copied the larger portion and owned this part of the manuscript. Three medical recipes attributed to him on ff. 100r and 113r. His note about a total solar eclipse on Sunday 17 June 1433 on f. 115r. Signed the copy of "De navicula" on ff. 114v-115r with his initials encoded as numbers (9.13). For Norton, see Owen Manning and William Bray, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, II (London: Nichols, 1809; repr. East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1974), p. 504.
- Title: Collection of about 200 medical recipes and charms
- Language(s): Middle English and Latin
- Note(s):
The collection includes various charms: One charm, entitled "A good medycyn for the ffeueres" (f. 100r) invokes seven types of fevers that are named after their durations, starting with a one-day fever ("cotidianas") and going up to a seven-day fever ("septanas"). Another charm, entitled "Another for þeo same" (ff. 100r-100v) instructs one to write holy names of God on three oblates and feed them to a patient over the course of three consecutive days. One for curing a morbid growth in the eye, entitled "Coniuracyoun for þe hawe in þe ye a souereyn medycyn" (f. 101v) involves a formula that needs to be recited over the eye and yellow juice of celandine that needs to be applied with a goose feather ("þe fether of a gos wynge þat þis goldesmythe vses to soude with") that needs to be bound over the eye all night for a duration of ten days. There is also a charm for curing toothache, entitled "A nobell charm for tothache" (f. 102v) that recounts the apocryphal tale of Christ on a marble stone healing St Peter from the tootache. A charm against dysentery, entitled "A good charme for þe menysoun" (f. 104r), conjures the ailment with the apocryphal story about how the River Jordan stopped flowing at Christ's baptism.
Under a heading, entitled "A good charme to staunche blode of man or woman" (f. 105r six charms for bloodstaunching are given: the first one invokes the apocryphal story of Longinus piercing Christ's side; the second to fifth charms involve liturgical formula and prayers often in combination with herbs; and the sixth charm involves two strips of parchment inscribed with magical characters that need to be bound between the patient's shins (including a test to prove the efficacy of these charaters by writing them on a knife and subsequently cutting a swine with it). It also contains a magical method for determining whether a patient shall live or die, entitled "ȝef þy gode frend be seke and þou wylt wyte wheþer he schal lyue oþer dye" (ff. 107r), in which one needs to recite five Pater Nosters over five shoots of vervain in honour of the Five Wounds and then conjure the shoots that the patient shall tel them truthly whether they will live or die, place the herb in one's right hand and then hold the patient's right hand with the herb in between the joint hands. The medical practitioner should then ask the patient wheter they will live or die and "he schal say þe sothe". A charm, entitled "ffor þe ffalyng euell" (f. 110r), instructs one to take blood from the patient's little finger and use it to write the names of the Three Magi either on a parchment amulet or, for a child below the age of seven, in a drinking cup. Another charm to help patient's sleep, entitled "ffor hym þat not slepe for sykenus wryte þes wordes on a lorere leeff" (f. 112r), involves an amulet inscribed with the words: "+ Ymael + Ysmahet + Adiuro te per angelum dei vt soporet homo iste" that needs to be placed secretly under the patient's head.
Two childbirth charms, one is an instruction for making an amulet (unspecified material) inscribed with "Maria peperit christum" formula, including reference to St Celine [Cecilia] and St Remigius, and the formula "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas", that needs to be bound to the pregnant woman's belly. The other involves inscribed the Pater noster in a drinking bowl and making the pregnant woman drink ale or wine from it. A charm for the toothache, entitled "A charm for þe totake or for what worme þat be in þe hed or in any place of þe body" (f. 113r), an amulet inscribed with a charm that invokes "vermin" by the Virgin Mary and St Cassian; and a charm to heal fever, entitled "ffor þe feuerez a good medycyne" (f. 113r) that invokes the names of God.
Two recipes are attributed to a certain John Norton: one (f. 113r). was initially attributed to "J. Weston" but this name has been crossed out and replaced for: "9.13", which has been decrypted to "J. Norton" to the right. Another recipe on f. 100r has also been attributed to him: "Quod ix. xiij".
- Excerpts:Rubric: 100r In nomine domini Jhesu Amen . quod ix. xiij.Incipit: 100r Here bygynnes a tretyce of oyles and wateres medicynabell and how þei sschal be made and for what malady þei are gode and furst of oyle of rose þat ys made of mony maneresExplicit: 113r and mell þen þe water þerwyth and boyle hit agayn and lay to þe sore in maner of a plaster and he schal be hooll amen
- Bibliography:eVK2 5707.00
- Title: Instruction to attract wild deer
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Title: Recipe for treating an aching hollow tooth
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 113v ffor akyng of holewe teth . Medycyn .Incipit: 113v Tak a Rauenes turde and put hit in þe holewe toght bute furst colore hit with [crossed out: "peletes"] þe jus of peletes of spayne þat þe seke knowe noht what hit be and hit schal breke þe toth and do away þe akyng and as sum men seyn hit wyl make þe tooth to falle out
- Title: Virtues of the herb basil
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 113v Hugucio dicit quod herba Basilica que genciana dicitur est tante virtutis quod radix eius dat fortitudinem et sanitatem omnibus vtentitubs ea
- Title: Medical recipe for a facial ailment
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The recipe is said to have been attested by "Richard Sherdych" [?Shoreditch]: "Per Ricardum Sherdych probatum".
