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[arca_libraria]

When I read it, I thought that "nusces" might mean "nuts" (several kinds of nuts were common in medicinal formulae, and they sometimes spelled it that way), but they also used musk or muscilage, so I can see how there might be a number of interpretations.

Nusces/nuts is what I had originally (and I still like it as a reading because it’s what’s actually on the page), but I’ve been over this text with a very senior academic who has done a lot of work on similar texts and she said that musces is much more common in this sort of recipe and that nusces doesn’t work for the time this was written as it’s a much later variant. This text is still a work in progress so I’m sure I’ll have to revisit the translation again, but that particular word is flagged in my notes as “revisit this”. 

Anyway, thank you very much for transcribing it - I should have shared my edition and translation with the picture, but I found out tonight that someone I considered a friend has stolen some of my research and published it as their own so I’m feeling disproportionately over-protective tonight.