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Seventeenth century manuscript with two texts: a library catalogue, and treatise on arithmetic

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Description: Rudimentary library catalog (63 pages) of an unidentified owner, arranged alphabetically, giving abbreviated forms of author and title (with very few dates) for a standard early modern collection of primarily Latin and English tiles on philosophy, history, law, religion, sermons, politics, science, travel, classics. From the back of the volume, written upside-down, has been added a short (37 pages) basic treatise on arithmetic including sections on numbers, weights and measures, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, "reduction of integers," and fractions, with many examples of calculations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1660.
Call number: mssHM 70980
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London, November 28, 2008.
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Cooking and home economics notes : manuscript

Rare Books

Handwritten notes from a basic cooking class with recipes. First lesson on kitchen work, serving, table setting, abbreviations and table of measures is dated January 9, 1890. The final lesson in notebook is dated March 21, 1890.

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Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae and several leaves of Statutes : [manuscript]

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f. ii: 19th century notes regarding the Bengough family. ff. 1-4v: chapter list to Bracton; f. 4v: a prayer, a note on herbs, verses about Tedaldus (pope Gregory X), a political prophecy in verse attributed to the chaplain of Roger le Brabazon (justice of King's Bench in 1296), verses about a pope Lucius. ff. 5-263: [Henry Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Anglie]: Rubric: Que sunt Regi necessaria. Incipit liber domini Henrici de Bracton. Incipit: In rege qui recte regit necessaria sunt duo hec, arma videlicet et leges ... Explicit: qui sunt ad fidem domini Regis sive inde preceptum habuerint sive non. Explicit liber Henrici de Bractoun de legibus et consuetudinibus Anglicanis. ff. 263-264: [Statutes, including the Statute for religious men; Extenta manerii; Assize of weights and measures; Assize of bread and ale]. ff. 264-265: [Ordinatio cartarum]: Incipit: Quam prona sunt estatis studia et quanto vivamus diucius tanto proniora et hec quare plurimi sunt contractus utpote conductiones emptiones venditiones obligationes ... Explicit: Ego A. de B. et heredes mei vel assignati totam terram predictam cum pertinentiis sicut prius dictum est prefacto C. de B. et cetera. Explicit ordinacio Cartarum. ff. 265-267v: [Statutes, including a note on weights and measures; the View of frankpledge; Magna Carta; verses; a copy of a writ of entry brought by William of Sparesholte against Gerald de Insula dated at Winchester, 21 September in the year of "our" reign 13; the Versus Bruti ad Dianam and its pendant Responsio Diane; the Carta de foresta ending defectively].

mssHM 31911

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A booke of exchange of merchants: manuscript

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A discussion of the principles of mercantile exchanges of weights and currencies, with examples, followed by a brief treatise on the Mint and coinage.

mssHM 730

Medical treatises : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-15v: [Approximately 150 medical recipes, including 2 on f. 3 for determining if a sick man will live or die]: Incipit: [Broþir] in crist þat þyng þat ȝe desyreþ of me y wol don hyt wyþ goddes grace her beþ medycynes þat beþ ydrawen out of goode leches bokes. For þe hed ache mak lye of verueyne oþer of beteyne ... Explicit: & ȝef þe arm be broke let hym bere a bal of herbes in hys hond for crokynge of hys fyngeres deo gracias Amen. f. 15v. [Pharmacuetical weights]: Incipit: Forto rede & vnderstonde þe wrytynge þat comeþ heraftur & such oþer wrytynge as leaches wryteþ in makynge of hur medycynes wheþer it be in englysch oþer in latyn þow schalt vnderstonde þat a pound is þus ywryte li. i & half a pound ... Explicit: & þus þey beþ ywryten in latyn bokes. ff. 16-237: [Treatise on sicknesses, arranged from the head down (headache to hemorrhoids) defining for each the humors, diagnostic symptoms and remedies]: Rubric: Hed Ache. Incipit: A mon þat wol helpe men in hure seknesses hym byhofeþ to knowe þe enchesones & þe kyndes of þe seknesses þat is to sugge wheþer þey ben hote oþer colde oþer druye oþer moyst And þys is yknowe by mony dyuerse tokenes as by þe vryn & by þe pous ... And furst we wolleþ bygynne at þe seknesses of þe hed & furst of þe hed ache þat may come to a mon þroȝ hete oþer colde oþer druyenesse. Explicit: Anoynte hem wyþ þe oyle of eyren oþer of roses oþer wyþ þe mys of þe lylye rote oþer wyþ fresch botter oþer wyþ lard ymedled wyþ botter oþer wyþ oyle of whete oþer wyþ þe whyt of an ey. f. 237v: [Notes on the preparation of violet, saffron and iron rust for medicinal use]: Incipit: In al þys bok þer as þou seest vyolet idon in electewaryes. Explicit: it restoreþ colere & consumeþ malencolye & it sleþ þe cancre & þe festre & it druyeþ qwyture & abateþ a monnes fatuesse. Deo gracias. Amen. ff. 238-242: [Table of contents to ff. 16-237, listing par tof the body affected and appropriate medicines with reference to folio numbers]. ff. 16v, 18v, 50v, 96, 141v, 203, 208v, 209, 241v, 242v, 243, 244: [Medical recipes in Latin and in English added by several different hands, 15th-16th century].

