A circular diagram consisting of concentric circles in brown ink with a red circle representing the sun on the third circle. The diagram is accompanied by inscrptions that read: ‘Cancer’, ‘Augem eccentrici’, ‘Aries’, ‘longitudo media’, ‘Oppositum augis’, ‘Medius motus’, and ‘Verus motus’.

The treatise concerns sections on salutations to different family members (‘Salutaciones ad patrem matrem auunculum et huius’), types of petitions (‘peticiones’), references to received letters (‘Recipimus litteras vestras’), and other aspects of letter writing.

The text features a circular diagram on f. 1:7v with the words ‘Sol’ and ‘Halo’ written in it.

The text begins mid-sentence in quotations that begin with the letter ‘O’, covers those beginning with the letters ‘P’-‘T’, and ends in the section with the letter ‘U’.

This text also serves as an introduction to Peter Riga's Aurora; see René Antoine Gauthier, 'Notes sur Siger de Brabant, II. Siger en 1272–1275; Aubry de Reims et la scission des Normands'. Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 68:1 (1984), 3-49

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Full transcription attemped. Added in the lower margin by a (?) 16th-century hand.

Full transcription attemped. Added in the lower margin by a (?) 16th-century hand.

Full transcription. For the corresponding text, see Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi Fasc. V: Secretum Secretorum cum Glossis et Notulis. Tractatus Brevis et Utilis ad Declarandum Quedam Obscure Dicta Fratris Rogeri, ed. Robert Steele (Oxford: Clarendon, 1920), p. 23.

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A manicule in the lower margin points towards the note and on it is written in Middle English: ‘Loke abovte’.

Circular diagram consisting of 10 concentric circles divided by 12 perpendicular lines, creating, effectively 12 rows with 8 cells each. Each row has the words ‘Indirecte oritur’ or ‘Directe oritur’ in their most outer cell, and, in the cell immediately below that, the name of a sign of the Zodiac.

Previously unidentified and not recorded in S. Harrison Thomson, 'The Summa in VIII Libros Physicorum of Grosseteste', Isis 22 (1934), 12-18, which identifies eight manuscripts.

Middle English inscriptions have been added by a different 15th-century hand. This concerns a manicule inscribed with the words ‘So y do’ that points towards the underlined words ‘Loke [?] Wyll’ and another manicule inscribed with the words ‘be hold’ that points to a Latin inscription on f. 1:18r. In the outer margin of f. 1:18 is a manicule inscribed with the word ‘Walke’ pointing to a banderol in red ink inscribed with the verse couplet: ‘Marke well thys dovte . tyll þe trueth be tried ovte’; and another banderol in red ink inscribed with the verse couplet ‘[?] Arys ys well spyed / ffor here þe trueth ys tried’ accompanied by a manicule that points away at the text, inscribed with the word: ‘loo’. Neither of the verses are recorded in the Index of Middle Engilsh Verse.

In the lower margin of f. 1:19v the word ‘Amen’ is written, perhaps indicating the treatise's end.

A previously unidentified copy of Burley's work; identified through comparision with a known copy in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.5, ff. 194r-200r.

The treatise contains a number of circular diagrams: an astrological diagram on f. 1:21r; a Sphere of Pythagoras on f. 1:21v; a diagram showing the hydrological cycle on f. 1:24r; a volvelle on f. 1:25v; and a wind diagram on f. 1:28v.

A manicule in the margin of f. 1:33r is inscribed with two words, probably Middle English, but these have not been read.

The diagram in question is a full-page Sphere of Pythagoras on f. 1:30v.

The text is accompanied by a circular diagram that has the following text in its outer ring: ‘In isto circulo potest hoc videre quomodo turbo mouetur circulo iiij^o nubes vt patet fricienti etcaetera’

Imperfect at the beginning and end. The previous item (a meteorological diagram) belongs to this treatise but material before is clearly missing. The treatise also ends imperfectly in a section on haloes and rainbows (‘De halo [...] et de yryde’).

In the lower margin of f. 1:32v are two manicules drawn in red ink with a flower in the same colour between them. The left manicule contains the following Middle English inscription: ‘thys ys a praty processe hale’. The right manicule contains another Middle English inscription but it has not been read.

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The diagram features three circles. In the middle circle, there are 20 urine flasks (jordans) drawn in red ink. Although these have not been coloured, each represents a different type of urine and is connected to an explanation in the outer circle. In the inner circle are eight smaller circles with of which seven comment on shared features between sets of jordans. The eighth one, positioned at the very centre of the diagram, carries the title: ‘Tabula de iudiciis vrinarum per colores’.

Below the diagram is a manicule inscribed with text (a single word, not transcribed but possibly Middle English) that points to the inscription: ‘Verte folium et invenies plus de m^a ’.

Ends imperfectly.

Added in the (?) 16th-century by a scribe working in a humanistic cursive hand.

Added by a different hand in the late 15th or early 16th century.

The treatise contains simple drawings of urine flasks in black or red ink. Each represents a different type of urine (although the contents of the flasks are not coloured) and is accompanied by an explanatory text.

Tavormina (2014) identifies ff. 2:45r-2:46r as a segment of The Dome of Uryne Compendium [no. 2.5b]); 31 (identifies ff. 2:39v-2:42v as an incomplete text on the twenty colours of urine conflated with Urina Rufa [no. 3.1.1c]); 33 (identifies ff. 39v-42v as an incomplete copy of Urina Rufa conflated with the twenty colours of urine [no. 3.2.3]); 35 (identifies ff. 2:43r-2:45r as a version of Cleansing of Blood [no. 3.3.3]); 42 (identifies ff. 2:45r-2:46r as the Judicium Perfectum Omnium Urinarum [no. 5.1c]); 68 (identifies ff. 37r-39v as text on complexions and discerning urine [no. 8.6]); 114 (table).

