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Harley MS 3535
- Record Id:
- 040-002049367
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049367
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00002c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3535
- Title:
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Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes veterinary tracts relating to horses, written mostly in the Sicilian dialect.
Contents as follows:
Table of contents (ff. 1r-1v);
Lu libru di la maniscalchia, translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (ff. 2r-36r);
Notes on veterinary science in Latin (f. 36v);
Astrological text on humours and the sings of the Zodiac (ff. 37r-39v);
Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali' (ff. 40r-156v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049367", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3535: Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-002199209", "parent" : "040-002049367", "text" : "Harley MS 3535, ff 1r-1v: Table of contents" },{ "id" : "041-002199211", "parent" : "040-002049367", "text" : "Harley MS 3535, ff 2r-36r: Lu libru di la maniscalchia" },{ "id" : "041-002199212", "parent" : "040-002049367", "text" : "Harley MS 3535, f 36v: Notes on veterinary science" },{ "id" : "041-002199213", "parent" : "040-002049367", "text" : "Harley MS 3535, ff 37r-39v: Astrological text on humours and the signs of the Zodiac" },{ "id" : "041-002199214", "parent" : "040-002049367", "text" : "Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v: Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali'" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049367 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3535 : Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia - Contains:
- Harley MS 3535, ff 1r-1v : Table of contents
Harley MS 3535, ff 2r-36r : Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Harley MS 3535, f 36v : Notes on veterinary science
Harley MS 3535, ff 37r-39v : Astrological text on humours and the signs of the Zodiac
Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v : Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali'
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 3535 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3537]/040-002049367
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 156 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3535 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century-Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper codex.
Dimensions: 205 x 145 mm (text space: ff. 2r-36r: 125 x 100 mm; ff. 37r-39v: 140 x 100 mm; ff. 41r-156v: 150/170 x 105/110 mm).
Foliation: viii + 156 (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves; ff. 1r-1v are two separate paper leaves pasted on a modern paper leaf). Old foliation in ink in Roman numerals 'iii-xxxviii' (ff. 2r-36r), old foliation in ink in Arabic numerals '2-158' (omits no. 11 and includes no. 42 for an unfoliated blank leaf after f. 41) supplemented by a modern foliation in pencil (ff. 1-156).
Layout: One column.
Script: Cursive. Written by several scribes.
Binding: British Museum/British Library binding. Rebound in 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, S. (Sicily).
Provenance:
Samuel Knott (d. 1687), Rector of Combe Raleigh, co. Devon, and priest of Broad Hembury, co. Devon: his ownership incription 'Liber Samuelis Kanuti Rectoris de Combe-Rawleigh in Devonia' (f. 2r).
Robert Burscough (or Bourscough) (b. 1651, d. 1709), Church of England clergyman, prebendary of Exeter (1701) and archdeacon of Barnstaple (1703): purchased from him for the Harley collection on 17 May 1715 as recorded by the Harley librerian Humfrey Wanley in his diary (see Diary 1966) and inscription '7 may 1715' (f. 2r)
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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3535.
G. de Gregorio, ‘Il codice de Cruyllis-Spatafora’, Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, 29 (1905), 566-606. [edition of the text]
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I, p. 11.
Cyril 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, 211.
Yvonne Poulle-Drieux, ‘L’Hippiatrie dans l’occident latin du XIIIe au XVe siecle’, in Médecine humaine et vétérinaire à la fin du Moyen Age, ed. by Guy Beaujouan, Yvonne Poulle-Drieux, and Jeanne-Marie Dureau-Lapeyssonnie, Hautes études médiévales et modernes, 2 (Paris: Droz, 1966), pp. 11- 167 (p. 18).
Antonio Montinaro, ‘Un volgarizzamento inedito da Giordano Ruffo: Cola de Jennaro, Della natura del cavallo e sua nascita (Tunisi, 1479)', in La veterinaria anticae medievaletesti greci, latini, arabi e romanzi, ed. by Vincenzo Ortoleva and Maria Rosaria Petringa, Atti del II convegno internazionale Catania, 3-5 ottobre 2007 (Lugano 2009), pp. 471-529 (p. 501).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)