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Harley MS 4346
- Record Id:
- 040-002050183
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050183
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003a2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4346
- Title:
- Medical miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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Medical miscellany including Macer Floridus and other medical texts including recipes and charms relating to the regimen of health, urine and uroscopy, diagnosis and prognosis; partly imperfect.
Contents as follows:
1. Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (ff. 1r-54r);
2. De ponderibus Almansoris et Serapionis (ff. 54-56v);
3. Text relating to regimen of health (ff. 56v-57v);
4. Text on medical diagnosis and prognosis (ff. 57v-62v);
5. Pseudo-Galenus, De urinis (ff. 62v-64r);
6. Ad freneticos (ff. 64r-64v).
7. Collection of medical recommendations, recipes and charms (ff. 64v-68v).
Decoration:
Large initials in red (2-3 lines often elongating into the border), some with penwork decoration in the same colour; rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050183 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4346 : Medical miscellany - Contains:
- Harley MS 4346, ff 1r-54r : Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (imperfect)
Harley MS 4346, ff 54r-56v : De ponderibus Almansoris et Serapionis
Harley MS 4346, ff 56v-57v : Text relating to regimen of health
Harley MS 4346, ff 57v-62v : Text on medical diagnosis and prognosis
Harley MS 4346, ff 62v-64r : Pseudo-Galen, De urinis
Harley MS 4346, ff 64r-64v : Ad freneticos
Harley MS 4346, ff 64v-68v : Collection of medical recommendations, recipes and charms
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 4346 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4339]/040-002050183
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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68 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4346 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 185 x 120 mm (text space:).
Foliation: ff. vi + 68 (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves). Old foliation in brown pen '1-2,7-59' (ff. 1-55) indicating the loss of four leaves after f. 2, repeating no. 53 and omitting no. 55; modern foliation in pencil '1-68'.
Collation: i8-4 (third-sixth lacking), ii10, iii8, iv-v10, vi8, vii10, viii8, with quire signatures at the end of gatherings.
Layout: Pricked and ruled (single vertical bounding lines) in metal point for single columns of 20 lines. Text written above ruled lines.
Script: Protogothic; written in black or brown ink by several scribes. Notabilia and occasional glosses by later hands.
Binding: Harley binding of red morocco over thin boards with gilt-tooled decoration attributable to Thomas Elliott: four tools and three rolls used for the gilt-tooled decoration of the covers correspond to tools nos. 1, 2, 6, 15 and rolls nos. 1-3 reproduced in Howard M. Nixon, 'Harleian Bindings', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard, Bibliographical Society Publications, n.s., 18 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975), pl. 14; spine replaced and spine titles now pasted onto f. iii recto.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
Francis Wolf, physician, his ownership inscription: 'Sum francisci Volfs Medici', late 16th century (f. 1r),
Inscription reading 'S. Agate', Late 16th/17th century (f. 1r).
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German antiquary and classical scholar: passed with his library to the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm for his library at Düsseldorf.
John William II (b. 1658, d. 1716), Elector Palatine of the Rhine (1690-1716): Sold by his librarian, Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738), to Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), Chargé d'Affaires in London for the Duke of Modena, the Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt, and the King of Poland (Elector of Saxony) from circa 1707 to 1753. Acquired from Zamboni for the Harleian library by Edward Harley (1689-1741) on 20 October 1725 (see inscription, f. 1r) (see The Diary 1966 and 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.
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 '127.A.23 / 4346' in ink and '2/III A' in pencil on f. ii recto.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, no 4346.
H. Leisinger, Die lateinischen Harnschriften Pseudo-Galens, Beiträge der Medizin, 2 (Zürich-Leipzig, 1925; ), pp. 42-43, pl. iv.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II, pp. 385-86 n. 6.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 168-169, 291, 339, 367, 443.
A. Ferraces Rodríguez, 'Antropoterapia de la antigüedad tardía: Curae quae ex hominibus fiunt', Les Études Classiques, 74 (2006), 219-52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)