Medieval Medical Recipes : Book of Hours (Use of Sarum)

Medieval Medical Recipes

This Book of Hours was made in Flanders for the English market (see Rogers (1982), pp. 6 n. 8, 365). Following its arrival in England, various Latin and English texts were added to the manuscript by 15th-century hands. This includes a leaf of parchment containing a suffrage to St Roche that had been cut from an English illuminated prayer roll (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>1</a>).The contents and specific order of the original texts in this manuscript closely match with those in another Book of Hours that was made in Flanders for the English market: this manuscript, now <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998194758805867'>Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 35</a>, was made in Bruges around the year 1460 and, in the 16th century, owned by Sir Thomas Mildmay (b. in or before 1515, d. 1566).While the Newberry Book of Hours was decorated by the so-called Mildmay Master, this manuscript probably was decorated by a closely associated artist or group of artists. For example, the full-page miniatures of Christ with an open book (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(22);return false;'>9v</a>); the Throne of Mercy (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(34);return false;'>15v</a>); St George (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(46);return false;'>21v</a>); St Margaret (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(70);return false;'>33v</a>); and the Crucifixion (f. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(128);return false;'>62v</a>) in Fitzwilliam MS 51 all closely resemble corresponding miniatures in Newberry Library MS 35. The textual and decorative parallels between both manuscripts strongly support the idea that Fitzwilliam MS 51 was made in Bruges.Clarck Drieshen Project Cataloguer for Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries Cambridge University Library