The core contains items traceable to earlier Alexandrian Greek texts, particularly the Stockholm papyrus and Leiden Papyrus X, which are Greek texts dated to the 2nd or 3rd century AD that contain some of the same and similar recipes.
Coat the tin with this and heat lightly, as you know how, until it joins together, and quench it while still hot in water.
[4]The principal manuscripts are: These are simply among the fullest witnesses - there are dozens more that preserve extracts.
[3] The title, Mappae clavicula, is absurd, translating approximately as 'the little key to the small cloth'.
The best explanation is that it is a mis-translation from a Greek original, in which χειρόκμητον kheirókmēton ('knack' or 'trick of the trade') was mis-read as χειρόμακτρον kheirómaktron ('hand-towel').