Contents: ff. 4r-203v: Collection of Latin sermons, including excerpts from the Summa de vitiis et virtutibus of Denis the Carthusian (b. 1402, d. 1471), entitled: 'Sequitur aliqua excerpta dyonisii cartusiensis valde utilia: ex libello quodam qui intitulatur Illuminatorium salutaris sciencie ....
Contents: ff. 1r-129r: Prick of Conscience; imperfect at the beginning: loss of text on ff. 1-7 due to damage to folios; ff. 128r-129r have been substituted for lost leaves in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 77r: A Middle English verse, ‘After my warkes deme no...
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: The banquet for King Richard II, organised by John Fordham, Bishop of Durham, at Durham House, London, in 1387, ‘[T]his is the purviaunce made for King Richard being with þe Duc of lancastre at the Bisshoppes place of Durham at London the xxiij day of September the yere of ...
This manuscript contains the collected works of Albius Tibullus (c. 55 BC–19 BC), a Roman poet and writer of elegies. Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Tibullus, Elegies, bk I. ff. 24v-57v: Tibullus, Elegies, bk II. Vertical catchwords. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours of a winged horse (Pegasus),...
This manuscript contains the Punica, an epic poem in 17 books, written by the Roman consul and orator Silius Italicus (b. c. 28, d. c. 103). The poem relates the story of the Second Punic War and the conflict between the two generals Hannibal and Scipio Africanus. Contents: ff. 1r-117v: Sili...