This volume contains a book of remel, the science of divining through the use of dots. Its arrangement is largely similar to the text found in Harley MS 262. In a preface, the book is said to have been written for Hārūn al-Rashīd by 12 sages selected out of twelve thousand, and to comprise 144...
ff. 1-172v: Psalms 1-150 in parallel Greek, Latin and Arabic versions. The Arabic version was translated from the Greek by Abu'l-Fath 'Abdallāh ibn al-Fadl ibn 'Abdallāh al-Mutrān al-Antaki, deacon of the Melkite church of Antioch in the mid 11th cent. f. 173r: The Supernumerary Psalm 151 in pa...
This volume contains interlinear Psalm translation according to Ibn al-Fadl’s Arabic revision and Latin glosses. It begins: ‘We begin by the help of God…to write the blessed psalms, which were spoken by the mouth of the Prophet David, peace be upon him, through the Holy Spirit’. Contents: 150 ...
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
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This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
