This site contains the results of the following research projects:

«Electronic Corpus of Early Modern English Scientific Manuscripts (1500-1700)», funded by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia (reference P11-HUM7597), supervised by Dr. Javier Calle Martín.

«An Electronic Corpus of Scientific Manuscripts in English: the Early Modern Period (1500-1700)”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (reference FFI2014-57963-P), supervised by Dr. Javier Calle Martín.

«Publication and Exploitation of the Málaga Corpus of Early Modern English Scientific Prose (1500-1700)», funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (reference FFI2017-88060-P), supervised by Dr. Javier Calle Martín.

These projects have the following objectives: a) the electronic edition of unedited Early Modern English scientific manuscripts housed in the Hunterian Collection at Glasgow University Library, the Wellcome collection at the Wellcome Library in London and the Rylands Collection at the University Manchester Library, displaying both the digitized images along with the corresponding diplomatic transcription; and b) the compilation of an POS-tagged corpus of Early Modern English Fachprosa.

The website holds a repository of Early Modern English manuscripts dealing with Medicine, Botany and Pharmacopoeia, among others. The manuscripts belong to the Hunter Collection housed at Glasgow University Library (G.U.L.), the Wellcome Collection at the Wellcome Library in London and the Rylands Collection at the University of Manchester Library. The repository comprises the following manuscripts:

  • MS Hunter 43 (Recipes; The Secrets and Experiments of Mathewe Lucatellye)
  • MS Hunter 64 (Medical Receipts)
  • MS Hunter 92 (Treatise on the Anatomy of the Eye)
  • MS Hunter 95 (Medical Receipts)
  • MS Hunter 135 (Notes and Recipes on Alchemy and Medicine; Treatise on Surgery; Medica Qvaedam)
  • MS Hunter 303 (Jean Liébault’s Treatise on the Diseases of Women)
  • MS Hunter 487 (Medical Recipes)
  • MS Wellcome 8 (Agricola, Johannes (1589–1643))
  • MS Wellcome 213 (Corlyon, Mrs)
  • MS Wellcome 373 (Jackson, Jane)
  • MS Wellcome 762 (Philip Stanhope)
  • MS Wellcome 774 (Townshend Family)
  • MS Wellcome 3009 (Jacob, Elizabeth (& others))
  • MS Wellcome 3724 (Osborne, Sir Thomas)
  • MS Wellcome 3769 (Parker, Jane)
  • MS Wellcome 6812 (English Medical Notebook)
  • MS Wellcome 7818 (Medical Receipts)
  • MS Wellcome 8086 (Receipt book)
  • MS Rylands 1310 (On Urines)
  • MS Ferguson 7 (The Secrets of Alexis of Piemont; Medical recipes; A Niewe Herball or Histoire of Plants)
  • MS Gen 831 (Medical Recipes)

From the very beginning, we have benefited from the advice and expertise of Professor Graham Caie, from the University of Glasgow (U.K.), who is responsible for the online digital edition of Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose (G.U.L. MS Hunter 409 V.3.7.), and of Professor Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo, from the University of Oviedo (Spain), who is the author of an edition of the Middle English The Owl and the Nightingale (1990) and of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion (1983), among others. Their advice is gratefully acknowledged.