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Sloane MS 146
- Record Id:
- 040-002112484
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000505.0x00032a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063649028.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 146
- Title:
- Trilingual medical and botanical recipes; trilingual botanical glossary
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript with medical and botanical texts was largely written in the 13th century, but also include a botanical glossary in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English that has been written in the late 12th century.
Contents:
ff. 1r-68v: A collection of medical and botanical recipes in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English.
ff. 69v-72v: A botanical glossary in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English.
ff. 73r-74v: A list of plant names accompanied by single Latin verses on their virtues.
ff. 74v-75r: Three medical recipes in Latin.
ff. 75r-75v: A passage on the humours.
ff. 75v-79v: A medical treatise on oils.
ff. 79v-86v: A collection of medical recipes in Latin and the vernacular (Anglo-Norman and/or Middle English).
ff. 87r-89r: Fragments of two botanical treatises.
ff. 89v-91v: Various medical recipes.
ff. 92r-98r: A short treatise on herbs.
ff. 98r-98v: A short medical treatise.
ff. 99r-107v: Various medical recipes.
Decoration:
Numerous large initials in red and blue, some with penwork decoration. Paraph marks in red and blue. Highlighting in red. Line-fillers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002112484 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 146 : Trilingual medical and botanical recipes; trilingual botanical glossary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0147]/040-002112484
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063649028.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 140 x 90 mm (text space: 110 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 107 (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic, below top line.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; brown half leather; Sloane's book plate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'MEDICAL TRACTS ETC.'
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/
- Publications:
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Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae (Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 146.
Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 3 (London: Anglo Norman Text Society, 1999), p. 172 (no. 313).
Tony Hunt, ‘The Trilingual Glossary in MS London, BL Sloane 146 ff. 69v -72r’, English Studies, 70 (1989), 289-310.
Tony Hunt, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century England: Introduction and Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 1990), pp. 264-96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.