Described Hardwick & Luard: i.300–2.

[1]

f. 17

Firste þou schal make aplum tras and seiþe drawe hit wiþ roset [second recipe] for to make syse for golde lettures take dryʒe kalke and of þe softeste and schaf hit and grynde hit on amolur wiþ oolde glayre and alitul watur wiþ and a litul saffrun and let hit stonde aseuiʒth or ʒe worche wiþ hit and ich day stepe hit oones but be war þat þou do not ouer mekel gleyr þer to for þen hit wol be to stif þerfor meengiþ þan wiþ discrecion and looke þat þi syse be sumdeel stondante [third recipe] for to asay þi syse ʒif hit be touʒtli ynowʒe drepe hit on a cole and wen hit is driʒe ʒif hit be plyant and breke not þe hit is good ʒif hit breke put a litel watur þer to and make hit wayker and a litul ʒeere wax þerto and looke how þat hit wol cleue to þe booke and ʒif hit do not put gleyr þerto and make hit stregur the mor syse is gronden and þe lengur hit rotiþ þe betur hit is.

f. 18v

… tweste out þe þ[..]ine or þan lay hit on þe skynne and rubbe hit wel wiþ þe basse of þi handes.

Collection of twenty-four recipes for gilding and colouring. Heading: ‘How þou schalt temper þi colourus to lymninge and how þou schal make a syse to kowche golt on bokus’ (f. 17). Indexed in Singer, no. 941; and M. Clarke, The Art of All Colours: Mediaeval Recipe Books for Painters and Illuminators (London, 2001), no. 378. Other texts: cf. BL Harley 3151 ff. 43–44.

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f. 19

For to destrie lyse on a mannes body take fowre appulles of þe sowrest þat þou may fyndon and take a lynnen clooth and weet hit in watur and wrappe hit in and putte hit in þe ymbres and lette him roste til hit be neyse and þen take þe softenes of þe apul ij sponful to a l d of quicseluer and stampe hem wel togedur i tyl þe quicseluer be turned in to þe iusche of þe apul and anoynthe þerwith þe body for þis wol destriʒe hem on warantise. Medical recipe to treat lice, complete. Different hand.

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f. 19