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Title
Date(s)
- 1200-1344 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 volume 5+ x 4+ in., 219 ff.; 29 lines to a page vellum
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
On the first leaf is a note: "Liber monachorum beate marie de kyrkestall", indicating provenance from Kirkstall Abbey; there is a similar note at the end, mentioning the name of brother John of Driffield and dated Ascension Day 1344. Donated by Thomas Man, 1685.
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Scope and content
De oculo spirituali, and other tracts; M. R. James's no. 75. Contains: 1)Tractatus de oculo spirituali, with table; 2) Medulla philosophorum, preceded by table; 3) an untitled tract ("De virtutibus"), preceded by table. The fly-leaves include: a leaf of a chronicle, with the year 968 mentioned and the names Lotharius Nicholaus Adrianus; a leaf and a half of "Interpretationes nominum"; and parts of two leaves from a psalter or service book with the beginnings of verses from psalms 13 to 40.