A medical manuscript written for Robert Taylor of Boxford with recipes, a concordance of herb names in Latin and English, and medical prognostications.
Date: s. xvmed
Scribes: Symon Wysbech
Medieval owners: Robert Taylor
Original location or linguistic profile: Boxford, Suffolk/East Anglia
Magic Category: charms, medical
Specific magic texts: A charm to cure the falling evil (fols. 8v-9r), to staunch bleeding (fol. 24r), and natural magic using a hoopoe to prevent being deceived in the market place (fol. 13r).
Charm motifs: Flum Jordan
Hoopoe
Jaspar Melchior Baltasar
Ring cure
Online Information: Manuscript description in the online catalogue
Digitised: No, but some images are available on the online catalogue.
Bibliography: Laura Mitchell. “The Cultural Uses of Magic in Fifteenth-century England.” PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2011.
—. “Gunpowder, treason, and plot? Not quite.” The Recipes Project Blog, January 23, 2013.
—. “Monetary Magic in Late Medieval England.” The Yorkshire Numismatist. No. 4 (2012): 219-227.
Late Medieval English Magic 