A commentary on Aristotle, De anima, entitled In libros tres Aristotelis de anima disputatium cum ea proemialis de scientia animastica, incipit: 'Quanti facienda sit tractatio de anima...'
Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera
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Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera, entitled In Spheram Iohannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius, incipit: 'Compendium quodam est...'
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
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The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes
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Medicina de quadrupedibus. The text consists of the Old English translations of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. 1. ff. 44v-45v: De taxone liber (c. 8 recipes). Prologue 'Þe Egypta king ['rexe / king/ rex' added in the margin] þe idpartus wæs hatan / Octaviano þ...