Astronomical text listed in the table of contents as 'Tractatus de naturiis planetarum', incipit: 'Saturnus est primus que scripsimus...' Decoration: Initials in red. Includes two tables (ff. 133v, 133r).
Alkindus (al-Kindi), De mutatione temporum, here attributed to Dorotheus and listed as the 'Tractatus de imbribus et pluviis' in the table of contents. Decoration: Initials in blue.
Liber novem iudicum (imperfect). The text on ff. 156-162v was supplied by a diffferent, slightly later hand. Decoration: Initials in blue. Places left for diagrams (ff. 147v-149r, 150v).
Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford (entitled 'Liber fratris Perscrutatoris de impressionibus aeris' in the table of contents). Decoration: Initials in blue.
Poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus
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A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus, incipit: 'Nymphae, candidulae Nymphae...'
Correspondence between Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Francis de Vere.
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Includes a letter from Henry Percy (b. 1564, d. 1632), Earl of Northumberland, to Sir Francis de Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), and De Vere's reply, see Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3: With addenda 1547-65 (1870), Queen Elizabeth - Volume 283: April 1602: Letter from Henry Perc...
A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624
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A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624,relates to the Ambyona massacre of 1623 in which ten Englishmen in the service of the British East India Company were tortured and executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company on Ambon Island (now Indonesia).
The History of the reigne of King Henry the 8th, King Edward, Queen Mary and part of Queen Elizabeth
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A chronicle entitled: The History of the reigne of King Henry the 8th, King Edward, Queen Mary and part of Queen Elizabeth, incipit: 'The books which are written doo in their kinds...'
Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St. Martin's, Dover
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Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St. Martin's, Dover . Edward II's confirmation of the charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire is published in William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (L...