- Title: Recipe against lice and fleas
- Language(s): Middle English recipe with a Latin heading
- Note(s): The recipe is said to have been attested by the 'hermit of Sherwood'.; Full transcription; not included in Mooney (1995).
- Excerpts:Rubric: 113v Vt pediculi et pulices non te mordeantIncipit: 113v Recipe . Netell and kuylrage [? for colrage] and sethe hem wel in clyre watere and put hit al hoot in a tubbe and syt þer yn al naket and let keuere hit aboue þat þe hete go not out and wassch wel al þy body þer wyth at the leste wey ones in a yere and on warantyse þei schal neuer byte þe . ny hit schal noht greve þe . Probatum est. quod heremite de Schyrewode
- Title: Recipe for tootache
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.; Without heading and apparently incomplete at the beginning; written upside down on the page and crossed out with thin lines of light brown ink.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 113v þe whyt of an eye and do hit in a dysche and do þe poudere þerto and melle hit wel to gydere and tak fayre boltet flour of whete and tempere all all [sic] togydere . Tak bursa pastoris a gode hande full and wasch hem in fayre water and grynd hem in a morter and wrynge out þe Jus and a quarteroun of an ounce of poudere of pepere and a gode quantyte of salt and caste þer yn and lt melte hit to gydere and let þe seke set hym on his beddes syde and let hym sonpe þe of a lytel at ones and holde in his mouth on þe sore syde tyl hit be warme and þen sput out and þus a lytell and lytell tyl he haue spendet al . and þen tak a lytel of þe draff and mak hit in a ball and lay hit by twene þe cheke and þe toth and lay hym doun to slepe and have hym warme and \set/ hym hye so til he haue slepet
- Title: Medical recipe for a cure for abcess, jaundice palsy, or blurred vision
- Language(s): Middle English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 114r A principall medycyn for al manere accesses jawnyes and palsy and to clyre wel þe syhtIncipit: 114r Tak þe vryne þat þu makest furst affter þy furste slepe and let þe iij part passe into þe vescelExplicit: 114r And þer nys no [crossed out: [?] "ma[n]"] medicyn þat schal make a man more hool þen þis schal þagh he wolde spende xx. pound þer on oþer fourty . bot phisicyauns wolde not þat men knowe þis . H. J. talbot dicit quod ista medicina preualet plures medicinas quas se constabant xxti marces
- Title: Medical recipe for curing a bladder or gall stone
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 114r ffor the ston a principall medicyneIncipit: 114r Tak þe beryus of yue and druye hem agayn þe fuyre or þe sonne and mak poudere þer of and vse hit in metes and drynkes and hit schal breke þe ston and voyden hit away on smale peces and noht greve þe on warauntyse and make þe a hooll . pysse offte in a basseyn þat þat ys clene and þu schal se þe smale peces comen out ych affter oþer etcaetera hoc vere probatum est and lef oþer costelewe medicynes etcaetera
- Title: Charm for healing an ulcer or abcess
- Language(s): Middle English heading for a Latin instruction with a Middle English verse charm
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 114r ffor the Cankere a good charme . vt sequiturIncipit: 114r In primis fac signum crucis circa locum vermis . dicendo . In nomine patris + et ffilij + et spiritus sancti + non dicendo Amen . vsque ad finem . Tunc dicas vt sequitur in lingua materna . Job doun the hull he sete . ix. wormys hym ete . In nomine patris etcaetera vt sequitur . .iij. were blake and iij. were whyte . In nomine patris etcaetera . vt sequitur . And iij. were reede . and all þe wormys scholen be dede . In nomine patris . cum Amen.
- Bibliography:DIMEV 2951-1
- Title: Medical recipe for toothache
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The recipe is attributed to "W. Schrossbury" [Shrewsbury].
- Excerpts:Rubric: 114r Pro dolore dencium bona medicina
- Title: Distance between Merton (Surrey) and Lamberhurst (Kent)
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The text gives the distances between Merton, historically in Surrey (now Greater London) to the village of Lamberhurst in Kent via Croydon, Farnborough (Kent, now Greater London), Chipstead (Kent), and Tonbridge (Kent).; Full trancsription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 114r A Mertoun ad Croyden .3. Myle . A Croyden ad ffarneborowe .7. Myle . Ab hinc ad Chypstede .5. M . Ab hinc ad Tunbrigge .5. Ab hinc ad Lamburghurst .8. Myle . Summa .28. Myle.
- Title: Encrypted instruction for harnessing the magical properties of vervain in order to open locked doors
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Attributed to a 'J.C.': ".9.3.", using the same substitution cipher as found in attributions to John Norton (see f. 115r and Part 4: Provenance).; This text can be decrypted as follows: "Recipe ueruenam ante urtum [sic: "ortum"] solis in assumpcionis beate marie sicca et puluerisa et poni [sic: "pone"] puluerem in ore tuo et fla in seram et statim aperiet".; The text instructs practitioners to collect vervain before sunrise on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary (15 August), dry and pulverise the herb and its powder into their mouths, and then blow the powder into a lock. This instruction is comparable to an instruction in a collection of necromantic experiments compiled by Paul Foreman in the 1530s (now Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3544 the so-called Cambridge Book of Magic). Although the latter instruction, does not involve vervain but the root of violet, it similarly instructs the user to blow powder of the herb on wax in order to secretly open sealed letters: "cum ceram aperire vis pone in ore tuo et fla super ceram et stati aperietur" (see Paul Foreman, The Cambridge Book of Magic: A Tudor Necromancer's Manual, ed. and trans. by Francis Young (Cambridge: Texts in Early Modern Magic, 2015), p. 59 [no. 28]). Interestingly, this very same magical instruction for opening wax seals can be found among a collection of recipes on ff. 83r-84r in Part 2 of O.2.13.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 114r R xfrxfnbm bntf xrtx spl kn xkg bssxpcpks bf mbrkf . skccb ft pxlxksb ft ppk pxlxfm kn prf txp ft flb kn sfrbm ft stbtkm bpkft
- Title: Medical recipe
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Attributed to a 'J.C.': ".9.3.", , using the same substitution cipher as found in attributions to John Norton (see f. 115r and Part 4: Provenance).
