The manuscript is the second volume of two. The first volume is now Harley MS 3814 A. A prayer book in Latin with rubrics in Italian. Includes: Seven Penitential Psalms with litanies (ff. 1r-20v), prayers to various saints (ff. 21r-69r), devotional texts on ten commandments, seven deadly sins...
John Bale, Anglorum Heliades, and other works on the Carmelite Order
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This manuscript contains three works by John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563) relating to his time as a Carmelite Friar (1506-in or after 1536). The works relate to the history of the Carmelite Order’s English province, biographies of the Order’s founders, and the history of Carmelite historical scholars...
Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine
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The manuscript contains: 1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v); 2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r); 3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the mon...
Text relating to bloodletting; Incipit: 'Item nota fleubothomia sic dicitur est vene recta inciso et / sanguinis moderate effusio et multa beneficis prestat'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. edn, The Mediaeval Academy of A...
Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the months
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f. 11r: Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum; Rubric 'Sanguineus', incipit: 'Largus amans hylaris ridens rubeique coloris', explicit: 'mulieribus aptus'. Another copy is Harley MS 2369, f. 23v. See S. De Renzi, Collectio Salernitana, ossia documenti inediti e trat...
Computus ecclesiasticus, incipit: 'Cum superior[um] motus omnia a quo infinis gubernantur'. Includes several circular diagrams in ink (ff. 13v-15v, 17r, 17v, 19r, 20r, 21r, 22v, 23v, 24r-25v).
Computus Judaicus, attributed to Petrus Rosenfeld, incipit: '[M]e pudet audire Judaeum talia scire.' The date '1456' is included at the end of the text (f. 39v).
A text relating to astrology, incipit (f. 63r): 'Duodecim signa zodiaci'; with a table (f. 62v) and diagrams (ff. 67r, 68r, 71r, 71v, 72v, 73v, 74r, 81v).