https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.7.23/manifest.jsonThe fly-leaves are bits of a copy of a comment on the Pauline Epistles, of cent. xiii early.
f.1. 3 lines on the poor on the verso.
1. p.1 Counties and Sees of England and Wales
List of Contents (xviii).
2. p.3 Merlini Prophetia (in prose)
Ue rubeo draconi nam exterminacio eius festinat. (So also Claudius B. vii, Ward Cat. of Romances I.303.)
Ends p.13, et cancer cum sole litigabit.
p.14 blank.
3. p.15 Chronicle in French
Deuaunt la natiuite nostre seignur mil et deus cent aunz .
Brutus le filz siluii.
Ends p.32 imperfect.
Apres lui regnad le rei iohan sun frere . en sun tens fu engletere entredite.
4. Four lines.
p.33 Fluxit ab Enea primum Romana propago
...
Olim pagana fuerat simul anglia tota.
"Chronicon Joa. Castorii (i.e. Bever) v. Bale 1306 aliud exemplar in Bibl. Cott. Vitel. E. 17."
A good initial.
Eneas cum ascaneo filio suo fugiens excidium.
Ends with the discovery of a prophecy at Toledo, p.129.
simile huius inuenitur tempore constantini sexti. Explicit.
5. Incipiunt alia cronica.
Post tholam iayr galiditis.
Ends in 1291.
Alienora regina anglie et monialis in crastino S. Joh. baptiste.
p160 Extract from Hugo de studio orandi
6. p.164 Cronicula de caristia uictualium
Anno milleno trescentis decimo quinto
Cum subsequto: numerato decimo sexto.
Ten lines.
Quid superueniet in anno septimo deno
Conditor omnipotens disponat nos benedicens. Amen.
7. p.165 A Herbal beginning imperfectly on Allium
interius accipiatur.
All round the margins in hands of cents, xiv-xv are written receipts in Latin and English.
Ends p.209 (nuces auellane) facit pilos in corpore germinare ut dicit ysaac et constantinus. Explicit.
8. A rhyming poem against women.
Sit deo gloria, laus, benedictio,
p.210 Johanni pariter, petro, laurencio
Printed in Wright's Poems attributed to Walter Mapes, Camd. Soc.
p.211 Ends. Vt pascat filios quos ipsa baiulat,
Receipts on the margins.
9. p.211b In a later hand xiv, xv
On the signs of the Zodiac and the characters of persons born under each
p.219 On Dreams
10. p.219 Receipts. Latin and English (xiv and xv)
pp.227-230 are blank.
11. In the former hand.
p.231 On the signs, the Sunday letter etc.
Per ueterum sagacitatem quia mira subtilitate planetarum cursum.
Ends with memorial verses
Circumcisus adam facit epiphania feritur
...
Ex te christe bone natale festa secuntur.
Notes, receipts, an adjuration to fevers.
p.247 A paragraph in an older hand
et abstine a luxuria
-sicut potest . in qua operari uoluens.
p.248 De virtutibus rose marine, in English
Rose maryne is boþ e tre and herbe
-gret happ in coumfort þerby. Explicit.
p.253 Receipts in English and Latin, and particulars of simples arranged under the various months
In French (xiv).
p.260 Li mestre qe cest ast nous aprist . ont nombre . les iours perilous en lan
p.261 A paragraph of similar character in Latin
p.261 Days for bleeding, in French
p.262 Ends with a Lunarie in French
La premiere lune fet bon de commencer actes etc.
