Anglo-Saxon Medical Manuscript

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Collection of 5 receipts, for heartache, lung disease, 'wenns' or tumours (2), and liver disease. Written by three different contemporary hands: in Anglo-Saxon. The first receipt is by Hand A, which is slightly angular; the second, fourth and fifth in a smaller script, Hand B: the third is more rounded, Hand C.

<p>The verso is blank, except for two lines of verse in a hand of s.xi, and, repeated, s.xii: 'Psallere qui docuit dulci modulamine sanctis / Nouerat iste deceem legis qui uerba dedisset'. These are the first two lines of a poem ascribed to St Jerome (M. Ihm, <i>Epigrammata Damasi</i>, 1895, no. 63).</p>

Anglo-Saxon Medical Manuscript

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