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Part 1. f. 1. [Two medical recipes, possibly the last of a series begun on a previous quire, now missing]: For ye Emerawdis ... , For alle maner hote gowtte ... Part 1. ff. 1-2v. [Latin-English herbal glossary of approximately 130 entries]: Incipit: Here begynnyn ye namys of herbis in latyn & also in englis., Artamessia, Matertera, Mater herbarum [bracketed to:] Moderworte. Part 1. ff. 2v-18v, 29-34v. [Approximately 220 recipes in no readily discernible order, giving recipes for the same illness or affliction in various places; included are several nonmedical recipes: pigments (f. 3v), an incantation against the"fallynge euylle" (ff. 8v-9), red or green sealing wax (f. 12), a charm against being deceived in the market place (f. 13), rat poison (f. 14), ink and glue for parchment (f. 15), indices to determine if a sick person will die (f. 32)]: Incipit: Forto make water of lyne, Recipe Notmuges glowes galingale ye seed of ye cardmoyn ... Explicit: & if you felle it sore ley yerto rotes stampid welle of smalache & do yus tille you be hole. Part 1. ff. 19-28v. [A quire from another manuscript, also dating from the middle of the 15th century, beginning and ending defectively, and lacking its center bifolium, now containing approximately 168 recipes, arranged somewhat more systematically, here proceeding roughly from the head downwards and treating each subject in one place; the latter part of this text lists beneficial herbs and harmful behaviours for different parts of the body; non-medical recipes in this section: indices to determine if a sick person will die (f. 27), rat poison, egg-white ink legible only by candle light, method of preparing eggs so hard that they will not break when thrown against a wall, herbs to make chickens seem dead, means of making a man seem headless, how to make white crows (f. 27v)]: Incipit: //tak sowpernewode & hony eysel & powne yt togeder ... Explicit: For alle manere brosynge, nyme persely rote & al & sowrebred//. Part 1. ff. 34v-35: Rubric: Of thundrynge in diuerse tymis of ye ȝere. Incipit: If it thundire in ye monthe Ianeuere it betoknyth gret wyndis & habundance of fruet & gret batelle ... Explicit: If it thundere in ye monthe of decembre it toknith finalle pace & good reste & pese amonge cristen men. Part 1. f. 35: Rubric: Howe diuerse ȝeres oftyn fallyn throw chonging of dais. Incipit: If sunday falle on ye kalendes of Ianereuer [sic] yat signifieth hot somer ... Explicit: If kalendes of Ianeuere falle on saterday copiouse wyndis drie somere dere qwhet diuerse seknesse. Part 1. f. 35: Rubric: Good dais to be lat blode. Incipit: Hosoeuer blede on ye rith hande ye xvii day of marche ... Explicit: also hoso bled on sent lamberte day he xalle not haue ye fallynge euyll god scheld vs yerfro. Part 1. f. 35r-v: Incipit: In ye ȝere arn xxxii perlouse dais, In qwich if a man falle seke he xalle not liue ... In ye monthe of Ianeuere ius, ii, iiii, v, xv, x, xviii day ... Explicit: In ye monthe of Decembre vi, vii, xv day. Part 1. ff. 35v-36: Rubric: How ye xalle be gouernd euery month in ye ȝere. Incipit: In ye monthe of Ianeuere qwhit wyn is good to drynke & blodletynge forebere for ye vii perlouse dais, in ye monthe of feuerere potages of hokkes to etyn is goode ... Explicit: and hoso gouerne his yat monthe welle it xalle be gret hele to hym all ye next ȝere folwyng on warentise. Explicit goode gouernanse quod symon. Nunc scripsi totum pro christo da michi potum. Iste liber constat Roberto Taylour de Boxforde. Omnibus omnia non mea sompnia dicere possum. Quod symon Wysbech scolaris cantabrig. inceptor canonum et legens sive studens in iure canonico. Symon Wysbech studens in iure canonico. Hec predicta scripsit benedicatur deus. [f. 36v blank]. Part 2. Flyleaves. [Leaves from a Latin Missal]:"Ite missa est" on the front flyleaf and blessing for meals on the back flyleaf.
