A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
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Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
De origine gigantum, a Latin abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman Des Grantz Geanz, a short narrative telling the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leaves may have been taken from a different manuscript. For the text see Carley and Crick 1995.
Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins.
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Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins, incipit: 'Idolatria, sortilegia, incantaciones'; see Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices 1100-1500, ed. by M. W. Bloomfield et al. The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 88 (Cambridge MA, 1979), n...
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
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'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Astronomical and astrological diagrams of the planetary spheres (f. 27r); positions of the sun and earth (ff. 27r-27v); the universe with Hell in the centre (f. 28r); the zodiac, the longitude of the sun (f. 29r); a computistical volvelle to calculate Easter (f. 29v).