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2. 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:
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1 volume
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Sloane MS 3705
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 3705
- Title:
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Long Text of the Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian of Norwich (b. 1342, d. after 1416). There are two distinct versions of Julian's account of and reflections on a sequence of visions of the Crucified Christ that she experienced as she was lying on her si...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
