Jordanus de Nemore, De plana spera. Decoration: An illuminated initial 'S'(peram) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 124v). Includes geometrical diagrams of the sphere in the margins (ff. 125v-128v).
'Ad sanitatem conservandam', a medical treatise; incipit: 'Quicumque vult continuam custodire sanitatem stomacum custodiat / ne cum sibi sit cibus necessarius eum prohibeat', explicit: 'et baccarum laur et hec / sufficiant'.
Astronomical tables with additional calendrical material
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A text on reading astronomical tables, incipit: 'In as moche as it is dilectable be cuse of fortune...' (ff. 35r-35v) Astronomical tables (ff. 36v-48r) with additional calendrical material (ff. 49v-50v).
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'T'(ractatum) in colours and gold of a scholar holding an astrolabe and addressing his students, at the beginning of the text. Numerous diagrams relating to the astronomy and geometry of the sphere, in brown and red ink w...
The text is a contamination of 'Ars medicinae', for which see R. Laux, 'Ars medicinae. Ein Frühmittelalterliches Kompendium der Medizin', Kyklos, 3 (1930), 417-34. Incipit: 'Incipit hic medicina quid sumere debeamus aut / quid vitare in singulis temporibus anni', explicit: 'sanus sine / ullis med...
The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lent...
Declarationes Abbatis Sancti Albani super kalendarium regine
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A text entitled 'Declarationes Abbatis Sancti Albani super kalendarium regine', incipit: 'Si fiat questio de nativitate'. Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and initials in red with pen-flourishing in brown.