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De contemptu mundi, etc.,

Petrarch's De Contemptu Mundi, with ff. 1 and 5 missing; Cincius Romanus's Latin translation of the Axiochus, with a preface addressed to Reginald, 'episcopus Harfordensis'.

The abbey of the Holy Ghost, etc.,

Two series of extracts from Scripture in Latin entitled 'Mandata' and 'Consilia Christi'; an English text entitled 'Yis is ye abbey of ye holy gost. Yt is fou[n]ded in a place yt is cleped ye conciens'; a table to find the altitude of the sun; and a diagram of concentric circles showing the positions of hell, the earth, the planets and the heavens.

Disticha Catonis,

The 'Disticha Catonis', with an English paraphrase in verse; the wars of Alexander - 'historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonie'; and an incomplete text of 'Historia sanctorum trium regum'. Illuminated.

Miscellaneous texts,

A collection of Latin texts: 'Secretum Secretorum', 'De Willielmo Conquestore', 'Generatio Regum Scocie', 'De miseria humane condicionis', 'De Adam & Eva vxore eius', 'De ligno vite post eiectionem Ade de Paradiso', 'De tribus Marijs', 'De infantia Christi', 'De Asseneth filia Potipharis ...', 'Versus', 'De spe ... Desperacio & presumpcio'.

Medical texts,

The manuscript is in two parts: The first part comprises medical recipes, mainly in English; and a rubric entitled 'Incipit compendium salernie que membris valent aut nocent'. The second part comprises a fragment of a medical treatise.

Historia Anglorum,

A version of Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum to 1129, with a copy of the epistle of Prester John to Manuel, emperor of Constantinople.

Charms and palmistry,

The manuscript is in two parts. The first part comprises charms, directions on how to make circles, a copy of John Leland's Epigrams, problems, memoranda, Welsh verses, and a list of owners of Welsh manuscripts, apparently compiled by John Jones, Gellilvydy about 1611. The second part is a fifteenth-century treatise on palmistry, with diagrams.