Prefatory material relating to the ideas of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, inc. Οὗτος ὁ ἐν ἁγίοις πατὴρ ἡμῶν Διονύσιος εἴωθε λέγειν τελεστας. ff. 3v-4 are entitled σχόλιον and printed in PG 4.21D-24A, l. 16 , 21A, l. 12 -C, l. 8 (sic), where the second part is said to be by St Maximus.
Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum, Book I Imperfect, lacking chs 8-9. Hude pp.144-159, 161. Table of contents (ff. 183v-184) also omits chs 8-9.
Surveys of the stores in the yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheerness, 1694
Scope & Content:
Folio volume containing 6 manuscripts bound together. Each contains the survey of the stores for one of the six yards. It appears that these 6 items were originally bound separately and were bound together at a later date.
Jordanus de Nemore, De ratione ponderi (attributed to)
Scope & Content:
De ratione ponderi attributed to Jordanus de Nemore. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'O'(mnis) of a man holding a scales, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'o' in the margin (f. 133v). Includes a series of marginal diagrams (ff 133v-140r).
Mileus (or Menelaus) of Alexandria, De figuris sphericis
Scope & Content:
Mileus (or Menelaus) of Alexandria, De figuris sphericis, in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'D'(e) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'd' in the margin (f. 195r).
P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto. The title in the manuscript reads 'Ovidius de ponto'. Decoration: Initial in red with penwork decoration in red, at the beginning of the text, and smaller initials in red throughout the text. First letters of verses highlighted in red.
Petrus de S. Audomaro, Tractatus semissae, cap. 1-9
Scope & Content:
Petrus de S. Audomaro, Tractatus semissae, cap. 1-9, incipit: 'Quoniam non conceditur...' Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'Q'(uoniam) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text. Large round unfinished diagram (f. 225r).
Notes on ways of multiplying with a text added at the end in two additional hands (f. 58v). Decoration: Initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour.
Gargilius Martialis, Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis, excerpt
Scope & Content:
Rubric (f. 56v) 'De Rafano', incipit: 'Rafanum calidam inesse virtutem omnium medicorum opinione compertum est sed et nobis / intellegere de usu eius licet', explicit (f. 64r): 'dato per hanc potionem mi/re ob viam posse. si plusquam necesse sit purget'. Edited in Gargilius Martialis 2002.