Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York
- 2 The Manuscript and the Civic Context
- 3 The Medieval Core: Calendar, Images and Charts
- 4 The Medieval Core: Texts
- 5 The Early Modern Use of the Book
- Conclusion
- Plate Section
- Edition of the Guild Book
- Appendix 1 Description of the Manuscript
- Appendix 2 Collations
- Appendix 3 Analysis of Parchment Folios
- Appendix 4 Analysis of Paper Folios
- Appendix 5 Witness to the Bloodletting Poem
- Appendix 6 Names Entered into the Guild Book
- Bibliography
- Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Appendix 5 - Witness to the Bloodletting Poem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York
- 2 The Manuscript and the Civic Context
- 3 The Medieval Core: Calendar, Images and Charts
- 4 The Medieval Core: Texts
- 5 The Early Modern Use of the Book
- Conclusion
- Plate Section
- Edition of the Guild Book
- Appendix 1 Description of the Manuscript
- Appendix 2 Collations
- Appendix 3 Analysis of Parchment Folios
- Appendix 4 Analysis of Paper Folios
- Appendix 5 Witness to the Bloodletting Poem
- Appendix 6 Names Entered into the Guild Book
- Bibliography
- Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Summary
A transcript of the bloodletting poem's witness in TCC R.14.51 is given below.
Modus qui docet ad minuendum hominis sanguinem
For to kenne ye veynes to late blode
To ye that lates many gode men blode
And wynnes that with thi worldes fode
Take hede that you doo but gode
Somme veynes vse they sykerle
And many other late they be
Therfore nowe wole I hem schewe
And telle hem you alle on rowe
And where they lyggen euereychone
And for what sckylle they schall be done
Ilka man hathe XXXth and three
lysten and I schalle telle hem the
Byhynde thyne eeres you schalte fynde two
yf you wolte late the blode of tho
And two in thy temples shall not beleuede
ffor the stomake and the werke of the heede
In the myddes of the foreheede fyne may you haue
ffor the lepre euell hit moste be take
And vndre the noyse lieth a vayne
Therewith schall the franesye be slayne
vpon thy nose right faste by thine eyen
late the blode gif you be slyne
ffor then blerede and the scomme
And than schall you hele hem all and somme
Two in thine nekke hole schalte you fynde
ffor lepre and scabious of kende
And two veynes are in euery lyppe
ffor hem wole I not ouer skyppe
And vndre thy tonge lieth one
ffor the swynesy that schall be taken
And nowe byneth wolle I goo
So [tha]t you may kenne al. thoo
Ilka man that ys on lyne
In hys arme hathe veynes fyue
Aboue the heede byhoues hem to blede
whan the heede hathe any nede
ffor all the body in myddes the arme
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- The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572)Study and Edition, pp. 274 - 275Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021