Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Avicenna, Canon medicine, Books I, II, V. Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona). Title (f. 6r) 'Incipit liber primus', rubric 'Incipit liber canonis primus, quem prin/ceps aboali ab nicenni de medicina edi/dit translatus a magistro giraldo cremo/nensi in toleto de arabico ...
Rubric (f. 51r): 'Incipit epistula Antimii viri illustrissimi comitis ad glorio/sum regem francorum Theodericum. De observati/one ciborum', incipit: 'Racio observationis vostre pietatis secundum precepta auctorum medicina/lium', explicit (ff. 56r-56v): 'et raucam vocem / (f. 56v) habent bona sun...
Rubric (f. 64r): 'De natura frumenti chernin', incipit: 'Ordei natura est frigida et humecta. Sucus eius si candidus fuerit / ventrem purgat', explicit: 'servata aqua marina / (f. 66r) bromos non colligitur … ut temperetur vicissitudine eius'. Edition of the text: K. Sudhoff, 'Diaeta Theodori'...
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: A former pastedown including numerous inscriptions and pentrial of the 13th century and 14th century particularly some Latin verses as 'O Maria maris stella' (f. 1*r) and a note on 'Feria VI'. ff. 1r-6v: A liturgical calendar with numerous added obits in margins. f. 7r: A...
Heraldic manuscript, containing descriptions of the coats and crests of the nobility and gentry of Essex, as described from a visitation to Essex undertaken in 1612 by John Raven, Richmond Herald, Deputy and Marshal to William Camden, Clarencieux. At the front of the manuscript is a table of na...
Jordan of Saxony, De superbia, rubric: 'Incipit compilatio fratris Jordani capitalis prioris ordinis fratrum predicatorum de superbia'; incipit: 'Superbia est elacio viciosa que inferiorem despiciens'. Space left on ff. 67v-69r for a missing portion of the text. ff. 70r and 71v include notes in...