Ii.6.33

Summary

Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.532. MS by two hands and foliated in two parts.

[1]

Part 1, f. 1

This boke mad a woman named rota of þe priue sicknesses þat long to a woman wiþ medicynes to helpe them in ther neade the matrice of a woman þat cause oft tymes of ther secknesse aftur ther yll disposicion of þe matrice commeth many maladise and disseases of wich disseases ther be syx principall …

f. 1

… the flyx of þe floures [f. 1v] the fyfthe is þe letyng of concevynge the syxth is an hardenes of deliueryng in tyme of trauell. Preface and table of contents (consisting of a list of six chapters) to a translation of chapters from the Trotula major and the Trotula minor, see [2] below.

[2]

Part 1, f. 1v

Of sleppyng out of þe matrice sleppynge downe of the matrice of a woman is whenne it falleth over lowe downe to the opennenge of the body þat is þe wommanes priue member and somtymis it will slep ale out of the body and this infirmity fallis oftymes to a woman for many diuerse causes …

f. 32v

… take a clene basoun wiþ hote water and therin holde thi handes a whyle and thow shalt se þe wormes crepe out.

Gynaecological tract incorporating a number of recipes. A free translation of a few chapters of the Trotula major and the Trotula minor, with other material intermixed. Wells Rev. 10:3862 [320].

Other texts: Glasgow UL Hunter 403 (V.3.1) pp. 347–63.

[3]

Part 2, f. 1

Owre lord god whan he had storid the word of all creatures he made man and woman resonabill creatures and bad hem waxe and multiplie and that man that is hote and drye matier shuld sowe the seed and that the woman that is made of cold nature and moyste shuld resseyue the seed …

f. 36

… full of flesh and othirwhile amonge senewes and than a man shal do cure hem be no cuttyng ner be no fire.

Gynaecological tract. Trotula A: a composite text whose main sources are the Trotula major and the Trotula minor and which also uses the Gynaecia of Muscio. Wells Rev. 10:3861 [318]. Different hand.