London, British Library, Arundel 272
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:London
Repository: British Library
Idno:Arundel 272
AltName:
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Date and Language
Date:s. xv
Language: English
Dialect:Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32v) - scribal dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 105). Scribe 2 (ff. 33r-35v) - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 406 358, LP 715 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 238).
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Contents
A fifteenth-century miscellaneous collection of medical texts including Agnus Castus.

Item: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-32v
Title:Medical Recipes (IMEV 3422)
Incipit:'Şe man şat wole with leche craft lere'.
Explicit:'He schall now rote it şat is şe xij day'.
Note:A book of medical recipes transcribed by H. R. and preceded by an introduction.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, pp. 286-7.

Item: 2.1
Locus:ff. 33r-35v
Title:Table of contents
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Table of contents for Agnus Castus.
Bibliography:

Item: 2.2
Locus:ff. 36r-62v
Title:Agnus Castus (IPMEP 38)
Incipit:'Agnus castus is a herbe that men clep tutsayne or park levis'.
Explicit:'it wyll make hym to plese well'.
Rubric:'Tutsayne'.
Note:Treatise arranged in alphabetical order. 169 chapters. Table of contents and treatise appear to be in separate hands.
Bibliography:Brodin 1950.

Item: 3
Locus:ff. 62v-64r
Title:Medical Recipes
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Paper.
Extent:210 x c. 145mm
Collation: Each page remounted. Unable to ascertain.
Layout:Pricking: none. Writing space of 190 x 115 mm. Single columns with c. 26 lines. Not ruled or pricked.
Writing: Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32v) writing in a cursive script. Scribe 2 (ff. 33r-35v) writing in a cursive script. Scribe 3 (ff. 36r-64r) writing in a cursive script.
Decoration: Red boxes around some phrases.
Binding: Not medieval. Size: 225 x 175 mm. Brown leather cover.
Foliation:ff. 64
Additions:
Condition:Good, but each page separately mounted.
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History
Provenance:Henry Howard: f. 1r - 'Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono HENR. HOWARD Norfolciensis.' in a ?nineteenth-century hand.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, January 2004.
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Related Manuscripts and other documents Textual The treatise (item 2) is also found in London, British Library, MS Additional 4698, and London, British Library, MS Sloane 3160 which also contain texts ascribed a West Midlands dialect.
Bibliography
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