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Harley MS 1684

Record Id:

040-001961872

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001961872

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000868.0x00014b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1684

Title:

Medical miscellany

Scope & Content:

The present manuscript includes:

A short treatise relating to urine (f. 1r);

Medical recipes, mainly relating to plasters (ff. 2r-4v);

Thomas Scellinck of Thienen, Chirurgia (ff. 5r-104r);

Medical recipes (f. 104v);

Lanfrancus de Mediolanum, Chirurgia parva, 2 books, transl. (ff. 105r-140r);

Medical recipes (ff. 140v-141v);

Jan Yperman, Chirurgia, Book 1 (ff. 142r-173r);

Medical recipes (ff. 173v-174v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001961872

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1684 : Medical miscellany

Contains:

Harley MS 1684, f 1r : A short treatise relating to urine
Harley MS 1684, ff 2r-4v : Medical recipes, mainly relating to plasters
Harley MS 1684, ff 5r-104v : Thomas Scellinck of Thienen, Chirurgia
Harley MS 1684, ff 105r-140r : Lanfrancus de Mediolanum, Chirurgia parva.
Harley MS 1684, ff 140v-141v : Medical recipes
Harley MS 1684, ff 142r-173r : Jan Yperman, Chirurgia, Book 1
Harley MS 1684, ff 173v-174v : Medical recipes

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1686]/040-001961872

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Dutch, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1410

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

1410-1499

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper codex.

Dimensions: 235 x 185 mm (text space: 250 x 145 mm).

Foliation: ff.vi + ii +174 (ff. i-ii are original paper flyleaves. Modern foliation in pencil ff. '1-174' (including back flyleaf as f. 174; ff. 1v, 4r, 141r, 142v blank; ff. 174r-174v originally blank).

Collation: Gatherings (individually mounted on guards) as follows: i⁵ (including front flyleaf),ii-xvi¹⁰, xvii^12-1 (second excised), one single leaf.

Layout: Ruled (single bounding lines) in ink for double column of 32-41 lines.

Scipt: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum/British Library binding with the Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northern Netherlands.

Provenance:

Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31); donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Diary 1966).

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. Harley shelfmarks '92.B.16/ 1684' in light brown ink and '2/III B' in pencil on f. i recto.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1684.

K. de Flou and E. Gailliard, Beschrijving van Middelnederlandsche en andere Handschriften die in Engeland bewaard worden, (Gent: Siffer, 1897), pp. 95-102, nos. 15-16.

R. Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (Erlangen, 1901), II, p. 7, no. 9.

E. C. van Leersum, Het 'Boek van Surgien' van Meester Thomaes Scellinck van Thienen / The 'Book of Surgeries' of Master Thomas Scellinck from Thienen, Opuscula selecta Neerlandicorum de arte medica, 7 (Amsterdam, 1928), pp. xii-xv.

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. xix.

M. Tabanelli, Jehan Yperman, padre della chirurgia fiamminga (Firenze, 1969; Biblioteca della 'Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali', xvi), pp. 43-44.

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. 361, 399.

M. Tabanelli, Gli albori della chirurgia nelle Fiandre. Il libro del Maestro Thomas Scellinck Biblioteca della 'Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali, 19 (Florence, 1974), pp. xxx-xxxi.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)