Notes

Collection: Early modern recipe books

	User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
	Caroline Butten	fundament = buttocks or anus	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	about 19 hours ago
	Caroline Butten	eysell = vinegar	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	about 20 hours ago
	Julia	Colworts are a name for any plant of the cabbage kind	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	6 days ago
	Caroline Butten	tertian/quartane ague = fever episodes recurring every third/fourth day.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	9 days ago
	Caroline Butten	morrell = could be Any of several kinds of nightshade with black or deep purple berries; esp. black nightshade, Solanum nigrum; (also) †the fruit of such a plant (obsolete).	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	9 days ago
	Caroline Butten	mouse ear = Now usually in full mouse-ear hawkweed. A dwarf Eurasian hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum (formerly Hieracium pilosella), which has solitary yellow heads and leafy stolons and is common in dry grassland. Also (with distinguishing word):...	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	9 days ago
	Caroline Butten	racked = Of wine, cider, etc.: that has been drawn off to leave the sediment behind. Also of a barrel, etc.: emptied by racking.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	9 days ago
	Caroline Butten	renish = belonging to the Rhine region	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	9 days ago
	Caroline Butten	setwall = † Any of several species of the genus Curcuma (family Zingiberaceae), esp. C. zedoaria, which are native to south Asia and have aromatic, tuberous rhizomes. Also: the rhizome of such a plant, used in cooking and (formerly) as a medicinal...	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	20 days ago
	Caroline Butten	Melilote = Old English, Any of various Eurasian plants constituting the genus Melilotus (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), characterized by trifoliate leaves and long racemes of small flowers, usually yellow or white, which smell of newly mown hay w...	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	about 2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	a limbeoke = could be, To treat as in an alembic; to subject to the process of distillation or extraction of essence, etc.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	about 2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Graines of Paradise = the capsules of Amomum Meleguetta of Western Africa (cf. cardamom n. b), used as a spice and in medicine; called also Guinea grains	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Cubebs = The berry of a climbing shrub Piper Cubeba or Cubeba officinalis, a native of Java and the adjacent islands; it resembles a grain of pepper, and has a pungent spicy flavour, and is used in medicine and cookery. (Usually in plural cubebs,...	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	"Salt phlegm" is a term that, according to a study on medieval friars and parasites, refers to a type of phlegm believed to be associated with the development of long round worms.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	"Aqua composita" translates to "compound water" in English and refers to a type of medicinal preparation where ingredients are distilled from alcohol, rather than water, as in simple waters	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Ipocrasse = hippocras - A drink made from wine sweetened with sugar or honey and flavoured with spices and other ingredients, typically drunk as a restorative or a digestive. Also more fully hippocras wine	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Stillitorie = stillatory, A place where distillery is carried on; a still-room; a still-house, distillery.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Saunders = sandalwood	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Manus Chri = Manus Christi, A kind of restorative confection or cordial drink (OED - 1706: 'refined Sugar boil'd with Rose-water, or that of Violets, or Cinamon; a sort of Cordial for very weak Persons.')	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Serce = A sieve or strainer.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Menison = Severe diarrhoea; dysentery (esp. in bloody menison; cf. bloody flux n.).	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Flewellen = "fluellen" A name given to several species of Veronica or Speedwell, esp. V. officinalis.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	Cullice = A strong broth, made of meat, fowl, etc., boiled and strained; used especially as a nourishing food for sick persons	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	'nole me tangere' could refer to "Noli me tangere" - the Latin phrase for "touch me not," referencing Jesus' words to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection in the Gospel of John	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Graham Saunders	Done 2 pages of translation but not sure what "z" means or "Mj" - ingredients amount	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Graham Saunders	Couldn't find the pb button, so needs inserting	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Graham Saunders	Also, I have saved the page, but not sure if this has been saved in the document transcription.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Graham Saunders	2 pages done. Not sure what "z" or Mj. Ingredients amounts	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	efraser	Could not get the beginning part so left a gap between the first and second types of handwriting.	Untitled Page 125	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Annie12	This set of pages includes quantities given en masse. I have left these transcribed but unformatted after discussing with the group.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Annie12	"lbjs" = half pound	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Bethany Slater	Think 'criquesoil' is a misspelling of 'cinquefoil'	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Pippa1518	I think I’ve just transcribed a page someone has already done as the site took me to the wrong place in the book and I hadn’t realised.	Untitled Page 117	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	LisaSmith	In addition to the crossed-out text, some text has been scraped off and written over again.	Untitled Page 108	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	acsmith	Isinglass is a form of collagen extracted from fish and used in beer and wine making, according to wikipedia! Worked out with Melissa Marsh, Grace Murray, Kathryn Hempstead	Untitled Page 5	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	LisaSmith	siney is a variation of senna.	Untitled Page 69	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	coperas = A name given from early times to the protosulfates of copper, iron, and zinc (distinguished as blue, green, and white copperas respectively); etymologically it belonged properly to the copper salt; but in English use, when undistinguishe...	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	smalache = Any of several kinds of celery or parsley; esp. wild celery, Apium graveolens, formerly used medicinally and to flavour food.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	LisaSmith	fragment of a typed transcription.	Untitled Page 66	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	jennbaker	"aristolach" likely refers to aristolochia (birthwort)	Untitled Page 19	Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Annie12	In the recipe "For the fluxe", there is a gap after the word "strong" which seems like perhaps it should have a noun.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	LisaSmith	Some page damage at the bottom.	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	LisaSmith	numdifie may be a misspelling for mundify (OED: cleanse, purify -- word also in use at this time).	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	ufaller	There are three gaps on the page as if a word was to be placed there retrospectively : one of Lavander one of [gap] of yarrowe one of Louage one of [gap] one of [gap] one of daysies	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	Caroline Butten	alehove = alehoof or ground ivy	-	MS 373: Jane Jackson	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	NicolaDaisy	Couslepe = Cowslip	-	Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, early 18th century (MS.7746)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	NicolaDaisy	Add page number REmove ---- Expansions of ye, yr ,yn,ym,pd required Last recipe not completed.	-	Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, early 18th century (MS.7746)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	NicolaDaisy	Expansions of ye, yr, yn,ym,pd required	-	Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, early 18th century (MS.7746)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	NicolaDaisy	Missed trancriptions ie: the first recipe has been missed. Words that require expansion: ye, pd, ym, yn Remove the - - -	-	Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, early 18th century (MS.7746)	Early modern recipe books	2 months ago
	txblaize	empty screen	-	Medici, Antonio De'	Early modern recipe books	3 months ago