The Michigan Medical Codex: P. Mich. Inv. 21 - Corso di Papirologia

148 L.C. Youtie
Orib. (2), and Aet. (1) have "the yolks of cooked eggs." Orib. (1) has c6&
6a6, uncooked eggs; while Aet. (3) has 'C' only, with the additional statement:
T& 6cx TeXkEUTcLECt ev TT9 LVWCEL CUXXELOiTLL , "*the eggs, last of all, are tri
turated with the other ingredients in the mixing process."
Xeu[O& TQpLO c]1x6Uo6 xHe ( = xcxL) xpx5: If the numeral was not written out,
the only alternative would seem to be }tcLTcLc]1xu'cCE UTX. , but the compound verb
is not often found in the recipes.76) cu'caC6 xcti xp65, on the other hand, is
found frequently, sometimes with slight variations or additions.77) If ciusuCeCE
is the correct reading, the numeral was written out and contained not more
than 4 or 5 letters. TzccC4PCo, a preferable restoration in view of the sim
ilarity of our text to that of Orib. (2), is too long for the lacuna, and
TEEVTE would seem to be too large a number of eggs.
After the list of ingredients, one of the parallel texts, Aet. (1), has
this direction on its preparation: Ck 1LEXPL uoJdic cucTOcxcEc, ixo qu'EOLc rn
XEC TOLC oZLC XELCOaCcL LET' OLVOU XEUXOU, 1OL'L XPCO TOTI? 1V UPcLT(, hOTS 8
6VLE 4IVO,. "Boil until it is of a good consistency, and having cooled the
mixture, pour it over the eggs which have been triturated with white wine.
Use it either undiluted or diluted."
9. A new recipe was begun in this line, and the line was probably indented.
Table of Ingredients and Amounts
21 C, Gal. Orib. Orib. Aet. Aet. Aet. Paul.
verso (1) (2) (1) (2) (3)
white lead 6 6 6 6 2 2
pig fat 1 dr. 6 1 dr. 6 682)
litharge 2 dr. 12 6 1 dr. 12 6 2 2
birthwort
2 dr.
wax 2 dr. 12 6 1 dr. [ ]79) 6 1 6
myrrh 1/4 dr. 4 4 dr.80)
oil 5 187) enough 5 1881) 36 12 18
eggs [3] 2 4 4 2 30 4 5
starch 6 2 3
saffron 1
deer-marrow 6
76) I noted only two examples: Aet. XV, pp. 121,8; 127,6.
77) E.g., Gal. XIII 359, 524, 525, 536, 556, 739, 744, 747.
78) The amount of oil in Galen's recipe is one and one-half xoTUXAOL. Cf.
Gal. XIII 893-4 for 1 kot. of oil = 12 oz.
79) See footnote 70.
80) 4 dr. = one-half oz. Two of the five MSS of AMt. (1) have 4 oz. in
place of 4 dr., as in the parallel. text of Galen (cf. footnote 70). The Kuhn
edition of Galen has no app.crit., but 4 oz. of myrrh seems a rather large
amount to go with 18 oz. of metals (white lead and litharge), a ratio of