A composite miscellany of hagiographic, devotional, and prophetic texts in Latin.
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A composite miscellany containing five parts with hagiographic, devotional and prophetic texts in Latin, probably brought together in the library of Sir Robert Cotton. The miscellany contains one of the three extant copies of the canonisation dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1190), founder ...
Computistical miscellany, including medieval endleaves (ff. 2–3); Les jupartiez des eschez (4r–8v: Dean 221, imperfect); prayer to Christ (17r: Dean 735); Ps.-Hippocrates, Physiognomia (21v–25v: T/K col. 1069); De die natalis Domini (25v–45r); De tempore (46v–48v: T/K col. 1561); texts on the calendar (48v–54r); calendar (54v–60r); computistical tables (60v–66v, 68r–70v); Les tables de la lune (67r–68r: Dean 362)
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Language(s): Anglo-Norman French (3v–10r, 17r, 67r–68r); Latin (10r–70v); Middle English (2r) Dated: 2nd half of the 13th century; 2nd half of the 15th century (2r)