Nicholas of Lynn, Kalendarium, selection, with added medical and astrological texts, partly in English; England, 15th century, second quarter

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Title

Nicholas of Lynn, Kalendarium, selection, with added medical and astrological texts, partly in English; England, 15th century, second quarter

Shelfmark

MS. Ashmole 370

Place of origin

England

Date

15th century, second quarter (c. 1424 (?)))

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

1. (fols. 1r-23r, 26r-v, 29r-v) Nicholas of Lynn Kalendarium

(fols. 1r-23r) Monthly calendars (missing part of July due to the loss of a leaf after fol. 13). Three or four pages to a month; as pr. Eisner, but omitting data for the first and second Metonic cycles.

(fol. 26r) Third Metonic cycle from the Kalendarium, 1424-1443 (cf. Eisner, p. 152) followed by diagrams without text of six lunar eclipses for that cycle, 1424, 1425, 1428, 1429, 1429, 1431 (cf. Eisner p. 159)

(fol. 26v) Fourth Metonic cycle from the Kalendarium, 1444-1462 (cf. Eisner, p. 153) followed by diagrams without text of six further lunar eclipses for the third cycle, 1432, 1433, 1434, 1436, 1436, 1439 (cf. Eisner p. 159-160)

(fol. 29r) Table to know in which sign the moon is

(fol. 29v) Table of planetary hours

2. (fol. 24r) Medical recipes

3. (fol. 24r) Historical notes

4. (fol. 24v) Incomplete astronomical diagram, with notes on the signs

5. (fol. 25r) Volvelle

6. (fol. 25v) Medical recipes

7. (fol. 27v) Zodiac man with added text on bloodletting

8. (fol. 28r) Astrological calendar

9. (fol. 28v) Astrological notes

Incipit: Ares Leo Sagitas[sic] makyng on trpicete[sic] of the est h(ot) d(ry) atractive

Incipit: Iubiter cast out blod and hys sekeys[sic]

Incipit: Capericor Saturnus Aquarius | Sagitaris Iubiter Pissis

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

29 leaves

Hands

Textualis.

Added texts (fols. 24r-v, 25v, 27v, 28r-v): several informal anglicana hands.

Decoration

Fine miniature: fol. 27v, Zodiac man.

Tables; lunar eclipse diagrams (unfinished).

Binding

Parchment over pasteboard. Bound with MS. Ashmole 371.

Acquisition

Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.

Provenance

N: C: N:, fol. 10r, 16th century (?)

Elias Ashmole; bequeathed by him to the Ashmolean Museum in 1692.

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