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Harley MS 4720
- Record Id:
- 040-002050563
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050563
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0000ee
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4720
- Title:
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Collections of medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-69v: Collection of medical recipes in Latin and English; written in the 16th or 17th century.
ff. 70r-71v, 73r-74v: Alphabetical indices of subjects.
ff. 75r-75v: A fragment of a work on ‘Arithmaticke’ in English; written in the 17th century.
ff 76rv: Collection of medical recipes in English, beginning with lists of payments of medicinal herbs, followed by ‘Directions for a diet’; also including a tract for determining ‘The age of a horse’; written in the 17th century.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1*recto-2*verso: Leaves from a (?) 14t-century liturgical manuscript with music notation, neumes on red bars.
f. 1r: A list describing ‘Signa rachitidis’ in English; written in the (?) 17th century.
f. 28r: A list of payments, including the name ‘Bartlett’.
f. 31r: Lists of payments, dated to ‘[16]64’ and ‘[16]65’.
ff. 72r-72v: A hitherto unknown fragment of John Wyclif [Wycliffe], De Mandatis Divinis (Chapter 9), written in 2 columns, and bound upside down, beginning on f. 72r: ‘triplicem fuit nobis novum. Ulterius pro numero mandatorum est notandum quod omnia mandata Exodi 20 reductuntur ad denarium’; f. 72v is badly damaged; written in the 15th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050563", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4720: Collections of medical recipes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050563 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4720 : Collections of medical recipes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4719]/040-002050563
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 1*-2* only).
Dimensions: 205 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 92 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1*-2* are parchment fragments from another manuscript; ff. 1 and 28 are a smaller paper leaves pasted onto unfoliated paper leaves;
f. 31 is a smaller paper leaf that has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic (ff. 1*recto-2*verso, 72r-72v); 16th- and 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house: brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? ‘William Herbert’, 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 76r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 12 September 1722 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 304 n. 7l; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 253-55).
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 ’12 September 1722’ (ff. 2r, 76r).
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née 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), p. 196.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. 161 n. 7, 181 n.17.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 254.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wyclif, John, theologian, philosopher, and religious reformer, d 1384,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116650647 - Places:
- England