San Marino, Huntington Library HM 1336

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. xv^med

Scribes: Symon Wysbech

Medieval owners: Robert Taylor

Original location or linguistic profile: Boxford, Suffolk/East Anglia

Magic Category: charms, medical

natural magic

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.

Durham, Durham University Library Cosin MS V.iv.8

Medical recipes. Cf. Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.2.13, London, British Library Sloane MS 213.

Date: s. xv

Scribes:

Medieval owners: Richard Helmyslay

Original location or linguistic profile: Partly West Riding of Yorkshire

Magic Category: charms, medical

Specific magic texts: Charms for the falling evil, wicked wights, and wounds (fols. 16r; 22r-v; 30r-v). Some sort of charm-ritual to cure “Golsought” using an apple (fols. 30v-31). A variant form of this is found in MS Cosin V.iv.1.

Charm motifs: Apple
Food
Ring cure for the falling evil
Tres boni fratres

Online Information: Manuscript description at the Durham University Library

Digitised: No

Bibliography:

York, York Minster Library MS XVI.E.32

A medical manuscript in ten sections.

Date: s. xiv^ex-xvⁱⁿ

Scribes:

Medieval owners:

Original location or linguistic profile: West Midlands dialects

Magic Category: charms, medical

charms, other

Specific magic texts: Charm for fever (A charme for þe feueris cum intrasset dominus ihesus in domum simonis leprosi) (fol. 2r-v); three charms for the falling evil (fol. 3r-v); childbirth (fols. 2v, 5r); toothache (fol. 80r-v); other charms for fevers (fols. 170r-173v), or not described. Unknown recipes and charms, (fols. 129r-144v).

Charm motifs: Maria peperit
ring cure for the falling evil
sator arepo

Online Information: Entry in the DIMEV

Digitised: No

Bibliography: Douglas Gray. “Notes on Some Middle English Charms.” In Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins. Edited by Beryl Rowland. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974.