- Title: De navicula
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): This text comprises a previously unknown copy of a text on a type of sundial that is know as the navicula. This copy is not recorded in Catherine Eagleton, Monks, Manuscripts and Sudials: The Navicula in Medieval England, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science Series, 11 (Brill: Leiden, 2010). Eagleton lists and identifies sixteen manuscript copies of five different texts on the navicula (including copies in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.5.26 and Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.8.16). The newly discovered copy belongs to Eagleton's "Group A" of Navicula manuscripts, which survives in ten manuscripts (including Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.5.26 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.6.3 [diagrams only]). The newly identified copy opening is comparable to two "Group A" manuscripts: London, Royal College of Physicians, MS 384 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Wood D.8.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 114v-115r Formula de nouo Instrumento nauivulca dicto pro equalibus horis utrique in tota terra inueniendis. In hoc instrumento ije figure zodiaci sunt integra videlicet vna in ymo pro gubernacione mali et altera in parte auriori versus detram . pro gubernacione fili et noduliExplicit: 115r Et dicitur solsticium non quia sol stat ibi . sed quia in vna parte anni est in inferiori gradu et in alia in superiori etcaeteraFinal Rubric: 115r Explicit .9.13.
- Title: John Norton's note about a total solar eclipse on Sunday of 17 June 1433
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): John Norton (d. 1459) is recorded as vicar of Mitcham in the modern London Borough of Merton, Southwest London. See Owen Manning and William Bray, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, II (London: Nichols, 1809; repr. East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1974), p. 504.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 115r Anno domini Millesimo CCCCmo xxxiijo septimo decimo die Junij fuit eclipsis solis generalis incipienter parum post horam ijam post [crossed out: "ixa"] nonam et durauit semper accrescendo quasi vsque horam iiijtam et demi [?] quartali hore post etcaetera . hoc vidi vere quod M. J. Norton . vicarius de Mycham.
- Title: Recipe for making the best green pigment
- Language(s): Latin
- Excerpts:Rubric: 115r Ad faciendum viridem colorem optimum
- Title: Recipe for making sugar
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Next to the header is written the note or comment: "ffare wel fourty pans".
- Excerpts:Incipit: 115r Ad faciendum Sugure
- Title: Recipe to make rice flour
- Language(s): Middle English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 115r ffor to make floure of RysIncipit: 115r Recipe: Tak rys and pyke hem clene . and wassche hem . and þenne druye hem a lyte ageyn þe sonne . and after bete hem in a mortere asmall and þen sarse hem . and þenne druye hem wel agayn þe sonne . and put hit in a vescell and sture hit offte for mustyng.
- Bibliography:eVK2 5886.00
- Title: Encrypted magical recipe to multiply a grain of salt
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The previously unstudied recipe can be decrypted as follows: "Ad faciendum de una pekka salis .3. pekkes" and "Recipe vnam peccam salis et primus pone grossa olla \vel patella/ super ignem aqua currente impleta cum bene coquiuerit: Recipe salem inter manus tuas fricando salem minutim in aquam et bene inuicem conquitur et per pannum lineum stringantur iterum strictum coquitur bene et totum fiet optimum sal. Probatum est Ro. [?] Geuui".
- Excerpts:Rubric: 115r Bd fbckfnd df xnb pfkkb sbl . 3. pfkkIncipit: 115r Recipe vnb pfccb sbl et primus ppf grpssb pllb \l pbtfllb/ sxp kgnf bqxb crfntf kmplftb et cy bn cpqxkxfrkt Recipe sblf knt mbn txbs txbs frktbndp sblf mknxtkm kn kqxb et bn knxkcfm cpqxbt et per pbnnx lknfx strkngbnt . ktfrx strkctx cpqt bn et tptx fkft pptkmx sbl.
- Title: Medical recipe for jaundice
- Language(s): Latin recipe with a term in Middle English
- Note(s): The Latin instruction includes a reference to "whyt sope".
- Excerpts:Rubric: 115r Pour Jawnyes
- Title: Medical recipe to break a swelling (aposteme)
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Title: A (?) medical recipe
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The instruction is attributed to the 'hermit of Sherwood': "heremita de Schyrewode".
- Title: Medical recipe for treating migraine
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The recipe has been attributed to a certain Thomas Smyth.; Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 115v Pro MydegreyneIncipit: 115v Recipe dayse . redfenel . Camamyll. Chykemete \id est pimpernell/ of yche an handefull . þen tak half a pynte of whyt wyn . a schyuere of soure bred . a peny worth of anys ypowderet . bray hem and sethe hem wel to gyder . and as hot as he may suffre lay hit to þe same party þer þeo sore ys . H. T. Smtyt[h] - Idem T. smyth.
