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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149640
Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections
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1. ff 1v-2r Memoranda of accounts due to William Adam alias Paynter and others for work done in 1496-1498. These seem to be a builder's (or stone-mason's) accounts, which came to xiii l. ix s. 6 1/2 d. It appears to have been paid 'in festo sancti michaelis archangeli ... his testibus Johannes Mandsele, Johannes lambell, Johannes Baker et Ricardus penton alias pris [?]'.
2. ff. 2v-3v Medical receipts in English (c. 1500) by the same hand.
3. ff. 4r-194v Bartholomew the Englishman, De proprietatibus rerum
f. 4r Hic incipit tabula Bartholomaei de proprietatibus rerum. 1. De imploratione auxilii ... f. 10v Explicit tabula huius libri de proprietatibus rerum deo gracias. Constat J. Taylor vicario de Ilemystria. f. 11r Cum proprietates rerum sequantur substancias secundum distinctionem et ordinem substanciarum ... f. 194v ... principium et finis omnium qui est deus sublimis gloriosus viuens et regnans in secula seculorum amen. Auctores de quorum scriptis sunt hec traducta sunt isti augustinus. adamantius. ambrosius ... ricardius de sancto victore symon cornelius.
The Bodleian Library Record, volume 9 (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1973), pp. 156-157.
Freeman Sadler, Lucy. Omne bonum: a fourteenth-century encyclopedia of universal knowledge: British Library MSS Royal 6 E VI-6 E VII (Washington: Miller, 1996), p. 146.
Keen, Elizabeth. Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2007), pp. 56, 172.
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