Accession number
MS B.21
Object title
Medical miscellany (MS B.21).
Display Date
between 1400 and 1450.
Created
East Anglia, England, between 1400 and 1450.
Binding
Original pink leather over wooden boards.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
52 leaves (1 column, varying number of lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 156 x 115 mm
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 7008); Katherine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; Alan George Fenwick; William H. Robinson Ltd., London; their sale, London, Sotheby's, July 17, 1950, lot 27; purchased for Curt F. Bühler at Sotheby's (London, Feb. 28, 1955, lot 169) by E.P. Goldschmidt, London.
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in East Anglia, England, early 15th century.
Texts: calendar for Norwich, in Latin (fol. 1v-13); tables for finding Easter, lunar eclipses, etc., for the years 1429-1479, in English (fol. 13v-14); "Ffor the tothe ache" and on urines, in English (fol. 15, 16-16v); Compotus manualis (fol. 17-25v); Metrical herbal, in English (fol. 26v-45v); medical recipes in English couplets (fol. 45v-49v); prose tract on the uses of rosemary, in English (fol. 50-52v).
Decoration: 1 emblematic frontispiece, numerous filigree initials.
Texts: calendar for Norwich, in Latin (fol. 1v-13); tables for finding Easter, lunar eclipses, etc., for the years 1429-1479, in English (fol. 13v-14); "Ffor the tothe ache" and on urines, in English (fol. 15, 16-16v); Compotus manualis (fol. 17-25v); Metrical herbal, in English (fol. 26v-45v); medical recipes in English couplets (fol. 45v-49v); prose tract on the uses of rosemary, in English (fol. 50-52v).
Decoration: 1 emblematic frontispiece, numerous filigree initials.
Script
Gothic cursive and textura
Language
Middle English and Latin
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