- Title: Two medical recipes for treating diarrhea or dysentery
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The recipes are entitled: "Pro fluxu medicina probata vt sequitur" and "Item pro rubeo fluxu vt sequitur".
- Title: Recipe for a medical plaster
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Added by a later (?) 16th-century hand.
- Title: Part 5
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: 15th century.
- Language(s): Latin
- Physical Description:
117r: all brende lyme
- Extent: Codex: 33 leaves.
- Format: Codex
- Layout:
Written height: 165 mm, width: 110-115 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame only. Single columns. c. 30-c. 36 lines to the page.
- Decoration:
One large (3 lines) plain red initial on f. 117r.
Regular initials in brown ink highlighted with red ink throughout.
Underlining in red ink.
- Origin: 15th century. England.
Date of production indicated by the different paperstocks used for the two quires that make up this part of the manuscript. Given that the two main hands are responsible for exactly one quire each, the two quires were probably produced separately from one another. However, they were joined together shortly after their original production, as is suggested by the 15th- or early 16th-century foliation sequence that has been added to the centres of the upper margins of the rectos of ff. 119-148: "[i]"-"xxxj".
- Title: Collection of veterinary recipes for treating horses
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): A later title is added in a (?) 17th-century hand below the original title: "Morbi Equorum".
- Excerpts:Rubric: 116r Assit principio sancta maria meoIncipit: 116r ffor a sekenes cald molt þe longe: Take garlec pepure ginger and a lytel hony and stampe hom to gederExplicit: 118r ffor the same take . verdgresse eysell and arnament and intrete and ley to þe sor and þe same is good for the ringboun and þe spaueyn with owt brunynge etcaetera
- Bibliography:eVK2 5408.00
- Title: A list of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the parts of the human body to which they correspond
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Full transcription.; Added by a (?) 16th-century hand.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 118v Thes be þe xij ssynuesIncipit: 118v Þe hed - Awrvs / þe nek - Tawros / þe harmos - Jemyne / þe breste - Cansar / þe hart - leo / þe bak - varba [sic: virgo] þe stomok - lybra / þe stomok - scorppyo / þe navell - sauitaryvs / þe cneis - capprycornvs / þe legges - Aquaryvs / þe ffet - pesses
- Title: De pestilencia [Tractatus de morbo epidemiae]
- Author(s): John of Burgundy
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): See Mooney (1995), p. 88 for other copies.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 119r honoratisimus vires doctores [added title]Incipit: 119r Her beginnys a nobull tretes made for medecynes agayne þe pestelance of a nobull ficicioun john of Burgtyn this tretes is departeyde in fore chapeters the first chapeter telles how a man shall kepe hym in tyme þer ofExplicit: 120v Wo so dreddes þis sekenes kepe hym fro þis þinges sayde in þe fyrst chapeter and wo is þer in do be be tyme as teches þe tother and wyth grace of good he shall be hole of his sekenes
- Bibliography:eVK2 2280.00eVK2 7384.00
- Title: Instructions for making herbal medicines throughout the year
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: Advice for conduct (?)
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The text ends with 4 lines of verse, beginning: "Sit timor in despibus benediccio leccio tempus".
- Title: Medical recipe for excess of phlegm
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription. According to Mooney (1995), "stavyakyre" is 'not identifiable' but the herb undoubtedly is Stavesacre, also known as licebane (Delphinium staphisagria).
- Excerpts:Incipit: 120v Nota bene for the fleme take peleter off speyn an stauysakyre breyyd small put in þi mowth ne a sponfull and hald yit as long as mey þen spytt yit howt and kepe þi lyppys opyn as long as flem [?] ouerings
- Title: Collection of medical recipes
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The collection contains 115 recipes.
- Bibliography:eVK2 5030.00
- Title: Medical recipe for the migraine
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Added by a later (?) 15th-century hand.
- Title: Form for or draft of an indenture
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Added by a later (?) 15th-century hand.
- Title: Medical recipe for treating a swelling or ulcer
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 131v ffor to kell a kankar and to make a holle in what plass of a man or a woman it beIncipit: 131v Thak þe iowes of smallhache and a yilke of neg and a spownfoll of honny and a hanfoll of flowar and tempar all þes togeddar and mak a plaster of it and lay it to þe sor for it is prowed
- Title: Medical recipe for treating a swelling or ulcer
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 131v Thak for þe same sor onguentom albous and camfer and meng all theys togeddar it is a ryoll cold melsoun for any sor and a hel
- Title: Prayer to God for protection against the Sweating Sickness and French Pox
- Language(s): Middle English
- Bibliography:IMEV 2726NIMEV 2726DIMEV 4327
- Title: Dietary
- Author(s): John Lydgate
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): DIMEV suggests that the text should be read from the top of f. 132v to the bottom of f. 132r but the the manuscript certainly presents this copy as beginning on f. 132r, adding a title and reserving an opening for a decorative initial at the top of the page.
- Bibliography:eVK2 1515.00eVK2 1849.00IMEV 824NIMEV 824DIMEV 1356-17
- Title: Medical recipe for the toothache
- Language(s): Middle English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 147v (outer margin) ffor the tothe ake
- Title: Two medical recipe for the toothache
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Full transcription. Added by a 15th-century hand.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 148v ffor the towth akeIncipit: 148v Take alem warme ytt on a red clen tyll ston to ytt melt then put þerto gud ii tryakyll lyk quantite dyp in a clen cloth [...] lynyn cutt peces lay on to þe gume off the towth anoder bray rue wyth salt bynd ytt in a lytyle lynyne bag dyp yt in vinegyr lay ytt to þe gume
- Title: Part 6
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: Mid- to late 15th century.
