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Add MS 28725
- Record Id:
- 032-002020159
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002020159
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000037.0x00035f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 28725
- Title:
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Physician's folding almanac
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: A physician's portable almanac consisting of a calendar, tables and diagrams, including:
f. 1r: Table of moveable feasts;
f. 1v: Astronomical table;
ff. 2r-5v: Kalendarium for January to December;
ff. 6r-6v: Table of eclipses from 1460-1481;
f. 7r: Vein man ('Homo Venarum');
f. 7v: Zodiac man.
Decoration:
Two pen diagrams of frontal male figures with palms held open: Zodiac man and Vein Man or 'Homo venarum' (here depicted without the veins, see Bober, Zodiacal Miniature (1948)). KL initials in gold with pen-flourishing in brown, in the calendar (ff. 2r-5r). Small initials in gold with pen-flourishing in brown or in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Tables and diagrams in red and brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002020159
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002020159
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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7 folios, each folded into 8 parts
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_28725 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1465
- Date Range:
- c. 1463
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 175mm (145 x 45mm when folded).
Foliation: 7 folios.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Silk and cloth cover folded around parchment leaves, attached at the lower edge, with a triangular tab to suspend from a physician's girdle.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey, 'Folded Almanac' (2003).
Provenance:
Bartholomew Yate (b. c. 1488) of Fernham, Berkshire, inscribed 'Bartholomew Yate de Fernham' on f. 1r: owned by him at the beginning of the 16th century (see Catalogue of Additions (1877)).
Inscribed 'G. Williamson, 1850' on the lower cover.
Bought by the British Museum from H. Syer Cumming on 13th May 1871; a note on f. 1r.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 542.
Harry Bober, 'The Zodiacal Miniature of the Tres Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry: Its sources and meaning' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 11 (1948), 1-34 (p. 26, pl. 11).
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), 481-509 (p. 488, 505).
Pamela Robinson, 'A 'very curious Almanack': the gift of Sir Robert Moray FRS, 1668', Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 62 (2008), 301-14 (p. 308).
J. P. Gumbert, Bat Books: A Catalogue of Folded Manuscripts Containing Almanacs or Other Texts, Bibliologia, 41 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), no. 56, pp. 192-93.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)