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Harley MS 4977
- Record Id:
- 040-002050821
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050821
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001f0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4977
- Title:
- Medical compendium
- Scope & Content:
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Medical compendium, imperfect. The manuscript includes:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani (ff. 2r-72v);
Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines) (ff. 73r -115v);
Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology (ff. 115v-120v).
Decoration: Large initials in red with occasional penwork decoration (ff. 1r-40r). 1 initial in green (f. 37r). Sentence initials and rubrics touched in red (ff. 1r-40r). Large initials in brown ink with occasional penwork decoration (ff. 57r, 73r-80v, 92v-96v, 105r-120r). Spaces left blank for initials throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050821 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4977 : Medical compendium - Contains:
- Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v : Practica Petrocelli Salernitani
Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v : Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines)
Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v : Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 4977 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4977]/040-002050821
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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121 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4977 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex. Occasional parchment flaws and old repairs.
Dimensions: 255 x 165 mm (text space: c. 215 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. vii + 121 (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves). Modern foliation in pencil '1-121' (ff. 121r-121v originally blank parchment flyleaf).
Collation: Gatherings: i-xv8, mounted on guards. A number of gatherings missing after ix and xv, and possibly also after xiii. The original order of gatherings x-xiii was xiii, xi-xii, x.
Layout: Pricked and ruled in metal point (single vertical lines) mainly for single columns (double columns on ff. 1-2) of c. 31-34 lines. First line written above top line.
Script: Protogothic; written in dark brown and black ink by several scribes.
Binding: British Museum/British Library binding with the Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or England.
Provenance:
Elizabeth Hopton: inscribed 'Elizabeth / Hopton / 1610' (f. 121r).
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), clergyman and antiquary: bought with other manuscripts from his collection by Edward Harley from Batteley's nephew John on 5 Nov. 1723 (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 ‘5 die Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1r).
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 '139.A.11 / 4977' in dark brown ink and '2/III D' in pencil on (f. 1r).
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808) , no. 4977.
Cassii Felicis De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus (a. 447), ed. by V. Rose, Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig, 1879), p. iv.
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. 263 n. 1.
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. 67, 451.
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, 'Die Pseudohippokratische Epistula de virginibus: Bemerkungen zu ihrer Textüberlieferung und zu ihrem Vokabular', Les Études Classiques, 70 (2002), 101-22 (pp. 102, 106).
D. Maion, 'Il trattato medico antico inglese Peri Didaxeon: problemi di traduzione', in Traduzione società e cultura, ed. by G. Di Mauro (Trieste, 2002), pp. 11, 12.
Cassius Felix, De la médecine, ed. by A. Fraisse (Paris, 2002), p. lxxvi.
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, 'An edition and translation of the pseudo-Hippocratic Epistula de uirginibus', in Testi medici latini antichi. Le parole della medicina: Lessico e Storia, Atti del VII Convegno Internazionale, Trieste, 11-13 ottobre 2001, ed. by Maurizio Baldin, Maria Luisa Cecere and Daria Crismani, Edizioni e Saggi di Filologia classica, 9 (Bologna: Pàtron, 2004), pp. 211-26.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)