MS verse and prose on natural history, science and medicine including lighting, fountains, rivers, `baths and medicinable rivers', trees, flowers, `divers herbs and plants', minerals, `the firmanent', seas, fish, birds, `of the dogfish', `of the crane', `Memecides', the silkworm, the eagle, `bestes', `serpentes', carving and painting, on a wooden eagle and dove, the salamander, `a star in the north' and `a lively description of the end of the world' 17th cent