Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams, followed by a prose text relating to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; incipit: 'En le nun Jhesu crist. Ci comence une me/ditacion'. For the texts see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 635, 861. Decoration: Initials in red. Two diagrams in red ...
De Scientia Perspectiva, treatise on optical science and phenomena by Roger Bacon (circa 1214-1292), philosopher and Franciscan friar. It is copied in cursive script (Anglicana) by two English hands, datable respectively to the second half of the 14th century (ff. 1r-8v, and 15th century (ff. 9r...
Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis. This treatise by Richard of Wallingford (c. 1292-1336), abbot of St Albans and astronomer, relates to an equatorium, an astronomical instrument for the calculation of planetary positions. It was probably composed around 1326, at much the same period ...
Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
William of Waddington, Manuel des pechiez; Rubric 'Le prologe del manuel des pechiez', incipit: 'La vertue del seint espirit'. Last section (ff. 181v-191v) copied by the Ludlow scribe and compiler, including (ff. 190v-191r) a table of venial and mortal sins. An edition of the text from the prese...