Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), De quindecim stellis
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Hermes Trismegistus, De quindecim stellis. A treatise on planets and stars. Rubric 'Incipit liber hermetis tractans de .15. stellis et de .15. lapidibus et de .15. herbis / et de .15. figuris', incipit: 'Inter multa alia bona que antiqui patres / sapientissimi narraverunt', explicit 'et per hunc...
Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers
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Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers; incipit: 'Ceo sunt les auctoritees. Seint / Gregoyre le pape'. For the text see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 672, 772, 781, 891, 951,
Thyrtty Days of the Mone, a thirty-day lunary (i.e. prognostication) in verse, incipit: 'God þat alle þis world hays wrout3', explicit: 'yef þou wylt3 bledum weyn blod'.
Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune
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Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune; Rubric 'Hic incipit liber ymaginum translatus ab Hermete, i Mercurie qui latine praestigium mercu/rii appellatur, heliemen in ling/ua Arabica', incipit: 'Cum enim sapiens indagator veritatis', explicit: 'dicitur thamahaleth. Explicit', rubri...
Correspondence between Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Francis de Vere.
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Includes a letter from Henry Percy (b. 1564, d. 1632), Earl of Northumberland, to Sir Francis de Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), and De Vere's reply, see Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3: With addenda 1547-65 (1870), Queen Elizabeth - Volume 283: April 1602: Letter from Henry Perc...
A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624
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A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624,relates to the Ambyona massacre of 1623 in which ten Englishmen in the service of the British East India Company were tortured and executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company on Ambon Island (now Indonesia).
Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love), incipit: 'Tote gent desirent par nature a saver'. Decoration: The text is illustrated with ink drawings: Author talking to a woman; Author teaching; Author at work; Author presenting his book to a woman (f. 70r); Knights on horseback...
Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from the Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (Kitab suwar al-kawakib) in a Latin translation
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The tables extracted from Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi (b. 903, d. 986), Book of the constellations of the fixed stars, an adaptation of Ptolemy's catalogue of stars from the Almagest, but without descriptions of the constellations.