Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.17–19; Baker & Ringrose pp. 435–6; A. Rooney, ‘The Tretyse off Huntyng’, Scripta 19 (Brussels, 1987).

[1]

f. 3

… is in þe sekenesse do be tyme as hit is sayde in þe secunde chapitre and reule and diet hym after þe thyrd and trust wiþ þe grace of god to be made hole and fare well.

The ending of the short version (four chapters) of John of Burgundy's Plague Tract. Recently identified by K. A. Rand, ‘A Previously Unnoticed Fragment of John of Burgundy's Plague Tract and Some Connected Pest Regimens’, N&Q 251 (2006) 295–7 (p. 296). Begins imperfectly due to loss of leaves from the beginning of the MS. IPMEP 659; Wells Rev. 10:3856–7 [305].

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 32 MSS of the short version; note amendments to this list included in IMEP 17, indexing Camb. Gonville and Caius 336/725 [28]. Add also the present MS and IMEP 18 indexing Camb. Fitzwilliam 261 [2]. For copies already indexed see IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 1444 [5], Ashmole 1481 [3], and Ashmole 1481 [13]; and IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col R.14.32 [14], R.14.52 [42], O.1.77 [3], and O.8.29 [13].

[2]

f. 3

Hit hath ben taght in tyme of pestilence for a souerayn medycyne a man to take yche day at noon iij smale croppes of rewe iij levys of yong tansay iij leves off sauge and fayre wasshed to be chewed in a mannis receyvyng þe juse and licour off the sayd herbes into þe stomake and to spytt oute …

f. 3

… namely custumably for kynd off oystyrs is to geder to hym felones and corrupte materis as an adamant draweth yren.

Recipes and dietary advice against the plague. With the marginal note ‘medecin’. Wells Rev. 10:3859 [315b] ‘Cambridge Pest Recipes’, citing only this MS. Printed in full from this MS by Singer & Anderson p. 94 no. 63, described as an ‘English Pest Regimen’. See further the discussion by Rand ‘A Previously Unnoticed Fragment’ pp. 295–7.

Other texts: IMEP 18 indexing Camb. Fitzwilliam 261 [3].

[A80]

[3]

f. 3v