Astrological diagrams in colours including two volvelles (ff. 155v-156r) and a diagram showing moon phases (f. 157v). Bloodletting-zodiac man (ff. 158v-159r). The illustration combines the features of a bloodletting man with those of a zodiac man. Captions in Middle English written in alternati...
Isidore, Bishop of Seville (599-636), Etymologiae, Books I-XX. The text is dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text, and is preceded (ff. 1r-1v) by two letters between Isidore and Braulio (see Patrologiae Cursus Completus... Series latina, ed. by J.-P. Migne,...
Medical recipes (c. 15 recipes). Incipit: 'Take v graynes of catarpuse and þe quantite of hony / as a bene and put þerto ij sponful of lewke water'. Recipes copied by a number of hands. One recipe on f. 120v published in G. Henslow 1899. Listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical...
Secreta Alberti. This text, also known as Experimenta Alberti or Liber aggregationis, relates to herbs, stones and animals used in medicine and was partly compiled from De mineralibus of Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Prologue 'Sjcut vult philosophus in pluri...
Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large interlace initial 'E'(tsi) in red, yellow, and brown ink, at the beginning of the text (f. 65r). Initials in red/and or brown highlighted in yellow, some with display script (ff. 71v, 72r, 75r, 94r, 98r, 101r).