incomplete fragments

Evidence

"In a lengthy recipe collection that now exists in two incomplete fragments, a remedy for back pain ends ‘make a plaister and as hoot as he may suffre lay hit to his bakke’"

Remarks

The manuscript MS Ashmole 1432 is a sample of a 'lengthy recipe collection' that has survived only in the form of 'two incomplete fragments' (p. 62). The text within these fragments reveals a patchwork compilation process, where the address to the reader shifts inconsistently between the second and third person, suggesting it was assembled from multiple disparate sources (p. 62).