Medical Recipe Collection, England, 15th Century

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Collection of medical recipes [written in the area of Worcestershire, first quarter of the 15th century]. Coloured drawings serve as extravagant decoration for the catchwords.

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1. ff. 1r-3r Coloured drawings, partly obliterated, of St Anthony by an oak tree, with a pig and a deer (f. 1r.), St James, seemingly chopping down a tree with his bare hand (f. 1v.), St John the Baptist with an oak tree and rabbits (f. 2v.), a bishop between two candles (f. 3r.). 

2. ff. 3v-7v Contents list, recording 129 recipes found on ff. 8r.-53v., followed by a coloured drawing of a swaddled baby in a cradle on rockers (f. 7v.).

3. ff. 8r-61v Recipe collection

'Medicine for hede ache. Make lye of betoyne other of verveyne other of chervile other of wermot ...' (includes, ff. 54r.-57v., '?ys was sent from alle ?e leches and alle ?e ficyciens of mount pelery to dame Isabel ?e quene of engelonde ...'). 

4. f. 61v Prayer to St Kenelm [patron saint of Winchcombe Abbey, Gloucs.], added in a 15th- century anglicana script.

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Medical Recipe Collection, England, 15th Century

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