Written in the outer margin of the page but erased or faded and now barely legible with UV light. Among the rerfences is the Expositio super Antidotario Mesue of Christophorus Georgius de Honestis.

Titles of recipes and names of medical authorities are written in the margins throughout the text, e.g.: ‘Electuarium Rasis’ (f. 1v), ‘Johannis de Arden’ (f. 7v), ‘Emplastrum gerardi’ (f. 14v), ‘holm’ (f. 15v), ‘Aliud balsamum ffratris holm’ (f. 17r), ‘[Johannes] Robrok’ (f. 17v), ‘Waynflet’ (f. 22v), ‘Gaddesden’ (f. 24r), ‘Rogerus Castell’ (f. 55r), ‘[Magister] Ferrarius’ (f. 78r), ‘Pulius Castell’ (f. 82v), ‘Waynflet’ (f. 104r), ‘[Rogerus] Radcliffe’ (f. 105v), ‘[Pulius Johannis] Sowthan’ (f. 106r), ‘Pensax’ and ‘Stokes’ (f. 113r), ‘Ricardus de Poules’, ‘[Robertus] Waynflet’ (f. 121r), ‘[ffrater Robertus] Wystantoun’ (f. 135r), ‘rector de Billislay’ (f. 135v), ‘Gerardus [de solo]’ (f. 136r), ‘Bartholomeus in breviario’ (f. 145r), ‘Johannis de Sancto Amando’ (f. 147r), ‘pro pestilencia secunum medicum ducis glowcestere’ (f. 177r), ‘Emplastrum quod dicitur Emanuel magister’ (f. 177v), ‘Aschinden’ (f. 178r), ‘Emanuel Fernandi’ (f. 182v), ‘Albertus de saxonia’ (f. 232r), ‘Haly’ (f. 233v), ‘Symon Wellys’ (f. 234r), ‘Barnardus de Gordonio’ (f. 236v), ‘Johannes Ray’ (f. 248v).

Another copy of this text can be found in Cambridge, King's College, MS 16 , ff. 1r-145r.

The recipes refer to medieval physicians: ‘Pulius pestilenciae secundum Hall. de Lichefeld’ (f. 275v); ‘Lichefeld ut creditur’ (f. 275v); and ‘Gilbertus Kymer’ (f. 276r).

The collection contains one Middle English recipe on f. 276r ‘pro sciatica’. This recipe has been fully transcribed by Lucas (2016), p. 52. They are mainly for the pestilence.

The recipe's heading is written with Greek capital letters and can be transliterated as 'Wert', suggesting that the recipe concerns a treatment for warts.

The recipe appears to be a later 15th-century addition to the manuscript.

Another copy of this poem, entitled ‘De prudentia Medici sumentis pro labore’ is edited in Croke (1830), p. 46.

Similar lists of plant names in Latin and English can be found in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.9.10 , ff. 1r-26v Oxford, Pembroke College, MS 2 , ff. 343r-348v; and Sheffield Record Office, Jackson Collection 1302 , f. 133v [incomplete].

This item contains occasional English plant names but is not recorded in Lucas (2016). Further study on this text is needed, but based on the incipit and explicit its closest match is the ‘Sinonoma Bartholomei’ in Oxford, Pembroke College, MS 2.

Added in the later 15th century.

The lists contain various titles, e.g. ‘venena vsualia’, ‘Infirmitates contagiose’, and ‘Oleum exetrie’. Although it has not been included in Lucas (2016), the ingredients listed occasionally are written in Middle English, e.g.: ‘Tyme’, ‘Strawbery’, and ‘Borage’.

Full transcription.

The same poem is found in the Luminare maius by Giovanni Giacomo Manlio di Bosco (fl. 1490-post 1500).

The collection contains a recipe for making an unbreakable and unpenetrable substance from goat's blood, vinegar and the juice of absinth; to become able to break free from any prison; to capture fish; to recover stolen goods.

The recipes are for making ‘Oleum de floribus’ and ‘Oleum camomille’.

The recipes are largely written in Latin but three recipes on f. g recto feature Middle English names for ingredients (not included in Lucas (2016).

One recipe on f. 301r has been attributed to Peter Stanley (‘secundum Petrum de Stanley’); another instruction on f. g recto refers to those born in the year ‘1448’. They mention the following (among others): sciatica, digestion, laxatives, oils for application to the back, decongesting and passing urine, tremor in the head.

The transcription of the Greek words is derived from M.R. James (1895).