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Harley MS 1010
- Record Id:
- 040-001952763
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001952763
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x000210
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1010
- Title:
- Medical miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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Medical miscellany preceded by leaves from a liturgical manuscript (lectionary?) with musical notation (ff. ii recto-ix verso). Texts include:
Treatise on urine (ff. 1r-23v);
Regimen of health (ff. 23v-32r);
Four medical recipes (ff. 32r-32v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001952763", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1010: Medical miscellany" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001952764", "parent" : "040-001952763", "text" : "Harley MS 1010, ff iir-ixv: Leaves from a liturgical manuscript (a lectionary?) with musical notation." },{ "id" : "041-001952766", "parent" : "040-001952763", "text" : "Harley MS 1010, ff 1r-23v: Treatise on urine" },{ "id" : "041-001952767", "parent" : "040-001952763", "text" : "Harley MS 1010, ff 23v-32r: Regimen of health 'Ad sanitatem conservandam'" },{ "id" : "041-001952768", "parent" : "040-001952763", "text" : "Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v: Medical recipes" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001952763 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1010 : Medical miscellany - Contains:
- Harley MS 1010, ff iir-ixv : Leaves from a liturgical manuscript (a lectionary?) with musical notation.
Harley MS 1010, ff 1r-23v : Treatise on urine
Harley MS 1010, ff 23v-32r : Regimen of health 'Ad sanitatem conservandam'
Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v : Medical recipes
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 1010 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1010]/040-001952763
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 40 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1010 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1250-1399
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 207 x 148 mm (text space: 155-162 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + ix + 32. Modern foliation in pencil ff. 'i-ix, 1-32'.
Colation: Gathering: i-iv8, preceded by eight leaves from a different manuscript and individually mounted on guards.
Layout: Pricked and ruled in red pen (single vertical bounding lines) for single columns of 23 lines, first line below the first ruled line.
Script: ff. ii-ix: Gothic; ff. 1r-32v: Gothic cursive script (Anglicana).
Binding: British Museum binding with Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
John Skynner of Essex, late 16th century: given by him to Holton: inscriptions recording the gift: 'Holtoni ex dono domini Johannis Skynner' (ff. ixv, 1r)
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d.1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian: possibly identifiable as his MS. 163, 'MSS. in Old English physicall. MS. in pergameno', in the catalogue of his manuscripts drawn in 1685 (now Harley MS 7644). Bought with other manuscripts from the Stillingfleet library in 1707 from his son, Edward Stillingfleet (d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, by Robert Harley.
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. Listed but not valued by Harley's librarian Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726) in Harley MS 7055, f. 77r, no. 163, and described by him in 1710-11 in the third volume of his 'Catalogus Brevior', (Add. 45703, f. 230r).
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), I (1808), no. 1010.
Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xix, xxviii.
R. H. Robbins, 'Medical Manuscripts in Middle English', Speculum, 45, no. 3 (1970), 393-415 (p. 399 n. 14).
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 196, 306, 316, 389.
A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, ed. by A. E. Hartung, x, G. R. Keiser, Science and Information (New Haven, 1998), p. 3851, no. 300.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)