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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149740
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Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections
Collection of medical receipts, notes on astrological medicine, colours of urines, etc.
Contents
f. 1r-v Pseudo-Galen, Dietary
f. 1r Galion the good leche here saith and techeth off mette and drynke to use yn tyme and yn tyme off blood lettyng to haue truly yn any tyme off the yere. In the monethe off Januar ... f. 1v [November] ... for they be all humours preste and quycke.
The Dietary attributed to Galen is a regimen for each month of the year, outlining food and drink to be consumed or avoided, times for bloodletting and perilous days of each month. See W. L. Braekman, Studies on Alchemy, Diet, Medecine [sic] and Prognostication in Middle English (Brussels: UFSAL, 1986), p. 58.
2. ff. 3r-29v Miscellaneous tracts, receipts and remedies, including two charms to stop bleeding. (Ff. 19v, 29v)
f. 2r Uryne pale with whitt smale thyng therin ... f. 3r, line 3 And thou schalt knowe urynes wery man is hole wos uryne yn the mornyng is whyghttpe and afore mete redde and after mete wighttpe ... f. 29v ... for deyth.
f. 30r Astrological diagram
f. 30v Figure of a Talisman 'Contra pestilentiam', with inscription 'Quidam monaco Abbate de courbe [Corby?] in comitate lincolniense Angelus Apparuit et imprimebat manu eius ex precepto ihesu proprio hoc signum'.
f. 31r blank
f. 31v Astrological blood-letting figure with text
ff. 32r-34v Medical receipts, with rules for diet, blood-letting, etc.
f. 34v Dies lunae bona et mala: for blood-letting.
f. 35r-39v Anonymous, Queen Isabella's Dietary
f. 35r This book was sent fro thee kyng of franse to dame Isabell queyne of yngland and made be all the [sic] lechis and phisissions of mownpelers ... f. 39v and drynk yt of yn the mornyng and euenyng mylk warme.
On this dietary see W. L. Braekman, Studies on Alchemy, Diet, Medecine [sic] and Prognostication in Middle English (Brussels: UFSAL, 1986), pp. 43-82
ff. 40r-44v Miscellaneous receipts by two different hands
Aberth, John. From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 2013), p. 296.
Braekman, W. L. Studies on alchemy, diet, medecine [sic] and prognostication in Middle English (Brussels, UFSAL, 1986), p. 61 n. 1.
Green, Monica. Women's healthcare in the medieval west: texts and contexts (Farnham: Ashgate, 2000), p. 255.
Rawcliffe, Carole. Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), p. 90 n. 173.
Rider, Catherine. Magic and Religion in Medieval England (Edinburgh: Reaktion Books, 2013), p. 188.
Tavormina, M. Teresa. 'The Middle English Letter of Ipocras', English Studies, 88:6 (December 2007), pp. 632-652.
Tavormina, M. Teresa. Uroscopy in Middle English: a Guide to the Texts and Manuscripts, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, ser. 3, no. 11 (University of Michigan, 2014), passim.
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