The town and lake at Jhalrapatan (Jhalawar), with a sepoy and peasants working an irrigation system in the foregound.
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The town and lake at Jhalrapatan (Jhalawar), with a sepoy and peasants working an irrigation system in the foregound. Inscribed below: ‘A view of the Lake and Town of Jalra Patun. No. 12.’ 295 by 500 cm.
Glossed Aristotle De anima, with added texts in Latin, French and Middle English
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1. A fragment of Aristotle's De anima with glosses added in the late 13th century (ff. 1r-12v); On the lower half of the pages and in spaces in the Aristotle text have been added: (i) Inscription (see below, item 2), verses (f. 2: Boffey 539.5, 1227, 1961.3, 3238.5) and a list of contents of t...
Ayenbite of Inwyt, prayers and treatises in Middle English
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1. Ayenbite of Inwyt ('Prick of Conscience'), a translation into the Kentish dialect of the French treatise on morality, Somme le roi. This is thought to be an autograph copy by the translator, Michael of Northgate, and is the only surviving example of the text in Middle English. A verse on f. 9...
John Killingworth [Chillingworth], Astronomical tables, with canons attributed to Thomas Pray
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John Killingworth [Chillingworth], Astronomical tables, title: 'Tabulas Kelyngworth Oxoniensis'; rubric: 'Incipiunt tabule que dicuntur Kelyngworthe' (ff. 3r-32v); preceded by canons explaining the use of John Killingworth's tables attributed to Master Thomas Pray of University College, Oxford, ...
Catalogue of Stars extracted from Ptolemy, Almagest, in the Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona, updated with new calculations for the year 1440; title: 'Facies celi gradibus et loci stellarum'; rubric: 'Constellaciones formarum septemtrionalium; incipit: 'Illa que est super extremitate caude...
Guido Bonatti, Decem tractatus astronomiae:(ff. 53r-248v), preceded by a table of contents (ff. 48r-52r); rubric: 'In nomine domini amen. Incipit liber introductorius ad iudicia stellarum...'; incipit: 'In nomine domini nostri Jesu Cristi misericordis et vere dei et veri hominis.' Guido Bonatti...
Alfonsine Tables (extract); rubric: 'Tabula communis ad extrahendum omnes eras bisextiles et ad extrahendum incognita et cognita'; with canons (ff. 264r-266v), incipit: 'Inventis centris et argumentis mediis...'.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetiae Merlini (Prophecies of Merlin)
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Geoffrey of Monmouth, Epistle to Bishop Alexander of Lincoln (preface to the Prophecies of Merlin), incipit: 'Coegit me Alexander'; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetiae Merlini (Prophecies of Merlin), incipit: 'Sedente igitur vortegirno rege britonum'. f. 268v: A table of cities with their longitu...
Alpharinus, Liber arenalis scientiae, translated by Plato Tiburtinus (Plato of Tivoli)
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Alpharinus, Liber arenalis scientiae, translated by Plato Tiburtinus (Plato of Tivoli), rubric: 'In nomine domini Ihesu xristi incipit Liber scientie arienalis de iudiciis geomansie ab alpharino filio abrahe judeo editus, et a platone de hebreico sermone in Latinum translatus...'; incipit: 'Fort...