The manuscript is formed of five independent parts: ff. 1r-7r: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, fragment. ff. 8r-13v: 'Liber philosophie monachorum' fragments of book 2. ff. 14r-17v: 'Liber philosophie monachorum' fragments of book 4. ff. 18r-19v: Unidentified biblical or theologica...
Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Publius Virgilius Maro [Virgil], Aeneid. The manuscript contains numerous additions: some parts are heavily annotated, or feature minor annotations and pen-trials, in a cursive 15th-century hand and later hands. Decoration: Large initial in red with brown penwork deco...
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Jerome, Epistole; ending with a list of contents written in the same hand (ff. 237v-238v). The manuscript contains an addition: f. [1a]r: A note for the binder on a piece of paper inscribed with the title to appear on the spine, with the annotation 'calf' designating t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: Title inscriptions: '1557 Ovidio Methamorphoeos vulgare'; added in the 16th century. f. 1*recto: A Latin poem: 'Cur non omnes hunc Scrip. Libellum'; added in the...
ff. 1r–55v: Richard of Saint-Victor, Liber Exceptionum, Part II (‘Allegorie hystoriarum Magistri petri. In precedentibus premissa descriptione originis’); ff. 55v–56v: Sermo de offendiculis mundi, ‘Quoniam sub nostra conuiuiendi modernitate inter cetera animi exercicia inter creba mundi incommo...
Contents: ff. 1r-80v: An 'Abridgment of olde statutes'. ff. 81r-85v: A tract entitled 'Ad Parliamentum tent. 29 die April. anno iijo E.’ ff. 86r-86v: The ‘Bylle of Granez, Whete, Rye and Barley’. ff. 86v-87r: The ‘Bylle of [Artyficers]' [replaced with: ‘Wares or thyngs that shall not be bro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Contents: ff. 1v-7r: Calendar. ff. 8r-76v: The Four Gospels. ff. 77r-93v: Psalter. ff. 93v-95v: Biblical Canticles. Decoration: Large and small initials in red and blue with arabesque in-set and half border in red or blue. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Contents: ff. 1r-338v: A book of English statutes, from 1 Edward III (r. 1327-1377) to 6 Henry VI (r. 1422-1461), imperfect. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with reserved designs and pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs (ff. 30r, 145r (purple also used...