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Arundel MS 225
- Record Id:
- 040-002039508
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000311
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153361.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 225
- Title:
- Herbal
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript from the Carthusian monastery St Michaelsberg in Mainz contains a short text with dietary guidelines and a popular herbal, describing the medicinal purposes of plants, that was composed by Odo von Meung (fl. c. 1070), a physician and poet, but sometimes was spuriously attributed to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer (d. 16 B. C.).
Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: Dietary guidelines for the months of the year and days of the lunar month, '[rubric:] In mense ianuarij. [text:] Singulis diebus mediam mensuram medicatam ieiunus bibe [etc.]'.
ff. 2r-38v: Odo von Meung, Macer Floridus or De viribus herbarum carmen, in hexameter verse, glossed, begins: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires [etc.]'.
[f. 39v is blank].
Decoration:
1 Large puzzle initial in red and blue with red with penwork decoration in red and blue filling and surrounding the letter. Large initials in red throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039508 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 225 : Herbal - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0226]/040-002039508
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153361.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1340
- Date Range:
- Early 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm (text space: 220 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 39 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 parchment and 1 paper flyleaf at the end); 14th century pagination throughout the manuscript (ff. 2r-38r); ff. 4, 12, 19, 21, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37 are uneven due to the natural edges of the animal skin; ff. 4, 16 and 25 contain holes; a torn corner in f. [40] has been repaired with new parchment.
Collation: i-v8 (ff. 1-40).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany, the Carthusian monastery of St Michaelsberg in Mainz (note on f. 1r by a 15th-century scribe: 'liber Carthus[iae] mog[untinae]').
Provenance:
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician: perhaps inscribed ‘H’ on f. 1r.
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. 1r); its bookplate with the pencil inscription ‘XIV.5.12’ (inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Publications:
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Heinrich Schreiber, Die Bibliothek der ehemaligen Mainzer Kartause: Die Handschriften und ihre Geschichte, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Beiheft 60 (Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1927), p. 149.
Herbert Thoma, ‘Altdeutsches aus Londer Hss’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutscher Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), 197-271 (pp. 256-64).
Sigrid Krämer and Michael Bernhard, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II: Köln-Zyfflich (1989), p. 533.
Walter L. Wardale, The High German Bartholomaeus ([n.p.]: James Follan, 1993), p. vii.
Rolf Bergmann, Stefanie Stricker and others, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsäsischen Glossenhandschriften, 6 vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), II, p. 866 (no. 403).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)