Petrus Candidus Decembrius, Cosmographia seu Liber de Historia peregrina, Book 1
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Petrus Candidus Decembrius, Cosmographia seu Liber de Historia peregrina, Book 1. Edited in K. Kretschmer, 'Die Kosmographie des Petrus Candidus Decembrius', in Festschrift Ferdinand Freiherrn von Richthofen zum sechzigsten Geburtstag am 5. mai 1893, dargebracht von seinen Schülern (Berlin, 189...
A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar
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A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar, listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 7055.00.
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
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'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins.
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Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins, incipit: 'Idolatria, sortilegia, incantaciones'; see Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices 1100-1500, ed. by M. W. Bloomfield et al. The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 88 (Cambridge MA, 1979), n...
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
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Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...