Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde (ff. 3r-62r); Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemee (ff. 62r-65v); Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects (ff. 66r-64r).
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...
Constitutiones clementinae and other constitutiones; theological, ecclesiastical and homiletic texts
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Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Constitutiones clementinae (Clementine Constitutions). ff. 24r-42v: Several ecclesiastical and homiletic texts. ff. 43r-81v: Several constitutiones. ff. 81v-128v: Theological and ecclesiastical texts. Decoration: Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Heraldic manuscripts of William Penson (d. 1637), Chester Herald, later Lancaster Herald. Includes among other things: Documentation of his dispute over the office of Chester Herald with Thomas Knight, the other officers of arms and the commissioners of the Earl Marshall, 1604-1612, including h...