De modo medendi. Table of contents incipit (f. 5r) : 'De modis medendi. Quot et quibus mo/dis metemur', explicit : 'de alterantibus sive qualitatem et materiam', rubric 'Incipiunt capitula de modo medendi', incipit : 'In medendis corporibus et maxime purgandis va/riis sepe molestamus incommodis'...
Includes the Tabula Gerlandi and other computistical tables. Decoration: Diagram of a mnemonic hand (f. 13r) and tables (ff. 13v-15v). Initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue.
A text relating to astrology, incipit (f. 63r): 'Duodecim signa zodiaci'; with a table (f. 62v) and diagrams (ff. 67r, 68r, 71r, 71v, 72v, 73v, 74r, 81v).
Decoration: Initial in gold with two lion heads, at the beginning of the text (f. 52r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs in red or blue.
Calendar with prognostications. Only the entries for January and February (ff. 15v-16r) are complete with prognostications and references to the deaths of abbots of Reading, while prognostications for May-August were supplied by a 15th-century hand. References to the abbots' deaths on ff. 15v-16...
Astronomical text on making almanacs, incipit 'Nota faciendi artificialis almanak planetarum', entitled in the margin 'Modus componendi almanak in brevis'.
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum in the Middle English translation, also known as Astrologia Ypocratis, an astrological text relating to medicine and prognostication. Prologue title 'Thys his þe boke of ypocras', incipit: 'In þis book he techyt / for to knowe be planete. seknesse. lyf. a...