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Details for manuscript 551

Manuscript №
551
Location
London
Collection
British Library
Reference
Royal 12 C XII
Headnote
A collection in prose and verse
Estimated date of production
s.xiv (1)
Folia
123
Place of production
Produced for
Notes
Sources for this record
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=19451&CollID=16&NStart=120312

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text Title Language Start folio (ordinal) End folio (ordinal) Total pages
1 f. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, beheaded in 1322; verses on the corruption of the law courts; Latin 1r (1) 1v (2) 2.0
2 ff. 2-3, Charters of Edward I and Henry III; Latin 2r (3) 3v (6) 4.0
3 ff. 4-6v, Hymns, prayers, verses and proverbs in Latin; Latin 4r (7) 6v (12) 3.5
4 French tracts French 4r (7) 6r (11) 2.5
5 f. 7, Macaronic satirical verses in Latin, French and English; medical notes in Latin and French; Latin 7r (13) 7v (14) 0.67
6 f. 7, Macaronic satirical verses in Latin, French and English; medical notes in Latin and French; French 7r (13) 7v (14) 0.67
7 f. 7, Macaronic satirical verses in Latin, French and English; medical notes in Latin and French; English 7r (13) 7v (14) 0.67
8 f. 8-10, Arithmetical and other puzzles; Latin 8r (15) 11r (21) 6.5
9 ff. 11-13, Recipes in Anglo-Norman French; French 11r (21) 13r (25) 4.0
10 ff.13-16v, Prophecies, including an account of a false prophet in the East and Merlin Silvester, in Latin; Latin 13r (25) 16v (32) 7.5
11 ff. 17-32v, Speculum Ecclesie of Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury (reigned: 1234-1240); tract on the Mass in French; French 17r (33) 32v (64) 32.0
12 ff. 33-60v, Romance of Fulk Fitz-Warin, in French (the only known manuscript of this text); French 33r (65) 60v (120) 56.0
13 ff. 62-68v, Brut Chronicle up to 1312 in English; English 62r (123) 68v (136) 14.0
14 ff. 69-76, Romance of Amys et Amylion in French; French 69r (137) 76v (152) 15.5
15 ff. 76v-91v, Treatises, including medical notes and prognostications in French and Latin; French 77r (153) 81v (162) 9.5
16 ff. 76v-91v, Treatises, including medical notes and prognostications in French and Latin; Latin 76v (152) 76v (152) 0.5
17 Arbores etc. Latin 81v (162) 88r (175) 13.0
18 "En terre de labour e de promission" etc. French 88r (175) 91r (181) 6.5
19 ff. 91v-94: Secret des secrets; French 91v (182) 94v (188) 6.0
20 ff. 94-105, French scientific verses, including tracts on fortune-telling; French 94r (187) 105v (210) 22.5
21 ff. 105v-107v, Medical and chiromantic texts and diagrams;  Latin 105v (210) 107v (214) 3.33
22 Recipe French 106r (211) 106r (211) 0.5
23 Recipe French 107v (214) 107v (214) 0.33
24 Recipe English 107v (214) 107v (214) 0.33
25 ff. 108-123v, Liber experimentarius of astrological verses translated from Arabic. Latin 108r (215) 123v (246) 32.0

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