Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.399

Other Form of the Shelfmark :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.399
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.399
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.399
- Wellcome Library, MS.399
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- 1494-1510
Composition :
- 1 volume; 130 folios folio. 28 x 21 1/2 cm. Paper. Original vellum covers damaged. Some leaves cut out and others mutilated. Several loose slips have been inserted on which the writing is the same as that of the text. These slips are attached to the leaves by pins of contemporary date.

Former owners

Account of receipts of rent from various manors in the Sandwich area of Kent. Containing on f. 107v 'Probata medicina ffor pe ffrenche poxe', probably written about 1503. This recipe for a cure for syphilis is at the back of an entry dated 1503 recording a payment by John Langley, gentleman of Knowlton in Kent, to the 'Pryncipall of Staple Yard in Holborn in London'. Above the prescription is a short musical composition on a five-line stave.
Written inside the upper cover: 'F. Wilhelmus Cock MD, S.A.S., de Appledore in comitatu cantii. Emptus e venditione amici mei Lelandi L[ewis] Duncan S.A.S. [1862-1923] MCMXXVI. Pretio pondauri IX C semisse'.
Purchased from Dr. Frederick William Cock 1932.

Cock, F. William, 'An early prescription in English', British Medical Journal, May 17th, 1924.