John of Sicily, Scriptum super canones Arzachelis de tabulis Toletanis
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John of Sicily, Scriptum super canones Arzachelis de tabulis Toletanis. Decoration: Diagrams in ink (ff. 97r, 102r, 106r, 108r, 113r, 117v-118v, 120r, 122v, 123v, 132v, 146r) and spaces left for diagrams (ff. 101v, 103v, 104r, 105r, 105v).
Short texts in prose and verse by various hands. Rubric (f. 38v): 'Dicta cuidam Goliardi anglici', incipit: 'Omnibus in Gallia anglus Goliardus': see H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1969), no. 13306; incipit: 'Quatuor e...
William Rede (?), Canon de conversione horarum et fractionum earum
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William Rede (?), Canon de conversione horarum et fractionum earum..., incipit: 'Quando autem volueris horas et fractiones horarum in gradus quertere...'
An abbreviation of the calendar canon by Nicholas of Lynn, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...'; with 2 astrological diagrams (ff. 35v, 36r), one of which is in the form of a volvelle (f. 36r). Decoration: Initials in red.
Galen, Commentarium in Hippocratis de regimine acutorum (Books 1-3)
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A Latin paraphrase of the first three books (lacking Book 4) of the treatise on general precepts of medical pathology by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC), accompanied by a commentary attributed to Galen (c. 130-200). In the upper and lower margins, alongside the paraphrase and the commentary, a l...
This item contains a 14th-century copy of an apocryphal text, entitled 'Vita Protoplasti nostri Ade, et Eve uxoris sue, fabulosissima' in this manuscript. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red (f. 68r).
Miscellaneous texts on the life and works of Horace
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Miscellaneous texts on the life and works of Horace, including: Vita Horatii, incipit: 'Horatius quintus flaccus precone patre naus'; explicit: 'Inde monocolos unimembre carmen' (f. 132r); C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Horatii, incipit:' Horatius habitu corporis'; explicit: 'esquiliis iuxta tum...