This book of sovereign medicines against the most common and known diseases ... collected of Master Doctor Feckenham, late Abbot of Westminster [manuscript], ca. 1600.
This book of sovereign medicines against the most common and known diseases ... collected of Master Doctor Feckenham, late Abbot of Westminster [manuscript], ca. 1600.
Herbal and other remedies, "chiefly for the poor which have not at all tymes the learned phisicions at hand." Arranged alphabetically under ailments, with a list at end of volume. At beginning some general rules about herbs.
Note
180 leaves. After repair (ca. 1984) [1-2], 2-180 leaves. Related copies held at the British Library (Sloane MS 167 or 3919 [sic]), the University of Glasgow Library (MS Hunter 93), the Bibliothèque Municipale Classic de Cambrai, France (MS 910), and the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand (MSX-3346). Another manuscript of the same text, in an early 17th century hand, is in the library at Arundel Castle. A copy of MSX-3346, including notes and correspondence of Elizabeth Rawson Macgill, is held in the Folger curatorial files. Compare with A rich storehouse, or, Treasurie for the diseased, 1601, and A book of sovereign medicines by Tho. Dauson and Tho. Gardyner, 1577. This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Publications about material
This booke of sovereigne medicines / collected of Maister Doctour ffecknam, late abbott of Westmynster ; an edition of Folger ms. V.b.129 (ca. 1570) with introduction, transcript and annotation, and plant list with identification by Elizabeth Rawson Macgill. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Dissertation Information Service, c1990.
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Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1026.1
