The fifth unit of the manuscript includes Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour; Rubric 'Ici comence la pleynte de / amour', incipit: 'Amur Amur ou estes veus'. For the text see M. Vising, La Plainte d'Amour, poèm anglo-normand (Göteborg, 1905, 1907). Decoration: 1 initial (f. 199r; 2 lines) in b...
Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
Scope & Content:
Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Literary miscellany in verse and prose including: Goliardic verses including poems by Walter Map (ff. 75r-107r); Rubric (f. 75r): 'Apocalipsis Golye episcopi', incipit: 'A tauro torrida lampada cynthis?', explicit: 'Tu autem domine miserere crawe. Amen'. The verses include H. Walther, Initia carm...
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
Scope & Content:
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...
Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Livre de Sydrac. Decoration: Diagram in blue, brown and red ink of the planets (f. 117v); large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue wit...
Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum)
Scope & Content:
Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum). Decoration: Historiated initial of saint Edmund of Abingdon as a bishop holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog pursuing a hare, at the beginning of the text (f. 141)....
