Manuscripts of the West Midlands Catalogue

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 78

Country:	England
Settlement:	Oxford
Repository:�	Bodleian Library
Idno:	Douce 78
AltName:	SC 21652

Date and Language

Date:
Language:�	English
Dialect:	Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 353 237, LP 7350 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199).

Contents

Various prayers to Christ and the Virgin, medical recipes, and the romance Titus and Vespasian. A rather scrappily made manuscript although the hand looks 'professional', perhaps written by the owner.

Item: 1

Locus:	f. 1r-v
Title:	The Wheel of Fortune (IMEV 4267)
Incipit:	'?utte y se but fewe canne sece'.
Explicit:	'Of fortune yefte �at sche turne'.
Rubric:	'Explicit'.
Bibliography:	Bowers 1960, pp. 197-198.

Item: 2

Locus:	ff. 1v-3r
Title:	A Lament of the Virgin (IMEV 1460)
Incipit:	'In a tabernacle of a toure As I stode musyng on the mone'.
Explicit:	'Quid amore langueo'.
Rubric:	'Explicit'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Furnivall 1866, pp. 277-279.

Item: 3

Locus:	ff. 3r-5r
Title:	The Lament of the Virgin (IMEV 404)
Incipit:	'As reson rywylde my rechyles mynde'.
Explicit:	'ffilius regis is alyve et non mortuus est'.
Rubric:	'Explicit'.
Bibliography:	Furnival 1866, pp. 233-242.

Item: 4

Locus:	ff. 5r-7v
Title:	The Complaint of Christ (IMEV 3611)
Incipit:	'This is crystes owen complaynt fro man to man �at he hathe ba?te'.
Explicit:	'�at euer we were to oure frende unkynde'.
Rubric:	'Explicit'.
Bibliography:

Item: 5

Locus:	ff. 7v-8v
Title:	Prose Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'To put away a steche in whatte place �at euer he be withoute doute'.'Take iiii of symon wermote'.
Explicit:	'withoute eny doute in schorte tyme'.
Bibliography:

Item: 6

Locus:	f. 8v
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take a grete quantite of �e levys of holme �at hathe no pryks'.
Explicit:	'vse �us medycyn for hit is trywe'.
Rubric:	'ffor all maner of stea_ys'.
Bibliography:

Item: 7

Locus:	f. 9r-v
Title:	Medical Recipe for Stitch
Incipit:	'Take steche worte'.
Explicit:	'be whyte wyne of gaskyn or goode housolde ale'.
Rubric:	'ffor �e steche in �e sydys...aftur �e woman of penyton'.
Bibliography:

Item: 8

Locus:	ff. 9v-10v
Title:	Medical Recipe for Stitch
Incipit:	'Take iiii of mogworte iiii of stecheworte iiii of avence'.
Explicit:
Rubric:	'ffor �e steche...aftur �e woman of penyton'.
Bibliography:

Item: 9

Locus:	ff. 10v-11v
Title:	Medical Recipe for Migraine
Incipit:	'For a wode mygrayne �e wheche hathe iii vicious properteys'.
Explicit:	'�e medycyn �at folow�t under �is forme'.
Rubric:	'ffor a wode mygrayn'.
Bibliography:

Item: 10

Locus:	ff. 11v-12r
Title:	Medical Recipe for a Strong Migraine
Incipit:	'Take x cornys of blake peper & grynde'.
Explicit:	'mylke warme'.
Rubric:	'ffor a stronge mygrayne'.
Bibliography:

Item: 11

Locus:	f. 12r
Title:	Medical Recipe for Swollen Legs
Incipit:	'Take vj aj of watre'.
Explicit:	'& �u schalt be helle'.
Rubric:	'ffor all maner swellyng of leggys or fyette'.
Bibliography:

Item: 12

Locus:	f. 12v
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take grene asshr the levys and pulle hame downewarde fro �e tree'.
Explicit:	'& �u schalt be helle'.
Rubric:	Cropped.
Bibliography:

Item: 13

Locus:	ff. 12v-13r
Title:	Medical Recipe for Aching Joints
Incipit:	'Take herynge sayme & oyle debayan and hete ham ovyr �e fyre'.
Explicit:	'& be helle'.
Rubric:	'ffor ache in �e ioynts'.
Bibliography:

Item: 14

Locus:	f. 13r
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take a red symon make an hole in �e'.
Explicit:	Defective
Rubric:	'To destrye ternys on a man is toys'.
Bibliography:

Item: 15

Locus:	f. 13v
Title:	Medical Recipe for Aching Knees
Incipit:	'Take iii ai of kywe'.
Explicit:	'�u be helle'.
Rubric:	'Ffor a grette ache in �e kneys'.
Bibliography:

Item: 16

Locus:	ff. 13v-14r
Title:	Medical Recipe for Jaundice
Incipit:	'Take as moche as'.
Explicit:	'�u be helle'.
Rubric:	'ffor �e ?elowe iawndys'.
Bibliography:

Item: 17

Locus:	f. 14r
Title:	Medical Recipe for Lactation
Incipit:	'Tak ii ai of vervew ii iii of letuce'.
Explicit:	'make more if hit be nede'.
Rubric:	'To make a woman to haue mylke'.
Bibliography:

Item: 18

Locus:	f. 14r
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take ii...of wormode'.
Explicit:	'& �u schalt be helle'.
Rubric:	'ffor a worme'.
Bibliography:

Item: 19

Locus:	f. 14v
Title:	Medical Recipe for Urinary Problems
Incipit:	'Take hertys horne or gottys horne or kyddys horne'.
Explicit:	'& kepe �e fro to moche drynkynge & fro smalle ale'.
Rubric:	'ffor a man �at may not ha�e ___ pisse'.
Bibliography:

