Grant of Isabel, Countess de Warenne, to the priory of St Katherine, Lincoln
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Isabel, Countess de Warenne (b. c. 1137, d. c. 1203) grants easements for 60 beasts to the priory of St Katherine, Lincoln, for the soul of her husband Earl Hamelin de Warenne (b. c. 1130, d. 1202). Endorsed: 'Cart[a]'. Affixed with a seal (now damaged) of a standing female figure (Birch, Cata...
Grant of King John of England (r. 1199–1216) to William de Belver
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Grant of King John of England to William de Belver, the son of William de Albineius, and to his heirs, that they may have a market at Bridgeford [Staffordshire], on any Thursday, and one fair in the same place each year through the three 'dies duraturam', that is the day of the Feast of St Peter...
Detached pen-drawing from an English Missal; copy of a grant from William le Poer, lord of Pirton, to the Church of St John the Baptist, Pirton, and its rector Philip for rights of pasturage.
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This leaf was formerly part of a Missal made between 1220 and 1230, belonging to the parish of Pirton, Worcestershire. On the recto is a pen drawing of the Crucifixion, showing the figures of Christ, the Virgin, and St John tinted in green and pink-brown, with a green frame. On the verso is a 14...
Treatises on astronomy, astrology, mathematics and geometry
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The manuscript includes: Table of contents, f. 1v; Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum (ff. 2r-15v); Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (ff. 16r-17r); Thebit ben Corat, De figura sectore (ff. 17r-18v); Thebit ben Co...
The table of contents includes references to medieval foliation. Its wording shows differences from the description of this manuscript in the extant catalogue of St. Augustine's abbey (see Barker-Benfield, 2008, p. 1155).
Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum
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Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum, in the Latin translation by Michael Scot (1217). Decoration: 12 astronomical diagrams in ink (ff 6r, 7v, 9r, 9v, 10v, 11r, 12r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 15r, 15v).