Scroll containing remedies and charms against diseases, wounds, etc. Written in Late Middle English. Incomplete (Leech-Books VII)

Scroll containing remedies and charms against diseases, wounds, etc. Written in Late Middle English. Incomplete.

Contents

Recto: her bygynnyth medicynys. He [that] have tod akyng ... Ghyf the wonde be lokyn to gedere or hit be hol.

Verso [Charm]e for the festerys [?] ... thys charm ys of Susana that seynt gebryel hirre broughte fro god for to charme men of wormys of fester of goute ... vorms that dryue and ingrowen [?] and also ... [ends imperfectly].

c. 1400

1 volume 67 x 9.5 cm. On vellum. The end is wanting; text stained and rubbed. Written on recto and verso, in a good book-hand. At the top of the scroll are four small holes, perhaps for attachment to a carrying pouch.

Purchased 1930.

Anglo-Saxon letter forms in Moorat's catalogue description (such as contraction marks and thorn and yogh symbols) have been replaced with Latin characters.

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Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).