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Harley MS 3843

Record Id:

040-002049679

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049679

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000162

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3843

Title:

Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine

Scope & Content:

The manuscript contains:

1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v);

2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r);

3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the months (ff. 11r-12r);

4. Computus ecclesiasticus (ff. 13r-25v);

5. Computus Judaicus attributed to Petrus Rosenfeld (ff. 26r-39v);

6. Tabulae et Almanacus Alphonsi (ff. 40r-61v);

7. Text relating to astrology (ff. 62v-81v);

8. Computus ecclesiasticus (82v-99v);

9. Commentary on the Liber complexionum or De complexionibus, attributed to Taddeo Alderotti (ff. 100v-115v);

10. Ars mulieris, verse against women (ff. 116r-117v);

11. Algorismus (ff. 118r-129r).

Decoration:

Large initials (2 lines), rubrics and paragraph marks in red throughout; spaces left for some initials.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049679

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3843 : Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3835]/040-002049679

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

129 folios.

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper codex.

Dimensions: 195 x 140 mm (text space: 150 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. vi + 129 (all unfoliated flyleaves are paper; 3 blank folios after f. 115). Old foliation in pen '1-119' (ff. 1r-118r, omitting no. 101), supplemented by modern foliation in pencil '1-129' (ff. 62r, 82r, 100r are blank).

Layout: Ruled in metal point (single vertical bounding lines) for single columns of 23-37 lines. Text written below top line.

Script: Gothic cursive; written by several scribes.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding with gold tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

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 '121.B.15 / 3843' in brown ink and 'I/III B' in pencil on f. ii recto.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3843.

L. Thorndike, 'De complexionibus', Isis, 49 (1958), 398-408 (pp. 398 n. 2, 401 n. 18).

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 788.

C. B. Schmitt and D. Knox, Pseudo-Aristoteles latinus. A Guide to Latin Works falsely attributed to Aristotle before 1500, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 12 (London, 1985), p. 25.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Alderotti, Taddeo, physician, of Florence, d 1295
Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Jean de Paris, physician