MS. Bodl. 536

Summary Catalogue no.: 2257

1. (fol. 1)

Medical manual

Rubric: Peritia medicorum

Incipit: In nomine Patris ... Opus supra vires aggrediar

Mainly recipes

Language(s): Latin

Herbal 'Agnus Castus'

Incipit: Calamyntum id est Calamynt. The vertue of this erbe

Explicit: Scafysacra

Parts of an alphabetical herbal: C-M (starting at fol. 13) and M-S (starting at fol. 29, written in a different hand).

Fols 21-28 should precede fol. 13. 'AκέΦαλος and μείουρος as the old catalogues term it

IPMEP 38 (Four leaves covering A-B are at MS. Bodl. 1031)

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 38 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 8.25 × 5.875 in.

Condition

The last few leaves are damaged by damp.

Hand(s)

Three hands: A, art. 1; B, C art. 2.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

John Twyne of Canterbury: his hand on fol. 12v (Andrew G. Watson, 'John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a Collector of Medieval Manuscripts: a Preliminary Investigation', The Library 6th ser. 8 (1986), 133-151, no. 36. Earlier provenance not known.

Presented by Thomas Twyne in 1612

Record Sources

Description adapted (December 2022) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922) with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 282

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-12-06: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)

Data

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