The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

1. On various modes of writing: f.1 torn.
Grammatica docet recte ... | recte scribere Ex quo patet .....| in 2 ^as partes primo de prima parte .. | est de recta scriptura, sunt autem instrumenta eius color et materia supra quae debet scribi.
The first section is De verniza. Cyphers are given. On f.10 is some English of cent. xvi in Greek letters on the margin, very likely by Dee.
On f.11b. Sequitur Rethorica.
On f.15. Inc. dialetica.
Optical illusions.
On f.23. Ars metrica.

2. f.25b Miscellaneous experiments

3. f.33 Inc. experimenta Alberti
Sicut dicit philosophus, omnis sciencia
f.37b Sequitur de lapidibus
Ends f.39 unfinished.

4. f.41 On the Twelve Signs
Nota kalenda dicitur a calo.

5. f.44b Of Hernia
Hernia is a corupt Sifac þat is to say of þe litil skyn.
Other receipts in English follow.

6. Receipts in English 48
Who so wole make water ardant.
The last. 'For to make gracia Dei' and
Contra pullices (in Latin).
On f.68 more cypher-writing with numerals and Greek letters.

7. f.68b Certitude lune

8. f.70b Table of lucky and unlucky moons

9. f.71 Modus faciendi aquam ardentem
Other receipts in Latin and English follow, to the end of the volume: more than one hand appears.
f.80 is of cent. xvi and has receipts.
Prob. per Capⁿ Dorrington.

Roberts, J., and A. G. Watson, ed., John Dee's Library Catalogue (London, 1990) M34

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 127-8 and 161