Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 1444

Five manuscripts bound together. Contains Raymond Lull, medical recipes, an herbal glossary, On the Pestilence, Curye on Inglysch, and part of a printed book.

Date: s. xv-s. xvi

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Medieval owners:

Original location or linguistic profile: Devon?

Magic Category: charms, medical 

Specific magic texts:  Medical charms for spots (pages 115-117), toothache (page 106, 16th-century hand), to staunch bleeding (page 161). My notes also mention charms for fever and instructions for a cramp ring, but I cannot verify those at present.

Charm motifs: Beronix/Beronixa

Online Information: Entry in the Middle English Compendium HyperBibliography

Online version of the Ashmole Manuscript Catalogue

Digitised: No

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