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Stowe MS 1065
- Record Id:
- 040-001953925
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00025b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 1065
- Title:
- Physician's folding almanac
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A physician's portable almanac consisting of:
ff. 1r-4v: Calendar, with tables of cycles calculated from 1482 to 1520;
f. 5r-v: Indictiones, Festa Mobilia, Tabula planetarum;
f. 5v: Tabula lunæ, and Homo Signorum (the influence of the signs of the Zodiac on man);
f. 6r: Homo venarum (the uses of, and influences on, the various veins of the human body);
f. 6v: Explanation of the whole Calendar.
One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey, Folded Almanac (2003).
Decoration:
Large 'KL' letters in red in the calendar (ff. 1-4). Tables in red and brown (f. 5r-v). Initials and text in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953923
040-001953925 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 1064-1080 : CLASS XXIV.SCIENCE, INCLUDING MEDICAL AND COOKERY RECIPES.
Stowe MS 1065 : Physician's folding almanac - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0024]/036-001953923[0002]/040-001953925
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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6 parchment folios, each folded into eight parts
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Stowe_MS_1065 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1480
- End Date:
- 1485
- Date Range:
- c. 1482
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: 12 folios (6 folded leaves).
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm (155 x 55 mm when folded).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Folded leaves, stitched together, with the outer parchment having a triangular tab attached with a hole for a cord.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The shape of the outer parchment, with holes for a cord, suggests that this was a reference work designed to be suspended from a physician's girdle.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, p. 685, no. 1065.
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), 481-509 (p. 506).
J. P. Gumbert, Bat Books: A Catalogue of Folded Manuscripts Containing Almanacs or Other Texts, Bibliologia, 41 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), no. 60, pp. 203-04.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)