The texts

Hunter Collection

MS Hunter 43
Christopher White and others Miscellanea. Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Of the thirteen texts contained in this volume, mine are in English. All are written on paper of various weights. Many pages contain pasted-in newspaper cuttings. Young and Aitken pp 49-51. (Cross 2004:9).
MS Hunter 64
MS Description: Bartholomew Blogate. Receipts. Early seventeenth century. Suggested link with Suffook. Written in single columns in a good facile late Elizabethan secretary on unruled paper of differing thicknesses and watermarks. Binding of brown leather over card, possibly original. Scribal foliation. Occasional marginalia, particularly f 68r where four receipts have been written into an apparent gap in the MS, using a later seventeenth century, less rounded script; also on ff 37r, 72r. Young and Aitken pp 74-5. (Cross 2004:11).
MS Hunter 92
MS Description: John Browne. Late seventeenth century. Written in a cursive Humanist script on paper. Scribal pagination, omits versos of ff 14 and 25 wich have drawings on rectos. Two page index is unpaginated. Many pages are badly stained with printers' ink, particulary p 33 which is virtually illegible. F iiiv contains an engraving of 'Joannes Browne|Regius Chirurgus Ordinarius' by R White, dated 1684. F iiir appears to carry the impression of some writing which seems to mention a 'Mr Metcalfe' and a date: '1780'? Young and Aitken p 99. (Cross 2004:14).
MS Hunter 95
MS Description: Unknown authors. Various Medical Texts. Fifteenth and sixteenth century (Doyle). Paper and Parchment. L E Voigts ‘Medical Prose’ Middle English Prose ed A S G Edwards (Rutgers University Press, 1984) pp 323, 329. Young and Aitken pp 102-3 (Cross 2004:15). Treatise Description: Medical Receipts ff 2r-11r. Sixteenth century paper MS bound in with early fifteenth century parchment MS. English and Latin (Cross 2004:15).
MS Hunter 135
MS Description: Various authors. Medical Miscellanea. Sixteenth century. Parchment manuscript written in several hands. F 1r contains sixteenth and seventeenth century marginalia. L E Voigts 'A Doctor and his books: the manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477)' in New Science out of Old Books (1995) pp 249-314. Young and Aitken pp 122-3. (Cross 2004:17).
MS Hunter 303
MS Description: 'W H Gent', translator. Jean Li, bault's Treatise on the Diseases of Women: Englished by W H Gent. Seventeenth Century. Preceded by translator's preface. Also known as God's Second Maister-Peece, the Weoman. Paper. 'W H Gent' echoes Thomas Thorpe's dedication on the 1609 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 'to the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets, Mr W H'. Young and Aitken pp 234-4. (Cross 2004:24).
MS Hunter 487
MS Description: Unknown author(s). Miscellanea. Late seventeenth century. Paper MS in original binding. Brock notes that 'the handwriting of the MS occurs on paper which W Hunter used to make notes on'. John Young 'Three English Medical MSS' in his Essays and Addresses (Glasgow, 1904). Young and Aitken pp 403-4. (Cross 2004:33) Treatise Description: Between ff 124-5 are two loose pieces of paper, containing seventeenth century receipts. (Cross 2004:33)

Wellcome Collection

MS Wellcome 8
MS Description: Compendium of chirurgery.
MS Wellcome 213
MS Description: A Booke of diuers Medecines, Broothes, Salues, Waters, Syroppes and Oyntementes of which many or the most part haue been experienced and tryed by the speciall practize of Mrs Corlyon. Anno Domini 1606.
MS Wellcome 373
MS Description: A very shorte and compendious Methode of Phisicke and Chirurgery Containeinge the Cures inwardly and also the Cureinge of all manner of woundes on the bodie together with remedies for the stone and the causes and signes thereof, etc. As also the making of Sirrups and all manner of oyles and waters whatsoever.
MS Wellcome 762
MS Description: Ff. 7-13 of the Index to Letter E contain 'SMELT (Rev. C.) A few precautionary hints to his parishioners on the subject of Cholera Morbus'. This was probably written in 1831, and the Author, Rector of Gedling in Notts from 1824, died in the same year.
MS Wellcome 774
MS Description: Townshend Family: Collection of medical and cookery receipts by several hands: in English. Written by three different hands, two in formal script, the third of an illiterate type, in which the date 1647 occurs. The index is dated 1636.
MS Wellcome 3009
MS Description: Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Cookery and preserves.
MS Wellcome 3724
MS Description: A booke of preserves cookerie and phisicall medicines.
MS Wellcome 3769
MS Description: Mrs. Jane Parker her Boock Anno 1651.
MS Wellcome 6812
MS Description: Notebook containing medical recipes, commenced in 1650, but containing a few later and non-medical entries. Remedies for common ailments and more serious conditions including plague.
MS Wellcome 7818
MS Description: Collection of medical, culinary and household recipes, in various hands.
MS Wellcome 8086
MS Description: English medical receipt book, early 17th century: including veterinary and household recipes. Probably compiled by a lady, possibly of the aristocracy. 247 pages all in the same hand, followed by "An admireable way to make snaile watter" in a different one. Partial index compiled by another, who has also made some annotations to the main text. Includes a good number of recipes for women's complaints. Numerous named sources for receipts, including several women, and some doctors, but of published medical authorities, only Deodatus and Paracelsus. Includes several prescriptions for melancholy.

Other Collections

MS Rylands 1310
MS Description: Manuscript collection of John Rylan. Reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, the John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester.
MS Ferguson 7
MS Description: Manuscript from the Ferguson Collection (Special Collections Department, Glasgow University Library) First Treatise Description: The Secrets of ye most reuerend Alexis of Piemont. 1568. Second Treatise Description: Medical Recipes. Rendered in an early 17th-century Elizabethan Secretary hand with some sporadic tinges of the italic script Third Treatise Description: Taken out of Doctor Rembert Dodoens/Phisitian to ye Emperor. his herball made Anno domini. 1578.
MS Gen 831
MS Description: Manuscript from the Unnamed Collection (Special Collections Department, Glasgow University Library)