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Arundel MS 166
- Record Id:
- 040-002039449
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0002b6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056659536.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 166
- Title:
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Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts
- Scope & Content:
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This is a composite medical manuscript made up of two separate sections (ff. 3r-13v and ff. 14r-90) both from the 9th century, bound together at an unknown date. The first section (ff. 3r-13v) contains De Medicamentis (About Remedies) by Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century); the second section (ff. 14r-90) contains a compllation of medical recipes of the 8th century known as Liber Teropetici (The Book of Recipes) and several other texts.
ff. 3r-12v: Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century), De Medicamentis (About Remedies) (extracts).
ff. 3r-5v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistola ad Maecenatem (The Epistle to Maecenas), beginning: 'Quem roganti tibi libellum promisi ‧ omni cura adhibita ‧ descriptum', ending: 'nos observare ‧ debere ‧ ne dubites ; Finit epistula Hippocratis ad Mecenate'; with some interlinear Latin glosses.
ff. 5v-12v: Pseudo-Pliny, De Medicina (About Medicine), a compilation of medical remedies. A letter used as a preface of the De Medicina, beginning: 'Incipit epistula Plini Secundi ad amicos de medicina' (ff. 5v-6r), followed by other letters that are parts of the De Medicina: two letters attributed to Cornelius Celsus (ff. 6r-9v), Vindicianus's letter (ff. 9v-12r) and verses beginning, 'Quod natum Phoebus docuit' (ff. 12r-12v).
ff. 12v-13v: An added medical recipe, 10th-century hand, beginning: 'Antidotum filantropum'; and followed by a late 15th-century cursive note [perhaps English].
ff. 14r-74v: Liber Teropetici [Chapters 1-98]; preceded by a table of contents (ff. 14r-15v); beginning, 'Incipit medicinalis de omni corpore hominis teraupetica'.
ff. 67r-90v: Several short texts following the Liber Teropetici as an appendix to it, including:
ff. 67r-67v: A letter [Chapter 99], beginning: 'Incipit epistula quod conservare debemus omnique tempore et die et nocte'.
ff. 67v-70r: A dietary calendar [Chapters 100-104], beginning: 'Ratio per quisque mense quod observare debemus'.
ff. 70r-71v: Pseudo-Hippocrates [Chapter 105], Capsula Eburnea (Epistle from Hippocrates' Grave)[letter on prognostics], beginning: 'Incipit pronustica democreti de signa mortis agnoscenda'.
ff. 71v-79r: Medical recipes [Chapters 106-113].
ff. 79r-79v: De Ponderibus et Mensuris Medicinalibus (About the Weights and Measures of Medical Recipes).
ff. 82v-90v: An anonymous commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms (Aphorisms).
Decoration:
Simple large and small initials in brown. Some with geometric patterns within the letter or foliate decoration, with red or yellow highlights, some with animal heads or human faces (ff. 45v, 69v, 70, 77, 78v, 81).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039449 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 166 : Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0167]/040-002039449
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056659536.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 210 mm (text space: 255 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. 90 (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? Eastern France or Germany.
Provenance:
Added title in a Gothic French bastarda script, 'Liber Plini Secundi de medicina missus ad quemdam imperatorem' (f. 3r).
Note in an early 16th-century cursive hand (f. 13v).
?Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp, 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis' (f. 3r); its book-plate with the pencil inscription 'XIV. 6.18' (inside upper cover); Humphrey Wanley's report for the Society on the manuscript is added at the beginning (ff. 1r-2r).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 45-46; part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pl. 1.
E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 78.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
Augusto Beccarria, I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X et XI) (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1956), pp. 264-68 (no. 83) [with additional bibliography].
Marcelli de medicamentis liber, ed. by Maxilian Niedermann and Eduard Liechtenhan, trans. by Jutta Kollesch and Diethard Nickel,Corpus Medicorum Latinorum 5 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1968), pp. 2-623.
Pearl Kibre, 'Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic wirtings in the Latin Middle Ages (II)', Traditio, 32 (1976), 257-92 (pp. 262, 267).
Michael D. Reeve, ‘Scribonius Largus’, in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 352-53 (p. 353).
Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, 91, no. B. 3; II (1985), 256, no. B. 30.
Malcolm L. Cameron, Anglo-Saxon Medicine, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 7 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 57, 71-72.
Paul O. Kristeller, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, 4 vols (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1996), IV, p. 376.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 105 (no. 2412).
Chiara Benati, 'The Ever-Lasting Rules of Death? The Reception and Adaptation of the Pseudo-Hippocratic Capsula Eburnea in German Medical Literature', Brathair, 13:1 (2013), 5-18 (p. 7).
Meg Leja, 'The Sacred Art: Medicine in the Carolingian Renaissance', Viator, 2 (2016), 1-34 (pp. 20-21).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.