Parchment, III+206 f., two neat hands: I [Michael of Northgate], f. I-III and 58-205; II, f. 1-57, decorated initials.

Astronomy, astrology and computus: table of contents (Ir); Pliny, De presagiis temporum (Iv-IIIr); table for computing the zodiacal position of the Moon (IIIv); Prophatius Judeus, Almanach (1ra-57v); Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium, with canons attr. Roger Bacon ‘Canon super sequens kalendarium ad veram coniunccionem Solis et Lune accipiendam compositum a fratre Rogero Bacoun. Kalendarium sequens extractum est a tabulis Tholetanis anno domini 1292…’ (58r-71r); Petrus de Dacia, lunar tables with canons and additional astrological material (71v-73v); circular diagram: 12 signs, domiciles, exaltations, decans and triplicities (74r); circular diagram: aspects, with note (74v); horoscopic diagram: meaning of the 12 houses, with note (75r); tables of Toulouse (75v-80r); Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, De magnete (80v-84v); Campanus of Novara, Theorica planetarum, excerpt ‘Incipit compositio instrumenti Solis magistri Campani. Ad hoc autem ut in instrumento nostro sensibili ponantur…’ (85r-92r); Ptolemaica (92v-95r); Thebit Bencora, De recta imaginatione spere et circulorum eius diversorum (95r-96v); Thebit Bencora (?), De quantitate stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (96v-97v); Alcabitius, Introductorius (98r-119v); Hermann of Carinthia, Liber imbrium (120r-122r); Robert Grosseteste (?), De impressionibus aeris (122v-125v); ‘Capitulum de natura aeris in singulis annis. Volens scire naturam aeris in singulis annis, considera coniunctionem Solis et Lune…’ (126r-126v); ‘Iudicium particulare de mutatione aeris. Iudicium particulare de aeris mutatione in coniunctione Solis et Lune, considera signum ascendens et eius naturam…’ (126v-127r); ‘De apertacione portarum. Apercio portarum dicitur dum coniungitur planeta inferior…’ (127r-127v); Sem filius Haym, Capitulum in narratione Saturni quid accidat in mundo (127v-128v); table (7x12) showing the parts of the body for each planet in each of the 12 signs (128v); tables for the 12 signs showing essential dignities and degrees, with text ‘Aries igneum, domus Martis, exaltacio Solis…’ (129r-131v); ‘De Ariete. Aries habet faciem et caput et pupillam oculi…’, incomplete (132r-133r); table: meaning of the 12 houses (133v); Pseudo-Messahallah, De compositione astrolabii, second part on uses (134r-139v); Theorica planetarum Gerardi (140r-147v); Pseudo-Thebit Bencora, De motu octave spere (147v-150v); Hermes, Liber de sex rerum principiis (151r-162r); Arnold of Villanova, Introductorium ad iudicia astrologie quantum pertinet ad medicinam (162v-169v); horoscopes for each of the 360 degrees, all empty (170r-199v); Jafar, Liber imbrium (200r-204v); ‘Incipit composicio chilindri. Investigacionibus chilindri composicionem, quod dicitur horologium viatorum…’ (204r-205v); Messahallah, Liber interpretationum, c. 3, end gone (205v). F. 206 is torn.

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