Includes a full-page circular table in red and black, likely for determining the date of Easter. The diagram is related to, and in the same hand as, the one on f. 1v.
A table of contents in a 14th-century English hand, unfinished: contains only chapters of book 1 and ends with 'capitula secundi libri', although the manuscript does not contain the division in chapters. Both folios also include 16th or 17th century pen trials and notes.
The second unit includes a collection of medical texts: De anathomia (ff. 37r-38v); Rubric 'Incipit anathomia', incipit: '[S]icut asserit Galienus duplex anathomia vivorum'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, T...
Pharmacological text relating to astrology. Rubric 'Canon secundus de Farmacia, i.e. Medicina', incipit: 'Ipocras ait cecus medicus est qui astronomiam nescit nam si dabit medicinam / expulsivam per inferius operando luna existente in signis ruminantibus', explicit: 'trifora cum / alijs conforta...
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis, begins imperfectly: '...gaudium nostrum in hac valle lacrimarum'; explicit: 'Explicit summa de vitiis septem et eorum speciebus multimodum'.
The calendar is of French use, outside Paris: (the inclusion of 'Sancti Albani episcopi' on. f. 82r (March) is a misspelling for 'Albini' - Aubin, bishop of Angers); and includes astronomical/astrological information.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
6 folios + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the end.
Rubric (f. 68v) 'Confectio cidonii medicinalium ad digerendum et ad stomachum dirigendum', incipit: 'Citonus purgatis accipe liber .ii. citonia namque ipsa infundis ad vesperam in aceto'; rubric (ff. 79r-79v) 'Potio aristolabea quam composuit aristolabius rex … efficacissime emendare non dubitat...