Detail View: LUNA: Folger Manuscript Transcriptions Collection: Receipt book of Sarah Longe [manuscript].
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Digital Image File Name:
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127527
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.425
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Source Title:
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Receipt book of Sarah Longe [manuscript].
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Image Details:
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Item 2 of 3: Main text, rebound separately by conservator.
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Source Creator:
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Longe, Sarah, fl. 1610.
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Source Created or Published:
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ca. 1610
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Physical Description:
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page 38 (folio 22 verso) || page 39 (folio 23 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=230591
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Transcription:
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38.
boyle it till it comes to a sirrope, after
Cooling, then put in your pouders, stirring
it well together, and soe keepe it in a
gally-pott if you please a yeare to-
-gether.
A pouder for a weake back
which never failes, approved
of by Lady Parsons.
Take the kernells of Acrons, white-
-archangle flowers, or for want of
them Pomegranette blossomes, red
Corall, and amber, of each halfe an
Ounce, Sugar candy, an Ounce, powder
them all very fine, and drinke as
much of it morning, and Evening in
beere as will lye upon sixpence, if
the flux be very great, then drinke
it with this distilled water.
Take muskadine 3 pints, the inward
pith of the backe of a young bullock,
a quart of creame, a quarter of a
pound of Dates, 2 ounces of mastick,
brused Plantaine, and knott grass, of
each 2 good handfulls, steepe all these
together in a bason, covered a day, &
a night, then put it into a glasse,
folio 23 recto
39.
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still and distill it in hott water, this water
with this pouder will stop the flux of
the whites, eaven the runing of the
raines, and restore any weake back.
To stay the whites, and runing
of the Raines, Mr Aires.
Take a quart of water, put into it one
Ounce of Anniseeds, and boyle it to a
pint, then straine it, and devide the
liquor into 3 parts, and into it one
sponefull of the Iuice of red mint,
and soe drinke a mornings cold, and
nights warme for a weake or longer if
you please, you must make the
Iuice of mint fresh every day, &
if you put a sponefull into your water
it will be the better.
Mr Triplett's Receipt for the
Ague.
Take 3 Gallons of Aqua-vita, put into
it halfe a bushell of red poppy flowers,
lett it stand a day and a night in
a glass well stopt, then straine it
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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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