This portion of the manuscript includes three texts sparsely annotated in the margins by Crophill: Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v); Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v); Cookery recipes (ff. 16v-28v). Decoration: Large initial (6 lines; f. 1r) in metallic red (mostly tarnished) on square go...
Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:
Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...