DIMEV 1355
For head and saucefleme and wicked humors
Two medical recipes — in couplets
Note: Formerly included under
2343.
Subjects: medicine; recipes, medical
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 64 [olim Phillipps 6883], f. 147
rb
First Lines:ffor hed and sauce fleme & wickid humours
Take thes gresses of
bitter sauowris
Wormode Sange fyveleuyd ggrasse and fumeter
Stampe and
gryndes to geders intere…
Last Lines:…If hit be drongken & mengid aright
Withe the therde parte
of suger thryes in sevynnyghte
Note: Written as prose, with red highlights for initials of each line; headed,
‘ffor saunce fleme and wicked humours’.
Editions: Hanna, Ralph,
ed.
“The Index of Middle English Verse and Huntington Library Collections: A
Checklist of Addenda.”
Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America
74 (1980): 235-58: 244-6 (excerpts).