Two separate manuscripts which have been bound together. Harley MS 1778 contains a letter documenting a voyage of Marquis de Châteaurenault. Harley MS 6934 contains advice for those travelling on long journeys.
Contents: Pascon agan Arluth, a poem in 259 stanzas containing a detailed description of the Passion of Christ. This is the earliest copy of a full text in the Cornish language to have survived, and the only Cornish manuscript with miniatures (see Murdoch, Cornish Literature (1993), p. 19). It...
Contents: ff. 1r-123v: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Common Law, with a title 'Maximes of the Lawe written by Sir Francis Bacon January 8th Anno Domini 1596'.
Astronomical texts and tables; John Somer, Kalendarium; the Statute of the Forest of Waltham; an extract from Palladius Rutilis, De Agricultura; a treatise by Nicholas Bollarde on the ordering of trees; notes on agricultural matters
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Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An astronomical table with, for each month of a year, 4-9 columns and 31 rows with Arabic numbers in brown or red ink. f. 3v: A Middle English astronomical text for calculating the epact, beginning: 'Yf thou wilt perfitly and brefly know the tru Age of the mone . whan so ...
Thomas Fairfax’s Short memorials, and an epitaph by the Duke of Buckingham
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ff. 1-15: Copy of a tract by Sir Thomas Fairfax, Parliamentary Commander-in-Chief, Short memorialls of some things to be cleared during my Command in the Army. ff. 16-48r: Copy of another tract by Sir Thomas Fairfax, A short Memoriall of the Northern Actions during the War there, from the Yea...
Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, and other theological texts
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A collection of theological texts, written by multiple hands. Contents: ff. 1r-180r: Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, glossed. ff. 181r-186r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De vanitate mundi, book iv, glossed. ff. 186r-194v: Geoffrey of Trani, Summa super titulus Decretalium. ff....