Described Hardwick & Luard: i.285. MS made up of five discrete sections now bound together in one volume.

[1]

Part 1, f. 2

For to make ynke lumbarde for to make texte ynke for to make gomme for to make fyne blak for bokes floressing for to temper aseur for to temper vermelion for to make fyne rosyn to temper seruse to make syse to make syse on anoþer maner also to make it on anoþer maner and ʒit on anoþer maner …

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f. 3v

… for þe demygrayne anoþer for demygrayne enplaster for þe same anoþer emplastum for þe same for to mak oxuule.

Table of Contents listing 104 recipes, relating to [3] and [3b] below. Rubric heading f. 2: ‘Hic incipit liber de diuersis rebus et medicinis ac unguentis in primis epistola aristotelis missa ad alexandrum regem de conseruacione humani corporis’. The text of the Latin letter follows the table of contents on ff. 3v–5v.

[A10]

[2]

Part 1, f. 6

Take gencyan diptayne astrologie ypericon sawge radike bothe centaries betayne pympurnoll mousere egremoyne fragary pentaphisoun plantayne ribwort bugell pigell sauecell violett and iij consolodes colombyn sparge ambrose millefoyle arcangell ache doufefote herbe roberde tansay buglasse wormewod fyniter scabyos lapacy …

f. 6v

… and stop þe vessell mowthe well for þe ayre þat none ayre com þar to and use þis at euyn last and at morne fastande.

Rubric heading (f. 6): ‘Dmn[.]neylious drynk and a gode for it helpes bothe cancer and fistila and also wiþin as wiþoute and it wil do away þe scabbe in parti of þe body and it consumes venomes and clenses crosules and all superfluytes of þe body þat comes of venomos humeros it destroyes all maner of woundes newe and olde it helis and clensis þam and it es made þusse’. Medical recipe.

[A11]

[A12]

[3]

Part 1, f. 7

For to make ynke lombarde do þusse take a nounce of gallis and breke þam in a morter all to pouder and take halfe a nounce of greyn coporose and put þam in a quarte of rayne water and take a nounce and a halfe of gomme arabik and knyt it in a lennyn cloth … [second recipe] text ynke þus take iij once of galles and breke þam small in a morter ij once of coporose vitreall and put þam in iiij quartes of standyng water and lat þam rest togedir iiij dayes and after þat take iij once of gomme arabik and put þer in and lat it stande … [third recipe] to make gumme þus [f. 7v] take þe white of xx egges and make clere glayr of þam and take a bladder of an ox new sclayne and put þer in all þi glayr and hang it in þe sonne or elles ouer þe fire in þe smeke …