First of two volumes compiled by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College in Cambridge. Containing the Bishops and Archbishops educated at Cambridge. With engraved portraits of many of the subjects pasted into the volume.Index on...
Richard of Wallingford's Tractatus Albionis. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in red and purple, at the beginning of the text (f. 140r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with purple pen-flourishing; initials and paraphs in red and b...
Livre de Sydrac. Decoration: Diagram in blue, brown and red ink of the planets (f. 117v); large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue wit...
Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes (c. 250 recipes), imperfect. This collection was apparently put together by Nicholas Spaldyng or Spalding. Title 'For to make pelots of antioche', incipit: 'Take croppes of the rede / coole of the rede netle tansey hemp and of sparge', expl. 'ley it on þe pa...
Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis. Rubric 'Incipiunt ii experimenta de corio serpentis / translata a Johanne Paulino', incipit: 'Cum ego Johannes Paulinus essem in / Alexandriam civitatem egyptiorum / reperi', explicit: 'Expliciunt 12 experimenta / extratta de libro Alcani qui salus vite voc...
Pseudo-Augustine, Liber de vita Christiana. Decoration: Large foliate initial in colours and gold, with foliate extensions into the margins, at the beginning of the text (f. 129r).