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Royal MS 12 E XXIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106777
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000325
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165176027.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 E XXIII
- Title:
- Medical miscellany in prose and verse
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: A collection of medical texts in prose and verse made up of two independent parts (ff. 4-67 and ff. 68-112), compiled with added leaves at the beginning and end (ff. 1-3, 113-120). The contents are:
f. 4r-22r: A medical poem attributed to Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (d. 212), with the rubric, 'Incipit Liber Medicinalis Quinti Sereni'. In the margin is a collation with Cotton MS Julius D VIII, ff. 32-39, in the hand of Patrick Young, headed 'Collatum esse hunc codicem ad ms. exemplar domini Cottoni equitis' (f. 4r). Further copies of this poem are in Sloane MS 777 and Additional MS 15342;
ff. 23r-65r: Odo of Meung, De viribus herbarum, a metrical herbal in 95 chapters, incipit, 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires'. Further copies of the text are in Royal MS 12 B iii, Royal MS 12 B xii and Royal MS 12 B xxiv, with the heading Macer;
ff. 68r-111v: A commentary on the Antidotarium Nicholai, attributed to Matthaeus Platearius; the heading has been partially cropped but reads, 'Incipit [summa?] mag[ister] Platearii in Antidotarium Nicholai'. A similar version of the text is in Sloane MS 209;
ff. 111v-112v: Cophon, Anatomia porci, a tract on anatomy, with examples from the pig, incipit 'Quoniam humani corporis membrorum posiciones'. Another copy is in Royal MS 12 E XV.
The added material, in a late-13th or early-14th century English hand, who also annotated the above texts, are:
ff. 1v-2r: A verse on the seasons from Alexander de Villa Dei, Massa compoti, incipit 'Ver Petro detur', and a table of Arabic and Roman numerals, added on flyleaves;
f. 2v-3v: Versus de simplicibus aromaticis, attributed to Giles of Corbeil or Otho of Cremona, incipit, 'Aloes lignum preciosum, hoc tibi signum' (a later hand added 'Est' at the beginning);
ff. 113r-117r: William de Sumere, Experimenta, incipit '[T]inea sic curatur';
ff. 1v, 2r, 22v, 65r-67v, 112v, 117v: Miscellaneous recipes added on flyleaves and between texts.
Decoration:
A large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (f. 4r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour; paraphs in red or blue, underlining and highlighting in red (ff. 4r-65r). Initials in red (ff. 68r-111v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106777 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 E XXIII : Medical miscellany in prose and verse - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0997]/040-002106777
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165176027.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 180 x 120 mm (text space: 135 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 120 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive.
Layout: Partly written in two columns (ff. 70v-113r).
Collation: i3 (ff. 1-3), ii-x8 ff. (4-75), xi9 (ff. 76-84), xii8, (ff. 85-92) xiii6 (ff. 93-98), xiv8 (ff. 99-106), xv6 (ff. 107-112), xvi8(ff. 113-120).
Binding: Post-1600. The Royal Library binding of brown leather with the arms of George II.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S.
Provenance:
William de Byholte (fl. 1292-1336), monk and prior of the abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, donated by him: an inscription, 'Liber quinti Sereni medicenalis fratris W. de Byholte' (f. 1v).
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, inscribed 'sancti Augustini Ca[nterbury]', with the pressmark, 'D.xiii G.iii' on f. 1v, and no. 1196 in the catalogue of the 15th century (see M.R.James, Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1903). p. 335).
Johannis of Margate, pen-trials in a hand of the late-13th century, 'contra dominum Vill[el]m[um] vicarium eccl[esie] s[ancti] Iohannis de Mergate' (f. 120r).
Johannes Langport, listed as Treasurer at the Dissolution (see R. Twysden, Historiae Anglicanae scriptores in Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's (2008), p. 1222): his name, 'Joannes Langport mon[achus] Augustinensis' inscribed on f. 1v in a hand of the 16th century.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): marginal notes in the hand of Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar (ff. 4r-22r); the Royal press-mark of a seal with a ship (f. 1r) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, [1698]), II, no. 8634).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of incipits of Mediaeval scientific writings in Latin, Medieval Academy of America, 29 (Cambridge, Mass., Medieval Academy of America, 1963), 505, 821, 1277, 1573.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 45.
Hans Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum: Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, 2nd edn with supplement (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969), 831.
Richard .H. Rouse, 'Q. Serenus,' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L.D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 384.
Cornelius O'Boyle, The Art of Medicine: medical teaching in the University of Paris, 1250-1400, Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 1998), p. 106.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), I, pp. 1221-22, 2038.
'Spuria Macri': ein Anhang an das mittellateinische Lehrgedicht 'Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum' , ed. with commentary by Ulrike Jansen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), p. 25.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)