paper

Evidence

"medical or scientific manuscripts intended for use which ‘are usually made of paper, [and] often written by a single hand without rubric or embellishment of any kind’"

Remarks

The text references scholarship (Mooney) indicating that medical and scientific manuscripts intended for practical use were typically constructed of paper rather than the expensive parchment used for aristocratic 'ornate collections' (p. 209, note 4). This material choice correlates with the 'itinerant use' and 'plain' execution observed in the sampled recipe collections (p. 209).