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Harley MS 3748

Record Id:

040-002049580

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049580

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000101

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3748

Title:

Galen, Opera

Scope & Content:

A collection of medical works by the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (c. 130-200), translated into Latin partly by Gerard of Cremona. The manuscript contains:

De crisis (ff. 1r-24v);

De criticis diebus (ff. 24v-42r);

De ingenio sanitatis, translated by Gerard of Cremona (ff. 42r-112v);

De accidenti et morbo (ff. 113r-135v);

De interioribus (ff. 135v-168r);

De iuvamentis membrorum (ff. 168r-190r);

De complexionibus (ff. 190v-208r);

De malitia complexionis diverse (ff. 208v-210v).

By the end of the 13th century these texts had become the core of the Galenic corpus known as the 'new Galen', which was used as part of the teaching curriculum in medical university faculties. Includes marginal glosses and variants copied by the scribe, and marginal notes, corrections and nota signs added by later readers (15th century and later), particularly ff. 113r-135v, and including maniculae (see f. 1r) or human profiles (see f. 20r).

The title of the first work 'liber galieni de Crisi etc' (f. 1*) and a table of contents (f. 1* verso) were added by a 15th-century hand.

Titles added by a small minuscule hand (possibly the same hand as the table of contents) in the upper left margins at the beginnings of works and next to the running titles, passim.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049580

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3748 : Galen, Opera

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3749]/040-002049580

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

210 folios.

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century-15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 425 x 276 mm (text space: 290-297 x 162-165 mm).

Foliation: ff. viii (paper) + i (parchment) + 1* + 210. Modern foliation in pencil '1* (original front flyleaf), 1-210'.

Collation: i¹⁰⁺¹ (front flyleaf added as i), ii-xx¹⁰, xxi¹⁰⁺¹ (back flyleaf added as xi), with horizontal catchwords at the centre of the lower margin of last versos, and leaf signatures (i-iiiii) added in plummet, occasionally cut away by a later binder.

Layout: Ruled in ink and metal point (single vertical bounding lines, with additional double vertical lines in the internal and external margins) for double columns of 65 lines. Text below top line.

Script: Gothic. Marginal annotations, including maniculae and small human profiles, added by 15th- and 16th-century readers in more cursive scripts: particularly rich apparatus added on ff. 113r-135v by a 15th-century hand in a small Gothic bookhand.

Binding: British Museum/British Library binding; rebound in 1967. Covers of the old Harley binding in blind-tooled brown calf pasted onto the pastedowns of the modern binding (with the Harley arms and motto gilt at the centre of the covers); one of the rolls used for the blind-tooling is identical to Chapman's tool no. 5 reproduced in H. M. Nixon, 'Harleian Bindings', Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard, Bibliographical Society Publications, n.s., 18 (Oxford, 1975), pl. 14. Marks of iron nails (ff. 1*, 1-3 foredge) from the clasps of the original medieval binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, S (or possibly Italy, N).

Provenance:

Marginal maniculae and small human profiles added by 15th/16th-century readers.

The hospital of St Nicholas in Cues, on the Mosel, Germany: ownership inscription, 2nd half of the 15th century, 'Liber hospitalis sancti Nicolai prope cusam' (f. 1*r).

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Edward Harley on 18 Jan. 1723/4, together with other manuscripts formerly in the hospital library (Wright and Wright 1966; Wright 1972).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. 1*r).

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 shelfmark (f. i recto) in brown ink '119.C.6' followed by '3748', and '2/III F' in pencil.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3748.

Remigio Sabbadini, ‘Niccolò da Cusa e i conciliari di Basilea alla scoperta dei codici’, Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 5th series, 20 (1911), 3-40 (pp. 39-40, n. 2).

Paul Lehmann, Mitteilungen aus Handschriften, 2, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 2 (Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1930), pp. 3-55 (pp. 20, 26).

Berthold L. Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Nicholas of Cues', Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 13 (1938), 194-97 (p. 196).

Rolf Winau, 'Medizinische Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Nikolaus von Kues im British Museum', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 5 (1965), 137-61 (pp. 147-51).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 253 and n. 11.

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. 121, 254, 434.

Hermann J. Hallauer, 'Habent sua fata libelli: Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (pp. 36 n. 115, 43 no. 31).

Sigrid Krämer and Michael Bernhard, Handscriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, ed. by Bernard Bischoff, Supplement 1, 3 vols (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), I: Aachen-Kochel, p. 159.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Galenus, Claudius, called Galen of Pergamon, physician and philosopher, c 0129-c 0216,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121302401,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/44299175
Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator, c. 1114-1187
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753