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Sloane MS 446
- Record Id:
- 040-002112795
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000547.0x0000f1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100193733102.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 446
- Title:
- Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-104v: Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, entitled 'Astronomiae aphorismi', including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' (ff. 50r, 56r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002112795 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 446 : Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0458]/040-002112795
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100193733102.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper; parchment (ff. 1 and 104 only).
Dimensions: 140 x 105 mm (text space varies).
Foliation: ff. 104 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after ff. 3 and 97 + 2 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 101 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown half-leather binding with the Sloane arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. Rebound 1970.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Ownership inscriptions relating to William Parfey, John Parfey, Lionel Dalby and William Atkynson (ff. 1v, 2r, 104r).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscribed with his former shelfmarks, 'MS. C. 457', and 'XIX A' (f. 2r).
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 446.
Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon, Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900, 3 vols (London: Cambridge University Press, 1914-25), I, p. 65.
Kari Anne Rand Schmidt, The Authorship of the Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), p. 57 n. 1.
Edgar Laird, 'A Previously Unnoticed Manuscript of Chaucer's "Treatise on the Astrolabe"', The Chaucer Review, 34 (2000), 410-15 (p. 414 n. 2).
Catherine Eagleton and Matthew Spencer, 'Copying and conflation in Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: a Stemmatic Analysis using Phylogenetic Software', Studies in History and Science, 37 (2006), 237-68 (pp. 238, 243, 262).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)