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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.15–16.
[1]
f. 1
Popie white popye rede pio rioll pillyer mounteyne philypendla pygill purslane premyrose white premyrose grene palma xpi peny wortt pepybuddes persylly persspere pellyitur spayne pellett playne planteyne maior planteyne minor pympernoll perytory …
f. 3v
… erbe wauter verveyne wodrove wodbynde walwortt white peper wormode v fulle þe worode mynte wyld tasyll vade mecum.
Part of a herbal, arranged as an alphabetical index (runs P–Y). Some additions on f. 1: alongside the entry ‘palma xpi’ is added ‘ys good for a man or a woman þat is in a francy’. Further down in a different hand is ‘sylle of mastyck hole mastyck draclum muskelage plaster’. On f. 1v (headed ‘Q’) are no entries but two recipes have been added, for which see [2] and [3] below. f. 6 is headed ‘X’ and has one entry ‘erbe xpofer’; f. 6v is headed ‘Y’ but has no entries – both these leaves have then been filled up with other texts.
[2]
f. 1v
Memorandum ye must take of this powder euery mornyng fastyng fyrst or ye ete or drynke as myche at a tyme as wyll fyll a wall nutt shell wiþ whyte wyne or ale or brothe or eate it drye wiþ the fyrste morsselles of meate as ye use saltt and at nyght take a lyttyll whyte wyne or ale or malmesey and warme it and put in a lyttyll of thys seryppe in the glasse and drynke that to bedward.
Medical recipe.
[3]
f. 1v
Item use thyse herbys dayely in your pott bownd in a bundell and boyll theym wiþ your meates take borage leattyse rosemary tyme sauge issoppe pyeryall betany hertysstonge mowsere and perselly of eche a quantyte and no spyces but maces safferoun small resons and clovys and use no froyttes as appylles and nuttes and fleshe salt beff bakyn nor no new brede nor no new ale and beware of mustye brede for any thynge etcetera.
Dietary advice. Same hand as [2].
[4]
f. 5v
A souereynge drynke for the cyr of the pestylence take an herbe callyd pympernell and marygold leve and bete theym to joysse and drynke theym together in stale ale fastyng wiþ an emptye stomacke.
Medical recipe to treat plague.
[5]
f. 5v
Well rosarum for the canker.
Fragment of a medical recipe, added by a different rough hand.
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