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Add MS 5108
- Record Id:
- 032-002167710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002167710
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x00008b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5108
- Title:
- Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine
- Scope & Content:
- Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002167710", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 5108: Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002167711", "parent" : "032-002167710", "text" : "Add MS 5108, ff 1-3v: Table of contents." },{ "id" : "040-002167712", "parent" : "032-002167710", "text" : "Add MS 5108, ff 3v-5: Metrological tables attributed to Diodorus Medicus." },{ "id" : "040-002167713", "parent" : "032-002167710", "text" : "Add MS 5108, ff 5v-157: Hippiatrica divided into chapters, and citing the authors Aemilius Hispanus, Anatolius, Aspyrtus, Archimedes, Hierocles,…" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002167710
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 5108, ff 1-3v : Table of contents.
Add MS 5108, ff 3v-5 : Metrological tables attributed to Diodorus Medicus.
Add MS 5108, ff 5v-157 : Hippiatrica divided into chapters, and citing the authors Aemilius Hispanus, Anatolius, Aspyrtus, Archimedes,…
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- 032-002167710
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 3 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5108 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Foliation: ff (iii) + 157 + (iii).
- Dimensions: 331 x 225 mm.
- Ruling: 222 x 121 mm.
- Watermarks: Briquet, Sirène 13884-13991, Ancre 478-494, Arbalète (with star) 760-762. See also Harlfinger 'Arbalète’ 65 (1534) and 66 (1536).
- Scribal features: Some marginal notes and rubrication.
- Binding: Full goat leather binding with gold tooling.
- Scribes: Christopher Kontoleon (Χριστοφόρος Κοντολέων, Repertorium 1A, no. 383), and possibly not Arsenios Apostolis (1468/9-1535). Aristoboulos Apostoles (Ἀριστόβουλος Ἀποστόλης, Repertorium 1A, no. 27), according to Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', p. 335.
- Custodial History:
- Owned by Richard Mead (1673-1754) and Anthony Askew (1722-1774).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased at Askew’s sale, 15 March 1785, lot 606.
- Publications:
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- H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884), p. 335 (p. 24 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
- F. Hultsch, Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae, vol. 1 (Lipsiae, 1864), 1864,
- F. Bullock, 'Mulomedicina Chironis’, The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, 25 (1922), pp. 305-309 (especially p. 307).
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 3.
- E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols (Vienna, 1981), nos. 27, 383.
- A.-M. Doyen-Higuet, 'The "Hippiatrica" and Byzantine Veterinary Medicine’, Symposium on Byzantine Medicine = Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 38 (1984), pp. 111-120.
- A. McCabe, A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation and Transmission of the Hippiatrica (Oxford, 2007), especially pp. 35-36 and plate 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)