Fols 83r/20-31, the third recipe is in a s. 83r/12-19, 'Ðis mæg to eah salfe', are in the same hand as that of the recipes on fol. The first two recipes, fols 82v/21-83r/11, 'Ðis is seo seleste eah salf' and, fol. Fols 82v-83 contain four recipes in Old English in three hands. 18v is partially blank and contains recipes in Old English Ad uertiginem, 'Num betonica ˥ ƿæll sƿyðe on ƿin | oþþa on ald ealað' and Ad pectoris dolorem, 'Num horsellens ˥ eft geƿænen bare' s. xii, 'Se unbrade þistel he havat | ƿiplete (?) hauod' ( Ker 1957, p.

xii hand probably added the chapters in the table of contents: I- CLXXIX and, as Ker1957 notes, the chapter numbers in the upper margin of most pages are also in this hand.įol. Fols 12r-18v, table of content of the 'Herbarius', followed by 185 chapters of the translation of Herbarius Apuleii, titled 'ERBARIVM | APVL LAT | QVOD ACPIT AB E|SCOLAIO ET CHRONE CENTAVRO: MAGISTRO | ACHILLIS' on fols 19v-74v, and a translation in Old English of Medicina de quadrupedibus beginning 'SAGAÐ ÐÆT ÆGYP | ta cyning idpartus ƿæs haten' on fols 75-82v ( de Vriend 1984 and Cockayne 1864-66). xii, annotations around a hole ( Doane 1994, p. Part 2, fols 11-85: the table of contents, the translation of the enlarged Herbarius Apuleii and of the Medicina de quadrupedius are from s. There are also some annotations in Anglo-Norman (see, Doane 1994, p. Chapters 10, 11, 13-19, 22 and 37 are glossed in English in a different hand, s.

10v, chapter titles of Macer, De viribus herbarum. xii hands: Fols 5r-10: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi. Part 1, fols 5-10, contains text copied in s.

A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, 'Saturnalia' and Part 4 includes Cotton's notes (see, British Library Catalogue, and Doane 1994, pp.

Cotton vitellius manuscript