f 24v
...
Item for makyng of the whele to the getbell | ij s. |
Item to William Curges for iij yerys pypyng | iiij s. |
f 25v (Receipts)
<....> Regno Regis Henrici viij <....>
Reseyuyd of <.>hyr ale of heryard by Iohn le <...>
Item at Tuelfytyde of Gaderyng mony | ij s. x <.> |
Item at Ester of vantapyr Syluyr | ij s. |
Item at the gaderyng of the conteray | v s. iij d. |
Item of the Ale more a holy thurrysday | xxiiij s. |
...
Record title: St Mary's
Churchwardens'
Accounts
Repository:
BL
Shelfmark: Sloane 2581
Repository location: London
The main text of the manuscript (ff 5–22) is a list of medicines compiled from ancient authors in a careful fifteenth-century hand. The last few leaves contain memoranda of the owner c 1516, including an account of sheep owned at Basingstoke in 1515 (f 22v) and monies paid and received for St Mary's Herriard in 1516 (ff 24v–5v). The account for Herriard parish church appears to be a churchwarden's account, perhaps entered at the end of a parchment book for presentation: all the entries in the account appear to have been written at the same time, probably from loose bills. No accounting year is indicated.
15th c.–1516; English with some Latin; parchment; 170mm x 115mm; iv + 26 + iv; modern pencil foliation (ink foliation, probably by same hand as marginal notations, crossed out, begins with f 57, suggesting that current MS was latter part of a longer MS since divided); the medical text is in good condition, carefully written with rubrics throughout and marginal notations in a different hand, the last few leaves are more discoloured from damp but still legible; brown leather-covered board binding with Sloane crest front and back, title on spine: 'SLOANE MS.2581 BRIT. MUS.MEDICAL RECIPES, XV CENT.'