Royal Appendix MS 6

FRAGMENTS of several MSS. in Latin, viz.:-

1. The law-treatise known by the name of Ranulph Glanville, sec 14 C. II, f. 226. An unfinished copy, imperfect also by loss of leaves at the beginning. Beg. 'meam medietatem' (lib. i, cap. 13); breaks off (lib. xi, cap. 3) 'qualibet parte litis amouere'. f. 1. Art. 1 is in a hand of the middle of the 13th cent. Initials in red and green.

2. Medical treatises, viz. (a) Commentary (attributed in an Oxford MS. to 'magister B') on the 'Liber Ysagogarum Iohannicii ad Tegni G[aleni]', cf. 12 B. XII, art. 12. Preface beg. 'Rectus ordo doctrine per singulas artes'; commentary, 'Medicina diuiditur, &c.: Iohannicius artis medicinalis principia'. Ends 'aut casu conferunt. Expliciunt', followed by a few explanations of technical terms. f. 42;-(b) Commentary on the Aphorismi of Hippocrates. Preface beg. 'Triplex heresis medicorum'; commentary, 'Vita breuis: Prologum premittit in quo sectam'. Folios are lost after ff. 66 and 67, and the fragment breaks off in the comment on the words in particula vi, 'quando os . . . cum et hec membra'. f. 60;-(c) Commentary on the Prognostica of Hippocrates. Imperfect at beginning and end. Not identical with either of the two contained in 8 C. IV. Beg. in particula i, '. . . et sinocha dicuntur acute'; breaks off in particula ii, 'aggregatis enim itidem'. f. 70.

Artt. 2 (a), 2(b) are in a minute hand of the 13th cent.; 2 (c) is in a hand of similar character, on slightly smaller vellum.

3. Astrological collections, viz. (a) 'Tabula stellarum fixarum que ponuntur in astrolabio cum longitudine sua in circulo signorum et latitudine sua ab equinocciali. additur hic longitudo stelle gradus zodiaci cum quo uenit ad medium celi per polos mundi': a table of twenty-nine fixed stars. f. 74;-(b) Table of twenty-eight mansions. f. 74 b;-(c) Notes on the sun in the several signs. Beg. '[S]ol in aquario dicitur quia Ihesus in illo mense fuit baptizatus'. f. 75;-(d) Notes on the signs. Beg. '[A]ries Leo Sagittarius calidi'. f. 75;-(e) 'De septem climatibus mundi', beg. 'Septem sunt climata mundi et septem sunt planeto'. f. 75 b;-(f) 'De septem planetis in septem firmamentis positis et quo ordine sunt positi et de condicionibus corum qui sub cis nati sunt': a treatise on astrological prediction from the names of persons, beg. 'Incipit liber disposicionum hominum et formarum filiorum Ade . . . . Cum volueris scire ascendencia'. f. 75 b.

Art. 3, written in a 14th cent. hand, belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley.

Vellum; ff. 82. 83/4 in. x 61/4 in. XIII-XIV centt. Not identified in the old catalogues.