The " Liber de diversis medicinis" in the Thornton manuscript (MS. Lincoln Cathedral A.5.2)
By: edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden.
Contributors: Ogden, Margaret Sinclair, 1909-; Thornton, Robert, fl. 1440.; Lincoln Cathedral. Library.
Series: Early English Text Society (Series).; 207.
Publisher: Kraus Reprint
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Millwood, N.Y
Language: enm
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Charms -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 151-158.
A collection of medical prescriptions and charms written in a mid-fifteenth century hand; the scribe, a Robert Thornton, has been variously identified with three persons of the name who flourished during that period. Robert Thornton of East Newton is considered the most probable person by the present editor and others.
Reprint. Previously published: London : Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1938. (Early English Text Society. Original series ; 207).
Originally presented as the editor's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1935).