The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.1.13
Manuscript Title

Medical Texts

Alternative Title

Medica

James Number 1037
Century 15th16th17th
Physical Description

Several volumes. In many hands, none very good.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. C. 65. No. 197.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 21 x 15
Folio 302 ff.
Material Paper
Language EnglishMiddle English
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.1.13/manifest.json
Online Since 23/01/2018

Contents

I. f.1 On the virtues of herbs
ff.15-19 are torn out.
f.20a Fragment of a poem on blood-letting
f.20b Days of the month appropriate for bleeding
f.21b Receipts.
f.26 Her it telleþe in what dayes is goode to blede for dyuerse maladyes
f.27 Her ben the xij planetys of a day natural
f.28 Inc. exposicio siue interpretacio nominum herbarum sec. alphabetum et vocatur herbarium
f.34b Dayes in ye monethys of ye ’er ffor ye leche to knowe and to be ware whiche be good
f.36a Receipts for 'ye axis,' 'rynge worm,' 'franesy of ye hed,' dropsy, 'talent (= craving) of mete'
ff.36b, 37a are blank.
f.37b Herbarium
f.44 Receipt for the 'pach cawghe'
ff.44b, 45a are blank.
f.45b English verses: What man yt wil on leche crafte lere
f.46 Receipts
f.77b This is ye lytil boke of ye vertuys of rosmaryn yt ye scole of salerne gaderyd and compiled at instance of ye cowntese of henowde... I danyel ham translatyd into vulgar ynglysch worde for worde as fonde in latyn
The translator asserts that before 1342 rosemary was unknown in England, and that it was first sent from the Countess of Hainault to her daughter Queen Philippa.

II. f.83 Receipts in French and Italian (cent. xvi.)
On f.122b is 'Prouata -Nathanele Chiorlo.'

III. f.145 Receipts in English (cent. xv.)
f.155 Culinary receipts in English

IV. f.166 Medical receipts in English, preceded by the same verses as on f.45b

V. f.173Index to medical receipts, not all of them now in the MS.
f.175b Notes on zodiacal and planetary influences
f.177b The boke of husbondrye
This ys the tretyse of husbondrye by Mr Grosthed made whiche was byshoppe of lyncolne he translate this boke owt of France into Inglisse.
It is continued on f.188b.
On ff.177b, 188 (wrongly numbered) are medical receipts.
f.178b Regimen sanitatis Salerni
Francorum regi scripsit scola tota salerni
(beginning only).
On f.178a are signs, planets, astrological and medical notes.
The Book of Husbandry continued f.188b
f.194b Receipts
f.204b Miscellaneous notes
There be in Fraunce xxiiij gret Dukedomes.
Note of a Bill (2 Hen. V) concerning the 'temporall landes douetly (sic) gyven and disordynatly spent by religious.' See Hall's Chronicle Hen. V. f.iiib.
Heraldic notes ending with
f.205 A disgracynge of a knyght
f.205b List of Officers of Waltham Forest
Whatt women be in dede, why shold nott all men know
Fyckell to there ffrende, and spytfull to there Foo
quod Robert Jernegan.
Receipts follow.
f.209b Nota. Hii sunt dies periculose (corr. to -i) qui sunt in anno
The names of certen Skottes taken by my Mr Sir Gylez Capell knyght that brake out of Colchester Castell in Anno primo R. E. sexti.
f.210 Receipts
Hic inc. Galfridus super Palladium de Agricultura Anglifficatum.
f.213 Tabula
Continued on f.215b.
f.214 Index to receipts called Tabulae extravagantes
f.215b Galfridus continued
f.220 Receipts

VI. f.223 Annotationes quaedam de Grammatica Sanctes Pagnini
Ending f.235.

VII, VIII. ff.236-302 Receipts and miscellaneous notes, save at the end in a hand like that of Dr Dee

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