Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147

Manuscript Ferguson MS 147, a fifteenth-century volume written in Middle English and housed in Glasgow University Library, contains a copy of the Antidotarium Nicholai, a sarum calendar and a medical compilation which includes medical recipes, prognostic texts, and healing charms. Our interest is pl...

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Autor: Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la|||0000-0001-7323-0796
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
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Filología
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spelling Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la|||0000-0001-7323-0796CharmsFerguson MS 147Middle EnglishMedical manuscriptsFilologíaPhilologyManuscript Ferguson MS 147, a fifteenth-century volume written in Middle English and housed in Glasgow University Library, contains a copy of the Antidotarium Nicholai, a sarum calendar and a medical compilation which includes medical recipes, prognostic texts, and healing charms. Our interest is placed on the charms in the medical recipe collection found in folios 63r?159v. Following earlier studies on the charm genre, we will characterise the medical charms found in Ferguson MS 147 from a linguistic standpoint. This touches upon the use of language and other technical features, such as the presence of code-switching, the use of specialised symbols and characters, and the terminology used by the scribe to refer to the genre, among others. Concerning textual tradition, we also aim to examine whether the healing charms present variation, even if small, with earlier described charms. From a methodological point of view, the comparison includes contrasting our material with other edited compilations of charms.20212021-07-15journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/58506https://dx.doi.org/10.17811/selim.26.2021.109-128reponame:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcaláinstname:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/585062026-06-18T11:13:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
title Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
spellingShingle Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la|||0000-0001-7323-0796
Charms
Ferguson MS 147
Middle English
Medical manuscripts
Filología
Philology
title_short Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
title_full Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
title_fullStr Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
title_full_unstemmed Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
title_sort Verbal magic and healing charms in Glasgow University Library Ferguson MS 147
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la|||0000-0001-7323-0796
author Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la|||0000-0001-7323-0796
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author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Charms
Ferguson MS 147
Middle English
Medical manuscripts
Filología
Philology
topic Charms
Ferguson MS 147
Middle English
Medical manuscripts
Filología
Philology
description Manuscript Ferguson MS 147, a fifteenth-century volume written in Middle English and housed in Glasgow University Library, contains a copy of the Antidotarium Nicholai, a sarum calendar and a medical compilation which includes medical recipes, prognostic texts, and healing charms. Our interest is placed on the charms in the medical recipe collection found in folios 63r?159v. Following earlier studies on the charm genre, we will characterise the medical charms found in Ferguson MS 147 from a linguistic standpoint. This touches upon the use of language and other technical features, such as the presence of code-switching, the use of specialised symbols and characters, and the terminology used by the scribe to refer to the genre, among others. Concerning textual tradition, we also aim to examine whether the healing charms present variation, even if small, with earlier described charms. From a methodological point of view, the comparison includes contrasting our material with other edited compilations of charms.
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