1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Calendar with prognostications. Only the entries for January and February (ff. 15v-16r) are complete with prognostications and references to the deaths of abbots of Reading, while prognostications for May-August were supplied by a 15th-century hand. References to the abbots' deaths on ff. 15v-16...
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Short texts in prose and verse by various hands. Rubric (f. 38v): 'Dicta cuidam Goliardi anglici', incipit: 'Omnibus in Gallia anglus Goliardus': see H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1969), no. 13306; incipit: 'Quatuor e...
Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Literary miscellany in verse and prose including: Goliardic verses including poems by Walter Map (ff. 75r-107r); Rubric (f. 75r): 'Apocalipsis Golye episcopi', incipit: 'A tauro torrida lampada cynthis?', explicit: 'Tu autem domine miserere crawe. Amen'. The verses include H. Walther, Initia carm...
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
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A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...