Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.5262

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  • Autre forme de la cote :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.5262
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.5262
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.5262
    • Wellcome Library, MS.5262
  • Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; Textura script, with section headings in red, and initial letters in red and blue. Membrane. 1 volume: 140 × 110 mm., 61 folios (foliation of c. 1500 continuous from folios 3-61). Written space 90 × 65 mm., 17 lines. Collation 1 6 + 1 after 4 (folio5), 2 4 + 1 after 3 (folio 11), 3 6 + 1 after 3 (folio 14) wanting 1 and 4, 4 6 + 1 after 3 (folio21), 5 6 + 1 after 5 (folio30), 6 6 + 1 after 1 (folio 33), 7 6 + 1 after 3 (folio42), 8-9 8. Medieval binding of wooden boards sewn on four double thongs pegged into the boards. Clasp missing.

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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.

    Contents

    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.

  • Purchased with the aid of the V & A Purchase Grant Fund (acc. 345475).

Bibliographie

  • Laura Esteban-Segura, "The Dialectal Provenance of London, Wellcome Library, MS 5262", Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 49.3 (2014), pp.79-90. The article can be freely viewed online.

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