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Harley MS 2269

Record Id:

040-002024123

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002024123

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001443.0x000241

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2269

Title:

Astrological compendium

Scope & Content:

An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes:

1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r);

2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r);

3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac (f. 10v);

4. Astrological compendium, continuation of ff. 1r-8r (ff. 11r-29v);

5. Astrological notes (ff. 30v-31r);

6. Astronomical tables with additional calendrical material (ff. 35r-50v);

7. 'De viciis lune et eius male esse' (ff. 51r-61v);

8. Astrological compendium (ff. 62r-87v);

9. Guilhelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa, (?) (ff. 88r-89r);

10. 'The lottis of the mone' (f. 90r);

11. 'De egro quomodo se habebit per iudicium 12 domorum' (ff. 90r-90v);

12. Pharmacological text relating to astrology (ff. 91r-91v);

13. Notes about the planets and planetary houses (ff. 92r-97v);

14. 'Divisio signorum et planetarum' (ff. 98r-115v);

15. Astrological compendium (ff. 116r-132v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002024123

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2269 : Astrological compendium

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2271]/040-002024123

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1549

Date Range:

1st half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper and parchment (parchment folios are: ff. 126-127, 132-133). Watermarks include: a) a wheel (f. 25) similar but not identical to E. Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 4018, 4022, dated between 1504-1530; b) a human figure (f. 34), unidentified; c) a wheel (ff. 3-48), possibly identical to Heawood no. 4024; d) a crowned eagle (ff. 55, 58)?, unidentified; e) a hand (ff. 91-92), unidentified; f) a pot (f. 129), possibly identical to Heawood, no. 3555 (undated).

Dimensions: 297 x 220 mm (text space: 215-228 x 117-165 mm).

Foliation: ff. viii + 133 (f. 133 is a parchment flyleaf, other unfoliated flyleaves are paper): many 17th-century notes (passim, see ff. 8r, 34v, 35r, 79r, 128r) indicate that the manuscript is imperfect and an unknown number of leaves is missing; f. 119 is a fragmentary paper slip. Old pagination in ink '1-51' (ff. 1-26). Modern foliation in pencil and pen ff. '1-133' (ff. 31v, 34v, 36r, 48v-49, 108v, 119r, 126r, 133r blank).

Collation: Gathering not original (leaves rearranged by later binders in gatherings or single leaves, all mounted on guards): i¹², ii-iii⁴, iv⁶, v-vi⁴, vii¹⁶, viii¹², ix^10, three single leaves, x2, six single leaves, xi², xii¹², xiii¹¹, xiv^10-1 (tenth cancelled), eight single leaves, two single leaves on parchment, four single leaves, xv².

Layout: Inconsistent ruling in hard point and black ink for single columns of 25-40 lines.

Script: Cursive.

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

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Cancelled ownership (?) note (f. 133v).

John Molland, inscribed with his name, late 16th or 17th century (f. 74r).

Samuel Knott (d. 1687), Rector of Combe Raleigh, co. Devon, priest of Broad Hembury, co. Devon, his note signed 'S. Kanuto' (f. 8r).

Robert Burscough (1650/51-1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: acquired with other manuscripts by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, from Burscough's widow on 17 May 1715, the date noted by Harley's librarian Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), on f. 1r (for the negotiation preceding the purchase 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 '99.B.8 / 2269' in dark brown ink followed by '2 / IV D' in pencil (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. 2269.

L. Thorndike, 'The Three Latin Translations of the Pseudo-Hippocratic Tract on Astrological Medicine', Janus, 49 (1960), 104-29 (p. 136).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 87-88, 405.

R. Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), pp. 766-67.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)