CALLIGRAPHICAL SPECIMENS, in French, Italian, Spanish, German, 'Belgic', and Latin, by Hermannus Nescher, of Antwerp, 1605. The name and date are on f. 6. Paper; ff. 38. Folio. 103/4 in. x 63/4 in. A. D. 1605. Not in the old catalogues.
This manuscript contains texts pertaining to medical remedies, diagnoses, charms, and a prognostic text about the Dog Days (ff. 54v-55v). The text is divided by tables of contents into three books. According to a Latin colophon, the first two books were compiled for a certain Bald by Cild (f. 10...
Lives of Saints and theological collections of the early 14th cent., in Latin; bound up with a Latin metrical arithmetic and other matter in hands of the 15th cent. Contents: 1. Algorismus Metricus: the common versified arithmetic [by Alexander de Villa Dei], cf. 8 C. IV, art. 11. Without title...
'TABELLAE CARDINALES': tables of the Right Ascension of about 130 fixed stars, with the sidereal time of their rising, southing, and setting, calculated for N. Lat. 51o 34', by Richard Forster [fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1562, President of the College of Physicians 1601- 1604 and 161...
DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERVM: a portion of the work of the Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus, comprising the account of particular birds, fishes, stones, plants, and animals i. e. libb. xii, xiii (cap. 26), xvi, xvii, cap. 3-end, xviii, capp. 2-106. Imperfect at the end. Without title, but a contempo...
LIBER EXPERIMENTARIUS or book of astrological sortes from the Arabic (cf. 12 C. XII, art. 36). A version in non-quantitative hexameters, of which there are other copies in Harley MS. 3892, f. 43, and Sloane MS. 2472. In the latter it is assigned to Bernard Silvester [of Chartres], an attribution...
COMMONPLACES from the Classics, apparently in the hand of John Morris (cf. 12 B. X). Paper; ff. 56. Octavo. 6 in. x 23/4 in. Beg. of XVII cent. Not in the old catalogues.
MEDICAL TREATISES, in Latin, viz.: 1. The work called Platearius de Simplici Medicina, or Circa instans, a treatise on simple medicines alphabetically arranged, by [Matthaeus or Johannes] Platearius (see Renzi, Coll. Salern. i, p. 228, and cf. 12 B. III, art. 5). Printed with Serapionis Practic...
TRACTS and notes on grammar and logic, in Latin, viz: 1. 'Albertus de modo significandi': a tract on grammar, from a logical point of view. Not included in Jammy's edition of the works of Albertus Magnus. In three parts, 'De modo significandi partium orationis', 'de modo significandi constructi...
MEDICAL TREATISES and commonplaces, in Latin and French, written in England, viz.: 1. Tractatus qui dicitur Flos medicine Salernie, compilatus a magistro Iohanne de Meiulano Salernie' (so colophon): the Schola Salernitana, a text of the same class as 12 B. XXIV, art. 1. Contained originally abou...