Psalter, Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Dead
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The first unit of the manuscript includes: 1. Calendar, with a dedication (f. 1v) of the parish church of St. Laurence at Ludlow ('lodelowe') (ff. 1r-6v); 2. Indulgences by Popes Innocent Urbanus IV and John XXII, added to a blank page by the Ludlow scribe (f. 7r) 3. Psalter, incipit: 'Benoy...
Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De hiis quae indigent expositione antequam legitur Almagestum
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Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De hiis quae indigent expositione antequam legitur Almagestum. Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'E'(quator) in colours and gold, with a partial border and a monkey eating a fruit, at the beginning of the text (f. 91r).
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
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The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
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Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, books 8 and 6 (known as The Seven-Book Computus), also in the margins of ff. 16r-16v.
Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
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Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum); Imperfect. Rubric 'Epistula Aristotelis ad regem Alexandrum de sanitate / vite per annum', incipit: 'Alexander cum sit hominis corpus corrupti/bile', explicit: 'abundancia non uti n...