- Language(s): Middle English (dialectal features suggest East Anglia)
- Physical Description:
150r: Goo hens
- Extent: Codex: 4 leaves.
- Collation:
- Quire 154 (ff. 149-152)
- Material: Paper, folded in folio.
Folios 149-152: [Unestablished].
- Format: Codex
- Script:
Bevis of Hampton is copied by a single 15th-century hand in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.
The French letter on f. 152v is copied by a single 15th-century hand in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.
- Layout:
Written height: 185-195 mm, width: 80 mm. No ruling. Single columns. 36-41 lines to the page.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.
- Title: Bevis of Hamptoun (fragment of a variant)
- Language(s): Middle English
- Bibliography:IMEV 3405.3NIMEV see 1993/8DIMEV 5362
- Title: Part 7
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: 15th century.
- Language(s): Middle English and Latin
- Physical Description:
156r: Item present. quod
- Extent: Codex: 12 leaves.
- Collation:
- Quire 1612 (ff. 155-166)
- Material: Paper, folded in folio.
Folios 155-166: crown.
- Format: Codex
- Script:
Copied by a scribe working in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.
- Layout:
Written height: 150-160 mm, width: 100-110 mm. Ruled in (?)leadpoint, frame only. Single columns. 26 28 lines to the page.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.
- Title: Formulae and rules for stewards of manors
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): This may a translation of the preceding Latin text with formulae and rules of stewards on ff. 155r-157v.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 158r Oneracio in Cure BaronumIncipit: 166v ffirste ye shall besely inquire and treuly present and soth sey of all the poyntes and all the articles that I shall charge þou of in the lordes name of the ffraunches and of all suche poyntes and articles as ȝe haue be vsed to be charged of aforne this tyme and no thinge for love nor dredre consele \[i]t make/ but ȝe shall doo vs to in knowlache as soo helpe you god and the holy dome etcaeteraExplicit: 166v Than shall the stywarde sey vnto them sorys ar ȝe all accorded who shall sey for þou Sir John at Stile and be þe all accorded to þe same þat he shall sey haue þou any thinge ellys to þe kynges counsell for counsell Then þe styward or is clerke shall write þe verdict in þe courte rolle after this fourme ex offiio Capite per homage qui dicunt super auctoritatem suum quod dant domino de comuni fine ad hunc certum diem ex antiquo consuetudino prout patet in Capite
- Title: Part 8
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: 15th century.
- Language(s): Middle English and Latin
- Physical Description:
168r: X M l d
- Extent: Codex: 15 leaves.
- Collation:
- Quire 1714+1 or 16-1 (ff. 167-181: one leaf added to the 2nd half of the quire or one leaf missing from the first half of the quire)
- Material: Paper, folded in folio.
Folios 167r-181v: ? antlers and horns .
- Format: Codex
- Layout:
Written height: 175-180 mm, width: 120 mm. No ruling visible. Single columns. 34-36 lines to the page.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.
- Title: List of payments
- Language(s): Latin
- Excerpts:Rubric: 167r Pro diem per annum
- Title: Treatise on distilled waters
- Language(s): Middle English recipes with Latin titles
- Note(s): For other copies, see Mooney (1995), p. 89.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 168r Aqua preciosaffor a pyn in a monnes eee and for to clere a monnes sothe þe red rose and amrose id est capillus virginis fenel rew warwayn eufrauge endiue etayne of euer elyke mekull and put hem in wythe wyne a day and a nyȝtte and then styll hem in þe ferst water þat ȝou seiste wyle be lyke gold colourExplicit: 168v Aqua vocata lac virginis take letarge of lede and make powder þer of and ley it in stronge ale eger. and lat ly a daye and a menthe and then mell heym bothe to gedere and stell þat and it is good for a scalled hede and for sawsefleme face it wyll drye sore
- Bibliography:eVK2 6215.00
- Title: Collection of medical recipes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Contains 68 recipes, interrupted on ff. 169v-170r by a short Latin text on distilled waters.
- Bibliography:eVK2 6554.00
- Title: Treatise on the medical virtues of distilled waters
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: On the virtues of gentian
- Language(s): Middle English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 178v Gentian [added title]Incipit: 178v Yf ȝe wyll knowe þe vertu of gencyan þe boke says þat it is a rote mykyll bytter and þat know we wyll withowt boke bot þis bytternes ternyte to grete bownte for þes are þe vertuys of gencyan as yt is wrytonExplicit: 179r at schort worddes withowttyn more seying gencyan ys remedy agayn all maner of vennimis if yt be vsyde in potaches and drynkes
- Title: A tretys of diverse herbis [A Tretys of diverse herbis]
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): The poem contains three headings: "Beton"; "Centory", and "Egremonye".
- Bibliography:eVK2 7657.00IMEV 2627NIMEV 2627DIMEV 4171-7
- Title: Three short recipes for staunching blood
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Fully transcribed by Mooney (1995).
- Title: Three short recipes for medicines for the eyes
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Some portion of text lost because the lower outer corner of the folio is torn away.; Fully transcribed by Mooney (1995).
