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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B, ff 51v-66v
Title:: Peri Didaxeon
Scope & Content:: This is the only known copy of the translation into Old English of a Latin collection of recipes mainly based on Petrocellus' Practica and Gariopontus material which were probably compiled not earlier than in 1035. The text is imperfect at the end. Rubric (f. 51v) 'Incipit liber qui dicitur / pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

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