Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams, followed by a prose text relating to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; incipit: 'En le nun Jhesu crist. Ci comence une me/ditacion'. For the texts see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 635, 861. Decoration: Initials in red. Two diagrams in red ...
Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
William of Waddington, Manuel des pechiez; Rubric 'Le prologe del manuel des pechiez', incipit: 'La vertue del seint espirit'. Last section (ff. 181v-191v) copied by the Ludlow scribe and compiler, including (ff. 190v-191r) a table of venial and mortal sins. An edition of the text from the prese...
Charm against wounds, incipit: 'Charme pur feistre felun et / playe. Pervez une piece de / plum et la fetes batre', explicit: 'tuz jurs le be/netquiez'. Printed in T. Hunt, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-century England. Introduction and Texts (Cambridge, 1990), p. 88. Charm for bloodletting, ...
Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs), incipit: 'Ky veut verrei amur aver il deit'. For the text see T. Hunt, 'Anglo-Norman Rules of Friendship', French Studies Bulletin, 30 (1989), 9-11.
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,
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...