This manuscript contains a presentation copy of De Ornatu Mulierum (On Women's Clothing), a Latin prose treatise by Nicolosa Sanuti (d. 1505). Sanuti was a wealthy Bolognese noblewoman and the wife of Nicolo Sanuti (b. 1407. d. 1482), Count of the Porretta. Her treatise first appeared in 1453 an...
includes: ff. 1-100 John Blakeney, Prior of Ingham, county Norfolk: Medicinale compendium: 15th cent. ff. 101-122 Medicine: De conservatione sanitatis abbreviatio: 15th cent. f. 123 Meteorology: Note of the weather during the four seasons of the year: 1468. ff. 124-125b Medicine: Treatises on d...
Contents: f. [ii] recto: Added notes relating to Anne Felbrigge, the Felbrigge family, and their arms, written by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. f. 1r: A number of former shelfmarks lined through, and an added paper label, featuring an 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Receipts: Miscellaneous receipts: 14th cent.: Dutch, Fr., and Lat. Owners of Manuscripts: Foucault (Nicolaus Josephus), Comes Consistorianus. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Grotesques: 14th cent.
Francis I; King of France: MS. belonged to his mother, Louise de Savoye, when Regent: in 1516. Owners of Manuscripts: Savoy (Louise de), Comtessa d'Angoulême; Regent of France: 1516. Liturgies LATIN: Horae B. Mariæ Virginis: 14th-16th cent.: Lat. and Fr.: Fragm. Art. Illuminations and Drawing...
Hero of Alexandria, Definitiones (TLG 0559.008), with figures of geometrical shapes
Scope & Content:
Hero of Alexandria, Definitiones (TLG 0559.008), with figures of geometrical shapes, ff 2r-47v, preceded and followed by two paper leaves from a noted Latin psalter (of 15th-16th century), ff 1r-v and 48r-v.
Algernon Peyton, Rector of Doddington county Cambridgeshire: Collection by his grandfather, Sir J. Peyton, of instructions to ambassadors etc ; presented to Charles II. Ambassadors: Instructions to, tempp. Edw. VI.-Jas. I., collected by Sir J. Peyton: 17th cent. Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of ...
includes: f. 1 Poetry ENGLISH: Verses on blood-letting: 15th cent. ff. 2 b-7 b Poetry ENGLISH: Poem on the virtues of herbs: 15th cent. ff. 7 b-32 b, passim Magic: Charms: 15th cent.: Lat. and Engl.: Imperf. ff. 8 b-32 b 2458 Medicine: Charms and Receipts. Orationes et receptæmedica.: 10th-18th...