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Add MS 21995
- Record Id:
- 032-002034458
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034458
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x00030c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064569695.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21995
- Title:
- Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript from France contains a copy of the medieval work Passionarius Galeni (Passionary of Galen), attributed to Claudius Galenus (b. 129, d. c. 200/c. 216), Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher; but actually written by Gariopontus (d. 1050), teacher at the School of Salerno.
Contents:
ff. 3r-141v: Gariopontus of Salerno (Pseudo-Galenus), Passionarius Galeni.
ff 1r, 1v, 143r, 143v: fragments from a 14th-century liturgical manuscript (Gothic script, capitals in red and blue).
[ff. 2r, 2v, 142r, 142v are blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial with foliate interlace in colours, in a blue frame with a gold background (f. 3r); 6 large initials with foliate penwork decoration in red ink, against a blue and green background, without a frame (ff. 20r, 40r, 62v [zoomorphic figure], 69r [a man holding a potion], 101r, 127v). Medium and small initials in blue and red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002034458", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 21995: Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034458
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034458
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064569695.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 215 mm (text space: 95 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 143 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); originally, ff. 1, 2, 142 and 143 were flyleaves; old pagination throughout the manuscript has been crossed out.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Gold-tooled brown leather binding, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘GALENI PASSIONARIUS. LATINE.’; marbled endpapers; red book-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
Peter Hennocque (fl. 1st quarter of the 16th century), canon at Amiens, owned in 1525: his ownership inscription on f. 1r: ‘Spectat ad ingenium petrum hennocque Ambianum ecclesiae canonicum anno 1525’; a ‘Petrum Hennocque’, who is identified as priest of the diocese of Noyon (‘presbiterum diocesis Noviomensis’), graduated as a magister at Paris in 1510 (see Students and Teachers at the University of Paris, ed. by Farge (2006), pp. 81-82).
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine at Limoges, owned in the 17th or 18th century, perhaps until its dissolution by French Revolutionary forces in 1792: a 17th- or 18th-century ownership inscription on f. 3r: ‘Monasterij Sancti Augustini [...] Congregatio Sancti Mauri In Gallia’; the Benedictine monastery joined the Congregation of St Maur soon after it had been established in 1621.
John Payne and Henry Foss (fl. 1825-1850), London booksellers: their sale, Sotheby’s, London, 30 April 1857, lot 144 (inscribed on f. [iv] recto); purchased by the British Museum for £3.8.0.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Clowes, 1875), p. 569.
Florence Eliza Glaze, ‘Gariopontus and the Salernitans: Textual Traditions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’, in La Collectio Salernitana di Salvatore De Renzi: Convegno internazionale Università degli Studi di Salerno, 18-19 giugno 2007, ed. by Danielle Jacquart and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Florence: SISMEL, 2008), pp. 149-90 (p. 187).
Students and Teachers at the University of Paris. The Generation of 1500: A Critical Edition of Bibliothèque de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90, ed. by James K. Farge, Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 25 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 81-82 [for Peter Hennocque].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.