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    Medicine I fols. 1v-2v Humours I fol. 1v Humours II fol. 1v Bloodletting I fol. 1v Bloodletting II fols. 1v-2r 17th C. ex libris fol. 2r Bloodletting III fols. 2r-2v Herbs fol. 2v Prognosis fol. 2v Recipes fol. 2v Weights and Measures fol. 2v Electuaries fol. 2v Computus Related Materials fols. 3r-7r Abbo of Fleury's acrostic fol. 3r Grammar of numbers fol. 3v Three Critical Days fol. 3v Three Marvellous Days fol. 3v World Ages fol. 3v Embolisms fol. 3v	Gathering 1
    Lunaria fol. 4r Birth Prognostic fol. 4r Coena Cypriani fols. 4v-5r Riddle fol. 5r Runic, cryptographic and exotic alphabets fol. 5v Cryptogram (1) fol. 5v Cryptogram (2) fol. 5v Easter lunar limits rotae fol. 5v Sunrise rota fol. 5v Mappamundi fol. 6r Feria table fol. 6r Degrees of affinity fols. 6v-7r Taxonomy of knowledge fol. 7r Byrhtferth's Diagram fol. 7v Computus Texts and Tables I fols.8r-15v Tidal rota fol. 8v Sphere of Life and Death 1 fol. 8v Feria table fol. 8r Lunar-zodiac table fol. 8r Table of moveable feasts 1 fol. 8v-9r Table of moveable feasts 2 fol. 9v Litterae punctatae fol. 10r Lunar letters A-V table fol. 10v Jewish months fol. 11r Full and hollow months 1 fol. 11r Age of the moon on moveable feasts fol. 11r Full and hollow months 2 fol. 11r ANGELVS table 1 fol. 11v Perpetual calendar 1 fol. 11v Categorical propositions fol. 11v Greek alphabetic numerals fol. 11v ANGELVS table 2 fol. 12r Perpetual calendar 2 fol. 12r Computus mnemonics fol. 12r Byrhtferth's Proemium fol. 12v-13r Elements schema fol. 13r Computus Graecorum: fol. 13v Rubric Divisions of the months Ferial regulars Concurrents Lunar regulars Epacts Lunar letters Claves terminorum Lunar and decenovennal cycles How to find the termini of moveable feasts Ultimi termini of moveable feasts Days in the decenovennal cycle Months and seasons Computus poetry: fol. 14r Me legat annales... Bissena mensium uertigine uoluitur annus... Ianus et Octimber binis regulantur <h>abenis... September semper quinis octimber habenis... Bissex signiferae numerantur sidera sperae... *Marginal graphic gloss Prima dies phebi sacrato nomine fulget... Lectio on the embolisms fol. 14v-15r Lectio on the saltus fol. 15r-v Poem on the months fol. 15v	Gathering 2
    Calendar fols. 16r-21v January fol. 16r February fol. 16v March fol. 17r April fol. 17v May fol. 18r June fol. 18v July fol. 19r August fol. 19v September fol. 20r October fol. 20v November fol. 21r December fol. 21v Computus Texts and Tables II fols. 22r-35r Calendar Tables fols. 22r-27v Dominical Letters: tables and text fol. 22r Litterae punctatae: table and text fol. 22r-v Table for lunar letters A-V,A.--I fols. 22v-23r Criteria for moveable feasts: fol 23r Pagina regularis: table and text fol. 23r-v	Gathering 3
    Lunar zodiac table fol. 24r Four Ember Fasts fol. 24v Lunar letters AEIOV table and text: fol. 24v Abbo of Fleury, Ephemerida fol. 25r-26r Tables for lunar letters A-K fol. 26v Rota of monthly lunar epacts fol. 27r Rota for feria of kalends fol. 27v. Paschal Tables fols. 28r-34r Paschal hand fol. 28r Legend of Pachomius fol. 28r Application to other moveable feasts fol. 28r Termini for major moveable feasts: table and argumenta fol. 28v Paradigm Dionysian Paschal table Explanatory text fol. 28v-29r Decennovenal cycle fol. 29r Linea Christe fol. 29r 4. Table fol. 29r-v Annals fol. 29r-v Tabula Dionysii fol. 30r Key letter method of Paschal reckoning: Three tables fol. 30v-31v	Gathering 4
    Feria of terminus method of Paschal calculation Two tables: fol. 32r-v Computistic memorandum 1 argumentum to find feria: fol. 33r Computistic memorandum 2 argumentum to find Advent: fol. 33r Computistic memorandum 3 table of epacts: fol. 33r Computistic memorandum 4 "Passover"--table and text: fol. 33r Computistic memorandum 5 new Moons throughout the year: fol. 33r Perpetual Calendar 1 fol. 33v Perpetual Calendar 2 fol. 34r Criteria for determining Easter fol. 34r Concordance of lunar limits of moveable feasts fol. 34r Mathematics for computists 1 multiplication and division tables: fol. 34v Mathematics for computists 2 types of number: text and glosses: fol. 34v Mathematics for computists 3 Abbo's abacus: fol. 35r Mathematics for computists 4 7x and 59x tables: fol. 35r Cosmography fols. 35v-40v Diagram of solstices and equinoxes fol. 35v Diagram of synodic lunar month fol. 35v Hours of moonlight -- two texts and rota fol. 36r The months: text and schema of Egyptian months fol. 36r-v Summary of the equinoxes fol. 36v Horologia fol. 37r Isidore of Seville on the planets text and diagram: fol. 37v Abbo of Fleury: Summary of planetary astronomy, with diagram fol. 37v-38r Planetary evagations diagram fol. 38r Abbo of Fleury, "Denique luna..." text and diagram: fol. 38v-39r Abbo of Fleury, "Denique luna..." textual glosses: fol. 38v Abbo of Fleury, "Denique luna..." graphic glosses: fol. 38v Isidore of Seville on the elements text and diagrams: fol. 39r-v Hierarchy of the cosmos fol. 39v Macrobius on "gravity" text and diagram: fol. 39v	Gathering 5
