Aberdeen, University Library, 123

Scribe(s)	William Fitton (98v)
Century	15
Precise date	c. 1440
Place of origin	England, in the neighborhood of Chester
Language	English \| Latin
Owner’s notes	(8v) Hunc librum Collegio Regio Universitatis Aberdeen. Dono dedit Robertus Barclay de Urie 1723. (98v) William fitton with my hand.
Material	Chart. et Membr.
Height × width	c. 220 x 150
No. of leaves	ii + 161 + ii
Gatherings	twelve quires (?)
Cover	Rebound by Maltby, Oxford, s. 20
Condition	Fols. 9 & 26 are small fragments. Nearly all the paper leaves were repaired when the ms. was rebound.
No. of hands	Several hands
Type of writing	current, a mixture of secretary and anglicana
Width of columns	Ruling, if any, with a hard point, usually the frame only, c. 160 x 105 mm.
Lineation	c. 30 long lines
Initials etc.	1-2 line red initials, capitals sometimes lined with red.
Marginal annotations	The hand which wrote f. 72v (at the Augustinian convent of Warrington ?) appears to be one of the main hands of the manuscript.
Printed catalogs	Ker II (1977) 4-11.
Source	Ker
Type of source	cat.
Source’s source	insp.

Work 1	Title (ms.)	Varia miscellanea, inter quae:
Work 2	Author standard	Chaucer, Geoffrey
	Title (ms.)	Bred and mylk \| Treatise on the Astrolabe (exc.)
	Incipit	Bred and mylk for children. Lytyl lowys my sone
	Printed copies	W.W. Skeat, The Works of Chaucer, III (1894) 175-218/18
	Additional remarks	The text on f. 26 is all torn away except for a few words of sec. 25 of pt. 2. The leaf contained sec. 24/1-26/5. Sec. 37-45 of pt. 2 are not in this copy.
	Folio no.	10v-23v, 25r-v, 24r-v, 26-30v
	Explicit	is <th>e naddyr of <th>e 6 etc.
	Colophon	Explicit liber qui vocatur bred and mylk.
Work 3	Title (ms.)	Diagram of a quadrant
Work 3	Folio no.	40r
Work 4	Title (ms.)	Table to show the length of daylight by a series of numbers from 15 to 61
	Folio no.	41r
	Other passages	The solstices are marked at 9 June and 10 Dec.
Work 5	Title (ms.)	Table of latitudes and longitudes
	Additional remarks	for 48 places, the first 18 of them in England
	Folio no.	41v
Work 6	Title (ms.)	Canon quadrantis
	Incipit	Take a plate of copur or of laton
	Folio no.	42r-43v
	Rubric	For to make a quadrant.
	Explicit	in y^e tabyl of the diuercite of y^e sone.
	Colophon	Explicit canon quadrantis.
Work 7	Title (ms.)	Composicio quadrantis
	Incipit	Quadraus in quadrante sic fit. yus sall' yu make yi quadrus
	Folio no.	43v
	Explicit	lyne of A.C. etc.
	Colophon	Explicit composicio quadrantis.
Work 8	Title (ms.)	Tables "of <th>o diuersite of <th>o heght of <th>o sonne"
	Additional remarks	to go with ff. 42r-43v
	Folio no.	44r
Work 9	Title (ms.)	Diagram
Work 9	Folio no.	44v
Work 10	Title (ms.)	Composicio nauis \| Composicio nauis.
	Incipit	First make a cercle and diuide hym by A.C. and B.D. diametres
	Folio no.	44v-46v
	Additional texts	(46v) The "inscripcion of monethis in <th>o figure ... schal be wroght be <th>o newe calendar made of frere Ion Somer"
Work 11	Title (ms.)	Calendar
	Contents	September to December only, incl. Thomas of Hereford at 2 Oct.
	Folio no.	47-48v
Work 12	Title (ms.)	Table
	Contents	Four months to a page, showing (a) gradus solis in signis, (b) altitudo meridiane solis, (c) littere feriales mensium
	Folio no.	49-50
Work 13	Title (ms.)	Table of cardinal, ordinal, distributive, adverbial, and ponderal numbers
Work 13	Folio no.	52r
Work 14	Title (ms.)	Table of great cycle, 1140-1571
	Printed copies	H. Walther, Initia carminum (1959) # 20500
	Additional remarks	In the table a word represents each year, the whole forming the set of verses "Virgo deum pariens venie spes maxima sola"
	Folio no.	52v-53
Work 15	Title (ms.)	"Filius esto dei celum bonus"
	Incipit	Filius esto dei celum bonus accipe gratis
	Printed copies	H. Walther, Initia carminum (1959) # 6525
	Additional remarks	18 lines
	Folio no.	57r
Work 16	Title (ms.)	Cisio ianus epi lucianus
	Incipit	Cisio ianus epi lucianus et hil fe mav mar sul
	Publ. descriptions	C. Wordsworth, Ancient Kalendar of the University of Oxford, 166-8
	Printed copies	H. Walther, Initia carminum (1959) # 2808
	Additional remarks	26 lines
	Folio no.	57r-v
	Additional copies	infra f. 84
Work 17	Title (ms.)	Computistical verses
	Incipit	Centum quinta tenet
	Printed copies	includes H. Walther, Initia carminum (1959) # 9785 & 8678
	Additional remarks	42 lines
	Folio no.	57v-58v
Work 18	Title (ms.)	Tables of epacts and concurrents
Work 18	Folio no.	58v
Work 19	Title (ms.)	Table of a great cycle, 1437-1968
	Folio no.	60-61
	Initial lines	preceded by a "Canon tabule sequentis" (in English), beginning "Thys tabyl folowyng ys callyd <th>e tabyll of Estyr"
Work 20	Title (ms.)	Verses on computus
	Printed copies	H. Walther, Initia carminum (1959) # 2169, ascribed to St. Augustine.
