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MS 511

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2023

Kari Anne Rand
Kari Anne Rand
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Universitetet i Oslo
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James, Corpus 511; Bouly de Lesdain, p. 66; Wilkins, 511; partial description in Tony Hunt, Anglo-Norman Medicine, vol. 1, Roger Frugard's ‘Chirurgia’ and the ‘Practica Brevis’ of Platearius (Cambridge, 1994), p. 154; Dean & Boulton 439.

[A 76]

[1]

f. 113

Recipe ﹛half a quarter﹜ de de [sic] meedwax ﹛half a quarter﹜ terpentine ﹛half a quarter﹜ de perrosyn ﹛half a quarter﹜ pics ﹛half a quarter﹜ barowes grece ﹛half a quarter﹜cimini ﹛one ounce﹜ … (second recipe) Take alom roche & breke to pouder sotely þen take hony wel iboylede & clarifiede & put þe alom pouder þerto & tak a quartre of verdegrece & male powder & put þerto & incorper hem wel togidre.

Two recipes, one for a plaster containing a wax-based ointment (‘Ad faciendum cerotum anglice a gummede cloth’), the other for an ointment, in an empty space in the same s. xv hand as [A 76].

MS s. xiii; English s. xv. Provenance not known. At one point listed as being one of the Elbing MSS (i.e. from the Brigittine foundation of Elbing, near Danzig), but clearly not from that monastery.

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The Index of Middle English Prose
Handlist XX: Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
 , pp. 131 - 132
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2009

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  • MS 511
  • Kari Anne Rand, Universitetet i Oslo
  • Book: The Index of Middle English Prose
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  • MS 511
  • Kari Anne Rand, Universitetet i Oslo
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  • MS 511
  • Kari Anne Rand, Universitetet i Oslo
  • Book: The Index of Middle English Prose
  • Online publication: 07 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846157370.055
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