Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, and Paradoxica Stoicorum
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This manuscript contains three works of the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC): De Amicitia (On Friendship), De Senectute (On Old Age), and Paradoxica Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). Contents: ff. 1r-21v: Cicero, De Amicitia; ff. 22r-40v: Cicero, De Se...
A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders
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Contents: ff. 3r-327r: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders, containing guides to confession and penance, practice translations into English (f. 146r), beginning ‘Grammatica vel Grammatice est literalis sciencia radix omni scienciarum cum qua omnia sine qua nichi...
Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis; Jean de Bussières, Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (English translation)
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Contents: ff. 2r-80v: Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis (Latin); written in the 16th century. ff. 81v-95r: Jean de Bussières (b. 1607, d. 1678), Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (first published in 1649); an English translation of the universal history divided into fifteen epochs,...
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: An English treatise on law, with the title ‘Analecta seu miscellanea σχεδίασματα de studio juris Caesarei et pontificii, amico Juris Candidato transmissa'.