A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Ashmole 1444

Summary Catalogue no.: 7712

Summary Catalogue no.: 7778

Physical Description

Composite: six parts

MS. Ashmole 1444 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Ps.-Ramon Lull, Ars operativa medica
Language(s): Latin
2.
Herbal
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
3.
Herbal
Language(s): Middle English
4.
Treatise on urines
Language(s): Latin
5.
Treatise on humours
Language(s): Middle English
6.
John of Burgundy, Tractatus de morbo epidemiae (English translation)
Language(s): Middle English
7.
Medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English
8.
Prognostications
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Ashmole 1444 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

MS. Ashmole 1444 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Medical treatises and recipes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
2.
Culinary recipes (Curye on Inglysh)
Language(s): Middle English
3.
Liber de diversis medicinis (imperfect)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

MS. Ashmole 1444 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Medical and other recipes
Language(s): English
2.
Notes on angling
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 16th century, first half ; English

MS. Ashmole 1444 – Part 5

Contents

1.
Medical and culinary recipes
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 16th century, second half ; English

MS. Ashmole 1444 – Part 6

Contents

1.

Printed book (Wing C1708)

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 1665 ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845).

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.