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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149793
Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections
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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.
16th-century ownership inscriptions of 'Andrewe Wylkynson, Surgeon' (ff. 34r., 60r.) and of 'Henry Dyngley' (f. 12r.) [Henry Dyneley/Dineley or Dingley, d. 1589, of Charlton, Worcs. Cf. Western MS. 244, Oxford Bodleian MS Rawlinson C 506 and British Library, Royal MS. 17.A.xxxii].
Inscription 'Liverpool May 1782' (f. 39r.).
Acquired by Sir Norman Moore (1847-1922), whose grandson sold it at Sotheby's 25 June 1985, lot 71.
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