Cartulary of Sawley Abbey, containing copies of baronial, privat, and occasional episcopal charters and deeds, arranged topographically in 12 sections by titles (titluli) or presses (casae). Miscellaneous additions throughout and at the end, ff. 188–198. ff. 1*–3*: Table of contents and inscrip...
Quarto manuscript volume containing a Latin to Anglo-Saxon dictionary, with grammatical observations. Many of the entries are in the hand of Abraham Wheelocke [or Whelock].
Contents: ff. 1r-129v: Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis (Ladder of Perfection); imperfect, the first two parts only. With the opening rubric: ‘Here bygynyth þe boke þat is I clepyde scale perfeccionis and it haþ twey partes’; beginning: ‘Gostly broþer in Ihesu crist I preye þe þat in þe cally...
Contents: ff. 1r-65r: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia; begins with Lucan's epitaph on f. 1r. Numerous medieval and post-medieval inscriptions and pen-trials including the outline of white-vine decoration. Decoration: 2 historiated initials in gold and colours with a lady and a man holding...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Contents: f. 1r: Vita Terentii. f. 1v: Argumentum fabulae Andriae. ff. 2r-277v: Terence, Comoediae; including Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timoroumenos, Hecyra, Phormio, Adelphi, and versuum distinctione; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large initials in red. Abbreviations of protagonis...
Contents: ff. 1r-57r : Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti,with glosses. f. 57v: Numerous Latin grammar exercises in various hands. Decoration: Several small initials in red.
A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...