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Sloane MS 475
- Record Id:
- 040-002112824
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000547.0x00011e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056170680.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 475
- Title:
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Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1r-124v; 125r-231r) bound together at an unknown period, both containing medical recipes, charms, various medical treatises and prognostics in a medical context. The first part was produced at the beginning of the 12th century in England. The second part was produced at the end of the 11th century, possibly in England. The format of this manuscript and the texts gathered suggest that it was probably the personal book of a medical practitioner.
Contents:
ff. 1r-124v: Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; an anonymous treatise, Oxiapate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis.
ff. 125r-231v: Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002112824 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 475 : Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen… - Contains:
- Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v : Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus…
Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v : Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Sloane MS 475 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0487]/040-002112824
- 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_100056170680.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 105 mm (text space varies).
Foliation: ff. 231 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1971.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Francis Bernard (d. 1698), apothecary, physician and bibliophile: perhaps his writing (f. 10r); cited in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, no. 3685.
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:
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- Publications:
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Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae (Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 475.
Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, 6 vols (London: Macmillan, 1923-1941), I, 723-26.
Augusto Beccaria, I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1956), pp. 255-59.
M. L. Camerson, 'The Sources of Medical Knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo Saxon England, 11 (1983), 135-55 (p. 144).
Tony Hunt, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century England: Introduction and Texts (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1990), p. 82.
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: University Press, 1999) p. 121, nos 566, 567.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 498.1 [on ff. 125-231].
Philip G. Rusche, 'Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary', in Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden, ed. by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008), pp. 128-44 (pp. 137-38).
László Sándor Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 42-43 passim.
R. M. Liuzza, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011), pp. 16-19.
Michael Gullick, 'An Eleventh-Century Bury Medical Manuscript', in Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest, ed. by Tom Licence (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), pp. 190-225 (pp. 210-11).
- 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.