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581. Sloane MS 1047

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1047
Title:
Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
Scope & Content:
An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540-c. 1545
Extent:
1 volume

582. Sloane MS 1685

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1685
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-222v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning and ending imperfectly, with many leaves wanting throughout. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-3v: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 4r-33r: The Knight's Tale, imperfect. 1 folio is w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

583. Sloane MS 1686

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1686
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-295v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect at the beginning. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-13r: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 13r-49v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 49v-51r: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 51r-61v: The Miller...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

584. Sloane MS 1712

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1712
Title:
Ars Notoria texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: Two texts of the Ars Notoria, a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as granted by God to Solomon: ff. 1r-22r: The Ars Notoria, with the rubric, 'Ars Notoria Salomonis, Machinei e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

585. Sloane MS 1774

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1774
Title:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin
Scope & Content:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin, ff 1r-45r, followed by a note on παιανισμός, f 45v. The Greek text of the Hippolytus is a copy of the Aldine edition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

586. Sloane MS 1835

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1835
Title:
Extracts from Evagrius Scholasticus, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2733.001; CPG 7500), with Latin translations by Petrus Joannes Olivarius, preceded by his dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Chalcedonian Definition (ACO II.i.2 126), in Latin (ff 3r-8r) and Greek (ff 13r-17r). Emperor Zeno, Henoticon (PG 862.2620), in Latin (ff 9r-12v) and Greek (ff 17v-22r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

587. Sloane MS 1873

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1873
Title:
Thomas Norton, The Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–85v: Sixteenth-century copy of Thomas Norton's The Ordinal of Alchemy, written in secretary hand, with a poem by Walter Haddon (f. 84v) in praise of Norton. At the beginning and end (ff. 1r–v, 85r–v) are fragments from Chapter 2 of Book 8 of the Interpretatio Topicorum Aristotelis by Boet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

588. Sloane MS 1975

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1975
Title:
Medical and herbal miscellany
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–7r: Table of contents. Preface, ‘In hoc continentur libri quatuor medicine ypocratis. platonis. apoliensis urbis. de diversis herbis. Sexti papiri. placiti. ex animalibus. et ex diversis avibus. Idem ex libris dioscoridis. ex herbis semininis. ut quis voluerit. si pro qua fuerit querere c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

589. Sloane MS 1977

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1977
Title:
A medical anthology including Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia
Scope & Content:
The longest text in this medical anthology is a French translation of the Chirurgia, written by the Lombard surgeon Roger Frugardi (or Roger Frugard of Salerno, Roger Frugard of Parma, Roger de Salerne, Rogerius Salernitanus, b. before 1140, d. before 1195) in the late 12th century. This manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 13th century-1st quarter 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

590. Sloane MS 2560

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2560
Title:
Alchemical compilation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18r: Donum Dei (also known as the Pretiosissimum donum Dei). The beginning of this copy has the same initial paragraphs as found in another popular alchemical treatise, the Rosarium (according to the 1550 printed edition). Decoration: Eleven painted miniatures, the first acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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