Item: 20

Locus:	ff. 14v-15v
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take ru? & rawe almondys awblanched'.
Explicit:	'�at is to say nessche'.
Rubric:	'Ffor a grette flyx & for �u blode menysow'.
Bibliography:

Item: 21

Locus:	ff. 15v-16r
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take...and clene grece of a porke hogge'.
Explicit:	'& salte mete'.
Rubric:	'Ffor a rawcefleme face'.
Bibliography:

Item: 22

Locus:	f. 16r
Title:	Medical Recipes for a Man Unable to Urinate
Incipit:	'Take rywe...tansey'.
Explicit:
Rubric:	'Ffor a man �at may not pisse'.
Bibliography:

Item: 23

Locus:	f. 16r
Title:	Medical Recipe for a Man Urinating Blood
Incipit:	'Take ambrose hynchale wyldesawge'.
Explicit:
Rubric:	'ffor a man �at pissethe blode'.
Bibliography:

Item: 24

Locus:	f. 16v
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take & sethe �e rotys of lyly in kowe mylke'.
Explicit:	'within a schorte tyme'.
Rubric:	Rubric cropped.
Bibliography:

Item: 25

Locus:	f. 16v
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:	'Take marche & smalache'.
Explicit:	'in iii days'.
Rubric:	'To breke alt maner bacthis & bayles'.
Bibliography:

Item: 26

Locus:	ff. 16v-17r
Title:	Medical Recipe/Charm to Facilitate Childbirth
Incipit:	'Take & wryte �ese wordys �at foloweth'.
Explicit:	'for fere of dethe'.
Rubric:	'To delyver a woman of a childe'.
Bibliography:

Item: 27

Locus:	f. 17r
Title:	Medical Recipe for Scalds
Incipit:	'Take �e dowste'.
Explicit:	'til hit be helle'.
Rubric:	'Ffor brannynge or scall[d]ynge'.
Bibliography:

Item: 28

Locus:	f. 17r
Title:	Medical Recipe for an Ache in the Penis
Incipit:	'Take a sponefull of �e inse of beten put �is to a sponefull of claryfyde hony'.
Explicit:	'& laste colde'.
Rubric:	'Ffor ache in �e peynes & in �e lyndys'.
Bibliography:

Item: 29

Locus:	f. 17r
Title:	For a Man who Spits Blood
Incipit:	'Take a sponefull of �e inse of beten drynke hit with gootys mylke v or vi tymes'.
Explicit:
Rubric:	'Ffor a man �at spetyth blode'.
Note:	Given here in full.
Bibliography:

Item: 30

Locus:	f. 17v
Title:	Recipe
Incipit:	'Take marche grewnde swely herbe bonet'.
Explicit:	'�u be whole'.
Rubric:	'Ffor se(m?) we sprenge'.
Bibliography:

Item: 31

Locus:	f. 17v
Title:	Medical Recipe for Scalding
Incipit:	'Take as mony rotys of dokkys as ye lyste'.
Explicit:	'in waranti?'.
Rubric:	'...for skall[d]ynge or branyng'.
Bibliography:

Item: 32

Locus:	f. 17v
Title:	Medical Recipe
Incipit:
Explicit:	'Take iii vncs of �e rotye in a quarte of water'.
Rubric:	'Ffor �e tysyk'.
Bibliography:

Item: 33

Locus:	f. 18r-v
Title:	A prayer to Christ (IMEV 2573)
Incipit:	'O �u pereles prynce of pees With all myne herte y �e pray'.
Explicit:	'There is no mene no�er mede'.
Note:	Verses 1-45 only.
Bibliography:

Item: 34

Locus:	ff. 19r-75r
Title:	Titus and Vespasian (IMEV 1881)
Incipit:	'Lysteneth alle �at bethe in lyue Goode crysten men chylde and wiue'.
Explicit:	'...�ou hym grette'.
Bibliography:	Herbert 1905.

Physical Description

Form:	Codex
Support:�	Paper
Extent:	c. 195 x c. 135 mm
Collation:	No catchwords.
Layout:	Pricking: none seen. Writing space of 155 x 90 mm. Single columns with c. 24 lines. No ruling visible.
Writing:	One scribe writing in black ink in an Anglicana hand. Body height: 2 mm.
Decoration:	Item 1: first letter of each four lines tinted red with a red dash at the side. End of text underlined in red. Item 2: first letter at beginning of each quatrain tinted red with a red paraph-like mark next to it. Half lines filled with a red line. End of text underlined in red. First letter of text has a large, red Lombardic initial. Item 3: red Lombardic initial A starts text. Decoration as above. Item 4: two-line red Lombardic initial T. Decoration as above. Item 5: end of text underlined. Item 6: end of text underlined. Red Lombardic initial starts text.
Binding:	Not medieval. Size: 140 x 205 mm. Cover of pink/red paper. Spine carries 'FRAGMENT OF POETRY & MS 15 CEN'. Five raised bands across the spine.
Foliation:	2 paper, 2 parchment flyleaves + 76 (f. 76 is a paper flyleaf). Really iv + 75 + i.
Additions:
Condition:	Good

History

Origin:	Unknown
Provenance:	F. ii cut out of shield with the name '' stuck in.

Record History

Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.

Bibliography

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.

Bowers, R. H. 1960. ‘A Middle English Wheel of Fortune Poem’, English Studies, 41, 197-198.

Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall, London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 33, no. 454.

Furnivall, F. 1866. Political, Religious, and Love Poems, EETS, os, 15, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr�bner.

Herbert, J. A., ed, 1905. Titus and Vespasian, or The Destruction of Jerusalem: in rhymed couplets: edited from the London and Oxford Manuscripts, London: Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J. B. Nichols.