Use of medieval recipes by a sixteenth-century reader. (360G-Wellcome-104798_Z_14_Z)

This grant application requests funding to support a one-week archival visit to Oxford. I wish to make a detailed study of a single fifteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson c. 299. This manuscript contains a collection of medieval medical recipes written in English. The hand-written collection comprises about 150 recipes in total, including some charms and a uroscopy. A unique point of interest is that the manuscript had a known owner and location in the sixteenth-cen tury. My investigation will consider this later owner's use of this medieval medical material by charting the exact nature of his annotations and interractions in the manuscript.