Western Medieval Manuscripts : Collection of medical, astrological, and theological works

Collection of medical, astrological, and theological works (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39)

This two-volume manuscript is a composite of seven parts, whose production ranges in date from the late twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. It is possible, though, that Part 3 (ff. 67r-74v) and Part 4 (ff. 75r-189v) originally belonged together: they may both have been copied by the same scribe, but there are disparities in their layout and decoration that suggest different points of origin.

The manuscript contains a large collection of medical, theological, and astrological works in Latin and Middle English, such as The Cloud of Unknowing, a Middle English guide to contemplative prayer that dates to the second half of the fourteenth century. Overall, the book lacks any illumination or illustration, however there is fragmentary evidence to show that some had previously been present: during the cataloguing of the manuscript, the remains of an astrological miniature of the Zodiac sign Cancer have been identified on a fragmentary leaf in Part 7 (f. [242a]).

Dr Clarck Drieshen
Project Cataloguer
Cambridge University Library

Information about this document

Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
Classmark: Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39
Subject(s): Theology
Donor(s): George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727
Associated Name(s): Bradshaw, Henry, 1831-1886; Pink, H. L.; Ball, Thomas, fl. late 16th or early 17th century; Moore, John, 1646-1714; Pine, John, 1690-1756
Extent: Codex:
Volume I: iii + 4 | 62 | 8 | 57 + iii leaves.
Volume II: iii + 56 | 28 | 23 | 82 + iii leaves.
Collation: four leaves | 1-4¹⁴ 5⁶ | 6⁸ | 7⁸ 8^8-6 (3rd-8th leaves missing) 9^8-7 (1st-7th leaves missing) 10-12⁸ 13^8-2 (1st and 2nd leaves missing) 14-22⁸ | 23⁸ 24-25¹⁰ | 26^8-1 (1st leaf missing) 27-28⁸ | eight leaves
Binding:
Black quarter leather binding with green sides.
Binding height: 135mm (vols 1 and 2); width: 95mm (vols 1 and 2); depth: 30mm (vols 1 and 2).
Bound by Gray in Cambridge in 1953.
Foliation:
13th-century foliation:
Volume 1: i-lix, lxx, lxx (ff. 6-65)
Numbering (Roman numerals) in brown ink at the centre of the upper margin, the upper half of the outer margin, or the upper right-hand corner of the rectos.The medieval foliator has not included f. 5 and f. 66; and has erroneously jumped from 'lix' (f. 63) to 'lxx' (f. 64), which is then erroneously continued. A modern hand has corrected the last two folios to 'lx' (f. 64) and 'lxi' (f. 65) in pencil and added foliation to f. 66 ('lxij') as well.Foliation sequence not followed in this description.
19th-century foliation:
A sequence of partial foliation written on every tenth leaf in Volume 1 and intermittently in Volume 2, in pencil, in the lower right-hand corner of the recto side of the leaf.Foliation sequence not followed in this description.
19th/20th-century foliation:
Volume 1: 1-8 (ff. 67-74), 1-72 (ff. 75-133)
Volume 2: 1-24 (ff. 134-157), 1-8 (ff. 158-165), 1-24 (ff. 166-189) | 1-8 (ff. 190-197), 1-20 (ff. 197-217) | 2-24 (ff. 240-248) | 25-32 (ff. 241-248)
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos, in part by Henry Bradshaw, University Librarian 1867-1886, who subdivided the manuscript's numbering into separate volumes, prefaced by a opening bracket (see f. 75r for an example = (2 . As per the historic foliation practice at Cambridge University Library that Bradshaw established, folio numbers were assigned to leaves no longer present in the volume (but since this foliation sequence is not followed in this description, these folio numbers are not recorded here).
Mid-20th-century foliation:
Volume 1: [i]-[iii], 1-4 | 5-66 | 67-74 | 75-109, 112-133, [iv]-[vi]
Volume 2: [vii]-[ix], 134-189 | 190-217 | 218-240 | 241-242, [242a], 243-248 | 249-250, [x]-[xii]
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos. The start of this sequence (ff. 1r-67r follows that written by an unidentified 20th-century hand. From 68r onwards, the foliation continues in sequence (ignoring the sub-divisions in the earlier foliation of the manuscript) throughout both volumes. This was written by H.L. Pink.A stub with a fragment of an astrological text has been assigned the folio designation f. [242a] in order to provide a reference for the mutilated leaf without disrupting this foliation sequence. Folio numbers ff. 110 and 111 assigned to leaves no longer present in the volume (as per historic foliation practice at Cambridge University Library).ff. 249-250 are parchment flyleavesThis foliation sequence is followed in this description.
Additions:
Notes on missing leaves and parts in the manuscript written in pencil in upper margins.
Quire signatures (in the form of lower-case letters) written in pencil in the lower right-hand corner on the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, perhaps by H.L. Pink.
Provenance:
Thomas Ball (fl. late 16th or early 17th century): his name inscribed on the lower margins of ff. 53v-54r (written upside down): 'Th. Ball'; and also on ff. 231v-232r: 231v-232r: 'Ball me (?) sanum'; perhaps Thomas Ball (1590-1659), of Emmanuel College Cambridge, and vicar of All Saints Northampton.
John Moore (1646-1714), bishop of Ely: no. 126 (f. 1r) in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Acquisition: Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I: but without the donation bookplate engraved by John Pine in 1736
Funding: Wellcome
Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on Margaret Connolly, Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (Dd-Oo) , The Index of Middle English Prose, 17 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2009) and an unpublished description of the manuscript composed between 1926 and 1930 by M.R. James, now held in the University Archives (UA ULIB 7/3/74).
Author(s) of the Record: Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer in Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge University Library
Bibliography:
Hodgson, Phyllis, The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling, Early English Text Society. Original Series 218 (London: Oxford University Press, 1944).
Doyle, A. I., "A Prayer Attributed to St Thomas Aquinas", Dominican Studies 1 229-238 (1948).
Hodgson, Phyllis, Deonise Hid diuinite, and Other Treatises on Contemplative Prayer Related to The Cloud of Unknowing, Early English Text Society. Original Series 231 (London: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Hoste, Anselm, Dialogus inter Aelredum et discipulum. An Adaption of Aelred of Rievaulx' "De spiritali amicitia", Cîteaux (1959) 10.
Diekstra, F. N. M. (ed.), A Dialogue between Reason and Adversity. A Late Middle English Version of Petrarch's De Remediis (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1968).
Mann, Nicholas, "The Manuscripts of Petrarch's "De Remediis": A Checklist.", Italia medioevale e umanistica 14 57-90 (1971).
Hudson, Anne, "Contributions to a Bibliography of Wycliffite Writings", Notes and Queries n.s. 20 12 443-453 (1973).
Mann, Nicholas, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi 6 (Padova: Antenore, 1975).
Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons: Studies on the Manipulus Florum of Thomas of Ireland, Studies and Texts 47 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979).
Bursill-Hall, G. L., A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa 4 (Stuttgart; Bad-Constatt: Frommann; Holzboog, 1981).
Marenbon, John, From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 3rd series, 15 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Hodgson, Phyllis (ed.), The Cloud of Unknowing and Related Treatises on Contemplative Prayer, Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, Analecta Cartusiana 92:4, 3 (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1982).
Wilson, Edward, "An unrecorded Middle English version of Petrarch's "Secretum": A Preliminary Report", Italia medioevale e umanistica 25 for 1982 389-390 (1983).
Hudson, Anne, Lollards and Their Books, History series 45 (London: Hambledon Press, 1985).
Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse (eds), Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum contributor: R.A.B. Mynors, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 2 (London: British Library in association with the British Academy, 1991).
Hunt, Tony, Anglo-Norman Medicine. - Vol.1: Roger Frugard's "Chirurgia"; "Practica Brevis" of Platearius (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1994).
Kuczynski, Michael P., Prophetic Song: the Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
Galloway, Andrew, "Intellectual Pregnancy, Metaphysical Femininity, and the Social Doctrine of the Trinity in Piers Plowman", Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 117-152 (1998).
Connolly, Margaret, Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (Dd-Oo), Index of Middle English prose 19 (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009).
Lebech, Mette, James McEvoy and John Flood, ""De dignitate conditionis humanae": Translation, Commentary, and Reception History of the Dicta Albini (Ps.-Alcuin) and the Dicta Candidi", Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 40 2 1-34 (2009).
Hanna, Ralph, The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010).
Boccini, Fabiana (ed.), Bibliotheca Gregorii Magni manuscripta: censimento dei manoscritti di Gregorio Magno e della sua fortuna (epitomi, florilegi, agiografie, liturgia) = Census of Manuscripts of Gregory the Great and His Fortune (Epitomes, Anthologies, Hagiographies, Liturgy), Biblioteche e archivi 29 (Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015).
Muñoz, Victoria Recio (ed.), La Practica de Plateario: edición crítica, traducción y estudio, Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini d'Italia 40 (Firenze: SISMEL: edizioni del Galluzzo, 2016).