Left unfinished in the ‘N’ section.

Added in the late 15th century.

Added in the 16th century.

Added in the 16th century.

The name ‘Mr Wright’ is inscribed in the upper margin of f. 2:50r; perhaps referring to Thomas Wright (c. 1561–1623), recusant priest, whose The Passions of the Mind in Generall (1601) seems to touch on similar subject matter.

Two letters, the first one is sent by a servant who claims to be in the addressee's ‘amarous service’. The second one is a reply.

An English translation of Antonio de Guevara (b. c. 1481-d. 1545), Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea .

Full transcription. Previously unidentified copy of Weelkes' work. The poem is almost identical to that found in Madrigals to Three, Four, Five and Six Voyces (1597) but there are minor variations. For example, the last line appears to have been deliberately changed to adapt the poem to a literary-manuscript context: while the ‘Madrigal’ version has: ‘before I dye, Ile sing my faint farewell’, the version in this manuscript gives: ‘Before I dye I wright this faint farwell’.

This appears to be a previously unknown poem by Thomas Weelkes as it is not included in David Brown, Thomas Weelkes: A Biographical and Critical Study (London: Faber and Faber, 1969). Aside from the fact that the poem is attributed to a ‘T.W.’, this poem fits thematically well with other works by Weelkes, for example his ‘Farewell, my joy’ (1598). It is possible that this poem is a direct continuation of Cease Sorrows Now, and that both form a single work for the ‘faithfull frend’ who is mentioned in the title written above the preceding poem.

The health regimen refers to Pope Paul III (1534-1549) and is attributed to Leonardo Fioravanti (1517-1588), physician, surgeon, and alchemist of Bologna.

The first recipe is for making general ink and the two other recipes are for making red ink for writing on paper. They are entitled: ‘Del modo di voler fare inchiostro rosso di verzino da scriuere in carta’ and ‘Del modo di fare inchiostro rosso in altro modo, et facilita’.

The author, perhaps Leonardo Fioravanti (see the health regimen above), concludes the recipe by identifying it as the 'miraculous' medicine that was used by Alfonso Ferro of Naples, physician to Pope Paul III (r. 1534-1549).

A marginal note in a similar hand provides an English translation for the first ingredient: ‘Ebulum - Walwort’.

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The list refers to objects in gold and silver. Added in the 16th century. The text has been crossed out.

Added in the 16th century. The text has been crossed out.

The list is untitled and most entries have been crossed out.

The list includes the names of borrowers: ‘John Warton’, ‘William Marshall at m. Peckes’ ‘Mr Churchmans sonne’, ‘Richarde at faireclughes’, ‘Alexander Farrington’, ‘Thomas Pynner’, and ‘Katheryne lloyd’.

The final entry is ‘Mr Hollyband - A french Dictionary’. It is not entirely clear whether this is a new list or whether it refers to a publication. In any case, the ‘Mr Hollyband’ in question almost certainly is Claudius Hollyband (1564-1594), a French Huguenot refugee who came to London about 1564 and published his A Dictionarie French and english there.

The note may refer to the shop of the London stationer Simon Waterson (fl. 1583-1635) at the Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.

The list is divided into four sections for: Latin books (ff. 2:77r-2:77a verso), English books (ff. 2:78r-2:79v), Law books (ff. 2:80r-2:80v), and French books (ff. 2:81r-2:81v). Each sub-list is dated to 29 September 1582.

Almost completely written in Latin except for a rubric on f. 2:84r: ‘for starke and stiffe lymmes’.

Written in plummet.

The collection contains a version of ‘Dr Stevens water’ on f. 2:93r. For other copies, see: The collection includes culinary recipes: ‘To make white marmelet’, ‘for quindinake’, ‘Diet bred’, ‘Calib preparid’, ‘Cinamon et ginger’ on ff. 2:93r-2:93v; ‘A pomander contra pestem’ on f. 2:94r.

Two recipes, one on f. 2:101r and another on f. 2:103r, are attributed to a ‘Mr Lilas’ [unidentified]. Two recipes, one on f. 2:101v and f. 2:102r, are attributed to a ‘Docter langhton’. The latter may be Christopher Langton (1521–1578), physician and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. One recipe on f. 2:102v is attributed to a ‘Dr grimston’. He may have been Thomas Grimston (d. 1608), doctor of medicine at Cambridge (see W. M. Palmer, Cambridgeshire Doctors in the Olden Time, 1466-1827, The Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Communications, 15 (1911), 200-279 (p. 264)).

The page features the heading for a medical recipes (‘ffor malincolye’) that was never added.

The list specifies a payment of ‘9 d’ for work carried out on 9 April (Easter).

Written in an italic script by a later, (?)17th-century hand, referring to the medical recipes in this part.

Two recipes, one on f. 2:161r and another on f. 2:166v, are attributed to a certain ‘Mr Butler’. The latter may be William Butler (1535–1618), Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and physician. Another recipe on f. 2:174v is attributed to a certain ‘Mr Turner’; perhaps referring to William Turner (1509/10–July 1568), physician and natural historian.

The text has become much faded or has been partially erased.

The list ends with a sum of all payments and the note ‘the wile be at hola[r] donne’.

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Immediately below the recipe is written in a similar script the following inscription: ‘Thomas [?]brysdon off the set’

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Three columns with the headings: ‘all issves’, ‘inordinat termes’, and ‘ all flixes of the belly’.