Isidori Etymologiarum Libb. v.-ix.
Inc. in V. xxxiii. 1. mi non ex solis circulo . sed ex lune cursu enumerantur.
P.L. lxxxii. 219 A.
Greek words inserted in red capitals.
According to the numbering of this MS. this is cap. vi.
c. vii. begins on f.2. de soli stitiis et aequi noctiis (xxxiv. in edd.).
The table of the six ages in c. xii. (=xxxix.) is in a smaller hand.
ExpLCIT liber qVINTVS.
f.9 INC. capitula libri sexti
There are 9 chapters as against 19 of edd.
FlNIVNT CAPITULA.
f.9b INC. LIBER sextus
c. iii. de biblioticis has six divisions: so has iv. de cartis et pergamenis.
The table of cycles P.L. col.245-47 is omitted.
It may have intervened in a pair of leaves between quires 3 and 4. The text however has no other gap here.
f.26 ends: stratum annorum and f.27 begins Post cuius.
Expl. lib. vi.
f.40 Inc. capitula liberi septimi
There are 14 chapters as in edd.
Expl. capitula.
f.40b Inc. eiusdem liber
By the title of c. ii. De filio dei is godes þynnē.
Expl. Lib. septimus.
f.77 Inc. capp. libri octavi
These are numbered continuously with lib. vii., from xv. to xxv, corresponding with the number in edd.
Finiunt capp.
f.77b Inc. eiusdem libri octavvi
Finit lib. octavvs.
f.108 Inc. capp. Libri noni
Numbered from xxvi.-xxxiii.: there are 7 in edd.
Expl. capp.
f.108 Inc. eiusdem liber nonus
On f.139a after Germani Germanae (P.L. col. 359), the rest of the page is left blank. Batman adds in Saxon letters
Finis . de ritibus historiarum.
On f.139b is a table
Item de predictis adfinitatibus.
Auctor mei generis etc. -ego illi neptis filius aut filia, in six columns.
f.140a is blank and the portion of text from "Matris meae soror" onwards, with the stemmata, is omitted. (P.L. 360-63.)
On f.140b the text continues with c. xxxii. (=vii.) De coniugiis ending
Credo equidem nec uana fides genus esse deorum (f.141b).
Twelve lines (in P. L.) are wanting to complete the book.
There are corrections in a hand nearly contemporary with the original.
f145b
He that wilbe parfet in bookes that are newe
by the olde, he shall knowe the better to vewe.
This book is a Scoolemaster to those yt are wise
But not to fonde fooles, that learning dispise.
A Jwell it is, who liste it to reede,
With in it are pearells, precious in deede
Then follows
alphabetum Saxonicum et coniunctivum.
The alphabet, with abbreviations.
At the end
Collumalarii the name of a saxon doctor in divinite, da gloriam deo
On a paper fly-leaf in the same hand(?) are a number of texts from Genesis, Exodus and Numbers.
There are a good many marginal notes by Batman(?).