Cambridge, University Library, Dd.vi.29
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| Cambridge |
| University Library |
| Dd.vi.29 |
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| s. xiv and s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 233, LP 7340 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). |
A collection of medical tracts of various dates. Only the hand of ff. 110r-124v has been analysed.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-13r |
| Almanac |
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| An illuminated text in a fifteenth-century hand. There are columns for 4 cycles of oppositions and conjunctions, also the place of the Sun in the zodiac, times of rising, etc. for every day. The flyleaf contains a figure displaying the influences of the signs of the zodiac on the human body. |
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Item: 2| ff. 14r-16r |
| Recipes for gilding and colouring |
| 'How ŝou schalt temper ŝi colourus to lymninge and how ŝou schal make a syse to kowche golt on bokus'. |
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| In a fifteenth-century cursive hand. The text ends half way down the page and three other hands have entered three other short recipes.
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Item: 3| ff. 17r-22r |
| Table of contents |
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| Table of contents for item 7 written in a Textura hand. |
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Item: 4| f. 22v |
| Recipe for killing vermin |
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| A later addition |
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Item: 5| ff. 23r-27r |
| Treatise on urines |
| 'Her bygynus ŝe knowinge of xx colors of urines'. |
| 'it signifie? ŝe flux of blod'. |
| A short treatise with fifteenth-century figures. |
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Item: 6| ff. 27r-29v |
| Medical tract |
| 'Her begyns ŝe takyns ŝat ypocras ŝe leche wrot'. |
| 'and also gif he loket hidoslich and terreth his clothus as man ŝat frentik hit betakyns ŝat he schal dye ŝe same day'. |
| 'Hic explicit ypocras'. |
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Item: 7| ff. 29v-30r |
| Various recipes |
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Item: 8| ff. 31r-103r |
| A Book of Medical Recipes |
| 'For ŝe heued ake'. |
| 'and also of ŝe seed of ŝat herbe in vynter tyme deo gratias'. |
| A fourteenth-century book of medical recipes. Includes some charms. It suffers loss of ff. 35, 39, 51, 55, 136, possibly containing charms.
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Item: 9| ff. 103r-106v |
| Various medical recipes |
| 'For sore ynum a good med take weybrode'. |
| 'Item for to make a serip for ŝe longes'. |
| Recipes added by later hands. |
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Item: 10.1| ff. 107r-115v |
| Treatise on urines |
| 'Of the regions of ŝe uryne'. |
| 'and git hit bryngyth not in perel'. |
| Fourteenth-century text. |
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Item: 10.2| ff. 116r-122v |
| Treatise on urine |
| 'Condicions ŝat we ow to kepe in ŝe dome of ureyns'. |
| 'and ŝerfor hit is ful perelus'. |
| 'Indicium urinarium secundum magistrum galterium agilon'. |
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Item: 11| ff. 123r-v |
| A table of 30 eclipses |
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| The table contains figures, times and durations of the 30 eclipses. The last date appearing on the table is 1443. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 185 mm x 120 mm |
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Collation from back pastedown, written in pencil - '1 flyleaf. 18 (wants 2, 6); 28 (wants 7, 8); 310; 4-68; 78 (wants 2, 4); 88 (wants 2, 4); 9-108; 11-126; 138; 148 (wants 1); 15-168; 1 flyleaf: i + 116 ff + 1 (out of 125; 2, 6, 15, 16, 57, 53, 59, 61 and 102 are lost as wel as un-numbered leaf immediately preceding 17)'.
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| Pricking: various - round holes or slits. Writing space: ff. 1r-30v - 155 x 100 mm, c. 30 lines; ff. 31r-106r - 125 x 80 mm, 22 lines; ff. 107r-123v - 145 x 85 mm, 28 lines. Single columns. |
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Item 1 - fifteenth-century hand; Item 2 - fifteenth-century cursive; Item 3 - Textura hand; Item 5 - Cursive hand; Item 8 - Textura Formata; Item 10 - Textura.
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Item 5: Two-line blue initial with red penwork to begin text. Line fillers of red and blue horizontal lines. Glass vases/bottles with various coloured urines along left margin (f. 30r but under repagination would be f. 27r).
Item 6: two-line blue lombardic H begins text. Two-line red paraphs. Blue and red line fillers. Final colophon in scroll banner.
Item 8: Four-line initial in gold with penwork, now a faded mauve tinted with green begins text. Title of each recipe begins with a blue initial with the remainder in red.
Item 10.2: Four-line blue initial C surrounded by red penwork box around. Rubric in red. Some words underlined in red. Red paraphs. Blue paraphs. Red and blue line fillers.
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Not medieval. Size: 200 x 135 mm. Five bands across the spine.
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| ff. 123 |
| Items 4 and 9 added by later hands. |
| Good |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
- Hardwick, C. and Luard, R., ed, 1857. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 6 vols, Cambridge: University Press, vol. 1, pp. 300-302.
- 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.
