Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'O'(mnia) in red and blue at the beginning of the text. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
This is an extract from the canons for the Toledan tables. The relevant tables follow on ff. 40r-41v. Red initial and rubrication at the beginning of the text. Ruling in red ink.
The fourth unit includes a collection of medical recipes (c. 103 recipes) in Latin and Old French. Incipit: '[A]ccipe raphanum et scinde per rotulas et po/ne in aceto', second recipe: incipit: 'Pur guttanire prenez limazuus ? sis fendez si me/tez sel de desure'.
This is the only known copy of the translation into Old English of a Latin collection of recipes mainly based on Petrocellus' Practica and Gariopontus material which were probably compiled not earlier than in 1035. The text is imperfect at the end. Rubric (f. 51v) 'Incipit liber qui dicitur / pe...
Messahala, De motibus (De orbe) in the Latin translation perhaps by Gerard of Cremona. The text is imperfect, the last 16 words are written by a modern hand (16th century?). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'I'(ncipiat) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'i...
Thomas Scellinck of Thienen, Chirurgia, dated 1343 (see f. 104r), preceded by a prologue (ff. 5-6) and divided into four books (ff. 6v, 42v, 67r, 96r) with tables of contents (ff. 6r-6v, 42r-42v, 66v-67r). The date of the copy of Scellinck's treatise given as 5 March 1410 in a poem on ff. 104r...