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Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 1r-4v: Part 1 (image 9, page 1r) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 5r-66v: Part 2 (image 17, page 5r) Practica breuis (image 17, page 5r) Panormia seu Liber derivationum (image 137, page 65r) Medical recipes (image 137, page 65r) Recipes for medical oils (image 138, page 65v) Definitions of terms in medical works by Hippocrates (image 139, page 66r) Charm (image 140, page 66v) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 67r-74v: Part 3 (image 141, page 67r) Manipulus Florum [beginning] (image 141, page 67r) A Tretis of Maydenhod (image 150, page 71v) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 75r-109v, 112r-189v: Part 4 (image 157, page 75r) The Cloud of Unknowing (image 157, page 75r) 'How man is made to the image of God' [translated from De Trinitate, 10 and 14 (image 244, page 120v) A Tretyse of þe Stodye of Wysdom þat Men Clepen Beniamyn [free and abridged translation of Benjamin minor] (image 248, page 122v) Prayer to God [English translation of 'Concede mihi, misericors Deus'] (image 269, page 133r) De domo conscientiae (image 288, page 134r) The XVI Points of Charity (image 334, page 157r) De spirituali amicitia (image 336, page 158r) Prayer to the Virgin Mary and St Anne (image 344, page 162r) De dignitate sacerdotum (image 345, page 162v) Prayer to God [English translation of 'Concede mihi, misericors Deus'] (image 347, page 163v) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi (image 352, page 166r) A Dialogue between Reason and Adversity (image 375, page 177v) Prayer (unfinished) (image 398, page 189r) Prayers to God (image 399, page 189v) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 190r-217v: Part 5 (image 400, page 190r) Scala Claustralium (image 400, page 190r) Prayer on the Passion (image 412, page 196r) Sequence of prayers on the Passion and wounds of Christ (image 412, page 196r) Prayer on the Passion (image 414, page 197r) Tractatus de duodecim utilitatibus tribulationis (image 416, page 198r) Hymn to the Virgin Mary (image 447, page 213v) A motto (image 449, page 214v) Draft indenture (image 454, page 217r) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 218r-240v: Part 6 (image 456, page 218r) Contra Jovinianum (image 456, page 218r) Theological notes (image 501, page 240v) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 241r-248v: Part 7 (image 502, page 241r) Miracle of St Augustine of Canterbury at Compton (image 502, page 241r) Astronomical instructions (image 503, page 241v) Exposition on the Gospel of John I (image 504, page 242r) Fragment of an astrological text (image 506, page [242a] recto) Sermon on the Gospel of Luke (image 508, page 243r) Exempla (image 509, page 243v) Aequivoca (image 510, page 244r) Poem on council (image 511, page 244v) Couplet (image 511, page 244v) Distichs on the Herods (image 511, page 244v) Gloss on Revelation XII (image 512, page 245r) Note on the masses on Christmas Day (image 513, page 245v) Dial of Ahaz (image 513, page 245v) Sermon (image 513, page 245v)

