Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio, Müller GGM ii pp.104-176. 1111 hexameters instead of 1186. Acrostichs on ff. 5v-6, 19v-20. Interlinear glosses and marginal notes partly in Latin
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem
Scope & Content:
Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem (Walther, Initia Carminum (1959), no. 6525; Thorndike and Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits (1963), column 561). Often attributed to John of Garland. Rubric: 'Hic incipit librum computo manulis'. Begins: 'Filius esto dei celum bonus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
Richard of Saint-Victor, De duodecim patriarchis and John Beleth, Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis
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ff. 82r-82v: Definitions of terms, incipit: 'Intellectus est potencia naturalis'. ff. 83r-119r: Richard of Saint-Victor, De duodecim patriarchis (Beniamin minor) incipit: 'Beniamin adolescentulus in mentis excessu (...) Audiant adolescentuli sermonem de adolescente'. ff. 119v-155v: John Beleth...
Calendar from 1387 to 1462 (Calendarium minus and calendarium majus)
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Calendar from 1387 to 1462 (Calendarium minus and calendarium majus). Decoration: Images of solar and lunar eclipses in black and red illustrating the calendar.
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5: De urinis (extract)
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Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5, De urinis, extract; incipit: 'Condiciones Bernardi Gordonia de urína .i.e. cuirid Bernard .9. cuingill .x. / annso ar an fuál', explicit: 'an fual do beith ísil isna heslaintib geara ocus ard isna heaslaintib rigni et reliqua'. The text is an a...
Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum
Scope & Content:
A collection of lives of philosophers, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum, by Walter Burley (b.1274/5, d. in or after 1344), an English philosopher and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, incipit: 'Thales philosopus asianus ut ait Laertius...' Decoration: Initial in red with pen-flourished d...