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Macaronic Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2021

Angela M. Lucas
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Retired. Senior Member of Worlfson College, Cambridge
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A: Works in Latin and English

[A1]

Emmanuel College 69

f. 191

Agrippa what it is and wherfore it serueth nota folio ix litera a A alumen zucarium anglice alumglasse what it is and howgth it schal be knowen …

f. 198v

… zucarium viole sugre of violett hough it schal be made nota folio cxvi a

An alphabetical index and partial glossary of contents at the end of John of Arderne's Practica with the additional guide of ‘folio that is leeff’ at the beginning in the right hand margin.

[A2]

Emmanuel College 69

f. 208v

Allium domesticum that is garlik abrotanum that is sothrenwod ararista that is astrologia …

f. 210v

… albestan that is quicklyme amatites that is amatistre …

An alphabetical glossary, Latin–English. It breaks off on f. 210 at ‘alfita that is barlymele athaga …’, resumes on the verso and ends incomplete.

[A3]

Emmanuel College 95

f. 80v

3 principal electuaries 3 drams of diaprunum on[. .]1 ounce of dia[…]thamum or diacartartaun is best for collek for to purge fleme and collek both for the mother 2 ounces of prunum 1 ounce diacarthamum …

f. 80v

… for the milte rosmary and aneseede

Some brief medical notes for cures in a hand of the late fifteenth or early sisteenth centuries.

[A4]

Emmanuel College 242

f. 265

Me selfe dyd wryte yt tu et ego sumus in toto

Note on an otherwise blank column on the last folio of a Latin Missal.

[A5]

Jesus College Q.B.10

f. 2v

Prima cedula elena campana ffenel reed radycoll and radych solsarium tansey wermothe ambos calamynt centory houndistong …

A list of herbs, mainly in English, in four columns. A fifteenth-century addition to a twelfth-century manuscript containing works of Ambrose and Jerome.

[A6]

Jesus College Q.D.1

f. 5

A scripill is þe wyte of a peny and hath þis fygure jj a drame is [erasure] þe wythe of iij penys and hath þe […] ffygurys ȝ ȝ an vnc\e/ is þe wyte of iiij shillings and hath þis fygure ȝȝ a pownd is þe wyte of xx shillings studium aliquociens or xl shillings wyth þeys fyguris lb lb lb …

Notes on apothecaries’ weights, in a manuscript of miscellaneous medical texts, treatises and recipes. Wells Rev. 10:3900 [424]–[431] does not mention this manuscript.

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The Index of Middle English Prose
Handlist XXII: Manuscripts in Christ's, Emmanuel, Jesus, Selwyn and Sidney Sussex Colleges, Peterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge
, pp. 125 - 138
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2016

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  • Macaronic Index
  • Angela M. Lucas, Retired. Senior Member of Worlfson College, Cambridge
  • Book: The Index of Middle English Prose
  • Online publication: 18 June 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782046929.010
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  • Macaronic Index
  • Angela M. Lucas, Retired. Senior Member of Worlfson College, Cambridge
  • Book: The Index of Middle English Prose
  • Online publication: 18 June 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782046929.010
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