London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, MS 46 Medical Recipes
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320. London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, MS 46
Medical Recipes
[Ker 98 (cf. p. lxiv & Supp.), Gneuss 523]
HISTORY: A single leaf, OE writing dated s. x/xi by Ker. As Ker says, probably originally a blank endleaf on which various texts have been entered. An endorsement on the verso (by William Henry Allnutt of the Bodleian Library, 1889, according to Moorat 1962) says it was used as a wrapper to P. Mosellanus, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis, Antwerp, 1558, a book in the library of Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (1844-1930], Bodmin, Landhydrock; the Mosellanus volume is not in the Wellcome Library. Allnutt called Napier's attention to the OE texts (Napier 1890: 324). This leaf was separately kept by the Robarteses in a volume of binding fragments. Purchased by the Wellcome Trust at Sotheby's 11 December 1956. It is now preserved in a sealed glass frame. Below the endorsement on the verso is a pencil reference to B.L. Harley 585, f. 189 (265] (remedies for wens and heartache, Grattan and Singer 1952: nos. 183-84).