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Harley MS 5294
- Record Id:
- 040-002051140
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051140
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00032f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5294
- Title:
- Pharmacopeial compilation
- Scope & Content:
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Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The manuscript is a compilation of late antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts.
Contents as follows:
1. Notes on humours, partly in figures of division (f. 1r);
2. Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal, ff. 8v-43v (ff. 1v-6v);
3. Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 7r-8v);
4. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber (ff. 8v-43v);
5. Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (ff. 43v-58r);
6. Medical recipes (ff. 58v-59r);
7. Johannitius, Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni, excerpt (f. 59v);
8. (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt (ff. 60r-62v);
9. Medical miscellany (ff. 62v-67v);
Decoration:
Initials (1-3 lines), rubrics and chapter numbers in red. Ink drawings with colour washes of plants and animals (ff. 7r-58r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051140 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5294 : Pharmacopeial compilation - Contains:
- Harley MS 5294, f 1r : Notes on humours, partly in figures of division.
Harley MS 5294, ff 1v-6v : Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal
Harley MS 5294, ff 7r-8v : Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Harley MS 5294, ff 8v-43v : Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
Harley MS 5294, ff 43v-58r : Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (71 chapters)
Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r : Medical recipes
Harley MS 5294, f 59v : Johannitius, Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni, excerpt, in the Latin translation by Marcus of Toledo. Imperfect.
Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v : (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v : Medical miscellaneous texts
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- 032-002045828[5296]/040-002051140
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5294 (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. Occasional old parchment repairs to original parchment flaws.
Dimensions: 258 x 185 mm.
Foliation:; ff. vii + 68 (f. 16 an added parchment slip with an architectural sketch; f. 68 is a parchment flyleaf; all unfoliated flyleaves are paper). Modern foliation in pencil '1-68' (ff. 16v blank; ff. 68r-68v originally blank flyleaf).
Collation: Gatherings: i6, ii8, iii8+1 (including additional f. 16r), iv-vii8, viii2, ix12-1 (twelfth cancelled), with horizontal catchword on f. 55v.
Layout: Pricked and ruled in hard point for double columns of 31 lines (ff. 1r-6v, 7v-8r) and single columns of 30-31 lines (ff. 7r, 8v-67v). Text above ruled lines.
Script: Protogothic; written in dark brown ink.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding with the Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers; formerly bound with Harley 4986.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Added English names of herbs, 15th-century.
Johannes Folkingham, early 16th century: inscribed 'Johannes Folkingham me tenet' (f. 7r).
Doctor Barnarde Saule (17th century): inscribed with his name (f. 1r) and 'Hic liber est meus testis est deus... Barnardus Saule...' (f. 68v) .
Magister Carpender (17th century): presented as a gift to John Mansell and Joseph Hartley, inscribed 'Donum M[agist]ri Carpender Johanni Mansell et Josepho Hartley' (f. 1r).
Johannes Mansell and Josephus Hartley (17th century): given to them by Master Carpender (f. 1r; see inscription above).
Edward Lye (b. 1694, d. 1767), Anglo-Saxon scholar: presented by him to the Harleian library, inscribed 'This Book was given to me by the Reverend mr Lye' by Edward Harley (f. 1r).
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 by Edward Harley 'Oxford B H', and inscription recording the gift from Edward Lye (see above), Harley shelfmarks '142.D.14 / 5294' in ink and '2/III D' in pencil (f. 1).
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. The note 'Oxford B H' and Harley shelfmarks '142.D.14 / 5294' in ink and '2/III D' in pencil (f. 1r).
- 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), no. 5294.
Thomas O. Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest Rolls Series, 35 (London, 1864-1866; rev. ed. with introduction by C. Singer, London:The Holland Press, 1961), I, p. lxxxii.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Ilustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 5.
Charles Singer, 'The Herbal in Antiquity and Its Transmission to Later Ages', The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 47, part 1 (1927), 35 and fig. 33.
E. Howald and H. E. Sigerist, Apuleius Barbarus, Antonii Musae de herba vettonica liber. Pseudoapulei herbarius. Anonymi de taxone liber. Sexti Placiti liber medicinae ex animalibus, Corpus Medicorum Latinorum, 4 (Leipzig-Berlin, 1927), p. xii.
David Talbot Rice, English Art 871-1100 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952), p. 225.
Loren MacKinney and Thomas Herndon, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, New Series, 5 (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), no. 86.50.
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. 97, 181, 230, 233, 297.
Heide Grape-Albers, Spätantike Bilder aus der Welt des Arztes. Medizinische Bilderhandschriften der Spätantike und ihre mittelalterliche Überlieferung (Wiesbaden: Guido Pressler, 1977), pp. 3, 5-6, 166 and passim, figs. 33, 100, 123, 140, 154, 155, 160, 164, 171, 205, 218-20.
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, 'One Anglo-Saxon View of the Classical Gods', in StudiesinIconography 3 (1977), 3-16 (p. 14, n. 32).
J. M. Riddle, 'Pseudo-Dioscorides' Ex herbis femininis and Early Medieval Medical Botany', Journal of the History of Biology, 14 (1981), 43-81 (pp. 57-58).
J. De Vriend, The Old English Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus, Early English Text Society, 286 (London, 1984), p. xlvii.
Wilfrid Blunt and Sandra Raphael, The Illustrated Herbal, rev. ed. (London: Frances Lincoln Publishers, 1994), pp. 33 (fig: f. 25), 52.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Miniatures in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn. (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 81, 83, fig. 35.
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 199-203, 234 n. 224, 235 n. 226, figs 52-54 (ff. 14, 15v, 11).
Richard Kieckhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 66.
Anne Van Arsdall, Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), p. 102.
M. A. D'Aronco, 'Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts', in Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden, ed. by P. Dendle and A. Touwaide (Woodbridge, 2008), p. 126.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)