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Voigts, Linda E. - Payne, Ann, "Medicine for a great household (ca. 1500): Berkeley Castle Muniments Select Book 89", Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser., 12 (2016), 87-269.
- Resum
- Select Book 89 in the Muniments of Berkeley Castle is a previously unstudied decorated manuscript from the end of the fifteenth century or early years of the sixteenth. It is a rare and important example of an English language medical compendium written for a great household, and largely for use by women. The codex consists of two closely related parts, both introduced by detailed contents lists. Part I contains thirty-two texts on medical therapy, including treatises on distillation and treatment of wounds, copies of the Antidotarium Nicholai and Circa instans, and two lengthy receptaria. Part II consists of recipes, some specified for members of royal or noble families. Recipes in both parts are characterized by polypharmacy and call for an extensive use of exotic spices and precious metals and jewels. This study addresses SB 89 as a household book for noble women and provides a detailed discussion of the date, decoration, and original ownership of the codex. The coat of arms with which the manuscript begins makes clear that the book was produced for the Scropes of Bolton, a family with close ties both to the court and household of Henry VII and to the household of the monarch's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. The study includes a discussion of plague and sweating sickness during the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), epidemic diseases that figure in both parts of SB 89. Appendices provide a physical description of SB 89 with later provenance, a list of recipes occurring in both parts of the codex, identification of the thirty-two texts in Part I, and a transcription of the seventyone surviving recipes in Part II. Three genealogy charts, two tables, eight color plates, and eleven black-and-white figures are also supplied.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
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