Sarah Gilbert, Eleanor Parmenter, and James Freeman write about “hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible” (the MetaFilter post where I found the link calls it a “beautifully designed website”; I find it a bit annoying, but I am a creature of text and prefer it laid out simply and legibly):
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the University of Cambridge. […]
In total, 190 manuscripts have been conserved, catalogued and digitised. More than 7,000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely displayed on the Cambridge Digital Library. The contents of these valuable sources are now available for historians of medicine and health around the world.
To enhance their discoverability, some of these recipes have been transcribed and translated for the first time, bringing to life for modern audiences the voices and ideas of medieval practitioners.
The Medieval Medical Recipes page has clearly laid out links to the manuscripts themselves. If you want to know how to use “dove faeces, fox lungs, salted owl or eel grease,” this is your vade mecum.
A leaf is a page front and back. How hard is it to get that right, when you are talking about manuscripts?