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Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
- Record Id:
- 041-001988633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001988626
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002022.0x00030e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
- Title:
- Medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
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1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 4823.50; with two incipit lines copied also on the lower border of f. 214v by a different hand.
2. f. 215v: Three medical recipes (continuation from f. 2v); incipit: 'Take þe pylles of grene orynges of what quantitye / þou please and put to þem as mych water as wylt'. Listed in Voigts and Kurtz, nos. 6058.50 and 6204.50.
3. f. 216r: medical recipe, fragment; Incipit: 'Take ij handfoll of yosema'.
4. f. 216r: medical recipe, fragment; Incipit: 'Take iij croppys of...'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001988626
041-001988633 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1706 : Miscellany in verse and prose
Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r : Medical recipes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1708]/040-001988626[0005]/041-001988633
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 2 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1706 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1525
- Date Range:
- c 1480-c 1520
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
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