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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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2435
Title:: Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Gautier of Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-76v: Aldobrandino da Siena, Le Régime du corps, a handbook on health, composed for Beatrice de Savoie (b. 1220, d. 1266), according to the prologue; the contents are based mainly on Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. There are 68 manuscripts surviving in two textual f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1265-1270
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2683
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, made in Bruges for the English market. The manuscript includes: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including English saints: octave of St Thomas, Milburga, Edward, Cuthbert, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, Alphege, Dunstan, Augustine of Canterbury ('Augustini anglorum'), Translati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2732 A
Title:: Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:: A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England through Brutus to Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471), consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The roll is believed to have been mad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1438-1441
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3188
Title:: John Dee's conferences with angels
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–169v: John Dee's conferences with angels, 22 December 1581–30 May 1583, in five books. It precedes the other conferences printed by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Elias Ashmole made a fair copy of this manuscript, which is now Sloane MS 3677. These are records of messages delivered by angels and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1581-1693
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3189
Title:: The Book of Enoch
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–65r: Liber Mysteriorum Sextus et Sanctus or The Book of Enoch or Liber Logaeth, transcribed by Sir Edward Kelley in 1583. These angelic conversations and visions largely (from f. 10r onwards) take the form of letters and numbers which fill grids of 49 rows by 49 columns. The manuscript ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1583
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3191
Title:: John Dee's notes on ceremonial magic
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–80v: The only book of ceremonial magic extant in John Dee's hand. ff. 1r–13r: The forty eight angelical keys, received at diverse times from 13 April to 13 July 1584 at Cracow, Poland. ['48 Claves Angelicae, anno 1584: Cracoviae, ab Aprilis 13o, ad Julii 13mi, (diuersis temporibus) Recep...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1584-1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3259
Title:: Trading permit from the king of Mrauk U in Arakan
Scope & Content:: Trading permit in Persian issued by King Chandrawizaya (r. 1710-1731) of the kingdom of Mrauk U in Arakan in Myanmar (Burma), to the Armenian merchant Khwajeh Georgin in Chennaipattana (Madras), granting permission to trade in elephants and ivory, dated in the Burmese era 14 Sha‘bān sanat 1090 Ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1728
Extent:: 1 item

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