Vincent de Beauvais, De eruditione filiorum nobilium
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Vincent de Beauvais, De eruditione filiorum nobilium, preceded by a dedication to Margaret of Provance, queen consort of Louis IX of France, incipit: 'Serenissime ac reverentissime domine sue francorum dei gracia regine margarete', and a table of chapters; incipit (text): 'Filii tibi sunt; erudi...
Herbal, arranged alphabetically; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: 'Absinthium est calidum et siccum in tertio gradu', explicit: 'Zinziber caninum … kylle'. For table of contents see ff. 10r-11v. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in La...
Three computistical texts concerning the calculation of epacts, incipit: 'In primo decemnovenali ciclo...' (f. 54v); 'Ordo lunaris', incipit: 'Luna prima lucet con. xx viiii . iiii. i . iiii...' (perhaps based on Bede, De temporum ratione, cap. 17); 'Argumentum beati Theophyli', incipit: 'De epac...
Computistical excerpts including extracts from Bede, De temporum ratione, incipit: 'Si qui vero etiam calculandi minus idoneus', preceded by a diagram of the Zodiac (f. 133r). Also includes a diagram of the tidal rota from Bede's De temporum ratione (f. 135r).
The 'Tractatus quadrantis veteris'. Decoration: Diagrams (ff. 65v, 68r-70r), including one of a quadrant (f. 65v), and tables on (ff. 65v-66r). Large initials in gold and colours (ff. 64r, 66v). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue...
Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali, preceded by a list of chapters, rubric: 'Incipiunt capitula libri pastoralis beati gregorii pape', incipit (list of chapters): 'Ne imperiti venire'; rubric (text): 'Incipit liber pastoral. cure beati gregorii pape urbis rome ad iohanem ranem nate', incipit: ...
Aristotle, Liber methaurorum (imperfect). Decotration: 3 decorated initials 'D'(e), 'D'(e residuis), 'Q'(uoniam), in gold and colours with acanthus extending into the margin, at the beginning of books (ff. 80v, 93r). 3 diagrams added in the margins (ff. 88v, 94v, 97r).
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos, rubric: 'Pauli horosii presbiteri historiarum de hormesta mundi adversus paganos liber septimus incipit', incipit: ‘Sufficientia ut arbitor documenta collecta sunt'. Decoration: Large initial 'S' in blue with red pen-flourishing with an extension forming a p...