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Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
Classmark: Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39
Subject(s): Theology
Donor(s): George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727
Associated Name(s): Bradshaw, Henry, 1831-1886; Pink, H. L.; Ball, Thomas, fl. late 16th or early 17th century; Moore, John, 1646-1714; Pine, John, 1690-1756
Extent: Codex:
Volume I: iii + 4 | 62 | 8 | 57 + iii leaves.
Volume II: iii + 56 | 28 | 23 | 82 + iii leaves.
Collation: four leaves | 1-4¹⁴ 5⁶ | 6⁸ | 7⁸ 8^8-6 (3rd-8th leaves missing) 9^8-7 (1st-7th leaves missing) 10-12⁸ 13^8-2 (1st and 2nd leaves missing) 14-22⁸ | 23⁸ 24-25¹⁰ | 26^8-1 (1st leaf missing) 27-28⁸ | eight leaves
Binding:
Black quarter leather binding with green sides.
Binding height: 135mm (vols 1 and 2); width: 95mm (vols 1 and 2); depth: 30mm (vols 1 and 2).
Bound by Gray in Cambridge in 1953.
Foliation:
13th-century foliation:
Volume 1: i-lix, lxx, lxx (ff. 6-65)
Numbering (Roman numerals) in brown ink at the centre of the upper margin, the upper half of the outer margin, or the upper right-hand corner of the rectos.The medieval foliator has not included f. 5 and f. 66; and has erroneously jumped from 'lix' (f. 63) to 'lxx' (f. 64), which is then erroneously continued. A modern hand has corrected the last two folios to 'lx' (f. 64) and 'lxi' (f. 65) in pencil and added foliation to f. 66 ('lxij') as well.Foliation sequence not followed in this description.
19th-century foliation:
A sequence of partial foliation written on every tenth leaf in Volume 1 and intermittently in Volume 2, in pencil, in the lower right-hand corner of the recto side of the leaf.Foliation sequence not followed in this description.
19th/20th-century foliation:
Volume 1: 1-8 (ff. 67-74), 1-72 (ff. 75-133)
Volume 2: 1-24 (ff. 134-157), 1-8 (ff. 158-165), 1-24 (ff. 166-189) | 1-8 (ff. 190-197), 1-20 (ff. 197-217) | 2-24 (ff. 240-248) | 25-32 (ff. 241-248)
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos, in part by Henry Bradshaw, University Librarian 1867-1886, who subdivided the manuscript's numbering into separate volumes, prefaced by a opening bracket (see f. 75r for an example = (2 . As per the historic foliation practice at Cambridge University Library that Bradshaw established, folio numbers were assigned to leaves no longer present in the volume (but since this foliation sequence is not followed in this description, these folio numbers are not recorded here).
Mid-20th-century foliation:
Volume 1: [i]-[iii], 1-4 | 5-66 | 67-74 | 75-109, 112-133, [iv]-[vi]
Volume 2: [vii]-[ix], 134-189 | 190-217 | 218-240 | 241-242, [242a], 243-248 | 249-250, [x]-[xii]
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos. The start of this sequence (ff. 1r-67r follows that written by an unidentified 20th-century hand. From 68r onwards, the foliation continues in sequence (ignoring the sub-divisions in the earlier foliation of the manuscript) throughout both volumes. This was written by H.L. Pink.A stub with a fragment of an astrological text has been assigned the folio designation f. [242a] in order to provide a reference for the mutilated leaf without disrupting this foliation sequence. Folio numbers ff. 110 and 111 assigned to leaves no longer present in the volume (as per historic foliation practice at Cambridge University Library).ff. 249-250 are parchment flyleavesThis foliation sequence is followed in this description.
Additions:
Notes on missing leaves and parts in the manuscript written in pencil in upper margins.
Quire signatures (in the form of lower-case letters) written in pencil in the lower right-hand corner on the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, perhaps by H.L. Pink.
Provenance:
Thomas Ball (fl. late 16th or early 17th century): his name inscribed on the lower margins of ff. 53v-54r (written upside down): 'Th. Ball'; and also on ff. 231v-232r: 231v-232r: 'Ball me (?) sanum'; perhaps Thomas Ball (1590-1659), of Emmanuel College Cambridge, and vicar of All Saints Northampton.
John Moore (1646-1714), bishop of Ely: no. 126 (f. 1r) in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Acquisition: Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I: but without the donation bookplate engraved by John Pine in 1736
Funding: Wellcome
Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on Margaret Connolly, Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (Dd-Oo) , The Index of Middle English Prose, 17 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2009) and an unpublished description of the manuscript composed between 1926 and 1930 by M.R. James, now held in the University Archives (UA ULIB 7/3/74).
Author(s) of the Record: Dr Clarck Drieshen, Project Cataloguer in Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge University Library
Bibliography:
Hodgson, Phyllis, The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling, Early English Text Society. Original Series 218 (London: Oxford University Press, 1944).
Doyle, A. I., "A Prayer Attributed to St Thomas Aquinas", Dominican Studies 1 229-238 (1948).
Hodgson, Phyllis, Deonise Hid diuinite, and Other Treatises on Contemplative Prayer Related to The Cloud of Unknowing, Early English Text Society. Original Series 231 (London: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Hoste, Anselm, Dialogus inter Aelredum et discipulum. An Adaption of Aelred of Rievaulx' "De spiritali amicitia", Cîteaux (1959) 10.
Diekstra, F. N. M. (ed.), A Dialogue between Reason and Adversity. A Late Middle English Version of Petrarch's De Remediis (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1968).
Mann, Nicholas, "The Manuscripts of Petrarch's "De Remediis": A Checklist.", Italia medioevale e umanistica 14 57-90 (1971).
Hudson, Anne, "Contributions to a Bibliography of Wycliffite Writings", Notes and Queries n.s. 20 12 443-453 (1973).
Mann, Nicholas, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi 6 (Padova: Antenore, 1975).
Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons: Studies on the Manipulus Florum of Thomas of Ireland, Studies and Texts 47 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979).
Bursill-Hall, G. L., A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa 4 (Stuttgart; Bad-Constatt: Frommann; Holzboog, 1981).
Marenbon, John, From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 3rd series, 15 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Hodgson, Phyllis (ed.), The Cloud of Unknowing and Related Treatises on Contemplative Prayer, Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, Analecta Cartusiana 92:4, 3 (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1982).
Wilson, Edward, "An unrecorded Middle English version of Petrarch's "Secretum": A Preliminary Report", Italia medioevale e umanistica 25 for 1982 389-390 (1983).
Hudson, Anne, Lollards and Their Books, History series 45 (London: Hambledon Press, 1985).
Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse (eds), Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum contributor: R.A.B. Mynors, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 2 (London: British Library in association with the British Academy, 1991).
Hunt, Tony, Anglo-Norman Medicine. - Vol.1: Roger Frugard's "Chirurgia"; "Practica Brevis" of Platearius (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1994).
Kuczynski, Michael P., Prophetic Song: the Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
Galloway, Andrew, "Intellectual Pregnancy, Metaphysical Femininity, and the Social Doctrine of the Trinity in Piers Plowman", Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 117-152 (1998).
Connolly, Margaret, Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (Dd-Oo), Index of Middle English prose 19 (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009).
Lebech, Mette, James McEvoy and John Flood, ""De dignitate conditionis humanae": Translation, Commentary, and Reception History of the Dicta Albini (Ps.-Alcuin) and the Dicta Candidi", Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 40 2 1-34 (2009).
Hanna, Ralph, The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010).
Boccini, Fabiana (ed.), Bibliotheca Gregorii Magni manuscripta: censimento dei manoscritti di Gregorio Magno e della sua fortuna (epitomi, florilegi, agiografie, liturgia) = Census of Manuscripts of Gregory the Great and His Fortune (Epitomes, Anthologies, Hagiographies, Liturgy), Biblioteche e archivi 29 (Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015).
Muñoz, Victoria Recio (ed.), La Practica de Plateario: edición crítica, traducción y estudio, Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini d'Italia 40 (Firenze: SISMEL: edizioni del Galluzzo, 2016).

