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Harley MS 4347
- Record Id:
- 040-001615991
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001615991
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000148
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4347
- Title:
- The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes:
1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r);
2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r);
3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r);
4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v);
5. Added notes, calculations and a diagram (ff. 44r-44v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001615991 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4347 : The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims - Contains:
- Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r : Hippocrates, Aphorismata
Harley MS 4347, ff 37r-41r : Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinae, in…
Harley MS 4347, ff 42v-43r : A collection of definitions and maxims, incipit: 'Doctrina est propositura rei demonstraciones partes…
Harley MS 4347, f 43v : A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross
Harley MS 4347, ff 44r-44v : Added notes, calculations and a diagram
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- 032-002045828[4340]/040-001615991
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 44 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4347 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Irish
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper codex.
Dimensions: 185 x 130 mm (text space: 130 x 100mm), f. 44: 135 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 44.
Script: Insular minuscule. Colophon: 'Finis ar do lebur a Thómáis' (f. 37r), suggesting that the book was written for a certain Tomás, perhaps the chief scribe (see Flower 1926).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding with tooled decoration.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ireland.
Provenance:
Robert Bursscough (or Bourscough) (b. 1651, d. 1709), prebendary of Exeter (1701) and archdeacon of Barnstaple (1703); acquired from him for Robert Harley by Humfrey Wanley, his inscription '17 Maii 1715' (f. 1r); see The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, p. 11.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4347.
Robin Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1926), II, pp. xxxv-xxxvi.
Robin Flower, 'Ireland and Medieval Europe: The Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture', Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 3-35.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11, n. 6.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 88
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)