Note 2750 — Chapter XXIX · LATIN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION: ESPECIALLY IN THE NINTH, TENTH, AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES
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Sloane 2461, end of 13th century, fols. 62-4. No Biblical character is mentioned for the fifth and sixth days, but we are told that on the seventh day of the moon Abel was slain by Cain.
BN 3660A, 16th century, fols. 53r-57r, ascribes the birth of Nebuchadnezzar to the fifth day, leaves the sixth blank, has Abel slain on the seventh, Methusaleh born on the eighth, Lamech on the ninth, and so on.
Egerton 821, 12th century, fol. 12r, “Natus est Samuel propheta....”
Digby 88, 15th century, fol. 62r, has English verses beginning:
“God made Adam the fyrst day of the moone, And the second day Eve good dedis to doone.”
A similar poem occurs at fol. 64 of the same MS and in Ashmole 189, fol. 213v.