https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.5.32/manifest.jsonA system of divination in French.
The page is divided into compartments, each containing a question. A letter of the alphabet is attached to every four: there are 32 on p.1.
Sil serra auaunce cest an ou noun.
Si vous troueretz ce que vous conueitetz ou noun.
The following pages have ten rows of capital letters at top.
The rest of the page is in compartments (72 in each) containing names of mountains, trees, fish, plants, etc. e.g. Mount Syon. Arbre Coudre. Mount Oliuete. Arbre Cypres.
Beste Cerf. Flouv Tyber. Espicerie Safron.
The next ten pages have each an inscribed wheel in twelve compartments, each is headed with its title
-ceo que lem voudra de bien ou de mal.
Explicit.
Probably an extract from the Kyranides.
2. On numbers f.16b
60000. Si vous voillez plus precisement sauoir la racine des nombres.
3. Un sage autour de geometrie dist qele fust prynies troue en Egipte.
-com si destourbaunce soit par une ou autre oscurtie.
f.20b 4. Another system of prognostics. The names of the Zodiacal signs are at the tops of the pages: each page is in compartments, sometimes as many as 112. The first column contains the project, e.g. Entrer sur Rois ou seignurs. Festeier ou autre manere solacer, Messages maunder, etc.
The others contain information as to whether it is to be successful or not, according to the Sign, e.g. Alouable et profitable, ne fait pas alouer, Meene entre bon et mal
Espece des herbes, des perres preciouses, des espices, des
pessouns etc.
There is writing below, much of which is gone.
f. 5 is patched with a part of another leaf, which probably
followed f.10. It has verses headed 'Le Roy de Rome.'
On f.8b begins a series of such verses in sets of nine lines, each attributed to a King.
Le Roy des Tourcs
Mieuz tauendra preuioir que tu ne quidas auoyr.
There are fifteen sets: the last is that of
le Roy dalemaigne.
On 10a is a xivth cent. scribble
ven. et discrete viro d. Thome capellano parochie de Tho.
and on f.10b:
iiijd. O (?) Johannes lake dec. de godeword(?).
----- Rob. Dubber pro iii an. in pastur? dni.
iijd. -- R.. lake(?) non habet Johem Weler(?).
f.11 5. Cy comence le liure Hermes le Philosofre parlaunt des 15 esteilles greyndres fixes et 15 pieres preciouses etc.
In double columns of 38 lines.
f.25b 6. Lunarie, in French verse
Cy comence vne sommarye
que lem apele la lunarie
Pur voir de sounges et dautre rien
Bon est et verroie sachez bien.
Ends f.28b
Ore finist la lune seyne yci
Ihesu crist de nous eyt mercy. Amen.
Prayer
Gloriouse virgine seinte marie.
The rubric following says this was sent by the Virgin to
St Morice leuesq de Paris.
Then follows a table of the lucky or unlucky days in each month.
Ianeuer en ad 7. Cest asauoir le primer.
le 2 le 4 le 6 le 11 le 15 et le 19.
II. 41 lines to a page: a later type of hand.
A tract on Medicine in Latin and French.
f.1 Quoniam omnia vicia a capite procedunt
French occurs first (without any break in the text) on f.3b.
At the bottom of f.15a in red is Wigornia.
On f.29b begins a letter from Iohannes Hispaniensis to the Queen of Spain.
Cum de utilitate corporis olim tractaremus.
The last page is a good deal stained, text ends
est assez qit cest seit use matin chaud de ceus q' ount mestier.
Then in another hand
Ipocras þis bouk · herknyþ to me and I ’ew wole telle.
Seven lines recommending the book.
