Twelve separate pieces bound together. Contains works on human reproduction, religious texts, part of the Gesta Romanorum, works on philosophy, etc., and medical recipes and prognostications.
Date: s. xiii-xvmed
Scribes:
Medieval owners: Johannes Artowre
Original location or linguistic profile: northern East Anglia
Magic Category: charms, animal
Specific magic texts: A variety of medical and other charms and possibly natural magic, based on the description in the Durham University Library catalogue. To make fleas congregate in one place (“Sy uys [? si vis] vt omnes pulices congregentur ad vnum locum pone sanguine hyrcy”), to staunch bleeding (“Contra fluxum sanguinis narium siue plage. Scribe has litteras in percameno”) (fol. 119v).
A cure for blindness using the blood of a bat and writing tetragrammaton on an apple (I suspect these may be two recipes), a magical recipe to make men and women dance by writing certain words on virgin wax, and one to catch a thief also done by writing names on virgin wax(fol. 120v).
Charm motifs: Apple
Food
Virgin Wax
Online Information: Manuscript description at the Durham University Library
Digitised: No
Bibliography:
Late Medieval English Magic 