- Title: Notes on foods to give a sick man
- Language(s): Middle English; Middle English
- Note(s): Fully transcribed by Mooney (1995).
- Title: Recipe for making anal suppositories
- Language(s): Middle English
- Note(s): Fully transcribed by Mooney (1995).
- Title: List of planets and signs of the zodiac with parts of the body governed by the signs
- Language(s): Middle English; Middle English
- Note(s): Fully transcribed by Mooney (1995).
- Excerpts:Incipit: 181v Sattornvs July 1 a clok - Soll lowna mars marcowryes joibyter wenus sattarnus aryvs [þ]e hed tawrvus þe nek jemyne þe harme cansar leo the hart virgo lybra þe c sporpio stokmak sarowceryeus þe navel cappercornowus aquaryvs pesses þe legges þe fet
- Title: Part 9
- Origin Place: England
- Date of Creation: Second half of the 16th century or the 17th century.
- Language(s): Latin
- Physical Description:
184r: Si autem
- Extent: Codex: 53 leaves.
- Collation:
Unestablished due to the tight binding, but identifiable tackets between ff. 225 and 226 and ff. 232 and 233 suggest that both ff. 222-229 and ff. 230-235 are quaternions. The presence of stubs between ff. 231-232 and after f. 235 indicate that the latter quire is 8-2 (missing the 3rd and 8th leaves).
- Material: Paper, folded in folio.
Folios 183-235: ?Crowned vase with the letter B inside and below the letters "AONOSO" or "ACNOSO" .
- Format: Codex
- Script:
Copied by a single hand in a humanistic cursive script.
- Layout:
Written height: 195 mm, width: 125 mm. Ruled in ink, frame only. Single columns. 30-35 lines to the page, written below top line.
- Decoration:
This part of the manuscript does not contain any signficant forms of decoration.
- Title: Medical compendium
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: De diebus criticis
- Author(s): Matthaeus de Lucca
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Published in 1493.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 205r Artiu etcaetera Medicinae Doctoris - Mathaei de Luccha De diebus Creticis liberIncipit: 205r Comes etcaetera viator inter locutores - Co: Viator quo vadisExplicit: 212v Vi: Et tu quoque valeFinal Rubric: 212v Ad lectorem - Lector accipe hoc facile breue opusculum nam paucissimis verbis iudicabit , quod diu longis compendijs fuit disputatum
- Title: List of plants and animals and their medical purposes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): Beginning with "Herba Ptsilon" and ending with "Aranea".
- Title: Medical recipes
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): One recipe has been crossed out.
- Title: Part 10
- Origin Place: England.
- Date of Creation: 16th or 17th century.
- Language(s): English and Latin
- Former Owner(s): Forman, Simon, 1552-1611
- Physical Description:
237r: Be bytten with
- Extent: Codex: 32 leaves.
- Collation:
Collation unestablished (although tackets are visible between ff. 239-240 and ff. 252-253).
- Material: Paper, folded in folio.
Folios 236-265: bottle, jug and hand with five-pointed star.
- Format: Codex
- Script:
Folios 236r-249r were copied by a single hand working in a very cursive anglicana script.
Folios 249v-252r were copied by a single hand working in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.
Folios 264v-265r were copied by a single hand working in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.
- Layout:
Written height: 185-190 mm, width: 140-145 mm. No ruling visible. Single columns. lines to the page.
- Decoration:
An illustration of the "Eye of Abraham", drawn ink dark ink in the upper outer corner of f. 240v.
An illustation of alchemical vessels connected to a furnace, drawn ink dark ink in the upper inner corner of f. 240r.
Two magical (circular) seals, drawn in dark ink below and illustrating the magical on f. 248r.
Astrological diagrams drawn ink in dark ink on ff. 239r-239v.
Decorative banderols inscribed with text in dark ink (e.g. ff. 240v, 246r, 246v, etc.).
- Provenance:
Simon Forman (1552–1611), astrologer and medical practitioner: the name "Si. Forman" is inscribed in brown ink in the upper margin of f. 236r. Comparison with name inscriptions by Simon Forman (1552-1611) in Cambridge, King's College, MS 16 suggests that this part of MS O.2.13 was owned by him.
- Title: Instructions for gathering herbs and their medical uses
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 236r Here begynyth þe Gaderyng of erbes of þe xij synes and vij planettes and for þe vij dayes of þe wekeIncipit: 236r Sage belongyth to Avries this erbe must be gatheryd þe daye [in] the Calends of Aprill he is good agaynst þe red flyx Allevyls and broken senewes and þe motherExplicit: 237v Tapsus Barbastus longyth to marcury ☿ þe juce of this erbe is good for blysters in a journe made with sulphur and stale ale also it is good in a playster to draw out an aroew hed or a thorne it must be þe rotes myxt with wax Balbanum and turpyntyne
- Bibliography:eVK2 4413.00
- Title: Instructions for gathering herbs on the days of the week
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 238r Erbe for þe 7 dayes of off [sic] þe wekesIncipit: 238r The fyrst is calyd mogworte and þat shold be gatheryd on þe sondaye in þe owre of soll and ij dayes after made in powder and put þe same in one bosome and he shall not leve it tell he have put of all his clothesExplicit: 238r The 7 is camamyll and must be gateryd on saturday in þe owr of Saturnus after þe xxvij day of þe mone and this erbe thus gatheryd makyth peace
- Title: Astrological table
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: Astrological diagrams
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The diagrams appear to provide information for a nativity chart.
