Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Miscellaneous collection including: Grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination (ff. 1r-6r); The Tribal Hidage (f. 6v); Aelfric, Grammar (ff. 7r-90r); Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus (ff. 90r-92v); Grammatical...
The Tribal Hidage, a list of thirty-five tribes and assessments of hides for territories south of the Humber. According to Featherstone (2001), it is the earliest and most complete of the seven surviving medieval manuscripts of the Tribal Hidage.
Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus including eight rubrics: 'De triginta argenteos', 'De arca Noe' (extracts from Interrogationes Sigewulfi), 'De diebus malis', 'De diebus fesstis', 'De pactis', 'De concurrentibus', 'De alleluia', 'De solae'; and passages on the number of months, da...
Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt).
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Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt). The Latin text and its Old English translation are integrated in the same column (ff. 115v-118r) or the translation is included as an interlinear gloss (ff. 118v-120r).
Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento.
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Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento, excerpts: incipit 'Ic wolde secgan be þam ungesaeligum folce...' (ll. 1227-61), and 'Hieronimus se wurðfulla...' (ll. 1017-1153). Decoration: Initials in red.
Title: 'De initio creature', incipit: 'Her maeg findan se ðe sécan wile. hu micel þaes gerageteles is..' The last section of the text gives the date 1032: ‘ðonne is nu fram frymþe ealle aúrnen. Syx þusend wintra. 7 an hund wintra. 7 etwa 7 þrytyg wintra. To ðaem eastrun. þe bið .IIII. non. Apr....
Miscellany including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, translations and recipes. Contents as follows: 1. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium (ff. 1r-44r); 2. Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes and remedies in Old English and Latin (ff. 44v-51r); 3. Peri didaxeon (ff. 51v-66v)....
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
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The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
