Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers
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Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers; incipit: 'Ceo sunt les auctoritees. Seint / Gregoyre le pape'. For the text see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 672, 772, 781, 891, 951,
Thyrtty Days of the Mone, a thirty-day lunary (i.e. prognostication) in verse, incipit: 'God þat alle þis world hays wrout3', explicit: 'yef þou wylt3 bledum weyn blod'.
Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune
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Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune; Rubric 'Hic incipit liber ymaginum translatus ab Hermete, i Mercurie qui latine praestigium mercu/rii appellatur, heliemen in ling/ua Arabica', incipit: 'Cum enim sapiens indagator veritatis', explicit: 'dicitur thamahaleth. Explicit', rubri...
Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love), incipit: 'Tote gent desirent par nature a saver'. Decoration: The text is illustrated with ink drawings: Author talking to a woman; Author teaching; Author at work; Author presenting his book to a woman (f. 70r); Knights on horseback...
Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus
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Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus; a book of instructions for making talismans that was very popular in the Middle Age, and was translated by Adelard of Bath and by John of Spain. Begins imperfect in the middle of the third part of the tract, incipit: 'fuerit sol in aliqua digni...
Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis
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Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis; composed in 1288, corrected in 1301. The Latin version of a treatise on the canons of a new quadrant by Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (1236-1305), a Jewish scholar and astronomer of Marseilles and Montpel...
Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de Gemmis. A treatise relating to the properties of sixty-two stones written in verse by Marbod (1035-1123), bishop of Rennes, poet and writer, who made large use of material found in a 5th- or 6th-century Latin translation by Damigeron of a previous work i...
De imaginibus super facies signorum, attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
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De imaginibus super facies signorum attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus, a work on engraved images which in the manuscript tradition often follows the work by Thebit. Rubric 'Opus Omaga/rum secundum / consilium ptolomeum [sic] et / est omnibus modis propior / et veracior in probatione quoniam eius ...