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Arundel MS 538
- Record Id:
- 040-001614576
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000113
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 538
- Title:
- Hippocratic works.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-001614576 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 538 : Hippocratic works. - Contains:
- Arundel MS 538, ff 1-18v : Hippocrates, Aphorisms. Littré iv pp.458-608.
Arundel MS 538, f 19 : Two lines from the end of an unidentified text, expl. ]νομα δὲ τὸ μὲν κυρίου οἷον…
Arundel MS 538, ff 19-19v : Hippocratic oath. Littré iv pp.628-632.
Arundel MS 538, ff 21-44v : Hippocrates, De natura pueri. Littré vii pp.486-542.
Arundel MS 538, ff 45-53 : Hippocrates, De genitura. Littré vii pp.470-484.
Arundel MS 538, ff 53v-55 : Hippocrates, Lex. Littré iv pp.638-642.
Arundel MS 538, ff 55-56 : Hippocrates, De arte, ch. 1. Littré vi p.2, l. 1-18
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- 032-002039280[0539]/040-001614576
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 7 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_538 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Paper. ff. i+56. 225 x 170 (145/160 x 90) mm., ff. 1-19; 225 x 170 (150 x 85) mm., ff. 21-44; 220 x 160 (135 x 90) mm., ff. 45-56. Ruling Leroy D 24D1 (ff. 1-20), P2 00D1(?) (ff. 21-44). 25 lines (ff. 1-12), 26 lines (ff. 13-18), 18 lines (ff. 21-44), 15 lines (ff. 45-52v), 14 lines (ff. 53v-55v). Early 16th cent. Italian binding of blind- stamped and tooled leather, with a central roundel containing a boy holding a sail and below him a dolphin. Pastedowns formed from 13th cent. fragments of the Latin text of a commentary on Aristotle, with Italian illuminated initials, are preserved separately as Add. 53709, ff. 9, 10 (see Cat. Add. 1966-1970 p.1).
Written by four scribes: (1) ff. 1-18v; (2) ff. 19-19v; (3) ff. 21-44v; (4) ff. 45-56.
- Custodial History:
- Ex-libris of Antonio Cortesi Urceo (1446-1500), Professor of Greek at Bologna (f. 20v). Marginal Latin annotations in a 15th cent. hand, ff. 21-44v. Presented by Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, to the Royal Society, 1667 (CMA iii 3444). Bookplate of the Royal Society, f.i.
- Publications:
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- Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p.164;
- H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, I: Hippokrates und Galenos(AKPAW philos.-hist. Klasse 3), Berlin 1905, pp.13, 17, 18, 21, 28, 29.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)