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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: i.273–5.
[1]
flyleaf i verso
… sede of hempesede brosed fyne and […] and swynes [.]rese and leyd to the se[.] part of the se[..]
Recipe, rubbed and almost illegible, added over other erased or very faded text.
[2]
flyleaf i verso
Take hempesede fynely brosed and set[.] hit in white wyne and swyne grese and leyde to the sore (?) part of the s[..] [..]ssing the p[..]e to d[.]s[. …] […] by the […]
Recipe, rubbed and almost illegible; a repetition of [1], by the same hand.
[3]
f. 1v
For a burnynge or scaldinge p[. …] RB take water betanye grounde fine sage of g[..]y the muche but leaste of sage and the whylst of gousedong and scathe them all in freashe grease and streyne them throughe a lynnen clothe and so yow shall haue a fyne oyntement to anoynt the place etcetera. probatus est.
Recipe for burns and scalds, attributed to ‘R.B.’ Different hand from [1]. L. E. Voigts, ‘The Sloane Group: Related Scientific and Medical MSS from the Fifteenth Century in the Sloane Collection’, British Library Journal 16 (1990), 26–57 notes the appearance of the initials ‘R.B.’ in MSS of the ‘Sloane Group’, and identifies them as signifying Roger Bacon, the Oxford Franciscan (pp. 33–4).
[4]
f. 1v
Swynes grease [.] a quarter pewre and freshe quyck syluer o iij d vnc [..] this may not be soone in the grease franckinsence fynely powderd camefore fynely scraped a j d whyte leade [.] [.] half a quarter fynlye grounde too oyle olyue half an vnce throughelʒe storrede togoither and so it will be an oyntement to heale [..]hes scabes and bonnyshe s[..] probatus est per RB [..]
Recipe for an ointment, attributed to ‘R.B.’ Same hand as [3].
[A9]
[5]
f. 9v
Take grene whete in the grasse when it is in the wh[..] oy[…] and plucke yt out and grynde it wiþ whites of eyre and sotte of a chymney and grynde it vpon the [.]ell and anoynt the [.. ..] called colon the fundement and the yo[.]de […] it is [..] for to kett the emeroyde Recipe to treat haemorrhoids. Added by a different hand to that of the main text.
[6]
f. 9v
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