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MS. Wood empt. 18

Summary Catalogue no.: 8606

Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses, in Middle English

Contents

Language(s): Middle English

(fol. 1)
Medical recipes
Description of the qualities of each month
(fol. 9)
Kabbalistic incantation
(fol. 9)
Prayers for travellers
(fol. 12)
Rubric: Here comes a tretis of oyles and of wateres medsinabil
(fol. 30)
Charms for detecting thefts
Love potions
(fol. 57)
Rubric: X vertewes of treacle
(fol. 58)
Rubric: To make a whyte spott on a blake hors
(fol. 59v)
Remedy for a horse
IPMEP 769
Medium Aevum 41 (1972), p. 238
(fol. 60)
The properties of a good horse
IPMEP 3
Medium Aevum 41 (1972), p. 238
(fol. 61)
The Properties and Medicines for Horse
Rubric: Here begynnethe alle manere of medesyne for an hors of whatt manere of grevance that he hath
Explicit: explicit per Sothebe
IPMEP 718
cf. STC 20439.3, STC 20439.5, STC 20493.7
(fol. 81)
Rubric: the best season to putt a horse to the mare
(fol. 82)
The Book of Marshalsy
Rubric: The booke of merschelsy here hit schalle begyn
Incipit: Yff you have stede foles to kepe
IPMEP 335
The Boke of Marchalsi, ed. B. Odenstedt (1973)
(fol. 112v)
Further recipes

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ii + 127 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 6.2 × 4.3 in.

History

Origin: 15th century, late ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Anthony à Wood

Bought by the library in 1690

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937)

Last Substantive Revision

2025-03-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)