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Lansdowne MS 331
- Record Id:
- 040-002074729
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002074729
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001257.0x000180
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165170986.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 331
- Title:
- Physician's almanac
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Almanac, comprising a calendar (ff. 3r-18v), tables for the calculation of eclipses and of the moon's influence (f. 19r) and a list of the signs of the zodiac (f. 20v).
Decoration:
Large 'KL' letters in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. Tables in brown and red with eclipse diagrams in brown (f. 2v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Lansdowne Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002074729", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Lansdowne MS 331: Physician's almanac" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002060013
040-002074729 - Is part of:
- Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts
Lansdowne MS 331 : Physician's almanac - Hierarchy:
- 032-002060013[0199]/040-002074729
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, formerly a folded parchment
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165170986.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1463
- End Date:
- 1463
- Date Range:
- 1463
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 85mm (text space: 115 x 75mm).
Foliation: ff. 23 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 6 at the end; foliation in pencil following the new numbering system was added to ff. 21-23 after photography and therefore does not show on the images; the old foliation in ink is present on all recto folios).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather. This was formerly a folded parchment, designed to be suspended from the girdle, but was later bound as a codex.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The original format suggests that this was a reference work designed to be attached to a physician's girdle.
Inscribed with the date 1463 (f. 3r).
Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge in 1717): inscription 'Tho. Baker, Coll. Jo. Socius ejectus' (f. 3, image 4r).
Various inscriptions, including 'henry' (ff. 21r-22v). Shelfmark 'LLg No. 1' (f. 3r).
William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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[Henry Ellis and Francis Douce], A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1819), no. 331.
Rossell Hope Robbins, 'Medical Manuscripts in Middle English' Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, 45 (1970), 393-415 (p. 397).
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), 481-509 (p. 506).
J. P. Gumbert, Bat Books: A Catalogue of Folded Manuscripts Containing Almanacs or Other Texts, Bibliologia, 41 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), no. 49, pp. 176-77.
Chelsea Silva, ‘Opening the Medieval Folding Almanac’, Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory, The Provocative Fifteenth Century, Vol 2, 30 (2018), 49-65 (p. 50), https://doi.org/10.1080/10412573.2018.1436281, accessed 9 October 2019.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)