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Date
[between 1390 and 1460]
Call number
mssHM 1336
Provenance
Purchased from A. S. W. Rosenbach, February 1926. 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 possessor"; this may be Henry George Bohn (1796-1884), the bookdealer, publisher and bibliographer. HM 1336, however, does not appear in his famous "Guinea" catalogue (1841) nor in his sales by Sotheby's, 10 February 1868 or 9 May 1870. Erased inscription, ca. 1900, on the front pastedown, "J. M. Da Costa from B. Coxe".
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Associated people
Wysbech, Symon,
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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    mssHM 26053

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    Part 1. f. 3: [Title of the Liber scintillarum]: Liber scintillarum, meditaciones beati Bernardi Et de trinitate cum multis aliis; [added later:] excepciones biblie; [f. 3v,13th/14th cent. contents of the Liber Scintillarum:] De caritate, De Paciencia ... De personarum acceptis, De itinere; [f. 3v, 15th cent. contents of the volume]: Libri contenti in hoc volumine videlicet Liber scintillarum vii cum versibus, Excepciones biblie, tractatus de verbis defectivis, De trasgressione [sic] ade, Beda de trinitate, Tractatus de sequentia sancti Michelis, De miseria humane condicionis, Pater noster expositus, Sermones qui sicut incipiunt Vide iacob scalam, Meditaciones bernardi. Part 1. ff. 4-54v: [Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum]: Rubric: Liber scintillarum primus. De caritate incipit. Incipit: Dominus dicit in evangelio Maiorem caritatem nemo habet ... Explicit: et multi sunt qui intrant per eam. Liber scintillarum explicit. [followed by an erasure of 2 lines; f. 55r-v, well washed material of undetermined date, illegible under ultraviolet light. Additional extracts from the Fathers added in the outer margins in the fourteenth century by 2 hands; those on f. 6 added over an erased note; book numbers and occasionally topics added as running headlines]. Part 1. f. 56: [12 verses on the voices of animals, followed by additional verses]: Incipit: Infans vagit, ovis balat, rugire leones ... est hominumque loqui quod dico prevalet omni. Explicit: Excaturizat aves, pisces eventerat ille/ Ustulat hic porcos, excoriatque boves; Fons scaturit, vinum [?] scatet, pullos scaturizat/hustullat porcos excoriatque boves [the last 2 verses added in a 13th/14th cent. anglicana script]. Part 1. ff. 56v-61: [Anonymous poem on old age]: Incipit: Magne [sic] fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani ... Explicit: Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies/ Cernis ut ignavum corrumpunt ocia corpus. [ ff. 60v-61, washed; f. 61v, blank.] Part 1. ff. 62-81: [Definitions, descriptions and exegesis on the Old and New Testaments; occasional citations from the Fathers and Zacharias]: Rubric: Incipiunt exceptiones de libro Genesis. Quid sit annalis historia. Incipit: Annalis historia est rei facte per annum complete commemoratio. Kalendaria historia est alicuius insignis rei . . . [chapter 2:] Quid sit febris effimera, . . . [chapter 3:] Quid sit allegoria, . . . [chapter 4:] Unde dicuntur elementa, . . . [chapter 5:] Sentencia platonis aristotilis Epicuri Moysi, . . . [last chapter: Quod petrus et paulus uno eodem die sint passi, . . . :]. Explicit: Petrus vero crucifixus est in vaticano vico scilicet qui est extra civitatem ubi fiebant dolia. Explicit actus apostolorum. Part 1. f. 81: [Saying attributed to Gregory I]: Rubric: Ex dictis egregii pape gregorii. Incipit: Tribus moris culpa perpetratur, Suggestione, Delectatione, Consensu ... ; Item Gregorius, Quattuor moris peccatum perpetratur in corde ... Part 1. ff. 81v-83v: [On defective verbs]: Rubric: Incipit de verbis defectivis. Incipit: Plurima deficiunt vario cum tempore verba/ Deficiunt alia plurima per genera ... Que bene verba tenet versificalis apex ... Versus de verbis defectivis, Cedo, sodes, faxo, cepi, sis, infit et inquit/ Nolo, facello, volo, queso, capello, fero ... Designata tunc dulciter ista placunt; Tractatus de verbis defectivis, Sunt verba defectiva ut donacius ait, Alia per modos ut cedo ... Super piget redet inflectuntur. