EUTROPIUS and Paulus Diaconus, &c., viz.: 1. ' Incipit liber primus (-decimus) Romane historie'; with colophon, 'Explicit liber x. huc usque historiam, Eutropius composuit, cui tamen aliqua Paulus dinconus addidit'. The text is of the type usual in Paulus MSS. (see next art.). f. 2. 2. 'I...
Contents: f. 1r: Three extracts with the rubric 'Laus sancti Augustini super psalterium', beginning 'Canticum psalmorum animas decorat', 'Canticum psalmorum carmen electum', and 'In psalterio solo'. ff. 1r-4r: Easter tables for the 532 years from 1128-1659, with an explanation beginning, 'In...
Philosophical works and fragments, chiefly by Roger Bacon
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This volume contains philosophical and mathematical treatises, chiefly by Roger Bacon (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1292), and was probably originally bound with its sister volume, Royal MS 7 F VIII, and subsequently separated while in Oxford in the middle of the 16th century. Other leaves of the same manu...
Paschasius Radbertus, Liber de corpore et sanguine domini
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Contents: ff. 1r–143r: Paschasius Radbertus, Liber de corpore et sanguine domini, ‘Paschasius radbertus placido suo salutem. Dilectissimo filio et uice christi… ut ad illa resurrectionis gaudia quantotius venire valeamus. Explicit liber de corpore domini quem ratbertus abba composuit’. ff. 143...
Contents: 3 parchment codices bound together in the following order: Royal MS 17 A xlii: The Sworne Book of Honorius and other magical texts, 15th century (ff. 1-82); Royal MS 17 A xiv: Curiosity, or The Curious Man, a poem translated from Latin or Spanish, 17th century (ff. 1-12); Royal MS...
Contents: ff. 4r-11v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 12r-66r: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by a preface (ff. 12r-13r). ff. 66r-99r: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by a preface (ff. 66r-67r) and capitula (ff. 67r-68r). ff. 99v-159v: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by capitula (ff. 99...
1. S. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, theological writings, viz.:- (a) 'Epistola ad Adam monachum'; imperfect, beg. ' [mo]destiam uel potius molestiam'(Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxxii. 99). f. 2. (b) ' Apologia Bernardi ad Willelmum', &c.; cf. 5 F. 1, art. 2 (1). f. 3 b. Epistolae, viz.:-(a) to Thomas [Pr...
Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
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A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
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An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...