An astrological and medical compilation with many charms and incantations.
Date: s. xvex
Scribes:
Medieval owners: John Eccam or Ekam
Original location or linguistic profile:
Magic Category: charms, animal
Specific magic texts: Charms numbered 1-5, consisting of crosses inscribed in circles (fols. 17v, 21v, 34, 51): against enemies; for victory; for a fire; against demons; for victory. These must be worn or put in specific places as talismans. Charms to staunch blood (fols. 23, 102v, 111v, 158, 162r-v), for the falling evil (fols. 110-111v), to cure dog bite (fol. 138r), to heal a wound (verse) (fol. 163), prose charms for wounds (fols. 144v-145, 162v-163), for toothache (fol. 149v) and a verse charm for sore teeth (fols. 145r-v), for childbirth (fols. 111v, 163r-v), against fevers (fol. 168), for headache (fols. 191r-v), for nosebleeds (fol. 192), verse charm for wrists or ankles (fol. 145), for worms (fol. 141v (crossed out)), against evil spirits (fol. 163). To protect sheep (fols. 137v-138). Against moles (fol. 170).
Charm motifs: Apple
Beronix
Coniuro te vermiculum
Five Wounds
Flum Jordan
Gate of Galilee
Jaspar Melchior Baltasar
Longinus Miles
oceanum age
ouere a don roode
Plate of lead
Rex Pax Nax
Sage leaf
Sancta Maria peperit
Sator Arepo
St. Peter
St. Susanne
Tres boni fratres
Wafer charm
Y conjure
Online Information: Manuscript description in the online catalogue
Digitised: No, but some images are available with the manuscript description.
Bibliography: Don C. Skemer. Binding words: Textual amulets in the Middle Ages (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2006).
Late Medieval English Magic 