- Title: Instruction for theft divination
- Language(s): English and Latin
- Note(s): This form of theft divination involves a well-known method whereby the name of a suspected thief is placed on a key and the key is then placed inside a Psalter at psalm 49.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 239v Take A kaye þat is crosse wardyd and wynde his name þat thou suspectest about þe kaye and laye kaye on this in þe Sauter then saye this verse folowyng / Si videbis furem currebas - And yf the sauter and þe kaye move he is gilty this verse is in this salme deus deorum dominus
- Title: Astrological diagram showing the correspondence between the days of the lunar month and the seven planets
- Language(s): Latin
- Title: Two alchemical recipes for making Aqua solis and Aqua lunae
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The recipes are headed: "Aqua Solle" and "Aqua luna". Above the first recipe is a drawing of a furnace with alchemical vessels. The word "Glas" is written next to the drawing.
- Bibliography:eVK2 5946.00
- Title: Instruction for obtaining grace
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 240r Impetrare horam ett [sic] gratyam operareIncipit: 240r Bere this wrtynge in þi lyft hand with þe blod of a whyte bokke or off a black afore whom þou wilt and þou shalt have Grace + Gloido + vecine + Rees + Somdyn + Bordyn + Pludin + Alba + Affrata + Vabandor + thus + offus + vnu + Sit nomen + domni Benedictum +
- Title: Eye of Abraham charm (Magical method for finding stolen goods and identifying a thief)
- Language(s): Latin
- Note(s): The text is accompanied bya drawing of an eye in the upper margin in brown ink. This is an illustration of the eye that one needs to draw with the albumen of an egg and salt as part of the magical method to find stolen goods and identify a thief.
- Excerpts:Incipit: Dinge [sic: tinge] oculum in pariete cum albumen ovum mixto cum Satargio ad formam subscryptam et habeas Clauum de Cupro in manu sinistra et malleum de ligno fraxini in manu dextra et in manu mallei debet scribi: Jhesus sciens omnium rerum occultarum quam manifestarum verus propagatorExplicit: 240v Et tunc Insige clavem in oculo suo - dicens - Robas . zelaro . noytatenay . Cogite . Coliare . Taakay . naye . co[m]ykaas . selbarium . keara . naye . Coniuro . Rabas . zelarium . Reotobami . C . Rales . secla . Rathanay . facite et cogite furem istum veno et aperto comperere
- Bibliography:Stallcup (2015) [without this manuscript].Benati (2017), pp. 199-213 [without this manuscript]
- Title: Medical recipe for toothache
- Language(s): English
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Medical recipe against inflammation
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241r To brewke fleme
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Medical recipe for improving memory
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241r ffor to make good memory
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to make gold-coloured water
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241r ffor to make gold coloure water
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to write in gold
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v To make leters seme gold
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Horticultural recipe to make a rose grow in winter
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v fforto make a rose growe in wynter
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method for catching rabbits
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v To take Conyes quick
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method for catching fish
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v To take ffyshe
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method for catching birds
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v ffor to take Byrdes quicke
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to make a horse white
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v To make a hors whyte where þou wilt
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to make someone incessantly break wind
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 241v To make a man fart styll
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to make a flame of fire emerge from water
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 242r To make a wonderfull flame ffle forth of þe water
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to make an everlasting light
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 242r To make a lyght perdurable
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Collection of medical recipes
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Medical recipes are for treating "wynd in a mans body","ffor hym þat is poysonyd", "stynkyng breth", "To make swete and clene teth", "ffor hym þat is costyfe", "ffor falyng of here", "To do away wertes", "To stope a flyx".
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method for restoring the weight of gold
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 242v ffor to restore wayt of gold when it wantes
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipe to make gold ink
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 243r To wryte lyck gold and be non
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Methods for capturing fish and birds
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): The recipes are entitled: "To take ffysshe with þi handes", "To make ffyshes gather to in one place by daye", "To take byrd quicke with þi handes"
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipe for making red ink
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 243r To make red inke
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Medical recipe for shoulder pain
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 243v ffor ache in shoulder þat coms of cold
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipe to make purple ink
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 243vTo make purple inke
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipe to make ale taste like cloves
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 243v To make ale saver like clovys
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipes for making red or green wax for seals
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 243v To make red or grene wax to seall with
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipes to make gold and silver ink
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): The recipes are entitled: "ffor to make gold water" and "ffor to make silver water".
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipe to make a dissolving water
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244r To make a dyssolvyng water callyd aqua ffortys
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method for making figures onto apples and pears
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244r ffor to make perys or apples growe on what fassion þou wilt
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to create the illusion of worms in meat
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244v To make þat flesshe seme full of wormes
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Recipe to make invisible ink
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244v To wryte þat may nott be red but itt be made hotte at þe fyre
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to repel bees from stinging
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244v That bees shall nott stynge þee
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to make someone look diseased
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244v To make a man seme messle
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to create the illusion of headlesness
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244vTo seme þat man wantes hedes
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: A medicinal water for the plague
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 244v A watter ffor þe pestylence
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Method to remove thorns and splinters
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 245r ffor thorne iron or wood in a mans flesshe
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Three recipes to clean clothes
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): The recipes are entitled: "To take oyle out of clothes", "ffor fattnes in clothes", and "ffor fattnes in whyte clothes".
