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This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
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by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
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s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Script, f. 1r-v: Anglicana.
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Layout, f. 1r-v: 15 long lines, occupying the bottom part of a leaf.
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Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
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f. 1r-v: On the recto: medical recipe for oil of ivy. On the verso: medical recipes for oils; see esp. the third recipe with the heading, "Of hote oylys and fourst of oleo laurino."
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Incipit, f. 1r-v: one after þe quatite of þe oile & after þat þou wolt haue hit […]r or neischer.
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Explicit, f. 1r-v: wherfore þe oyle þat is meste myzxti is þus þ[e oile...] of edera take þou drie trees of edera.
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This description could not have been written without the expertise and kind help of Prof. Paul Acker, who has worked on this fragment for his volume of the Index of Middle English Prose.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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