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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Thomas James 182; Stanley N. 26; Nasmith 412, James, Corpus 412; CBMLC 10, UC3, no. 50.
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f. v (first end flyleaf)
Take euery day ix berys off yvy & brey them small & drynke them with warme watyr or ellys with whyʒt wyne grene or make powdyr alway the quantyte off ix kepte … [second recipe] allso anoynt the yerd with oyle off rosys oftyntymys & inbybe blake wull in the seyde oyle & emplastre hytt apon the yerd … [last recipe] allso the iuse off purslan schall sese the ardor of the yerd yff hytt be anoyntyd therewith.
A group of one Latin and three English recipes on an otherwise empty endleaf; all apparently for male genital problems.
MS s. xiv ex. English s. xv ex. ‘William Porter’ in large black letters on f. iv. ‘Edmundus Poplay’ and the date 12 June 1499 in text on ff. ii–ivv. MS was in the ‘common library’ of Cambridge University in 1473, listed as no. 50 in the register of the proctors (Ralph Songer and Richard Coker) of that year (CBMLC 10). MS given to the College by Matthew Parker.
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