Section shown in images 9 to 16

Classmark: Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.39, ff. 1r-4v
Title: Lecture notes
Origin Place: England.
Date of Creation: Copied in the late 14th century or 15th century.
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Almost illegible, but probably related to philosophy, logic, or mathematics.
Extent: Codex: 4 leaves. Leaf height: 130 mm, width: 85 mm.
Collation:
Four leaves from another manuscript that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript.
Material: Parchment (not established)
Format: Codex
Condition: Glue stains on f. 1r suggest that the leaf is a former pastedown.
Script:
Written by a single hand in an extremely cursive hand.
Layout:
Written height: 115-120 mm, width: 85 mm. No ruling. About 35 lines to the page.
Decoration:
No decoration.

Section shown in images 17 to 140

Title: Part 2
Origin Place: England.
Date of Creation: Copied in the early 13th century.
Language(s): Latin and Middle French
Associated Name(s): Claftun, John, fl. 13th century; Durant, Peter, fl. 15th century
Physical Description:
In prima spem
Extent: Codex: 62 leaves. Leaf height: 125-130 mm, width: 85 mm.
Collation:
- Quires 1-4¹⁴ (ff. 5-60)
- Quire 5⁶ (ff. 61-66)
Catchwords in brown ink in the lower right-hand corners of the last versos of quires.
Material: Parchment (HFFH)
Format: Codex
Condition: Large ink or water stains on ff. 5-9 and ff. 64v-65r, rendering sections of the text illegible.
Script:
Written by a hand in a script with features of protogothic and Northern Textualis.
Layout:
Written height: 105 mm, width: 70 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only, with occasional line ruling. Mainly single columns (except ff. 66r-66r, which has three columns, and 66v-66v, which has two). 26 lines to the page, written above top line.
Decoration:
Large (2-4 lines) initials in red or green, often with minor penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in the opposite colour.

Headers higlighted in red ink.

Regular (1 line) capitals higlighted in red ink.

Paraphs in red ink.
Additions:
A possible title inscription for this part of the manuscript: "liber medicinale" added to f. 66v in a (?) 14th-century hand.
Provenance:
John Claftun (fl. 13th century): his name inscribed on f. 66r: "Magister iohannes claftun - Magister mei".
Peter Durant (fl. 15th century): his name inscribed on f. 66v: "Petri durant".

