The Liber de diversis medicinis in the Thornton manuscript (ms.Lincoln cathedral A.5.2.) - Thornton, Robert, active 1440.; Ogden, Margaret Sinclair (Lond. : Pub. for the Early English Text Society by O.U.P., 1938)
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.
Keywords: Formularies - Medical - Early Works to 1800.; Materia medica - Early Works to 1800.