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Add MS 22719
- Record Id:
- 032-002096672
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096672
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x0002b4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059109891.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22719
- Title:
- Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1015, d. 1087), physician and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino. It also includes De Physicis Ligaturis (On Physical Ligatures), the Latin translation of a work by the Syrian physician Qusta Ibn Luqa (b. c. 820, d. c. 912).
Contents:
f. 2r: A charm and a glossary of medical epithets, beginning: ‘In nomine patris, quaesivi te in nomine filii inveni te’.
ff. 3r-200r: Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni, preceded by a list of chapter headings (f. 2v), beginning: ‘Cum totius pater scientie generalitas’.
ff. 200v-202v: Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis, beginning: 'Quesivisti fili karissime de incantatione adiuratione’.
[ff. 1v and 203r are blank].
Decoration:
Numerous large decorated initials in red, green and blue, some with flourishing and penwork decoration. Numerous small initials in red, green or blue, some with pen-work decoration; rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096672
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002096672
- 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_100059109891.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm (text space: 195 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 203 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1988.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Battle, Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Martin (Battle Abbey), founded in 1067: inscribed with its pressmark ‘CN’ in a 13th-century hand (f. 2r).
The Benedictine priory of St Nicholas, Exeter, founded in 1087 as a cell of Battle Abbey: its ownership inscription ‘de Exonia Nicholai’ in a 15th-century hand (f. 2r).
John Cohen Jackson (b. c. 1827, d. 1895), schoolmaster and book collector: inscribed with his name (f. 1r); purchased from him by the British Museum on 12 March 1859 for £13.3.0 (f. 1r).
- Information About Copies:
- 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, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1875), I, p. 722.
Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A list of Surviving Books, 2nd edn. (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 8, 85.
Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart, ‘A Catalogue of Renaissance Editions and Manuscripts of the Pantegni’, in Constantine the African and ʻAlī Ibn Al-ʻAbbās Al-Maǧūsī: The Pantegni and Related Texts, ed. by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart, Studies in Ancient Medicine, 10 (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 316-51 (342-43).
Charles Burnett, ‘Physics before the Physics: Early Translations from Arabic of Texts Concerning Nature in MSS British Library, Additional 22719 and Cotton Galba E IV’, Medioevo: Rivista di Storia della Filosofia Medievale, 27 (2002), 53-109.
Charles Burnett, ‘Verba Ypocratis preponderanda omnium generum metallis: Hippocrates On the Nature of Man in Salerno and Montecassino, with an Edition of the Chapter on the Elements in the Pantegni’, in La Scuola medica Salernitana: Gli autori e i testi, ed. by D. Jacquart and A. Paravicini Bagliani (Florence: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007), pp. 59-92.
- 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.