John Lydgate, Dietary; incipit: 'For helth of þe body cover frome cold þe hed / Ete no raw mete take gode hede þerito', explicit: 'to indifferent rycheft and dietari / Explicit concilium corporis et anime / Explicit dietarys particularis'. Edited in John Lydgate, Minor Poems, ed. by H. N. MacC...
An extract from a text on book illumination, entitled De temperamento vesice escivi, incipit: 'Fesicam husonis millifica in aqua donec eam inter manus pinsando...'
The first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises: Roger Bacon, De Scientia Perspectiva (ff. 1r-33v); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis (ff. 34r-54r) and Tractatus rectanguli (ff. 54v-57r). Decoration: Chapter initials (3 lines; ff. 1r-8v and 34r-57r) in blue, with p...
'Incipit calculatio quomodo reperiri possit quota feria singulis annis XIIIIa vel Pasche ocurrat'
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A computistical text entitled 'Incipit calculatio quomodo reperiri possit quota feria singulis annis XIIIIa vel Pasche ocurrat', incipit: 'Primo anno circuli decennovenali XXX est luna in kalendis aprilis'; with other excerpts. Includes a digram of the wind rota (f. 128v).
Joachim of Fiore, Commentary on Revelation (imperfect, text missing at the beginning)
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Incipit: '...signat. Ut enim proferamus breviter que non brevi coartanda sunt...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
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Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Table of contents in a 17th-century hand; an added ownership (?) inscription of Lucas Anstiy (Anstis?) (f. 2*r); and a dedication of the book to Robert Harley from John Anstis (f. 2*v).