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1. Arundel MS 230, ff 1-6

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 230, ff 1-6
Title:
Philippe de Thaon, Comput; De Singulis Mensibus; Calendar; Psalter in Anglo-Norman verse (Prologue); List of perilous days (in Anglo-Norman); prose instruction for masses (in Anglo-Norman)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), Comput, imperfect; the work continues on ff. 182r-194v; the correct order is ff. 1r, 182r-183v, 185r-185v, 194r-194v, 184r-184v, 192r-192v, 186r-191v, 193r-193v (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), pp. 190-91 [no. 346]). f. 1v: Anonymo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Arundel MS 230

2. Arundel MS 230, ff 181-194

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 230, ff 181-194
Title:
List of plant names (in Anglo-Norman); Romance de Alexandre (fragment); Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 182r-194v: Philippe de Thaon, Comput (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), pp. 190-91 [no. 346]). The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 181r: A list of plants in Anglo-Norman, added in the mid 14th century (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), p. 173 [no....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Arundel MS 230

3. Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 91–111

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 91–111
Title:
Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 91r-91v: Computistical tables, the second one for the years 1133-1177. ff. 92r-97v: Calendar, adapted for the use of Canterbury. ff. 98r-108v: Computistical treatises. f. 109r: Genealogy of kings in Anglo-Norman, beginning ‘Hic est Istoria Francorum’ (Anglo-Norman). ff. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

4. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85
Title:
Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

5. Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v
Title:
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect. ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475