Isidore, Bishop of Seville (599-636), Etymologiae, Books I-XX. The text is dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text, and is preceded (ff. 1r-1v) by two letters between Isidore and Braulio (see Patrologiae Cursus Completus... Series latina, ed. by J.-P. Migne,...
Notes on Yorkshire families, extracted by Mr Jennyngs
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Folio manuscript volume which appears to be part of a larger work of Mr Jennyngs, extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654). Consists of notes on Yorkshire families, with some genealogical tables, entered in alphabetical order A-G. Some entries apart from name heading (for ex...
Medical recipes (c. 15 recipes). Incipit: 'Take v graynes of catarpuse and þe quantite of hony / as a bene and put þerto ij sponful of lewke water'. Recipes copied by a number of hands. One recipe on f. 120v published in G. Henslow 1899. Listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical...
Secreta Alberti. This text, also known as Experimenta Alberti or Liber aggregationis, relates to herbs, stones and animals used in medicine and was partly compiled from De mineralibus of Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Prologue 'Sjcut vult philosophus in pluri...
Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large interlace initial 'E'(tsi) in red, yellow, and brown ink, at the beginning of the text (f. 65r). Initials in red/and or brown highlighted in yellow, some with display script (ff. 71v, 72r, 75r, 94r, 98r, 101r).
Excerpts from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum with other additional verse. Title (f. 281v): 'Dieta bona quatuor temporibus / anni', incipit: 'Temporibus veris modicum prandere iuberis', explicit (f. 282r): 'Rulli dari penitus debet pregans medicina'. With a marginal note (f. 277v) by Knott.