Robert Grosseteste, Rules (Les Reules Seynt Roberd), incipit: 'Ici cumencent les reules qui Ro/bert Grosteste'. Originally written for Alice de Lacy, countess of Lincoln, widow of Thomas of Lancaster. For the text see S. H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253...
Purgatoire de S. Patrice; incipit: 'Ici comence purgatorie seint patric / [P]ur la bone gent conforter'. Written by the Ludlow scribe in collaboration with another scribe who copied lines 373-550: see C. Revard 1970. For the text and the manuscript see Vising 1916.
Cookery book (70 recipes); imperfect at the end. Title 'A tarte of fysche', incipit: 'Tak fyggys and reysingis and cynig', breaking off at 'ton wyt þe to3ere and onyouns mynced in þe'.
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket
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Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket. Guernes, also known as Garnier, completed the text in 1174. Decoration: 1 large gold initial with foliate infill in blue, green and pink set against a rectangular pink ground (f. 1r). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or blue...
Tables of contents of Thomas Fayreford's medical commonplace book and surgical commonplace book
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Two sets of tables of contents: The table of contents of Thomas Fayreford's medical commonplace book (ff. 72v-124v) with folio references. Fayreford's autograph. Title 'Tabula super practicam scrip/tam post 'Circa instans' in / hoc volumine per Thomam Ffay/reford collectam et plurimum / expert...
Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the invention of St Stephen, with grammatical notes.
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Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the invention of the body of St Stephen (Inventio corporis Sancti Stephani ad vesperam), with grammatical notes.
Laws of King Cnut (r. 1016-1035). Decoration: Large initials (2-3 lines; ff. 5, 7v, 13) in red, paragraph initials touched in red, rubric (f. 5r) in red.
Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...