Astronomical miscellany written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century by R. Elys, who gives his name on f. 18v, his initials on f. 30, and his monogram on f. 44v. Span folios: ff. 1-64v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 110 2-512 68(-7, 8). Catchwords in right lower margin, underlined in red; leaf signatures in arabic numerals in the last 2 quires. 21-30 long lines, frame ruled in brown crayon. Written in a secretary script. Decoration: Plain 3- and 2-line red initials; on f. 29, initial in the shape of a dragon. Verse brackets, paragraph marks and underlining of rubrics in red; nota bene signs filled in red in the margins. Running headlines on ff. 45v-59v. Diagrams on ff. 17, 18r-v, 19, 28, 44v. Contemporary foliation in arabic numerals, 1-34. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012. On f. iv, an erased ex libris [?], an erased prayer, "O mater christi ... ," and a faded recipe "for a salet," late 15th cent. On f. 64, both names in the same mid-16th cent. hand: "Robert Lawes of Sarsingam in norffolke" and "John hutchenson scholemaister of Castleacre in the afforesayd countie." On f. 1, late 16th cent. inscription, "Liber Guil[elmi] Martialis Tractatus de mundi machina per... Owned by Guillaume Libri prior to 1859. Sold by Sotheby's to Baldassare Boncompagni in 1859. Sold at auction in Rome in 1896.
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