The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

On the first fly-leaf is a large drawing (xv) of a circular horse-mill, and below it in very large letters the name Russell.
On the fly-leaves:
f.ib: Balade (seven lines, mostly obliterated).
The fyrst folke? fadre of gentylnes.
f.iia: Balade (on lack of steadfastness).
Wylum the wordule was stedefaste and stable
That mannys word was oblygacyun.
Ends:
And wedde ayeyn thy folke to stedefastnes.
ff.iib, iiia: Receipts in English.
f.iiib: Drawing, as above.
Two leaves of paper cent. xvi, with Index.

I. A book of Receipts in English, verse and prose.
Begins imperfectly
In hoote somere þese erbes þou take
And styllyd watre of hem þou make.
The next receipt
Here ys for yen þat waiter or renne.
On f.13a the 32 perilous days are given.
On f.18b sqq. the moon is treated of.
On f.28a charms for theft etc.
Ends on f.47a
He castith wele to þe eyne sight
Thys medecyne ys prouede of the plight.
Later receipts follow on f.47b.

II. 1. f.48 A tract on Veterinary medicine
In form of question and answer.
Imperfect: begins
and the breste and after that lere hem to here her haltres.
Ends f.77b
and the hors schall haue hele and amende of hys sikenes like as he seith þ ^t hath proued the charme.

2. f.77b Here bygynnyth the wyse bok of Phylosophy and Astronomy contynned and made of þe wyseste phylosophre and astronomyer þ^t euere was sith the worlde was begonne þ^t ys to sey of þe londe of Grece ffor yn that londe an ynglys man full wyse an wele vnderstondynge of Phylosophy and astronomye stodyed and compyled thys boke oute of Grewe in to englysshe tonge graceously
ffirst þis boke tellith how many hevenes þ ^er beth.
Ends imperfectly in the tenth sign (Capricornus)
And yf he be take prisonere in bataylle (f.94b).

3. On the last leaf, in the hand that wrote the Balades at the beginning, is
Balade set de la Reygne Katerine Russel.
Slombryng ryhgt choncefull ful of vnkyndenes
That now haþ ^e reyne and dominacyun.
The refrain is
Adew the curt right gentyl large and fre.
There are four stanzas.

Means, L., '"Ffor as moche as yche man may not haue Þe astrolabe": popular Middle English variations on the computus', Speculum 67 (1992), 595-623.

Miller, E. M., '"In Hoote Somere": a Fifteenth-Century Medical Manuscript', (unpublished dissertation, University of Princeton, 1978)

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 49-53.