John Lydgate, Dietary; incipit: 'For helth of þe body cover frome cold þe hed / Ete no raw mete take gode hede þerito', explicit: 'to indifferent rycheft and dietari / Explicit concilium corporis et anime / Explicit dietarys particularis'. Edited in John Lydgate, Minor Poems, ed. by H. N. MacC...
A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar
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A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar, listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 7055.00.
Astronomical and astrological diagrams of the planetary spheres (f. 27r); positions of the sun and earth (ff. 27r-27v); the universe with Hell in the centre (f. 28r); the zodiac, the longitude of the sun (f. 29r); a computistical volvelle to calculate Easter (f. 29v).
Three short treatises on magic: Dorotheus Sidonius, Capitulum de occultatione anuli (f. 58r); Messahala, De occultis (ff. 58v-59v); Tractatus Dorothei in occultis (ff. 59v-61r).
Petrus Candidus Decembrius, Cosmographia seu Liber de Historia peregrina, Book 1
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Petrus Candidus Decembrius, Cosmographia seu Liber de Historia peregrina, Book 1. Edited in K. Kretschmer, 'Die Kosmographie des Petrus Candidus Decembrius', in Festschrift Ferdinand Freiherrn von Richthofen zum sechzigsten Geburtstag am 5. mai 1893, dargebracht von seinen Schülern (Berlin, 189...