Section shown in images 17 to 137

Title: Practica breuis
Author(s): Joannes Platearius
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Rubric: 5r hic liber Platearii
Incipit: 5r Amicum induit
Explicit: 65r puluis inde factus fistule in[...]atur
Final Rubric: 65r Explicit liber Platearii
Bibliography:
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Section shown in images 137 to 137

Title: Panormia seu Liber derivationum
Author(s): Osbern of Gloucester
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Full transcription, save for an additional last line which has not been transcribed.
Excerpts:
Rubric: 65r
Incipit: 65r Si rogat addideris con- congregat e- dat in infert / Pre superat sub substituit pro protrahit inter / Querit de minuit ab destruit arque superbit

Section shown in images 137 to 137

Title: Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Two medical recipes, followed by an unread instruction that involves reading the Pater noster.

Section shown in images 138 to 138

Title: Recipes for medical oils
Note(s): A marginal inscription reads: "oleis fratris et sicut".

Section shown in images 139 to 140

Title: Definitions of terms in medical works by Hippocrates
Author(s): Hippocrates
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): The text appears to refer to works by Hippocrates: 'Explicit liber Afforisimorum', 'pro[g]nosticon'.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 66r In periodis inparibus [sic: imparibus]
Explicit: 66v variole id est pocke [morbilli]

Section shown in images 140 to 140

Title: Charm
Language(s): Middle French
Note(s): Possibly a blood-staunching charm, using the motif of Christ's baptism in the River Jordan: "Le flum Jordan".; Written twice in different hands: added in the late 13th or early 14th century.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 66v le flum iordan cent humes ha

Section shown in images 141 to 156

Title: Part 3
Origin Place: England.
Date of Creation: Copied in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Physical Description:
68r maximum est
Extent: Codex: 8 leaves. Leaf height: 130 mm, width: 90 mm.
Collation:
Quire 6⁸ (ff. 67-74)
Material: Parchment (FHFH)
Format: Codex
Script:
Copied by a single scribe in an Anglicana script.
Layout:
Written height: 100 mm, width: 60 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only. Single columns. 30 lines to the page, written below top line.
Decoration:
Regular (1 line) capitals highlighted in red ink.

Paraphs in red ink.

Underlining in red ink.

Section shown in images 141 to 156

Title: Manipulus Florum [beginning]
Author(s): Thomas of Ireland
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): This copy contains selected extracts from the work's first twelve tituli.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 67r Abstinencia. Bonum est in cibo cum graciarum accione
Explicit: 71r si autem renuit operari amor non est - gregorius in omelia 3o
Bibliography:
Rouse and Rouse (1979), pp. 329-330

Section shown in images 150 to 156

Title: A Tretis of Maydenhod
Language(s): Middle English
Excerpts:
Rubric: 71v Here beginneþ a tretis of maydenhod
Incipit: 71v Sister we greten ȝow of inward herte desiringe ȝoure encres specialli in souȝle willinge ȝow wiþ seynt pouȝle to loue and folwe in dede most goode ȝiftes of ȝe spiriȝt
Explicit: wiþ sobirnes and heling charite wiþ long abidingnes
Bibliography:
Connolly (2009), p. 211 [other copies]

Section shown in images 157 to 399

Title: Part 4
Origin Place: England.
Date of Creation: Copied in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Associated Name(s): [? Colman], Thomas, fl. c. 1475-1450
Physical Description:
76r posid not
Extent: Codex: 113 leaves. Leaf height: 125 mm, width: 90 mm.
Collation:
- Quire 7⁸ (ff. 75-82)
- Quire 8^8-6 (ff. 83v-84v: 3rd-8th leaves missing)
- Quire 9^8-7 (ff. 85: 1st-7th leaves missing)
- Quires 10-12⁸ (ff. 86r-109v)
- Quire 13^8-2 (ff. 112r-117v: 1st and 2nd leaves missing)
- Quires 14-22⁸ (ff. 118r-189v)
Catchwords in decorative banderols in brown ink in the right-hand lower corners of the last versos of quires.
Material: Parchment (HFHF)
Format: Codex
Condition: Many of the decorated initials have been blurred or smudged.
Script:
Copied by different hands in an Anglicana script with Secretary influences (see the single-compartment 'a').
Layout:
Written height: 90-95 mm, width: 60 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only. Single columns. 26-33 lines to the page, written below top line.
Decoration:
Two large (5-6 lines) puzzle initial in blue and red in a frame of red and blue ink with floral motifs inside the letter and a partial (one-sided) border in red ink (ff. 75r, 79v).

Large (3 lines) blue initials in frames of red penwork decoration with pen-flourishing extending into the margins.

Line fillers in blue or/and red ink.

Paraphs in blue or red ink.
Additions: Prayers in English and Latin added in a 16th-century hand to the margins of ff. 119v, 123v, 126v, 127r, 179v.
Provenance:
Thomas [? Colman] (fl. c. 1475-1450): his name inscribed on f. 67r: 'sir thomas [?] collman]'.

Section shown in images 157 to 244

Title: The Cloud of Unknowing
Language(s): Middle English
Excerpts:
Rubric: 75r Here begynnyth a bok of contemplacioun the wich is clepid þe clowde of unknowyng in þe wich a souȝle is oned wiþ god
Incipit: 75r God unto wom alle hertes ben open and unto whom alle wille spekith and unto wom no priuey þing is hid i beseche þe so for to clense þe entent of myn herte wiþ þe unspekable ȝift of þi grace
Explicit: 120v hole counseel and gosteli counfort in god wiþ habundaunce of grace euere be wiþ þe and alle goddes loueres in erþe amen
Final Rubric: 120v Here endeth þe book I clepid þe clowde of vnknowinge of contemplacioun. deo gracias.
Bibliography:
Hodgson (1944)
Connolly (2009), p. 211 [other copies]

