Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Etymologiae, Books I-XX. Index (f. 1v) of books, incipit: 'Tu valeas que requiris cito in hoc / corpore invenire hec tibi lector / pagina monstrat de quibus rebus / in libris singulis conditor huius co/dicis disputavit. In primo li/bro de gramatica et partibus eius', ...
Isidore, Bishop of Seville, De natura rerum. The treatise is dedicated to Sisebut, King of the Visigots, and is divided into 48 chapters relating to hemerology (the division of time in days, weeks, months, and years), cosmography, astronomy, and meteorology. Prologue, incipit: 'Domino et filio s...
Bernard of Clairvaux (?), Parabolae, V: 'De fide, spe et charitate'
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Bernard of Clairvaux (?), Parabolae, V: 'De fide, spe et charitate'. Incipit: 'Rex nobilis que potens trias habuit / filias fidem. spem. Karitatem. His de/legavit civitatem eximiam', explicit (f. 165v): 'Sed nisi dominus custodierit ci/vitatem f(rustra) v(igilat) qui custodit eam', followed by a...
Fictitious letter from Prester John to the Emperors Manuel Comnenus (r. 1143-1180) and Frederick I (r. 1152-1190). Rubric 'Incipit epistola. Johannis Regis indie. Emanueli / regi grecorum missa. Et ab ipso friderico impera/tori directa', incipit: 'Prespiter iohannis potentia et virtute dei &...
