MS Fragment 99

Described de Ricci, Census, volume 2, p. 1346.

[1]

f. 1

Wherfore þe oyle þat is meste myzxti is þus þ[e oile] of edera take þou drie trees of edera and þe […] of edere if þat þou mayȝte haue hit and kutte hit to smale pertyes into a ȝerþen vessel and þou schal[..] make þre or foure holys in þis potte boþym and po[….] vndur þis potte anoþer pot and poutte hit in þe ȝer[..] and þou schalte poutte þe boþyme of þe ouer pot at [..] mowþe of þe neþer potte and þou schalte […] tuo pottys togydur and þis pottys schal be […] so þat þe ouer pot be alle togydur aboue […] and his mowþe schal be ystoppyde wyþ cley […] and þou shalte make a fure alle aboute þe [p…] þulke þat styllyþ ute of þe ouer pot into […] pot for heete of þe fure is oyle and hit do [..]kenes þat comeþ of kolde & specialych art[…]

Medical recipe for oil of edera (ivy). The words ‘comeþ of cold’ are visible on the line above (and further to the left); see Müller 37, ‘it helpyth þe gowte aretyk þat comyth of colde.’ The last line appears to have been at the bottom margin of the original leaf. The bottom and part of the right edge of the leaf show stains from the leather foldovers of a binding, which obscure the text (hence the ellipses above) and indicate that the leaf was used as a pastedown.

Other texts: see IMEP 10, Stockholm Royal Library X.90 [1], where it is one element in a collection of recipes (ed. Müller, pp. 37, 45).

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f. 1v

… [..]rchynge for hit stoppyþ þe suetynge diafore […] hit beo anoyntyde vppe þe wombe and vppe […s] hit doþ awey fluxum ventris; (second recipe) and if þou wylte þat hit be more strenger in wirchynge take […] succum vermicularis & iouis barbe and simbalarie and […a]tri & lattuce and medele þou hit wyþ oyle in an […] ne wheȝte and seþe þou hit in a double vessel to […] þe ieuses beþ wastyde and þan poutte þou þe leues […] þe frute of mirte and poutte hit to þe sunne in [….] ble vessel and þis oyle is gode to þe byforeseyde […]enes;