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Cotton MS Galba E IV
- Record Id:
- 040-001102812
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0001d2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063638967.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Galba E IV
- Title:
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Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris; a collection of scientific texts
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript is made up of two parts. The first part (ff. 1r-186v) was produced at Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury in the 1st half of the 14th century. It contains the Register of Henry of Eastry, prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (b. 1285, d. 1331). The second part (ff. 187r-244v) was produced in South-East England in the last quarter of the 12th century. It contains a collection of scientific texts.
Contents:
ff. 1r-186v: Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris (The Register of Henry of Eastry).
ff. 187r-189v: An anonymous text on natural philosophy, beginning:‘Sciendum est quid sit philosophia’.
ff. 190r-200r: Marius (fl. 1160), De Elementis (On the Elements), beginning: '[Natura] aque que est'.
ff. 200v-201v: Nemesius of Emesa (fl. 390), De Natura Hominis;the chapter De Elementis (On the Elements)).
ff. 201v-204v: Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC), De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions).
ff. 205r-214r: Nemesius of Emesa, De Natura Hominis (On the Nature of Man), translated by Alfanus of Salerno (d. 1085).
ff. 214r-228r: Adelard of Bath (fl. 12th century), Questiones Naturales (Questions on Nature).
ff. 228r-233v: Pseudo-Aristotle (fl. 4th century BC), De Phisionomia (About Physiognomy).
ff. 233v-238v: Pseudo-Galen, De Spermate (On Sperm).
ff. 238v-244v: Soranus of Ephesus (fl. early 2nd century), Questiones Medicinales (Medical Questions).
[f. 184v is blank].
Decoration:
See Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff. 1-186 and Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187-224.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102812 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Galba E IV : Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris; a collection of scientific texts - Contains:
- Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 1–186 : Memoriale Multorum Henrici Prioris
Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244 : A collection of scientific texts
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- 032-001101582[0714]/040-001102812
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063638967.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1350
- Date Range:
- 1175-1350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Intact.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 370 x 290 mm.
Foliation: ff i* + 244 (+ 4 unfoliated early modern flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the end); f. [i] is a blank parchment flyleaf; [245] is an early modern paper flyleaf.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1865.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: cited in Cotton's catalogues (see Tite, Early Records (2003), p. 146-47); table of content written by his librarian Richard James (f. i*r); his arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum, ed. by Joseph Planta (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 356-59.
Burnett, Charles, 'Physics before the Physics: Early Translations from Arabic of Texts concerning Nature in MSS British Library, Additional 22719 and Cotton Galba E IV', Medioevo, 27 (2002), 53-109 (pp. 53, 56, 66, 77, 81, 82).
Dales, Richard C., 'Anonymi de Elementis: From a Twelfth-Century Collection of Scientific Works in British Museum MS Cotton Galba E. IV', Isis, 56 (1965), 174-89 (pp. 174-75).
Dales, Richard C., 'An Unnoticed Translation of the Chapter De Elementis from Nemesius' De Natura Hominis', Medievalia et humanistica, 17 (1966), 13-19 (p. 13).
Davis, Godfrey R. C., Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain: A Short Catalogue, revised by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith (London: British Library, 2010), p. 39 (no. 182).
James, Montague R, 'Bury St. Edmunds Manuscripts', The English Historical Review, 41 (1926), 251-60 (p. 256).
Kelliher, Hilton, ‘British Post-mediaeval Verse in the Cotton Collection: a Survey and Handlist’, in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, ed. by Christopher J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 331–32.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 20, 36.
Knowles, David, The Religious Orders in England, 3vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948-1960), I (1948), pp. 322-25.
Mate, Mavis, 'The Indebtedness of Canterbury Cathedral Priory 1215–95', Economic History Review, 26 (1973), 183-96 (p. 183 (n. 3)).
Outi Merisalo and Päivi Pahta, ‘Tracing the Trail of Transmission: the Pseudo-Galenic De spermate in Latin’, in Science Translated: Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval Europe, ed. by Michèle Goyens, Pieter De Leemans, and An Smets, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, 40 (Louvain: Louvain University Press, 2008), pp. 81-94 (pp. 91, 96, 103).
Outi Merisalo, ‘The Early Tradition of the Pseudo-Galenic De spermate (Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries)’, Scripta, 5 (2012), 43-53.
Outi Merisalo, ‘Currunt manus, psallunt homoeoteleuta. Transmitting Medical Texts in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of De spermate’, Quattuor Lustra: Papers Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Re-establishment of Classical Studies at the University of Tartu, ed. by Ivo Volt and Janika Päll, Acta Societatis Morgensternianae, IV-V (Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2012), pp. 245-56.
Outi Merisalo and Päivi Pahta, 'The pseudo-Galenic De spermate in Latin', < https://staff.jyu.fi/Members/merisalo/despermate.htm> [accessed 21 January 2020].
Schmitt, Charles B. and Dilwyn Knox, Pseudo-Aristoteles Latinus: A Guide to Latin Works Falsely Attributed to Aristotle Before 1500 (London: Warburg Institute, 1985), pp. 47–48.
Thomson, Rodney M., 'Liber Marii de elementis: the Work of a Hitherto Unknown Salernitan Master?', Viator, 3 (1972), 179-90 (pp. 179-80).
Watson, Andrew G., Medieval Manuscripts in Post-medieval England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), p. 123.
- 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.