mssHM 19079

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Catalogue of the library of professor T.F.Tout

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The Catalogue is a typescript (some pages are carbon copies), with annotations and additions in various hands. It is divided into the following sections: Introductory Note (p. i-iv), Medieval Books (p. 1-87), Medieval Books Addenda (2 p.), Modern Books (p. 1-32), The Non Historical Publications of the Manchester University Press (p. 1-6), Titles Not Listed in Tout Catalog & Supplementary List (p. 1-7). Catalogue is in a cloth-covered "Instantaneous Binder," with some damage to the spine.

mssHM 82622

Treatises on civil and canon law, etc. : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-33. Utriusque iuris methodus. Incipit: Tria occurrunt legenda in utroque iure, textualia, glose ordinarie, et doctorum scripta. Explicit: ad iudicem iustissimum regnaturi cum eo in perpetuum. Amen. Methodus utriusque iuris finit feliciter. Latin. ff. 33-36. Digest, abbreviated. Incipit: Totius iste liber digestorum in septem partes dividitur principaliter. Explicit: de gradibus et glo. In capitulum finalem. De sacramentis iterandis vel non. Et sic finis habetur huius conpendiosi et iuvenibus utriusque iuris scolaribus utilis opusculi. Amen.". Latin. ff. 36-41v. Ignorantia facti non iuris excusat. [Ignorance of the Law]. Incipit: Scribitur de re iuris c. ignorantia li. vi [i.e. Liber sext] In quibus verbis breviter tanguntur duo articuli principales. Explicit: post decretales ille constitutiones sunt compilate. Et tamen de hoc opusculo. Amen. Rubric: Ignorantia facti non iuris excusat. Latin. ff. 42-121v. Secuntur modo tituli utriusque iuris tam canonici quam civilis. Incipit: Quoniam volentem in iure incipere opere precium est utriusque iuris titulos primum memorie commendare. Explicit: De consuetitudinibus et constitutionibus contra libertatem ecclesie introductis. Et sic est finis. Deo gratias. Rubric: Secuntur modo tituli utriusque iuris tam canonici quam civilis. Latin. List of the tituli of law books (Decretales, Institutiones, Digestum vetus, Infortiatum, Digestum novum, Codex, Novellae). ff. 122-137v. Offices of the Virgin Mary and of Sts. Gervase and Protase. Latin. Each office with 9 lessons at matins: "Diebus sabbatis officium beate marie Ad vesperas super psalmos antiphona. Sancta dei genitrix virgo semper maria . . ."; f. 132, "In natalis sanctorum martirum gervasii & prothasii ad vesperas antiphona. Edidit quoque angelus sanctis martiribus gervasio et prothasio ..."; f. 133, "Incipit revelacio sanctorum martirum geruasii et prothasii beato ambrosio ostensa. Lectio prima. Ambrosius servus christi fratribus per omnem Italiam in domino salutem. In divinis voluminibus ...".

mssHM 62595

Seventeenth century manuscript with two texts: a library catalogue, and treatise on arithmetic

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