The 'Tractatus quadrantis veteris'. Decoration: Diagrams (ff. 65v, 68r-70r), including one of a quadrant (f. 65v), and tables on (ff. 65v-66r). Large initials in gold and colours (ff. 64r, 66v). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue...
Robert Grosseteste, De sphaera. Decoration: Diagrams (ff. 74r, 78v, 79v-80v, 81v-82r). Large initial in gold and colours, at the beginning of the text (f. 74r). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue. Cleric faintly drawn within the...
Robert Grosseteste, Computus correctorius. Diagram (f. 83v) and tables (ff. 85v, 89r, 93r, 99v). Large initial in gold and colours, at the bginning of the text (f. 82v). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue. Drawing of a man under ...
Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Synonyma Avicennae. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Incipiunt synonima avicenne seu alphabetum', incipit: 'Alphadini id est medicus', explicit (f. 5r) 'Zegi id est atramentum vel vitreolum / Expliciunt synonima avicenne'. Followed (f. 5r) by a medical note, incipit: 'Medicina artium exellentissima'.
Avicenna, Canon medicine, Books I, II, V. Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona). Title (f. 6r) 'Incipit liber primus', rubric 'Incipit liber canonis primus, quem prin/ceps aboali ab nicenni de medicina edi/dit translatus a magistro giraldo cremo/nensi in toleto de arabico ...
Avicenna, Canon medicine, Book IV, Fen 1-2. Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis. Rubric (f. 138r): 'Incipit liber quartus canonis avicenne / fen prima de febre et sunt / quatuor tractatus / primus est de / febribus / effimeris', incipit: 'Febris est calor / extraneus accensus in corde', exp...