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Summary Catalogue no.: 2535

Contents

1.
Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus pauperum (extracts?)
Language(s): Latin
2.
H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel, Secreta
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
3.
Medical treatise
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
4.
Matthaeus Platearius, De simplicibus medicinae (French translation)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
6.
Alphita
Language(s): Latin
7.
Glossary of herbs
Language(s): Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English
8.
Roland of Parma, Chirurgia (extracts)
Language(s): Latin
9.
Treatise on liquids
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
10.
Deed concerning award of a pension
Language(s): Latin
11.
Geoffrey le Baker, Chronicle
Language(s): Latin
12.
Nigel Witeker, Speculum stultorum
Language(s): Latin
13.
Nicholas Bozon (?), Proverbes de bon enseignement
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
14.
Prophecies
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
15.
John XXII, Bullae
Language(s): Latin
16.
Marco Polo, Le divisement du monde (extract)
Language(s): Old French
17.
Jean de Vignay, Le miroir historial (translation of Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale; extract)
Language(s): Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Binding

Old boards, re-bound recently, clasp lost.

History

Origin: c. 1360–1370 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Thomas Twyne in 1612. A title on fol. ii is in sir Thomas Bodley's hand.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 413
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 414
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 415

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.