Detail View: LUNA: Folger Manuscript Transcriptions Collection: Receipt book [manuscript].
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Digital Image File Name:
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123239
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.140
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Source Title:
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Receipt book [manuscript].
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Source Created or Published:
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compiled ca. 1600
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Physical Description:
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folio 50 verso || folio 51 recto
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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Hamnet Catalog Link:
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http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=231384
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Transcription:
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both boyled and claryfyed of eche halfe an ounce boile
all to the height of an electuarye, and then put to it
the powders accordinge to arte & so reserue yt in
glasse vessells. you may take hereof the quantitye
of three ounce in wyne as Mesue wryteth: yf
wyne seme to hote you maye alaye it with fenyll
water or with eybright water; yt must be taken
in the morninge fastinge and you ought to forbere
the takinge of anye thinges by the space of three
houres, and so at night, but then you must take a
light supper & supp the more tymelye.
distilled Waters Where in this litle treatis mencion is made of
distylled waters I wishe the same to be
artificiallye donne in styllitoryes of glasse that
the qualityes of the herbes maye remayne in
the distylled waters. And therefore I doe not
allowe of the Common manner of distyllinge
in styllitoryes of lead by the which the waterye
partes onelye are drawne. /
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folio 51 recto
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Note: Mesue was a 9th century Arabic Physician
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Credit:
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Transcriptions made by Shakespeare’s World volunteers (shakespearesworld.org), participants in EMROC classes and transcribathons (emroc.hypotheses.org), participants in Folger paleography classes and transcribathons, and Folger docents.
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