Augustine of Hippo, Retractationes, capitula (205r: imperfect); Ps.-Pope Leo, Epistola de translatione sancti Iacobi apostoli (205v: BHL 4061, imperfect)
Diary of the reigns of Kings Henry VII (1485–1509) and Henry VIII (1509–1547) of England, AD 1501–1545 (28r–37r); prophecies (37v–39r); poems (39v–40v); A trew & a perfecte discourse of woonderfull & straunge myracles & sygnes which apperyd in ffrance, 5 May 1573 (41r–42v); A sermon of Parson Hyberdyne (43r–v); A contraversy betwyx Master Stavely & Master Rainad (44r–45v)
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Language(s): English; Latin (37r, 42v) Dated: 2nd quarter of the 16th century (28r–37r); 2nd half of the 16th century (37v–45v)
Tudor songs and ballads (127r–163v, 178r–179v); sermon preached by John Stubs, Gloucester, 1558 (164r–170r); John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre (172r–177v: Boffey 2590)
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Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Christmas and other Carols, without music; Paper, 16th cent. A song which appears to begin with the words, 'God ys the cheffest vnizon'; ascribed in a note at the end to Sir Peter Harfurth (called Hartforth on f. 153), 'c...