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Sloane MS 745
- Record Id:
- 040-001607909
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001442.0x0003ab
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173200.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 745
- Title:
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Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine
- Scope & Content:
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Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-001607909 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 745 : Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine - Contains:
- Sloane MS 745, ff 1r-21v : Table of contents, ff 2r-21v, preceded by later notes; 'Hypposophica Hieroclis f.(?) 39', f 1r, 'In hoc…
Sloane MS 745, ff 22r-245r : Hippiatrica divided into chapters, and citing various authors, ff 22r-244r. ff 206r-207v are inserted leaves (text…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Sloane MS 745 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0759]/040-001607909
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173200.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 1* + 245. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 250 x 165 mm.
Ruling: 185 x 110 mm, 26 lines per page, Leroy 20D1.
Binding: 18th century gold tooled English brown binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Joannes Chalceopylus (15th century), scribe, of Constantinople (Repertorium 2A, no. 249): his ownership inscription (f 1v).
Henricus Casolla, of Naples: passed to him along with Harley 5694.
Antonio Seripandi (b. 1476, d. 1531): given to him by Casolla.
Cardinal Girolamo Seripandi (b. 1493, d. 1563): inherited his brother Antonio Seripandi's library after his death; his ownership inscription (f 244r).
Augustinian Canons of San Giovanni di Carbonara, Naples: bequeathed to them by Cardinal Seripandi.
Jan de Witt (b. 1662, d. 1701), son of the Grand Pensionary of Holland: his sale, Dordrecht, 20 Oct. 1701, MSS in folio No. 1, 57; note on f 1*v identified as being in his hand by Wanley in his catalogue entry.
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753): probably acquired at de Witt's sale, and certainly before 1703: Humphrey Wanley, who catalogued the manuscript for Sloane (in Sloane MS 3972B, ff 15r-27r), is believed to have left Sloane's service in that year: Nickson 1994, p. 266.
Part of the great collection of manuscripts and artefacts gathered by the physician Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) and purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which also established the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_745].
Full-colour reproductions of ff 9v and 85v in A. McCabe, A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation and Transmission of the Hippiatrica, Oxford 2007, plates 12-13.
- Publications:
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S. Ayscough, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, 2 vols, London 1782, vol. 2, p. 645.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) p. 331 (p. 20 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
F. Bullock, 'Mulomedicina Chironis’, The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, 25 (1922) pp. 305-309.
E. Oder and K. Hoppe (eds), Corpus Hippiatricorum Graecorum, vol. 2, Leipzig 1927, pp. xxvi-xxviii, 253-271.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I,Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 1.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harllfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Komission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
A.-M. Doyen-Higuet, 'The "Hippiatrica" and Byzantine Veterinary Medicine’, Symposium on Byzantine Medicine = Dumbarton Oaks Papers 38 (1984) pp. 111-120.
M. A. E. Nickson, 'Books and Manuscripts', in Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, ed. A. MacGregor, London 1994, pp. 263-277, p. 266.
P. Hunter, Veterinary medicine: a guide to historical sources, Studies in British business archives, London 2004, p. 470.
A. McCabe, A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation and Transmission of the Hippiatrica, Oxford 2007, especially pp. 41-44, and plates 12-13.
S. Lazaris, Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance (Bibliologia 29), Turnhout 2010, p. 134.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)