The manuscript includes: 1. Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae (ff. 1r-41r); 2. Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi (ff. 42r-73v); 3. P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto (ff. 74r-109v); 4. Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum (ff. 110r-147v); 5. L...
General cartulary, arranged in sections with charters individually numbered in each, including royal and episcopal charters. f. 1*r: Fragment of an effaced indenture, 1620. f. 1r–6v: Foundation charters. ff. 7r–352v: Sections arranged topographically. ff. 353r–363r: Three 16th-century additi...
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), Comoediae. Decoration: Decorated initials in red ink. Rubrics, running headers, and abbreviations of protagonists' names in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Contents: ff. 1r-v: short texts on logic. ff. 2r-48v: Ovid, Fasti, glossed, imperfect, lacking parts of bks 3 and 4 (3.577-4.416, possibly eight leaves). ff. 49r-v: short texts on logic. Decoration: Several large initials in red and blue with pen flourishing.
Contents: ff. 6r-153v: Rosarium theologie; an anonymous work, previously incorrectly attributed to Alanus de Rupe. The text is unattributed in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1v, 2r, 3r, 5r: Inscriptions in a 17th-century hand, including a quotation of Psalm 13...