A prayer roll made between 1484 and 1500 by Canon Percevall of the Premonstratensian Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Date: s. xvex
Scribes: Canon Percevall
Medieval owners: Canon Percevall
Original location or linguistic profile: Coverham, Yorkshire
Magic Category: charms, medical
Specific magic texts: A charm based on the Tau cross that offers protection from suffering, against peril and all evils, and will help a woman in childbirth if she wears it on her head.
Charm motifs: Measure of Christ
Sts. Quiricus and Julitta
Online Information: Entry in the DIMEV
Catalogue entry on the online library catalogue
Digitised: Yes, images are available at the CORSAIR website (section 7 is the relevant one).
Bibliography: Curt F. Bühler. “Prayers and charms in certain Middle English scrolls.”Speculum 39:2 (1964): 270-278.
Suzanne Eastman Sheldon. “Middle English and Latin Charms, Amulets, and Talismans from Vernacular Manuscripts.” PhD diss., Tulane University, 1978.
Don C. Skemer. Binding words: Textual amulets in the Middle Ages. Penn State Press, 2006.
Late Medieval English Magic 