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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.12–14.
[1]
f. 1
Aloen hath vertu to purge flewme and colour and hit clensith malenkoly and hit comfortyth membres that bethe senewy þat hath mony senewis ouþer bethe of the kynd of senewis also hit is good aʒeyn the superfluyte of kold humers þat bethe in the stomake and releuye þe hed of ache þat comyth of smoke of þe stomake and hit klevythe …
f. 91v
… in suripes ij li of sugur þer schal be 5 q of watur þowʒ þer be more watur þer is non harm but for þe enduryng amen quod gerford.
Translation of the Circa instans of Matthaeus Platearius, which describes over 270 drugs in alphabetical order, expounding their properties and uses, and was generally believed to have been composed by a member of the Salernitan medical family of Platearius in the mid twelfth century.
Other texts: Keiser, ‘Herbals’ lists 27 MSS. For copies already indexed see IMEP 6 indexing Ripon Cathedral XVIII.H.1 [2] (a jotting in a printed book); IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 1443 [4]; Ashmole 1477 [6]; Ashmole 1481 [14,15]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col R.14.32 [30]; and IMEP 17 indexing Camb. Gonville and Caius 609/340 [2]. See also Kk.6.33 [13].
[2]
f. 92
A medicyne for the peynis of a hors take ij penyworth of vertgresse and a l half penyworth of mete syle v or vj sponful of hony and ix yolkes of ayren and frye all these togedyr tyll they be welny stand and thekk and make a playster of it and ley it to the hors and withinne a wyke he schal be dryid up for euyrmore.
Veterinary recipe to treat sickness in horses, complete. By later hand than that of [1].
Other texts: Cf. other horse recipes in Ll.1.18 [16] and Dd.4.44 [1]–[5], [A1], [A2], [14]– [20].
[3]
f. 92
For ache of þe lemmys or sciaticha make a plaster of mylke of of otemelle and lest of crommes of brown bred with arssinert.
Medical recipe to treat sciatica. Different hand from [2].
[4]
f. 97
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