Computistical excerpts including extracts from Bede, De temporum ratione, incipit: 'Si qui vero etiam calculandi minus idoneus', preceded by a diagram of the Zodiac (f. 133r). Also includes a diagram of the tidal rota from Bede's De temporum ratione (f. 135r).
Miscellanous excerpts about rivers and numbers including rubrics 'De fluminibus', 'De pluviis', 'Cur mare non crescit', 'De Nilo', a table of the Greek alphabet, numerals and months, and a text on properties of numbers.
Excerpts on astronomy, computus and mathematics, incipit: 'Rursus in eodem opere doctor...'; includig excerpts from Bede, De temporibus (ff. 168v-172v); and Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (ff. 172v-177r).
Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi
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The Life of Ceolfrid contains an account of the making of Ceolfrid's three great pandects (f. 27r). The Life, written by an anonymous monk, survives in only two manuscripts. Harley MS 3020 is the earliest (see Backhouse, The Making of England (1991)). Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Bede, Homiliae in Eva...
Contents: ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Caelesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'. ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St St...
Passio Sancte Juliane; Paul the Deacon of Naples, translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus,
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Contents: ff. 96r-112r: Passio Sancte Juliane (Passion of St Juliana of Nicomedia), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sancte Iuliane martyre quod est idus februarii initium Nicomedia sub Maximiano imperatore. Tempore illo quidan senator nomine Eleusius, amicus Maximiani imperatoris'. ff. 113r-132r: P...
Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum
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Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum. Decoration: Historiated initial 'E'(ex) of Giles of Rome with a partial border, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). 9 smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold (ff. 4v, 6r, 10r, 14v, 18v, 20v, 22v, 23v, 25r).
Aristotle, De natura animalium. Decoration: Historiated initial 'A'(d) of Aristotle, with a foliate border, at the beginning of the text (f. 32v). 1 smaller decorated foliate initial (f. 35r).