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2. Sloane MS 2696
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2696
- Title:
- Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
- Scope & Content:
- An anonymous notebook containing texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs, interspersed with notes and a prayer. Divisions of the text: (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿhā (كتاب لغة الجوهر واسماء الجواهر ومنافعها, ff.1v-20v); A text enumerating different types of gemsto...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 1595-1603
- Extent:
-
Vertical format codex; ff. ii+25+xxi+2+ii
3. Sloane MS 146
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 146
- Title:
- Trilingual medical and botanical recipes; trilingual botanical glossary
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript with medical and botanical texts was largely written in the 13th century, but also include a botanical glossary in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English that has been written in the late 12th century. Contents: ff. 1r-68v: A collection of medical and botanical recipes in Lat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4. Sloane MS 2839
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2839
- Title:
- Liber cirurgium cauterium; medical recipes; Epistola Peri Hereseon; Tereoperica
- Scope & Content:
- This 11th-century manuscript contains a collection of didactical texts on practical and theoretical medicine. The format of this volume suggests that it was used as a medical textbook. It includes an illustrated account on cautery points, which was one of the principal medieval treatments, and a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
5. Sloane MS 4016
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 4016
- Title:
- Herbal
- Scope & Content:
- An Italian Herbal, classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116 (see Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese, 1974). Decoration: Full-page miniatures on each folio of plants in colours, mostly in greens and brown...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1440
- Extent:
-
1 volume
6. Sloane MS 2400
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2400
- Title:
- Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. [ii] recto: Added notes relating to Anne Felbrigge, the Felbrigge family, and their arms, written by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. f. 1r: A number of former shelfmarks lined through, and an added paper label, featuring an 18...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Sloane MS 1621
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1621
- Title:
- Antidotarium and medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory
- Scope & Content:
- An antidotarium and various medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory. Contents: ff. 1r-v: Psalms 18:2-15. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Celi enarrant gloriam'. The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10. Explicit: 'Domine adiutor meus et redemp'. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
8. Sloane MS 2377
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2377
- Title:
- Nicolosa Sanuti, De Ornatu Mulierum
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a presentation copy of De Ornatu Mulierum (On Women's Clothing), a Latin prose treatise by Nicolosa Sanuti (d. 1505). Sanuti was a wealthy Bolognese noblewoman and the wife of Nicolo Sanuti (b. 1407. d. 1482), Count of the Porretta. Her treatise first appeared in 1453 an...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1460
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Sloane MS 475
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 475
- Title:
- Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1r-124v; 125r-231r) bound together at an unknown period, both containing medical recipes, charms, various medical treatises and prognostics in a medical context. The first part was produced at the beginning of the 12th century in England. The ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
10. Sloane MS 2030
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2030
- Title:
- Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber Receptionis; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili, Liber Iudiciorum; Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; Abū Ma`shar Ja`far, Ysagoga Minor; Proportiones competentes in Astrorum Industria; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum; Solinus,...
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript is made up of three parts bound together perhaps in the early modern period. The three parts include compilations of scientific texts by various authors. Contents: ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). ff. 9v-10r: ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