- Bibliography:eVK2 5873.00
- Title: Lapidary
- Author(s): Marbod, Bishop of Rennes
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 245v Her begynyth þe prologe of þe phylosoffer marbecouth boke þat is calyd a lapadari þat was kyng a rabyse sent this this [sic] boke to Nero emperer of Rome This boke tellyth how many manner of presious stones þer be þe names of þe stones þe coloure and in what region þei grewe also tellyth þer vertus þer propertes non semperIncipit: 245v In þe begynnynge of this boke he declaryth þe vertu of a presious stone þat is calyd A damas another namyd one manner of diamant grow in a countre calyd India þe coloure of þat stone is like þe coloure of cristall one of his vertuis is thus he is so passynge hard þat þer may no iron reke hym nor þe fyre maye not perisse hymExplicit: 248r Cornelius - This stone hath a dyme red coloure þat stone hath not muche bewty nor fayrenes but it hath dyvers vertuis on vertu is this whatt man beryth it aboute his nicke or in ryng [crossed out: "is"] it will destroye all hevynes þat men hath agaynst hym Another is this he shale nott blede ouer moche Also it stanchyth þe bledynge off þe emrodes And a sicknes of þe womans þat is calyd menstrumFinal Rubric: 248r finis
- Title: Magical method for catching any animal
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Full transcription; below the text are written two magical seals that need to be drawn inside the hunter's left armpit. Each has the word "State" written four times around its edge.
- Excerpts:Rubric: 248r To take all off wild bestesIncipit: 248r Make this coniuratyon in virgyn parchement and the[se] to sines ffolowynge and lett it bee wryten in þe saynge of [?] Amas and after it be made take it þe same daye þat þe mone is newe changyd and laye it vnder an auter cloth where masses be sayd and þer lett it lie þe space of ix dayes and ix nyehtes and after take it with you when you go ahuntynge and when when you se þe best þat ye wold have saye this conivratyon folowynge and se þat þe synes be vnder your ryht arme in your arme hole all þe whyle þat you rede your coniuracyon and take your to sines and hold them before your brest in þe sight of þe best then maye you take your plesure of them
- Title: Magical method for obtaining anything one desires from their master or mistress
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 248v Yff þou wilt have þe love of þi master wryte this verce folowyng in virgyn parchement with þe blode of a whyte dove þat is a virgyn þat is to saye a younge peyon - Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas - S.A.T.O.R.A.R.E.P.O.T.E.N.E.T.O.P.E.R.A.R.O.T.A.S. - fyrt as it is fyrst shewyd and nixt in single letters as it is also shewyd afore and as sone as it is donne depe it iij tymes in holy water and after in contynent lye lay it vnder an avter cloth iij dayes and iij nightes And att þe iij dayes and knele downe on your kneese and saye iij pater nosters iij Aves in þe worshype of þe ffather þe sone and þe holy gost and a crede in worshyp of þe xij apostles then take it vp and bere it in thy hand or on þe and go thi master or mistris and demand of ether of them what you wilt and you shal obtayne it
- Title: Method to make a lamp burn perpetually
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 248v for to make [crossed out: "a lyght"] lamp burne perpetualy
- Title: Magical method for understanding bird language
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Full transcription.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 248v yff þou wilt vnderstand þe voyces of byrdes take þe tonge off a puttoke and put it in hony iij dayes and iij nyghtes and then take it out and put it vnder your tonge and þe space þat it is þer þou shal vnderstand þe voyce of all byrdes
- Title: Method to brighten a face
- Language(s): English
- Excerpts:Rubric: 249r fforto make a mans or a womans fface whyte
- Title: Encrypted magical method for non-consensual sex with a woman
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Full transcription and decryption of words that have been substituted for numbers.
- Excerpts:Incipit: 249r Go and take .ix. levys of fyne endyve in þe owre of venus after the sonne be downe or afore þe sonne aryse and in takynge of þe leves you must wreth them agaynst þe sonne and take hede þat in no case þe sonne shyne nott on them on no tyme and you must gather them in þe owre of venus as is afore sayd and then laye them ix nyghtes and ix dayes in hors donge sett it in in þe owre of venus and in þe owre of venus take it out and then lett it hange in a place to dry þer þe þe sonne comyth nott and when it is dri gather in þe owre of venus as muche ffalaryaan as þer is endyve and as many levys of nyght shard [crossed out: "þe"] as þer be letters to hers cristen name whome þou lovyst or mo and then take a tyle or a slate and drye al thes to powder in þe owre of venus then bete them powder and kepe þat powder [crossed out: "wor"] wondrous closse so þat it take no ayrem no wyse and when you will occupy it take oyle of baye or ffelaryan or rue and take [her knif] and put þe oyle of baye in your hand and put þe powder vpon þe oyle and strike [her knif thorow your hand you shal have your plesur of her and lyke wyse in drinke the powder] or in [a negge] or in a [naple] and when ye will [nomore] of [her toche her] with your [owne spitle] and [she fele] þe [moistenes]
- Title: Method to make a face clean
- Language(s): English
- Title: Collection of medical recipes
- Language(s): English
- Note(s): Added in the late 16th century.
- Title: Alphabetical Latin-English glossary for plant names
- Language(s): Latin and English
- Note(s): Left unfinished; the text ends abruptly in the section of herbs with Latin names starting with 'L'.
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