	Folio no.	61v
	Other passages	Including 4 lines referring to the year 1417 and 4 lines on the "annus magnus platonis"
Work 21	Title (ms.)	"dies periculose"
	Additional remarks	list of 32 days
	Folio no.	62r
Work 22	Title (ms.)	"dies congrui ad minuendum sanguinem" and prognostications according to the month of birth
	Incipit	Qui natus fuit
	Folio no.	62v
Work 23	Title (ms.)	Multiplication table
	Additional remarks	up to 10 x 10
	Folio no.	63r
Work 24	Title (ms.)	Volvellum solis et lune
	Additional remarks	A diagram with two turning pointers.
	Folio no.	65
	Rubric	Volvellum solis et lune.
Work 25	Title (ms.)	Instrumentum per quod sciuntur hore diei
	Incipit	Instrumentum per quod sciuntur hore diei per vmbram
	Incipit 2	To make a Instrument to knowe ye ourys of ye day by <th>o vmbre (66v)
	Language	English \| Latin
	Folio no.	66-68v
	Line drawings	followed by diagrams
Work 26	Title (ms.)	Table of numbers
	Additional remarks	in looking-glass writing
	Folio no.	68v
Work 27	Title (ms.)	Planetary tables and text
	Language	English \| Latin
	Folio no.	69-70
Work 28	Title (ms.)	Table of great cycle, 1386-1917
Work 28	Folio no.	70v
Work 29	Title (ms.)	Table to show the sign of the zodiac in each month
Work 29	Folio no.	71r
Work 30	Title (ms.)	Diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses with descriptive text
Work 30	Folio no.	71v-72, 75
Work 31	Title (ms.)	Prognostications of weather according to the sign of the zodiac which the sun is entering
Work 31	Folio no.	72v
Work 32	Title (ms.)	Diagram showing 32 points of the compass
	Language	English
	Folio no.	73v
Work 33	Title (ms.)	Diagram showing months and signs of the zodiac
	Additional remarks	with two turning pointers
	Folio no.	74
Work 34	Title (ms.)	Texts and diagrams relating to the signs of the zodiac
Work 34	Folio no.	75v-77v
Work 35	Title (ms.)	"Complexions" of the four seasons and of four divisions of the day
	Language	English \| Latin
	Folio no.	77
Work 36	Title (ms.)	Astrological calendar
Work 36	Folio no.	78-83v
Work 37	Title (ms.)	Cisioianus and other mnemonic verses on computus
	Contents	Includes the verses "Altitonans ...", "Dat crux ...", "Fortis es ...", "Largus ...", "Si per quindenos ...", and couplets on the golden number, "Cantus lux ...", "Astra beans ...", and on solstice.
	Printed copies	H. Walther, Initia carminum (1959) ## 869, 4055, 6805, 10131, 17839
	Folio no.	84-86v
	Glosses etc.	interlinear glosses
	Additional copies	infra f. 57
Work 38	Title (ms.)	A man of signs and text
	Incipit	Imago signorum. Aries. Caue ab inscisione in capite
	Folio no.	85v
Work 39	Title (ms.)	De compoto et de kalendario
	Incipit	Quoniam sicut ait beatus Augustinus Sacerdotes compotum scire tenentur
	Folio no.	95-116
	Rubric	De compoto et de kalendario et de pertinentibus ad <...>
	Explicit	pro peccatis meis deuotas oraciones effundant amen.
	Colophon	Explicit compotus.
Work 40	Title (ms.)	Influences of the planets and the signs of the zodiac
	Incipit	Saturnus ys ye hyest planete and ye wykkydest
	Language	English
	Folio no.	141v-143v
	Other passages	(143) Be almagest in centiloqui of tholomy ilk lym of mannus body ys rulyd by a certeyn sygne of <th>e zodyac
Work 41	Title (ms.)	Tables of measurement
Work 41	Folio no.	145v-146r
Work 42	Title (ms.)	Prognostications from throwing three dice
	Contents	47 out of 56 4-line stanzas
	Incipit	Thow <th>t has cast iii sixes her' Shalt haue <th>y desyr <th>s same <3>ere
	Language	English
	Additional remarks	ending imperfectly at three threes
	Folio no.	149v-152v
Work 43	Title (ms.)	Rules for health in each month and lists of dangerous days for bloodletting and of "lunares periculosi"
	Incipit	In <th>e monyth of Ienyuer
	Language	English
	Folio no.	153-4
	Rubric	Here tellyth <th>e dyetyng of blode letyng of man or woman in euery monyth yn <th>e <3>ere.
Work 44	Title (ms.)	Prognostications from wind and sun during the twelve nights and days before Christmas
Work 44	Folio no.	154v
Work 45	Scribe(s)	later hand, s. 15
	Title (ms.)	A note of the great storm, 27-8 Jan. 1439-40
	Folio no.	38v