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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.178–9; Baker & Ringrose pp. 209–14.
[1]
f. 1
Take ij or iij hanfull and breke theym or kytt theym lyke wortes comyn j li or j quarter on and boyle theym in vynegre wiþ crommes of browne bred into þe thyknes of a plaster and then ley hit upon a pece of blankett and ley hit to the hede and upon both the eyon after as hit nedeth.
Medical recipe for healing the eyes, added to the lower margin.
[2]
f. 1
Also take þe gall of a bole or of a noxe and bete it unto þe fleume be clene away and all clarified and anoynte thyne eon aboue and beneth so þat nothyng come in þi eyon.
Another medical recipe for healing the eyes. Same hand as [1].
[3]
ff. 2–2v
‘Ann endenture of mariage’. Indenture of marriage, dated 20 February 1 Richard III (1484), between Sir Thomas Gerarde and Humphrey Stanley, esq.
[4]
f. 52v
Copy of a subpoena, dated at Richmond 20 July concerning a riot.
[5]
f. 52v
Item take v sponfull of the water of seynt jonis wort and ij sponfull and demi of aqua vite and put togeder and lett þe pacient when þe ague is upon hym drynke som of hit at oon tyme and som at anoþer tyme and hit shall hel hym […] ye shall haue hit for too penys.
Medical recipe for ‘An ague’.
[6]
f. 52*r
Item an ese laxe take allons sicatrium locum and take a lytell in þe euenynge and in þe morow and ye will and swalowe hit hole.
Medical recipe for a laxative.
[7]
f. 52*r
A medeson salt subpositorum item take hony and salt and boylle togeder til hit be thyke and lett hit be steryd and then make rolles of them yrolled in buttour or freysshe grece etcetera and if ye will kepe them rolle them in freyssh grece or buttour etcetera.
Medical recipe for suppositories. Same hand as [5].
[8]
f. 52*v
Memorandum þat mr billyngton hath a good boke of pledyng of ass[ise].
Memorandum possibly referring to George Billington of Strand Inn and the Middle Temple, see Baker & Ringrose p. 211 (14e).
[9]
f. 101v
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