Section shown in images 244 to 248

Title: 'How man is made to the image of God' [translated from De Trinitate, 10 and 14
Author(s): Augustine
Language(s): Middle English
Excerpts:
Rubric: 120v Here beginneþ a sermoun of seynt austin how man is maad to þe ymage and þe liknes of god his makere
Incipit: 120v How greet is þe dignite of mannes makyng it is knowen þat not be worde alone of god biddinge man is maad of nouȝt as oþer werkes of sixe daies but be conceil of þe holy trinite and þe werk of goddes mageste þat he schulde knowe þe onour of þe firste makynge hou meche he ouȝte to his makere
Explicit: 122v wich maade man wonderfulli to his liknes in þe first adam and more wonderfully reformed or aȝen maade in þe secounde adam þat is crist
Bibliography:
Connolly (2009), p. 211 [other copies]

Section shown in images 248 to 269

Title: A Tretyse of þe Stodye of Wysdom þat Men Clepen Beniamyn [free and abridged translation of Benjamin minor]
Author(s): Richard of St Victor
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Rubric: 122v Here beginneþ a book þe ricard of seynt victore maad up þe historie of joseph and of his xij sones and is callid beniamyn
Incipit: 122v Gret clerk þat men callen richard of seynt victore in a book þat he makeþ of þe studie of wisdom witnessiþ and seiþ þat two myȝtes arn in a mannes souȝle ȝeuen of þe fader of heuene
Explicit: 133r so þat it be fulfillid in þe þat is wreten in þe psalme ibi beniamyn adoloscentulus in mentis excessu þat is to say þere is beniamyn þe ȝonge childe in reueschynge of mynde
Final Rubric: 133r Explicit. þus endiþ beniamyn.
Bibliography:
Hodgson (1955)
Hodgson (1982)
Connolly (2009), p. 211 [other copies]

Section shown in images 269 to 270

Title: Prayer to God [English translation of 'Concede mihi, misericors Deus']
Author(s): Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas
Language(s): Middle English
Note(s): Incomplete; a complete copy of the text occurs on ff. 163v-165r. Only the latter copy attributes the prayer to Thomas Aquinas.; Unique according to Connolly (2009), but another version which attributes the translation to Princess Mary in 1527 occurs in London, British Libary, Add. MS 17012, ff. 192v-194r.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 133r O þou merciful lord god i besche þe graunt unto me whatsoeuere be plesinge unto þe feruently to desiren wiseli to seken and serchyn sothfastli for to knowen and parfiȝtli to compleschen and fulfillen only to þe preising and þe glorie of þi blissed name
Explicit: 133v and graunt me alwei to endresse and directe myn hert to þe ward and in my trespassing
Bibliography:
Doyle (1948) [edition from this manuscript]

Section shown in images 288 to 334

Title: De domo conscientiae
Author(s): Pseudo-Hugh of St Victor
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 134r Domus hec in qua habitamus ex omni parte minatur ruinam
Explicit: 157r pocius contemplacione quam terrestrium occupacione
Final Rubric: 157r Explicit hugo de consciencia / Valeat in Christo et vigeat qui verum videat
Bibliography:
PL 184. 507–552
Bloomfield 1787

Section shown in images 334 to 334

Title: The XVI Points of Charity
Language(s): Middle English
Excerpts:
Incipit: 157r Man among thi mirþe þis haue in mynde / Whennes þu cam and weder þu tendis
Explicit: 157r I ham not worþ to gon as longe as me want par charite
Bibliography:
IMEV 2040
NIMEV 2040
DIMEV 3334

Section shown in images 336 to 344

Title: De spirituali amicitia
Author(s): Aelred of Rievaulx
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Rubric: 158r Sanctus Alredus de vera amicicia
Incipit: 158r Est enim ait regressus ad amicum excepto conuicio et inproperio et superbia et mysterii reuelatione et plaga dolosa
Explicit: 162r cum deus fuerit omnia in ominbus. Amen
Final Rubric: 162r Explicit Alredus de vera amicica.

Section shown in images 344 to 344

Title: Prayer to the Virgin Mary and St Anne
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Full transcription.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 162r Et benedicat sit mater tua anna que te virgo genuit / Et benedictus sit venter de quo caro tua virginea processit. Amen

Section shown in images 345 to 347

Title: De dignitate sacerdotum
Author(s): Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Rubric: 162v Bernardus de dignitate sacerdotum
Incipit: 162v O Quantam dignitatem contulit vobis deus
Explicit: 163v omnibus dico vigilitate etcaetea

Section shown in images 347 to 350

Title: Prayer to God [English translation of 'Concede mihi, misericors Deus']
Author(s): Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Note(s): Complete; an incomplete version of the text occurs on ff. 133r-133v.; Unique according to Connolly (2009), but another version which attributes the translation to Princess Mary in 1527 occurs in London, British Libary, Add. MS 17012, ff. 192v-194r.
Excerpts:
Rubric: 163v Oracione thomas de alquin
Incipit: 163v-164r O þouȝ merciful lord god i besche þe graunt unto me whatoeuere be plesing unto þe feruently to desiren wysely for to seken and sergen sothfastli for to knowen and parfiȝtly to compleschen and fulfillen onli to þe preising and þe glorie of þi blissed name
Explicit: 165r and be in possessioun of þi eternal blisse be continuȝaunce of gladnesse þat neuere schal haue ende amen
Bibliography:
Doyle (1948) [edition from this manuscript]

Section shown in images 352 to 374

Title: Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi
Author(s): Albertano da Brescia
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 166r Inicio et medio ac fine mei tractatus assit gratia sancti spiritus
Explicit: 177r et eterna guadia nos faciat peruenire. Amen
Final Rubric: 177r Explicit liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi ab albertano causidico Brissiensi de hora sancte agathe compositus et compilatus

