Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III
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Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377), incipit: 'Ab origine Mundi usque ad incarnationem Christi mmmmm.c.xl', explicit: 'Anno aetatis Edwardi primogeniti illustri regis nostri xxiii', circa 1353-54.
Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
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The manuscript includes: List of letters of the Hebrew alphabet with Latin translations (f. 1v); Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito (ff. 2r-127r), comprising a note relating to medicine added by a contemporary hand (f. 64r margin); Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Pr...
Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to Gulielmus Britonis (William Brito)
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Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito, edited in L. W. and B. A. Daly, Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie (Padua, 1975; Thesaurus Mundi, 15, 16). It is an early copy of the Expositiones which were completed between 1250 and 1270 and cir...
Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei, part I; incipit: 'Ferrum situ rubiginem ducit et uitis non putata in labruscam siluescit'. Neckam was abbot of Cirencester and a scholar. His work comprises a treatise on grammatical criticism followed by a scriptural commentary. Decoration: Initials...
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
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This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
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1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
