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Harley MS 6024
- Record Id:
- 040-002051872
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051872
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000223
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6024
- Title:
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A book of medicine
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-110v: A book of medicine, organised according to the alphabet, beginning: ‘A medicine for a Continuall head Ache’; featuring several later additions, including one on f. 75r that is signed: ‘Probatum per me A. Amondesham’.
ff. 112r-117v: An index, entitled: ‘Here followethe the Table of this present booke where in you shall finde all things Contained bi order of the Aphabet [sic]’.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1*recto: A note in Latin, added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 2*recto: An recipe in English, beginning 'Take betony and sage'; added in the 16th century.
f. 118v: A list of measurements, their names and their values in numerals, beginning ‘A pownde is thus written - i li’; added in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051872", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6024: A book of medicine" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051872 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6024 : A book of medicine - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6028]/040-002051872
- 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:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 118 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated strip of parchment pasted on f. 1*recto; 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 117 and f. 118.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600; bound together with Harley MSS 130 and 3265.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
An unknown 16th-century owner: inscribed a the opening sentence (imperfect) of a letter on f. 2*recto: 'Dothe woo my verye good friend Robert Barnard of Barnistone [Barnston] in Essex therefore theis are to request you and'.
‘Edmund Maxey’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on ff. 75r and 76r [3x] (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (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 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. 311.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)