Contains the Boke of Marchalsi, a treatise on horse breeding and veterinary medicine. Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and small initials in plain blue. Line fillers and paraph marks in blue.
Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England
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Contents: ff. 1r-64r: ‘Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England’.
A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
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Contents: ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the ...
A collection of English alchemical treatises, including Bernard Trevisan’s Liber de Alchemiae, George Ripley’s The Mystery of Alchymysts, Bloomfield's Blossoms, and Roger Bacon’s Speculum Alchemiae
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Contents: ff. 1v-21r: Bernard Trevisan, Liber de Alchemiae, here entitled ‘The worke [Alchymie]of the Lord Barnard Erle of the Marchis of Trevisan’. ff. 21r-25r: George Ripley, The Mystery of Alchymysts, here entitled ‘The worke of an unknowen Author, havinge no name to yt but Jesus’. ff. ...
Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano (printed book, 1531)
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This composite manuscript contains printed and handwritten texts relating to Italian poetry. Contents: ff. 2r-17r: A printed book with a decorated frontispiece: 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso - Con Privilegio'; printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562. ff. 18...
Greek Grammar in Latin. Tit. Compendium Graecae Grammaticae in Usum Puerorum in Scholâ Regiâ Westmonaster ii. Corresponds mostly to William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria, first printed in 1613.