Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 304
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Douce 304 |
| SC 21878 |
| s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 362 208, LP 7220 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 197). |
A fifteenth-century paper copy of a medical book of diseases and medical recipes.
Item: 1| ff. 2r-105r |
| A Book of Disease and Medical Recipes |
| '& þey schal be imedelyd'. |
| 'and so ete hit iii or iiii syþes'. |
| The text is arranged according to the parts of the body. |
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| Codex |
| Paper and parchment. The first and last leaves of each section are parchment.
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| 270 x 200 mm |
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Unable to collate.
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| Pricking: none. Writing space of 210 x 145 mm. Single columns with 27 lines. Ruling in drypoint? |
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One scribe writing in brown ink in an Anglicana hand (or Secretary? see Braswell 1987, p. 73). Characteristics: long s in initial position; sigma s in final position; hooked ascender on b and h; þ; 2-shaped r in medial position; 8-shaped g; distinctive w; straight descenders; Body height 2-3mm.
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Titles in red, red paraphs, some red punctuation, some letters tinted red. Some two-line red lombardic capitals with red penwork. Marginal notes in red.
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Not medieval. Size: 275 x 200 mm. Cover of red paper, now faded, over pasteboard. Five raised bands across the spine.
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| Really 105 for ff. 5-7 are one leaf, f. 18 is double, ff. 75-77 is one leaf, f. 80 is double and f. 90 is double.
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| Good |
| Unknown |
| Owned byThomas Dyllahay in the sixteenth century (f 11r), by (1648-53) and other members of that family (f. 90v, 96v, etc), and in 1661 by . |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
- Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 71-73.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Madan, F. 1897. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 586-587.
