Reverend Edward Churton and York Minster Library, MS. XVI E.32

MS. XVI E. 32 is a late medieval manuscript which is housed in York Minster Library and is principally composed of medical recipes, although it also contains some other medical material. It is mostly written in English and it consists of ten different booklets which were bound together by the year 1500. According to the Liber Donorum, a book that contains the records of the manuscripts and printed copies given to the library until 1924 as well as later entries in loose paper, the manuscript was bequethed to the minster library by a man called Reverend Edward Churton in 1843. This man had a strong connection with York and its surrounding areas. He was Canon of York and rural Dean and Rector of Crayke in 1845, Archeadon of Cleveland from 1846 to 1874 and Prebendary of Knaresborough from 1841 to 1874. It is my intention to provide a description of the manuscript and to talk about the relationship between Reverend Churton and York Minster Library, as he gave some other manuscripts to the library too.