Section shown in images 375 to 397

Title: A Dialogue between Reason and Adversity
Language(s): Middle English
Note(s): Unique copy, but imperfect at the end; based on Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae.
Excerpts:
Rubric: 177v A Dialogue between Reason and Adversity
Incipit: 177v Nature was not my frende þat suffrede me to be bore of unsemeli schap resoun
Explicit: 188v not only hard fare of mete and of drynk but also of oþer tribulaciones it schulde turne to swetnesse aduersite
Bibliography:
Diekstra (1968) [edition from this manuscript]

Section shown in images 398 to 398

Title: Prayer (unfinished)
Language(s): English
Note(s): Full transcription; added in the 16th century.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 189r And for me in the nam of god an

Section shown in images 399 to 399

Title: Prayers to God
Language(s): English
Note(s): Full transcription; added by two hands in the 16th century.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 189v O lord of whome I doe depend behold my carful hert for when thy will and pleasur is relese I relese me of my smart / O God whatt frende hath for his frende abidden halfe such paine and wooe as thou my god and guide most Just hast dou for mee thy Cruell foe

Section shown in images 400 to 454

Title: Part 5
Origin Place: England.
Date of Creation: Copied in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description:
191r -tes autem sum
Extent: Codex: 28 leaves. Leaf height: 125 mm, width: 90 mm.
Collation:
- Quire 23⁸ (ff. 190-197)
- Quires 24-25¹⁰ (ff. 198r-217v)
Material: Parchment (HFFH)
Format: Codex
Condition: Water stains throughout. Damage has rendered the last few lines on f. 218r. Some text has been lost due to damage to the inner margins of ff. 223-226: these have been repaired with blank paper.
Script:
Copied by a single scribe in a cursive script with Anglicana and Secretary features.
Layout:
Written height: 100 mm, width: 65-70 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only, occasional line ruling. Single columns. 25 lines to the page, written below top line.
Decoration:
Two-line initials in red ink.

Explicits with display capitals highlighted and either underlined in red ink or placed in a frame of red ink (ff. 196r, 213).

One-line capitals highlighted in red ink.

Paraphs in red ink.

Underlining in red ink.

Section shown in images 400 to 412

Title: Scala Claustralium
Author(s): Guigo II
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Attributed to Adam the Carthusian ('Autore Adamo Carthusiensis') by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) in an inscription in the upper margin of f. 190r.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 190r Cum die quadam corporali manuum labore occupatus et spiritualis hominis exercicia cogitare cepissem Quatuor spirituales gradus
Explicit: 196r delicatus est sponsus est nobilis est
Final Rubric: 196r Explicit scala claustralium que dicitur scala celi
Bibliography:
PL 40:997-1004
PL 184:475-484

Section shown in images 412 to 412

Title: Prayer on the Passion
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 196r Domine sancte pater eterne deus propter tuam largitatem et filii tui caritatem qui pro nobis sustinuit passionem
Explicit: 196r nichil me afficiat nisi tu nichil me contristet nisi culpa. Amen

Section shown in images 412 to 413

Title: Sequence of prayers on the Passion and wounds of Christ
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 196r Omnibus consideratis. paradisus voluptatis. es ihesu piisime
Explicit: 197r Dum vidisti deum spretum ut me ducas ad hunc cetum quem Christus eripuit. Amen

Section shown in images 414 to 415

Title: Prayer on the Passion
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 197r O crux frutex saluificus viuo fonte rigatus
Explicit: 197v Ad parte fit mortalibus eterne vite status
Bibliography:
Mone, Hymni Latini Medii aevi, I, p. 150

Section shown in images 416 to 447

Title: Tractatus de duodecim utilitatibus tribulationis
Author(s): Pseudo-Peter of Blois [here not attributed]
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 198r Da nobis auxilium in tribulacione
Explicit: 213v Per multas tribulaciones oportet nos introire in regnum celorum. Ad quod nos perducat qui sine fine viuit et regnat. Amen
Final Rubric: 213v Explicit tractatus de XII^um utilitatibus [tribulacionis]
Bibliography:
PL 207: 989–1007

Section shown in images 447 to 448

Title: Hymn to the Virgin Mary
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 213v Sponsa Joseph dia genetrix lux virgo Maria
Explicit: 214r valeat per tempora longa

Section shown in images 449 to 449

Title: A motto
Language(s): Latin and English
Note(s): Full transcription; added in the 16th century.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 214v In domino confido Ryght reue[re]nt

Section shown in images 454 to 454

Title: Draft indenture
Language(s): English
Note(s): Full transcription; added in the 16th century.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 217r This indenture made the ffirst daye of meaye in ye ffyrst yeare of the Rayne of our souerayn Ladie Ellizabethe by the grace of god of England Fran[ce] and of Erlande

Section shown in images 456 to 501

Title: Part 6
Origin Place: England or France.
Date of Creation: Copied in the second half of the 12th century.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description:
220r -uolute genibus
Extent: Codex: 23 leaves. Leaf height: 125 mm, width: 90 mm.
Collation:
- Quire 26^8-1 (ff. 215-224 (1st leaf missing)
- Quires 27-28⁸ (ff. 225r-240v)
Material: Parchment (FHHF)
Format: Codex
Condition: Water stains throughout. Damage has rendered the last few lines on f. 218r. Some text has been lost due to damage to the inner margins of ff. 223-226: these have been repaired with blank paper.
Script:
Copied by a single scribe in a protogothic script.
Layout:
Written height: 100 mm, width: 60 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only, but only rarely visible: it is not possible to determine whether the text is written above or below the top line. Single columns. 23-25 lines to the page.
Decoration:
Large (2-6 lines) initials in green or red sometimes with Arabesque motifs in the same or opposite colours inside the letters.

Rubrics in red.

