Incipit: 'Scire debes quod circulus solis duas habet...' Decoration: Initial 'S'(cire) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 38r). Paraphs in red or blue.
The volume comprises the texts of Magna Carta and of the Charter of Forest as reissued by Henry III in 1225, followed by a number of Statutes of England; imperfect, incipit (f. 2r): 'Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie Dux Normannie et Aquitanie / Archiepiscopis … salutem. Sciatis qu...
Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus including eight rubrics: 'De triginta argenteos', 'De arca Noe' (extracts from Interrogationes Sigewulfi), 'De diebus malis', 'De diebus fesstis', 'De pactis', 'De concurrentibus', 'De alleluia', 'De solae'; and passages on the number of months, da...
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, with marginal annotations. Decoration: Diagrams (ff. 17r-18r, 23r, 25v-26r, 27r) and a table (f. 25v). Large initial in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 17r). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other co...
Incipit: 'esse sta et non solum nullam partem horum extra orbem relinqui...'. Decoration: Large foliate initial 'Q'(ui) in gold and colours, at the beginning of book 2. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi
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The first unit includes Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi. Rubric (f. 2r): 'Incipit summa magistri G.', incipit: 'Cum omnis scientia ex fine et utilitate sua sit appetenda maxime ars me/dicinalis est appetenda', explicit (f. 36v): 'et hec de medicinis laxa/ti...
Medical recipes (6 recipes). Rubric (f. 61v) 'Gargaris / ius pro pro/gacione cap/itis dencium / et gingiuarum', incipit: 'Recipe senapii sangie pireter de spayn et sucus istarum herbarum', explicit: 'fratris ricardi Barton'; rubric (f. 61v) 'Pro febribus', incipit: 'Tak of wormewode scabiose fumi...