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Harley MS 5228

Record Id:

040-002051072

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051072

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002eb

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5228

Title:

Medical miscellany

Scope & Content:

Medical miscellany (imperfect), composed of eight independent units:

First unit (ff. 2r-36v) includes:

1. Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi.

Second unit (ff. 37r-67v) includes:

2. De anathomia (ff. 37r-38v);

3. Modus medendi (ff. 38v-44v);

4. Copho?, Modus medendi (ff. 44v-46r);

5. Johannes de Sancto Paulo, Flores dietarum (ff. 46r-49v);

6. Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus (ff. 49v-54r);

7. Text relating to herbs and medicine (ff. 54v-55r);

8. Nicolaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium, Excerpts (ff. 55v-58v);

9. Short treatise on mental disorders (ff. 58r-60r);

10. Galenus, Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo (f. 60v);

11. Small collection of medical recipes (ff. 61r-62r);

12. Guillelmus Pictavensis [William of Poitiers], Liber urinarum (ff. 62r-67v).

Third unit (ff. 68r-75v) includes:

13. Practica ('Et primo de apoplexia') (ff. 68r-72v);

14. Text relating to lucky and unlucky days (ff. 73r-75v);

Fourth unit (ff. 76r-93r) includes:

15. Collection of medical recipes (c. 103 recipes);

Fifth unit (ff. 94r-101v):

16. Excerpts from Nicolaus Salernitanus (?), Antidotarium (ff. 94r-94v);

17. Practica ('Et primo de apoplexia') (ff. 94v-101v);

Sixth unit (ff. 102r-118v) includes:

18. Short treatises relating to medicine including medical recipes (ff. 102r-110r);

19. Collection of texts relating to urine and uroscopy, asma and other internal ailments (ff. 110v-118v);

Seventh unit (ff. 119r-131v) includes:

20. Nomenclatura medica (ff. 119r-129v);

21. Added small collection of medical recipes (ff. 130v-131v);

Eighth unit (ff. 132r-139r) includes:

22. Treatise relating to natural philosophy and nature of elements;

The flyleaf at the end is a leaf from a 9th-century English manuscript of Gregory the Great, Cura pastoralis, I, 77, 23-26: (ff. 140r-140v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051072

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5228 : Medical miscellany

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5228]/040-002051072

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

140 folios.

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

French, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1160

End Date:

1250

Date Range:

1160-1250

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: first unit (ff. 2r-36v): c 120/125 x 65/70 mm; second unit (ff. 37r-67v): 165/170 x 110 mm; third unit (ff. 68r-75v): 145/150 x 105 mm; fourth unit (ff. 76r-93r): 120/125 x 85 mm; fifth unit (ff. 94r-101v): 170 x 100 mm; sixth unit (ff. 102r-118v): 165 x 170 x 105 mm; seventh unit (ff. 119r-131v): 155 x 110 mm; eighth unit (ff. 132-139r): c 180 x 115 mm.

Foliation: ff. vi + 140 (+ 1 blank after f. 67; all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves). Modern foliation in pencil '1-140' (including back flyleaf as f. 140; ff. 93v, 130r, 139v are blank).

Collation: Composite manuscript made of eight codicological units of different origin. Leaves individually framed in modern paper. Gatherings: first unit (ff. 2r-36v): i⁸, ii¹⁰, iii-iv⁸, v²; second unit (ff. 37r-67v): vi-ix⁸ (with numerical quire signatures); third unit (ff. 68r-75v): x⁸; fourth unit (ff. 76r-93r): xi-xii⁸, xiii²; fifth unit (ff. 94r-101v): xiv^{8 ?}; sixth unit (ff. 102r-118v): xv^12-1(fourth missing), xvi^8-2 (third and eighth missing); seventh unit (ff. 119r-131v): xvii⁸, xviii^6-1 (sixth missing); eighth unit (ff. 132-139r): xix⁸.

Layouts: Units variously pricked and ruled in ink or metalpoint mostly for single columns of 24-44 lines, but two columns on ff. 119r-131v (seventh unit) and three columns on f. 94r. Texts above top line.

Script: Protogothic; except the first unit (ff. 2r-36v): Gothic, and ff. 140r-140v: English Caroline minuscule.

Binding: British Museum/British Library binding with the Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The Benedictine cathedral priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Worcester: owned in the 17th century, listed in Catalogus Librorum MSS Bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622-1623 by Patrick Young (see Atkins and Ker 1944; Ker 1962; 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 '142.A.32 / 5228' in brown ink and '1/III C' in pencil (f. 1r).

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5228.

Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis made in 1622-1623 by Patrick Young, ed. by Ivor Atkins and Neil R. Ker ([Cambridge]: Cambridge University Press, 1944), p. 53 no. 275, Appendix III no. 9.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 207.

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. 360, 454.

D. C. Lindberg, A Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Optical Manuscripts (Toronto, 1975), p. 94, no. 172.

E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen âge. Réimpression de l'édition de 1936, Hautes Études Médiévales et Modernes, 34.1 (Geneva, 1979), I, p. 260.

Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), p. 78 no. 439.6 (f. 140).

Helmut Gneuss, 'Addenda and Corrigenda to the Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts', Anglo-Saxon England, 32 (2003), 293-305 (p. 300).

M. J. Carrillo Linares, 'Middle English Antidotarium Nicholai: Evidence for Linguistic Distribution and Dissemination in the Vernacular', in Editing Middle English in the 21st Century: Old Texts, New Approaches, ed. by Nila Vázquez and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, International Journal of English Studies, 5 (2005), pp. 71-92 (pp. 85 n. 1, 87 n. 24).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gerard of Bourges, physician, fl Early 13th century