These folios contain medical notes and recipes copied by William Harvey (b. 1578, d. 1657), the physician who discovered the circulation of blood. Contents: ff. 139-141: Medical notes and recipes, copied by William Harvey. No decoration.
Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; an incomplete copy of Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; a chronicle of England, AD 162–1121.
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These texts, copied in the last quarter of the 12th century at Rievaulx Abbey, originally formed one manuscript with the folios now contained in Royal MS 6 C VIII. The texts contained in Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII include: f. 4r: the last words of the closing rubric of Orosius, Historia Advers...
Lines on Egyptian days; a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus; rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter; a note on epacts and concurrents
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These folios contain Old English texts on calculating days and times, a fragment of a 'Winchester computus' (see Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, p. 36): f. 22r: A text on prayers and liturgy to be said in the morning, beginning 'þonne þu on morgen...' (edited in Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. ...
These folios contain the largest collection of letters of Adam Marsh or Adam de Marisco (d. 1259), a Franciscan friar and biblical scholar. The last letter ends imperfectly. Decoration: Initials and rubrics in red or brown (f. 26r, 61v). Text in three columns (f. 57r).
Paul, Epistulae, with a gloss derived from Pelagius's commentary
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These folios contain part of the Pauline epistles with a gloss derived from Pelagius and were copied perhaps in Northumbria in the 8th century. These folios once formed a larger volume with Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.10.5. A fragment of an old title in a Gothic hand, beginning with a red in...
Boncompagnus da Signa, Boncompagnus; Bernard of Meung, Ars Dictaminis
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Contents: ff. 91r-130v: Boncompagnus da Signa (b. c. 1165, d. c. 1240), Boncompagnus, beginning: 'Boncompagnus nomine compositoris appellator'. ff. 131r-142v: Bernard of Meung (fl. 1133), Ars Dictaminis (The Art of Writing). Decoration: Rubrics and headings in red (ff. 91r-130v). The ink c...
These folios contain a 12th-century copy of an abbreviation of the Domesday survey of Kent. These membranes originally formed a roll, but have been cut apart and rearranged in book form (see Clarke, 'Condensing and Abbreviating' (2016), p. 258). Contents: ff. 143r-156r: Domesday abbreviation ...
These folios contain a theological treatise copied in the 1st half of the 15th century. Other leaves from the same manuscript are now contained in Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff. 1, 205; Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff. 145–148; Cotton MS Cleopatra E I, ff. 184, 188, 312; and Cotton MS Cleopatra E IV,...
These folios contain the earlier of two surviving copies of Jocelin of Furness's Vita sancti Kentigerni (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, Subsidia Hagiographica, 6, 2 vols (Brussels, 1898–1901; repr. 1992), no. 4646. It was copied in the late 12th-century. Contents: ff. 1...