ceruse

Ingredients

ceruse, tuchie (tutty), cathmie, gummi arabike, dragagantum

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

Included in a collyrium recipe for eye sickness, mixed with tutty and mineral components (p. 246).

Evidence

"Take [...] ceruse [...] cathmie, tuchie (tutty), gummi arabike, dragagantum....’"

Remarks

Ceruse (lead white) is used here in a medicinal context, categorized alongside other mineral pigments and binders like gum Arabic (p. 246). The text discusses these materials as belonging to overlapping 'discursive networks' where substances could be viewed as either mundane or marvellous depending on their origin and use (p. 246).