(Q43809)
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Formularies--England--15th century
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Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
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between 1390 and 1460
14. century
15. century
1390Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 36 : parchment.
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Collection of medical recipes and other texts in Middle English written in England, both the main text and the inserted quire (ff. 19-28), in the middle of the fifteenth century. The main text copied for Robert Taylor of Boxford (Suffolk) by Symon Wysbech, a student of canon law at Cambridge. Flyleaves are the former wrappers of the book and are from a late fourteenth/early fifteenth century...
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Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-36v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 110 28(through f. 18) 312(-6, 7) 48; leaves signed in roman numerals. 30-34 long lines, frame ruled in ink. Written in an anglicana script.
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Part 1. Decoration: 1-line initials beginning art. 2 slashed in red; rubrics, paragraph marks and line fillers in red. Rough sketch of 2 faces, f. 13. In quire 3 (ff. 19-28) of separate origin, no leaf signatures, ruling or red decoration; copied by a different hand.
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Part 2. Span folios: Flyleaves. Support: Parchment. Layout: 20 long lines, 2- and 1-line red initials, red decoration along the outer border of the back flyleaf. The former wrappers of the book.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
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The main text copied for Robert Taylor of Boxford (Suffolk) by Symon Wysbech, a student of canon law at Cambridge (not identified in Emden, BRUC); Wysbech's name and English forms such as "xalle," "qwich" point to East Anglia. On the modern front flyleaf, a description of the manuscript, signed "T" (or "J"?), possibly copied from a bookdealer's catalogue, referring to "Bohn, a former...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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