Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (Prologue to the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'. ff. 4r-6v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (St Jerome's e...
Contents: Speculum humanae salvationis, a handbook of typology that draws parallels between episodes and prophesies in the Old and New Testaments, historical and natural events and saints' lives. ff. 1r-2v: List of chapters; f. 3r: Introduction, explaining the purpose and composition of the ...
Contents f. 2r: A 'bleeding table', in which Golden Numbers (1-19) are correlated with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with indications of their influence: 'Aries bonum - Thaurus malum - Gemini malum [etc.]'. ff. 3r-14v: Latin Calendar with Cisioianus; the name of each month is translated into Ge...
Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Thomas Brinton, Sermones (26 sermons), entitled ‘D[omi]ni Thom[ae] Bruton Rof[ensi] Ep[iscopi] Sermones’; featuring some Middle English verse. Decoration: Medium blue initials and small red initials.
Contents: ff. 1r-102r: William of Nassyngton, Speculum Vitae, imperfect at the beginning; ending with the verse ‘Sit tibi laus cristi quod liber explicit Iste’. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 6r-6v, 50r-50v, and 59r-59v: 16th-century copies of the Speculum Vitae replacing missi...
Contents: f. 1r: Added charters in Latin and English. f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r–95r: Miscellaneous register of St Albans Abbey, containing rentals, leases, acquittances etc., made before 1396.
Contents: ff. 1r-262r: Guilelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis; imperfect at the beginning (index Summa de Septem viciis capitalibus) Decoration: Small (2-, 3-, or 4-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Maginal sketche...
Folio manuscript volume containing a copy of the statutes of Magdalen College, Oxford, copied by Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey. Inscribed on f. 1: 'The statures of Magdalen College I copied out of one lent me by my son Richard Annesley. August & Sept 1677'.