Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, containing 1) a complete copy of the Ordinal of divine service for the use of the Bridgettine Order, ff. 1r-116v; 2) Calendar, with additional entries for the feasts of Saint Bridget, ff. 119r-123v; 3) Prayer in Middle English, f. 124r; 4) Psalter, ff. 125r-231v; and 5) Litany, ff. 231v-236v
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Ordinal text opens: The Ordinal of diuyne seruice and the self seruice for the systers of the odir of Seynt Sauiour., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: late gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Line fillers in red or blue; numerous illuminated initials with floral extensions. Large illuminated miniature with wide floral borders of a nun kneeling and praying (text in banderol) before Saint Bridget (facing f. 1r). Large illuminated initial, gilt, with wide floral border (f. 1r). Large illuminated miniature with wide floral borders of a religious kneeling and praying (text in banderol) before King David playing his harp (f. 124v). Large illuminated initial, gilt, with wide floral border facing (f. 125r)., Binding: eighteenth-century English mottled calf over wooden boards., Title devised by cataloger., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bridgettines
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Ordinals (Liturgical books), and Psalters
Manuscript (incomplete) on paper and parchment of Philomena, a treatise on surgery written by John Bradmore, here in Middle English translation. Text discusses anatomy, apostumes (abscesses), wounds and ulcers, fractures and dislocations, other diseases treatable by surgery, and includes an antidotary and a summary of contents. Book I on anatomy and the opening of book II on surgery are wanting; another leaf wanting between fols. 59 and 60. Present manuscript begins in book II, chapter 4. Includes an account of how Bradmore saved the life of the young Prince of Wales (Prince Hal, the future King Henry V) after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and Also includes a short text on bloodletting, fols. 85r-87v; an unidentified "tretys of mynd," about mind and memory, fols. 234r-239r; and recipes for ointments, plasters, etc., ending imperfectly, fols. 239v-241v
Description:
John Bradmore (d. 1412) was a surgeon based in London from at least 1377. He was appointed an overseer of surgery in the City of London by the mayor in 1390. From at least 1399 he was associated with the royal household. Bradmore married twice, first to Margaret, with whom he had a daughter named Agnes, and second to Katherine. John Bradmore died on 27 January 1412 and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate., In Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 14-28 lines., Script: several secretary hands., Binding: modern blind-tooled morocco., Secundo folio: Plaster., Leaves are foliated in a modern hand starting with the first leaf as fol. 3, the second as fol. 4, and so on. This modern foliation is followed here., and Bibliographical file available.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Name):
Bradmore, John. and Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
