Medical miscellany preceded by leaves from a liturgical manuscript (lectionary?) with musical notation (ff. ii recto-ix verso). Texts include: Treatise on urine (ff. 1r-23v); Regimen of health (ff. 23v-32r); Four medical recipes (ff. 32r-32v).
Treatise on urine in Middle English with chapter titles in Latin. A list of uroscopic symptoms possibly drawn from a number of sources. It appears to differ from the Middle English compilation by Henry Daniel (fl. 1379), a Dominican friar and horticulturist. Incipit: 'Urene is clensyng of blode a...
'Ad sanitatem conservandam', a medical treatise; incipit: 'Quicumque vult continuam custodire sanitatem stomacum custodiat / ne cum sibi sit cibus necessarius eum prohibeat', explicit: 'et baccarum laur et hec / sufficiant'.
Contents: ff. 1r-124r: Registrum Brevium from the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377). ff. 126r-129v: Magna Carta. ff. 129v-131v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 131v-132r: Sentencia lata super Cartas. ff. 132v-134v: Provisiones de Mertone. ff. 134v-139r: Statuta de Merleberge. ff. 139r-148v: ...
Tractatus fabularum extractarum ex libris metamorfoseon ovidij expositarum morliter et allegorice
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: A table of contents. ff. 12r-57r: Tractatus fabularum extractarum ex libris metamorfoseon ovidij expositarum moraliter et allegorice.
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Collection of fifty sermons; itemised in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, pp. 509-10. Decoration: Initials in red or green, occasionally with penwork in the other colour.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Collection of theological texts, including Richard of Arnsberg, Expositio Missae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: Compilation of theological excerpts, beginning: 'Otium stultitiam labor scientiam generat'. ff. 64r-68v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De institutione novitiorum, chapter 12, beginning: 'Gestus est modus et figuratio membrorum corporis ad omnem agendi et habendi modum'. f. 69r...
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Synodal Constitutions of Guillaume de Trie, Archbishop of Reims (r. 1324-1334); includes other Synodal Constitutions from 1303, 1317, 1326 and 1329. ff. 26r-30v: Constitutions of the Provincial Council of Jean de Vienne, Archbishop of Reims (r. 1335–1351), 26 July 1344. ...