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Add MS 8928
- Record Id:
- 032-003359598
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003359598
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100039637015.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165152940.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8928
- Title:
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Medical and herbal treatises, including an illustrated Apuleius Platonicus Herbarius
- Scope & Content:
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The longest treatise in this medical and herbal compendium is the Apuleius Platonicus Herbarius, illustrated with outline drawings of herbs and plants in the margins of the text. The manuscript was produced in the 10th century, most likely in southern Italy (see Collins, Medieval Herbals (2007), p. 191). The compendium includes many different brief medical epistles and treatises, and recipes are written in contemporary and slightly later hands throughout.
Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: [Anonymous], Sapientia artis medicinae, beginning 'Quattor sunt venti, quattuor anguli celi'.
ff. 1v-5v: Liber Ysidori de medicina (excerpt from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, Book IV,4.1-13), beginning 'Medicina est quae corporis vel tuetur vel restaurat salutem'.
ff. 5v-6r: Galen, De dinamidiis, beginning 'Vera haec est dinamis et monstratio omnium medicamentorum'.
ff. 6r-6v: Theodorus and others, on Hippocratic medicine, beginning 'Frustra mortalium genus moritur eger'.
ff. 6v-7r: [Hippocrates], Prognostica, beginning 'Peritissimum omnium rerum et domesticam sapientium in omnius corporibus'.
ff. 7v-8r: [Hippocrates], Indicia valetudinum, beginning 'Si tinnitum aurium fuerit vel sonitum'.
f. 8r: Two anonymous medical recipes, beginning 'Quomodo visitare debeas infirmum' and 'Febres quam quidem multe sunt distantie'.
ff. 8r-9r: Vindicianus, Epistula ad Pentadium, beginning 'Licet te scire, karissime nepos, grecas litteras ad hanc disciplinamposse'.
ff. 9r-10v: Vindicianus, Gynaecia, beginning 'Expositio menbrorum, quo ordine vel quibus nervis vel quibus iuncturis vel quo scemate homo in utero materno plasmatur'.
ff. 10v-11r: Initia medicinae, beginning 'Hinc incipiam dicere qualem discipulum medicina desiderat'.
ff. 11r-11v: Aristotle, Problemata, beginning 'Quare, si venter inferior reumatizat'.
ff. 11v-13r: Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem, beginning 'Quoniam cognovimus te peritissimum omnium rerumesse'.
ff. 13r-14r: [Galen], Epistula de ratione ventris vel viscerum, beginning 'Ne ignorans quispiam medicorum rationemorgani ventris vel viscerum'.
f. 14r: Epistula, beginning 'Interea moneo te, medice, sicutet ego monitus sum a meis magistris'.
ff. 14r-15r: [attributed to Theodorus Priscianus], Diaeta Theodori, beginning 'Ordeum natura frigidumest et humidum'.
15r: Verses on Egyptian days (in a slightly later hand), beginning 'Sic tenebrae Aegypti greco sermone vocantur'.
15v-16r: Recipes, in various hands, beginning 'Confectio diagridii'.
ff: 17r-18v: [Hippocrates], Epistola Yppocratis ad instruendum veldocendum discipulos, beginning 'Factum est hoc strumentum in conventummultorum sapientum disputantium doctrina medicine artis'.
ff. 19r-23v: [attributed to Apuleius Platonicus], Ex herbis masculinis, beginning 'Incipiunt breves libri medicinalis Platonis ex herbis masculinis'.
ff. 23v-24v: Index to the Ex herbis masculinis, written in English in a sixteenth-century hand.
ff. 25r-26r: [Hippocrates], Epistula ad Maecenatem, beginning 'Incipit epistula Yppocratis. Yppocrates Mecenati suo salutem. Libellum quem roganti tibi promisi'.
ff. 26v-28r: Antonius Musa, De herba bettonica, beginning 'Incipit epistola Antonii Muse de erba bettonica quot virtutes habeat', with a line drawing of betony.
ff. 28r-50r: Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarius, beginning 'Incipit alium herbarium Apulei Platonis. Eiusdem epistula Platonis adcives suos de herba plantaginis quot virtutes habeat', including line drawings of herbs.
ff. 50r-50v: De taxone liber, beginning 'Libellum Octaviani Augusti de mele bestiolo incipit. Rex Egyptiorum Octaviano Augusto salutem'.
ff. 50v-62v: Sextus Placitus, Liber ex animalibus, pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus, beginning 'Incipit liber medicine Sexti Placiti Papiriensis ex animalibus, pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus'.
ff. 62v-76v: Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis feminis, beginning 'Incipit liber medicine Dioscoridis ex herbis femininis numero septuaginta uno'.
Decoration:
Numerous small pen drawings of herbs and other plants (ff. 26v-48v). Numerous zoomorphic and interlace decorated initials in yellow, red, green and purple throughout. Rubrics in red.
The decorative initials are similar to those found in Beneventan manuscripts produced in the 10th century, and potentially indicate Capua as the place of production (see Collins, Medieval Herbals (2007), p. 191).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-003359598
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003359598
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165152940.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 160mm.
Foliation: ff. 76 (+ 2 19th-century unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + 4 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Caroline miniscule.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house, 1970.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: S. Italy (Capua?)
Provenance:
Thomas Potter, 17th century (?): his signature, ff. 1r and 76v.
Joseph Banks (b. 1743, d. 1820) baronet, naturalist and patron of science: his bookplate, f. 1r, and 'M.S. No. 77' on f. [iii] recto; bequeathed by him to the British Museum.
- Administrative Context:
- Southern Italy
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional MSS 6699-9829 (London: British Museum, [no date]), p. 13.
Hermann Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, 4 vols (Berlin: Köingl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1905-1906), I: pp. 52, 53, 55, 141; II, p. 31.
???Eduard Anspach, Taionis et Isidori nova fragmenta et opera. Edidit et illustravit (Madrid, 1930)
Augusto Beccaria, I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI) (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1956), pp. 34, 58, 91-92, 268-71.
Loren MacKinney and Thomas Herndon, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, New Series, 5 (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), no. 86.1.
Birger Munk Olsen, L'étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 4 vols in 5 parts (Paris: CNRS, 1982), I, p. 29.
Pearl Kibre, ‘Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages (VIII)’, Traditio, 38 (1982), 165-92 (p. 174).
Carole Patricia Biggam, Blue in Old English: An Interdisciplinary Semantic Study (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), p. 192.
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), pp. 107, 191-92, 232, 235.
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden, ed. by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008), p. 126.
Nicholas Everett, The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation and Commentary (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), p. 18.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2017).
'London, British Library, Add. 8928', at 'Innovating Knowledge', ed. by Evina Steinová ((Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, 2021), online at https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/#detail/M0171 [accessed 28.01.2022].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)