Sloane MS 1317

Sloane 1317

Paper, in 4to, ff. 152, XVII century.

A collection of medical prescriptions and various kinds of receipts; short explanatory sentences of the planets, etc. amongst them you will find the following: viz.-

1. Forms for drawing up several legal instruments, etc. f. 2.

2. Form of a deed of feoffment for seven acres of land by William Everey(?) of Eyston(?) ad montem, co. Essex, to William Andrews of — in the same county. f. 18. b.

3. Fragment of a sermon. f. 26.

4. "Quaedam nomina de infirmitatibus in lingua vernacula redacta." f. 65. b.

5. "Experimentum speculi; pro furto;" etc. or rather sundry charms by which experiments may be made. f. 100.

6. "De quatuor virtutibus rerum videlicet stellarum, lapidum herbarum atque figurarum." Anglice f. 101. b.

7. A treatise upon astronomy, called "The wyse boke of philosohye and astronomy made of the wysest philosophers and astronomers", collected by an Englishman, who went to Crete and there compiled it. f. 103. b.

8. A commission from Edmund Grindall, Bishop of London, addressed to Edmund (?) Thurland, Vicar of Cheshunt, John Baernes, Rector of Wormley, Nicholas Aspinall, Rector of Hormead Parva, William Preston, Rector of Hunsedon, and others, directing them to summon certain clergymen, suspended at his Lordship’s last visitation to make their appearance before them the 26th of June, at St Paul’s, and shew cause why the sentence should not be carried into execution. Dat. 1561. f. 116. f.

Proprietates Verborum in Novo Testamento. ff. 142-151.

Medicine. Charms and Receipts: Orationes et receptæ medicæ.: 10th-18th centt.: Lat., Fr., Dutch, Engl., Germ., Ital., and Span.

includes:

• f. 18 b William Eneve, of Easton ad Montem, county Essex: Feoffment of land to W. Andrewes: 17th cent.
• f. 18 b William Andrews, of county Essex: Feoffment to, of land: 17th cent.
• ff. 103 b-115 Astrology: A litelle tretys of Astronomye and of Philosophie contrived and made of the wisest philosofers and astronomyers that ever weren sithen this worlde furst beganne: 15th-17th cent.
• ff. 103b-115 Astrology: A litelle tretys of Astronomye and of Philosophie contrived and made of the wisest philosofers and astronomyers that ever weren sithen this worlde furst beganne: 15th-17th cent.
• f. 115b Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury: Excommunication of certain clergymen in his London diocese for non-attendance at his visitation: 1561.: Lat.
• f. 115b. - Edmund Thurland, Vicar of Cheshunt, county Hertfordshire: Sentence of suspension pronounced against, by the Bishop of London, for non-appearance at his primary visitation: 1561.: Lat.
• f. 116 b John Barnes, Rector of Wormley: Commission to, from the Bishop of London: 1561.
• f. 116 b Nicholas Aspinall, Rector of Hormead Parva: Commission to, from the Bishop of London: 1561.
• ff. 142-147 Grammar Latin: Proprietates verborum: 17th cent.
• ff. 147 b-151 b Bible. Commentaries: Argumentum in epistolam ad Romanos secundum Jeronimum: 17th cent.