    Isidore of Seville on the five climates: text, glosses and diagram fol. 40r Anonymous text on the five zones, with diagram fol. 40r Isidore of Seville on the twelve winds: text and diagram fol. 40v Prognostication fols. 40v-41r Egyptian Days 1 fol. 40v Egyptian Days 2 fol. 40v Egyptian Days 3 fol. 40v Sphere of Life and Death 2 fol. 41 Sphere of Life and Death 3 fol. 41r Mathematics fols. 41v-58r Abacus Table fols. 41v-42r Tables for Multiplication and Division fols. 41v-42r Hindu Numerals, Greek Equivalents and Explanatory Poem fols. 41v-42r Additional Material fol. 42r Operations with Integers 1 fol. 42v Operations with Integers 2 fol. 42v Operations with Integers 3 fol. 42v Operations with Integers 4 fols. 42v-43r Operations with Integers 5 fols. 43r-v Operations with Integers 6 fol. 43v Operations with Integers 7 fol. 43v Operations with Integers 8 fols. 43v-44r Operations with Integers 9 fol. 44r Operations with Fractions 1 fol. 44r Operations with Fractions 2 fols. 44r-46r Detailed Rules for Abacus Operations 1 fols. 46r-v Detailed Rules for Abacus Operations 2 fols. 46v-47r Detailed Rules for Abacus Operations 3 fols. 47r-48r Detailed Rules for Abacus Operations 4 fol. 48r Fraction Table 1 fols. 48v-49v Fraction Table 2 fols. 49r-50r Abacus Table 2 fols. 48v-49r Fraction Table 3 fol. 49v Number Tricks fol. 49v Gerlandus, Treatise on the Abacus fols. 50r-51v	Gathering 6
    Gerlandus, Treatise on the Abacus fol. 52r Anonymous treatise on calculation fol. 52v-56r Two multiplication-division squares fol. 56v Rithmomachia fol. 56v Summary notes of abacus rules fol. 56v Fraction tables of Hermanus Contractus 2 fols. 57v-58r Scientific Works of Bede fols. 58v-123r De temporibus fols. 51v-61v	Gathering 7
    De natura rerum fols. 62r-65r De temporum ratione fols. 65v-67v	Gathering 8
    De temporum ratione fols. 68r-75v	Gathering 9
    De temporum ratione fols. 76r-83v	Gathering 10
    De temporum ratione fols. 84r-91v	Gathering 11
    De temporum ratione fols. 92r-99v	Gathering 12
    De temporum ratione fols. 100r-107v	Gathering 13
    De temporum ratione fols. 108r-115v	Gathering 14
    De temporum ratione fols. 116r-123r Helperic, De computo fols. 123r-123v	Gathering 15
    Helperic, De computo fols. 124r-131v	Gathering 16
    Helperic, De computo fols. 132r-135v Paschal Tables and their explanatory materials fols 135v-157r Dionysius Exiguus fols. 135v-138v Paschal Tables and Annals fols. 139r-143v	Gathering 17-18
    Paschal Tables and Annals fols. 144r-155v	Gathering 19
    Dionysius Exiguus, Argumenta titulorum paschalium fols. 156r-157r Materials largely relating to prognostication fols 157r-159r Sun Zodiac fol. 157r Leap Year Moonfol. 157r Zodiac Introfol 157r-v Zodiac Signs fol. 157v Sortes Sanctorum fol. 157v-158v Jerome Grades fol. 158v Biblical Measures fol. 158v Last Judgement fol. 159r New Years Day Prognostic fol. 159r Grammar fols 159v-175r List of verbs and prepositions with lexical and usage glosses fols. 159v-162v	Gathering 20
    List of verbs and prepositions with lexical and usage glosses fols. 163r-167v Reduplicated syllables fol. 167v Verb paradigms fol. 167v-168r The special case of the verb fero fol. 168r Formation of modes fol. 168r Types of letters fol. 168r Syllabic division between consonants fol. 168r Consonant combinations fol. 168r Mutation of consonants fol. 168v-169r Syllabic quantity fol. 169r-v Accent and meter fol. 169v-170r Introduction to declension of nouns, pronouns and adjectives fol. 170r A précis of Priscian fols. 170r-170v	Gathering 21
    A précis of Priscian fols. 171r-175rb Medicine II fols 175r-177v A miscellany of recipes fol. 175r A charm against nosebleed fol. 175r Antebalumenon fol. 175r Classification and therapy of fevers fol. 175r Principles of pathology fols. 175v-176r Alphabetical list of herbs, with recipes fols. 176r-v Receptarium fols. 176v-177v	Gathering 22

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