One-line capitals highlighted in red.

Run-over symbols (ff. 228r, 240r) highlighted in red.

Section shown in images 456 to 259

Title: Contra Jovinianum
Author(s): Jerome
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Rubric: 218r Liber contra Iovinianum
Incipit: 218r Satis habundeque christiane pudicicie et virginitatis angelice de divinis libris exempla prebuimus
Explicit: 240r Roma aut fortitudinis nomen est iuxta grecos aut sullimitatis iuxta hebreos. Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori
Bibliography:
PL 23:340-420

Section shown in images 501 to 501

Title: Theological notes
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Added in the late 13th or early 14th century.

Section shown in images 502 to 519

Title: Part 7
Origin Place: England.
Date of Creation: Copied in the 13th century.
Language(s): Latin
Extent: Codex: 8 leaves. Leaf height: 110-120 mm, width: 75-85 mm.
Collation:
This part consists of 8 (? separate) leaves.
Material: Parchment (not established)
Format: Codex
Script:
Copied by various hands in cursive scripts.
Layout:
Written height: 85-115 mm, width: 65-75 mm. No ruling. Single frames. 25-38 lines to the page.
Decoration:
One large black initial with red penwork decoration (f. 242r).

One large, two-line plain red initial (f. 244r).

Underlining in red ink.

Section shown in images 502 to 502

Title: Miracle of St Augustine of Canterbury at Compton
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): The incipit refers to Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
Excerpts:
Rubric: 241r [...] a Wudestoke
Incipit: 241r In pago Oxorifordensi [sic]' est villa cummeton [sic: 'Cumpton'] nomine quo confessor beatus agustinus praedicasset
Explicit: 241r relictis [...] beatum Augustinus omnibus diebus vite secutus diem clausit extremum et gaudium intravit eter[nae]
Bibliography:
Acta Sanctorum, 19 [May part 6] (1846), Appendix: Ex Chronico Joannis Bromtoni. De mortuis, ad evictionem Decimarum et Excommunicationis vim probandam, suscitatis.
Horstmann, Noua Legende p. 100

Section shown in images 503 to 503

Title: Astronomical instructions
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Five short tracts with instructions, the four latter ones beginning: 'Quadrantum in quadante'; 'Si igitur vis sicre in quo gradu altitudinis sit sol'; 'Si vis scire altitudinem aliter rei'; 'Si res erecta ut curris nec sit in plano'.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 241v Si vis scire qualiter hore diei cognoscuntur
Explicit: 241v Si minus minue et patebat altitudo et co[...] et post f[...] sole non lucente

Section shown in images 504 to 505

Title: Exposition on the Gospel of John I
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 242r In principio erat uerbum: Quia in tribus aliorum euangeliorum dictis modus humane natiuitatis Christi describitur
Explicit: 242v aqua accepimus omnes et opus accipiemus in eterna beatitudine etcaetera

Section shown in images 506 to 507

Title: Fragment of an astrological text
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): The remaining text on f. [242a] recto reads 'Cancer' and a fragment of a miniature on f. [242a] verso shows a crab's claw with a star drawn inside it.

Section shown in images 508 to 508

Title: Sermon on the Gospel of Luke
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): The sermon draws from Gregory the Great's Homiliae in Evangelia.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 243r Cum audieritis praelia et cediciones
Explicit: 243r cumque cepissent laudes canere uertit dominus insidias eorum in semet ipsos

Section shown in images 509 to 509

Title: Exempla
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Collection of four exempla; followed by a faint (?) theological note in the lower margin by a different hand.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 243v ffilippus rex francie filius lodowici quondam nobilem
Explicit: 243v sic que suspensus est ille diues

Section shown in images 510 to 511

Title: Aequivoca
Author(s): Pseudo-John of Garland [here not attributed]
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 244r Augustus ti.to. cesar uel mensis habeto
Explicit: 244v est bubo uolucris . est morbus bubo sub ano apostema

Section shown in images 511 to 511

Title: Poem on council
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): A Latin verse followed by a French translation, with the latter beginning: 'Chival pu de regaine e a parole feminine'.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 244v Femineis uerbis nec equo qui pascitur herbis
Explicit: 244v e a solail apres nunne fet a crere Chival pu de regaine e a parole feminin
Bibliography:

Section shown in images 511 to 511

Title: Couplet
Language(s): Latin
Note(s): Full transcription.
Excerpts:
Incipit: 244v Jo su rai e regne haut. si fu jo me pou me vaut / Jo fu riche or nai nent. ki fit io forte ma ioie vent

Section shown in images 511 to 511

Title: Distichs on the Herods
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 244v Ascalonita necat pueros . Antura iohannem / Agrippa Iacobum, claudens in carcere Petrum
Bibliography:
Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum medii aeui (1969), no. 13110

Section shown in images 512 to 512

Title: Gloss on Revelation XII
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 245r signum magnum aparuit [sic] in celo
Explicit: 245r set [...] stellarum

Section shown in images 513 to 513

Title: Note on the masses on Christmas Day
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 245v Sacerdos in die natalis ter celebrat . prima missa statum ante legem significat
Explicit: 245v post missa de die preces de Defunctis

Section shown in images 513 to 513

Title: Dial of Ahaz
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 245v Sol qui per [...] .x. linearum in horologio etam tempore ezechie
Explicit: 245v per .x. gradus in horologio retrorsum vnde excidant ad orcum iusticie reueritur

Section shown in images 513 to 519

Title: Sermon
Language(s): Latin
Excerpts:
Incipit: 245v Rex est hodie et cras moritur
Explicit: 248v in figura in cordibus uestris etcaetera

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Western Medieval Manuscripts : Collection of medical, astrological, and theological works