Secretum secretorum[ca. 1475-1499]enmlatManuscript, on vellum, incomplete, in a single hand, of John Lydgate's and Benedict Burgh's Middle English verse translation of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum Secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also contains several prose pieces in Middle English and Latin, including one with illustrated diagrams and a Latin tract on the interpretation of dreamsIn Middle English and Latin.Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand.Signature of John Bowen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand.Layout: various single-column.Script: English bookhand.Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt.Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case.