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Receipts in physic and surgery
Title
Receipts in physic and surgery.
Created
England, between 1350 and 1450.
Physical Description
1 item (80 leaves) ; 200 mm x 130 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin
Notes
Title from manuscript note on front pastedown.
Script: gothica cursiva.
Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication.
Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines.
Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards.
In Latin and Middle English.
Provenance
Small, unidentified print fragment used as binding waste on front pastedown. Manuscript ownership note (16th-century?, f. 1r): Anthony Bowbye. Manuscript note (18th-century?; front pastedown): Receipts in Physic & Surgery & c. Presented to Yale Medical Library in 1953 by John F. Fulton.
Summary
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
Other formats
Also available on microfilm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Faye, C. and Bond, W. Supplement to the Census, 1962, page 59, 27
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations - 18th century.
Printed waste.
Also listed under
England.
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