Notes

Source des données : Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

• Almanac in Latin and English, in codex form. F. 1r and 16v have had the writing blacked out in ink, as also a passage on f. 6v. Margins cropped. Contents page at front of manuscript based on earlier pagination.

  Contents, based on a later foliation. Earlier pagination number in brackets:

  f. 1r An inscription, possibly an astrological note, blacked out: in English.

  1. f. 1v (p.1) Table of the months for ̀Blode letyng, Medesyn, Bathyng'.

  2. ff 2r-v (pp.2-3) Arithmetic table.

  f. 2r Quadrantes sabbato quotquot expendivus ...

  3. ff. 2v-4r (pp.3-6) List of castles in England, arranged by counties.

  f. 2v In comitas Cant' ... f. 4r ... Southampton. Gloucestre.

  4. f. 4r (p.6) List of the names (by location) of all the bishops of England

  f. 4r Nomina Episcoporum per totum regnum Anglie ... Episcopus de Carlies etc,

  5. ff. 4r-5r (pp.6-8) Summa de rebus venalibus, in Anglo-Norman.

  f. 4r Hic incipit Summa de rebus venalibus ... f. 5r Explicit summa de rebus venalibus.

  6. f. 5r (p.8) Short verse dated 1502

  f. 5r Hiss diebus iam peractis Videte Nulla fides est in pactis Mel, in ore verba lactis Cavete ffel in corde fraus in factis Accipe that longeth to the Redde to god that his shuld be fluge synne or it fle the Thanne hevyn blysse your mede shal be.

  7. ff. 5r-6v (pp.8-11) Modus ad mesurandam terram

  Measures of length and land.

  f. 5r Hic incipit modus ad mesurandam terram, etc. Tria grana ordei exconati in me dio spice ... f. 6v Explicit modus mesur'.

  8. f. 6v (p.11) Arabic and Roman numeral equivalents, in a later hand

  9. ff. 7r-12v (pp.12-23) Calendar, with notes in English at the bottom of each page for diet, times for bleeding, etc.

  10. f. 13r (p.24) Table for finding Easter from 1463 to 1519.

  11. f. 13v (p.25) Table of months, and Signs of the Zodiac.

  12. f. 14r (p.26) Table: Etas lune. Gradus solis.

  13. f. 14v (p.27) Tabula ad sciendum quis planeta regnat quilibet hora diei.

  14. ff. 15r-16r (pp.28-30) Note on astrology

  f. 15r Aries ys pe signe of a ram ... f. 16r ... flewmatike of complexion and feminyne of kynde.

  15. f. 16r (p.30) Four lines of verse

  f. 16r Reson wondrith that Witte ne tel can how godis modir is mayde and he be comm man Take to the witte and pute away wonder Then wit is aboue and reson schal be under.

  f. 16v Inscription wholly blacked out.

  Illustrations

  Astronomical and astrological tables, etc.

  Tables of weights and measures, etc.

  The tables are in red and black with headings and paragraph marks in red, and are written in double column, 30 lines to a column. The calendar is in red, blue and black with decorated initials in blue and red.

  On f. 4 (p.6) is an outline drawing of bishops in council and on f. 2 (p.3) two similar drawings of money-changers at work. The costumes seem to be those of the reign of Edward IV (1461-1483).

• Written in England.

• In the Wellcome Library:

  Other examples of this type of folding calendar / almanac can be seen at MSS.39-40.

• On a fly-leaf is a purple-inked stamp of Julia E[lizabeth] Chafyn Grove, Zeals House [ -1891].
• Purchased 1930.