How to Avoid the Plague, 1550
But it is good in all tymes, to beare about you preciouse stones…
15th century
How to Avoid the Plague, 1494
We must guard ourselves against anger, sadness, fear, worry, and pensiveness…
How to Increase Your Energy, 15th century
For the evil that is called lethargy. Take your own hair, burnt…
How to Behave at School, 1479
We order and decree that teachers and students who are wearers of indecent garments…
How to Serve a Flaming Bird, c. 1465
How to Dress a Peacock With All Its Feathers, So That When Cooked, It Appears To Be Alive…
How to Be a Powerful Woman, 1404
The better and more virtuous a lady is, the greater the war Envy very often makes…
How to Get the Girl, c. 1470
Young men should not hate cats because they are the cause of great happiness…
How Not to Get Expelled, 1484
It is commanded to all students that none of them henceforth in the streets or ways…
How to Make an Eel Pie, 1465
Boil for a while an eel which has been skinned…
How to Succeed at University, 1471
Anyone attending any lecture must… have his own copy of the reading…
How to Spend Your Summer, 1465
Choler rises from May 8 to August 6. Then we should use cold and moist foods…
How to Protect Against Disease, c. 1470
Anyone who can ride a bear the distance of nine paces without faltering…
How to Dress (Teen Girl Edition), c. 1500
I counsel you not to wear anything outrageous, either too tight or too trailing…
How to Maintain a Relationship, 15th century
If a woman places feathers from a capon that has hatched young chickens in her husband’s ear…
How to Enchant Your Lover, c. 1470
When a woman wants to be well loved by her husband or her lover, she must give him catnip…
How to Soothe a Teething Baby, c. 1450
Sometimes babies have trouble with teething. In that case you should squeeze the gums with your fingers…
The Past Asks You: An Enchanted Ecosystem, 1494
A mouse is at the top of a tree 60 braccia high…
How to Make a Cooked Bird Sing, c. 1450
To make that Chicken Sing when it is dead and roasted, whether on the spit or in the platter…
How to Serve a Live Bird at a Feast, c. 1450
Get a chicken or any other bird you want, and pluck it alive cleanly in hot water…
How to Stay Young, 1489
There is a common and ancient opinion that certain prophetic women who are popularly called ‘screech-owls’ suck the blood of infants…
How to Treat the Freshmen, 1495
Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen…
How to Make Macaroni, 15th century
Sicilian Macaroni. Make a dough of the whitest flour, one egg white and rosewater…
How to Serve Wine to Your Toddler, c. 1450
I will speak briefly about care of the child up to the age of seven…
How to Choose Your Seat on a Ship, 1458
Furste, yf ye goo in a galey… chese yow a place in the seyd galey…
How to Pack for a Journey, 1480
A traveler should carry with him two bags, one very full of patience…
How to See the Future, c. 1450
When he has recited this conjuration…