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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.19–20.
[A81]
[1]
f. 2
To temper byysse put a iiij d wurth or vj in a horn and take gum water metely stronge and put hit in a lytyll quantite to the bysse not to much for drownyng and pallyng of the byysse but take y nowgh to temper hit and temper this water and byysse togedyr a quarter of an owre or þerbowte …
… wiþ a lytyll temperyng and so lete hit stonde half a day and then after that pore owt the water agayn and the stone etcetera.
Recipe for tempering cloth.
[2]
f. 2v
Item nota [..] curam equi in primus when he has wrounge apon the shulder first he kut hym and kut awey all the dedd flesch then he leyd next the rawe towe and then he cast apon the towe lyme a gode quantite and apon that he layd hors donge fresch and so hit lay per iij dayes and euery day of that iij dayes he the hors was wesshyd …
… lynyn cloth item the playster must be new made euery day ons and euery day bifore ye ley þe plaster he must be wesshyd wiþ hote vryn or warme water.
Recipe for a plaster to cure sores in horses.
[3]
f. 2v
Item nota p for yes that for white coperas must be thus preparyd first hete a tylestone very whote then fro the fire ley the coperas and hit wult boyle and anour aftur hit wult resolue into a powder then take a sponfull of rennyng watyr and put þerto a lytyll of the powder and wesh þer wiþ thi ey probatum medici[.].
Medical recipe to improve the eyes, complete.
[4]
f. 2v
Memorandum in English of a receipt dated 1506.
[5]
f. 3
Memorandum for a plaster take the white of a egge sivyn gyd temper hit wiþ hony þat neuer come over the fyre and flowr of whete put þerto jusse of rew and þe jusse of march.
Recipe for a plaster, complete.
[6]
f. 3
Memorandum of a receipt in English.
[7]
f. 3v
Notes of various payments, in English.
[8]
f. 4
Notes of various payments, in English.
[9]
f. 4
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