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 84-87: [Hildebert of Le Mans, De transgressione ade triformi] Rubric: De transgressione ade triformi. Incipit: Vicit adam veterem gula, gloria vana, cupido ... Explicit: Nox aurora dies umbra figura deus. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 87v-90: [Eucher of Lyons; extract from De formulis spiritualis intelligentiae (also attributed to Pseudo-Augustine)]: Rubric: Beda de trinitate. Incipit: Omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus, unus atque trinus. Unus videlicet in natura ... Explicit: Vigilare dei est in defensionem electorum suorum et ultionem inimicorum se manifestum demonstrare. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 90-95: [De sequencia sancti Michaelis]: Rubric: Tractatus de sequencia Sancti Michaelis. Incipit: Nota hoc nomen canticum nec stricte nec large accepi ... Explicit: Idem est ergo alleluia quod laudate universalem id est dominum. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 95-97v: [Brief exegetical texts, with rubrics as follow]: De septem hostibus, Septem sunt hostes de quibus in deuteronomio dicit, per unam viam venient ...; De triplici modo compassione, Triplex est compassionis modus ... ; De Sunamite et helyseo, Dixit sunamitis viro suo de heliseo ... ; Ubi antichristus nascetur, Nascetur antichristus in babilone de tribu Danielis iuxta quod Iacobus ait ... ; De tribus missis in natali domini, Tres misse que in natale domini celebrantur ... ; De pascha, In diebus hiis est pascha dei id est transitus quando transivit de hoc mundo ad patrem ... [f. 97, blank; f. 97v:] De mendacio, Perdes omnes qui loquuntur mendacium ... ; De perfectione vite, Tria sunt que ducunt hominem ad vite perfectionem, Cordis contritio ... Part 1. ff. 97v-109v: [Innocent III, De miseria humane conditionis]: Prologue: Incipit liber de miseria humane conditionis editus a lothario diacono cardinali sanctorum Sergii et Bachi qui postea Innocentius iiius appellatus est, Domino patri Karissimo petro portuensi episcopo Lotharius ... Modicum ocii quod inter multas angustias ... Incipit: Quare de vulva. Explicit: terrores, fames, sitis, frigus, cauma, sulphur et ignis ardens in secula seculorum. Explicit liber Domini pape Innocentii iii de Contemptu Mundi. Part 1. ff. 110-112: [Exegesis on the Pater Noster]: Incipit: Pater noster, hec est oratio dominica ceteris oracionibus omnibus et instituentis auctoritate sublimior et utilitate petitionum fecundior ... Explicit: ad illas delicias dilectores suos nos assumat summe bonus ihesus christus qui est benedictus in secula Amen. Part 1. ff. 112-166: [Brief exegetical texts]: Septem scale quibus ascenduntur regna celorum prima castitas ... [f. 163:] Preceptum obediencia obedienciam signa comitantur. Explicit; [f. 163v, in the upper margin, Additiones ut supra:] Beda in omelis illa, Si diligitis me mandata mea servate et cetera, Quinquagesima die post occisionem agni data est lex ... [followed by 11 other sermons; f. 165:] Sepe in evangelio causa designatur nomine sui effectus ... Omnia michi ex patre nota in quibus electorum salus consistit per me scietis. [f. 166 blank]. Part 1. f. 166v: [Charm to staunch blood]: Incipit: Pur seink estanger, Iesu crist notre seignur el flum Iordan entra/ Cent cinquaunte veines de euue i truva/ Cent cinquaunte veines chescun home a/ estaunche saunc par tutes les vertuz ke damnedeus a. Part 1. f. 167: blank. f. 167v: Table of roman numerals and their Latin names, one to one million. ff. 168-169v, washed. On f. 169v, notes in lead point. Part 2. ff. 1-2v: [Bifolium from a late 12th cent. Missal; here bound reversed]: [f. 1: canon of the mass]: Incipit: //fides cognita est ... offerimus preclare maiestati tue de tuis donis ac datis// [f.2: prefaces]: //celestis exercitus, ymnum glorie tue canimus ...Celi celorumque virtutes ac beata seraphim socia exultacione//.

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