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Sloane MS 1621
- Record Id:
- 040-002113972
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x000122
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056067325.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1621
- Title:
- Antidotarium and medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory
- Scope & Content:
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An antidotarium and various medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory.
Contents:
ff. 1r-v: Psalms 18:2-15. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Celi enarrant gloriam'. The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10. Explicit: 'Domine adiutor meus et redemp'.
f. 2r: Prayers. Heading (f. 2r): 'Oratio ad dispensandum medicinam'. Incipit: 'Actiones nostras quaesumus domine aspirando preveni et adiuvando prosequere'. Includes also two more prayers. Heading: 'Oratio ad temperandam medicinam'. Incipit: 'Deus mundi creator et omnino arborum herbarum metallorumque opifex'. Heading: 'Deus qui mirabiliter creasti hominem'.
ff. 2v-3r: A brief text on musical theory. Incipit: 'Monocordi divisio In capite prolambanomenos pone'.
ff. 4r-v: A brief text on musical theory. Heading (f. 4r): 'Cita et vera divisio monochordi in diatonico genere'. Incipit: 'Dimidium proslambanomenos est mese'.
ff. 5r-52v: An antidotarium. Imperfect: missing some number of folios at the beginning. Incipit: 'eris Si quis ad pedum dolorem implicitus fuerit'.
ff. 53r-55r: Addition by a 12th-century hand of recipes for medicinal salts, imperfect: missing some number of folios at the beginning. Incipit: 'lere. cerne. commisce. Et si volueris purgatorium dare'.
f. 56r: A recipe for salt. Incipit: 'Confectio salis sacerdotalis'.
ff. 58r-63r: Medical recipes. Incipit: 'Trociscus andronius. conficitur sic.' Incipit (f. 64r): 'Trociscus proculi podagricis. Sanat autem podagras seiaticos et est universalis ad omnes artreticos'.
ff. 64v-67r: Recipes for oxymel (a medicine made by a mixture of vinegar and honey). Incipit (f. 64v): 'Confectio oximellis ad pectorum dolorem'.
ff. 67r-v: Medical recipes. Incipit: 'Oleum pulegium. Tolle pulegii flores'.
ff. 68r-73r: Medical recipes for treating headache. Incipit: 'Ad emigrami dolores in fronte impositum eum aluta'.
ff. 73v-82v: Medical recipes for making plasters and poultices, ending imperfectly.
ff. 83r-107v: Medical recipes.
ff. 107v-108r: An added recipe for an ointment by a 12th-century hand.
f. 108v: A fragment from Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis.
ff. 110r-v: Recipes for ailments of the eyes. Incipit: 'Ad caliginem et ad vitia oculorum vetustissima ad scabredines et obscuritates'.
f. 111r: A brief text on women's urine. Incipit: 'Incipiunt urine mulierum puelle virgines faciunt'.
Decoration:
Large and small initials in brown throughout, some with penwork decoration. Large initials in brownish-red on ff. 68r and 74r. A quire of the 12th century (ff. 53r-57r) with initials in red or green, and a drawing in ink (f. 57r). Large and small initials in red or green on the page from Psalm 18 (f. 1r-1v). From f. 68r, some highlighting of letters in brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002113972 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 1621 : Antidotarium and medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[1622]/040-002113972
- 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_100056067325.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1025
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 160 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 111 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf).
Collation: i4 (ff. 1-4), ii6-1 (ff. 5-9; 1st leaf excised before f. 5), iii8-1 (ff. 10-16; 8th leaf excised after f. 16), iv-v8 (ff. 17-32), vi8-1 (ff. 33-39; 6th leaf excised after f. 37), vii8 (ff. 40-47), viii6-1 (ff. 48-52; 1st leaf missing before f. 48), ix6-1 (ff. 53-57; 1st leaf missing before f. 53), x10 (ff. 58-67), xi8 (ff. 68-75), xii8-1 (ff. 76-82; 1st leaf excised before f. 76), xiii8-1 (ff. 83-89; 1st leaf excised before f. 83), xiv-xv8 (ff. 90-105), xvi6 (ff. 106-111).
Script: Caroline minuscule and Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1963.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Southern Netherlands or ?Northern France.
Provenance:
?Southern Netherlands or ?Northern France: the continental Carolingian minuscule of scribes A and B may have been written there (see Gullick, 'An Eleventh-Century Book' (2014), pp. 193-99, 210).
Baldwin (d. 1097), abbot of Bury St Edmunds: acquired the manuscript before 1065: the scribe of ff. 44r-45r also wrote a diploma at St Denis, Paris (Paris, Archives nationales K 19, no. 6) naming Baldwin in an end-note (see Gullick, 'An Eleventh-Century Book' (2014), pp. 208-10).
Henry of Kirkestede (b. c. 1314, d. c. 1378), prior of Bury St. Edmunds and bibliographer: his mark 'M. 52': see Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/944/?search_term=Sloane%201621&page_size=500 [accessed 1 August 2016]
16th century: drawing of two men holding a cloth (f. 57r).
Thomas Jones, 16th century: various names inscribed on f. 3v: John, William, Richard, Roger, Raffe, Edward, Thomas, Hugh, Robart, and Arthur; inscriptions in the same hand on f. 4v signed 'per me Thomas Jones'; inscription on f. 39v: 'for I never saw the lyke in my lyfe tyme father & mother I pray you have my brother Anthony in remembrances [...]'; inscription on f. 53r: 'the some of ten poundes of good & lawfull money of england to be paid to the said Richard middeltone at the fers ferst of firste firste thomas Jones'; an inscription on f. 54r: 'the som of 10 poundes of good & lawfull money of england to be paid the said John (?)deye'; calculations (f. 57v); an inscription on f. 79v: 'father in law to John mallarye'; an inscription on f. 80r: 'god god save the quin & send us pease in christ Amen'.
Thomas Manshippe, 16th century: Letter to his cousin William (f. 3r): 'After my very harty comendatyons unto you cosen william this is to satyfye you that I have not spoken yet nether can I hear of hire but I will enquere fore hire & sent you worde how she doth as shortelye As may be Ne more At this tyme butt the lorde Jesu christe have you in his kepinge Amen by your loing kinseman Thomas manshippe in the lord london the v day of lord June lord that matter wt thow of all the flowares that growe in the land truty is the beste As I understand'.
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.
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 1599-1777 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), pp. 368-69 (no. 1621) [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Samuel Ayscough, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the British Museum Hitherto Undescribed: Consisting of Five Thousand Volumes, Including the Collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. and about Five Hundred Volumes Bequeathed, Presented, or Purchased at Various Times, 2 vols (London: John Rivington, 1782), II, p. 628.
Augusto Beccaria, I Codici di Medicina del Periodo Presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI) (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1956), pp. 260-61.
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), pp. 401-02.
Debby Banham, 'Dun, Oxa and Pliny the Great Physician: Attribution and Authority in Old English Medical Texts', Social History of Medicine, 24 (2011), 57-73 (pp. 65, 71, 72).
Monica H. Green, 'Making motherhood in Medieval England: The Evidence of Medicine', in Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400: Essays presented to Henrietta Leyser, ed. by Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith (New York: Routledge, 2011), p. 179.
Michael Gullick, 'An Eleventh-Century Bury Medical Manuscript', in Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest, ed. by Tom Licence (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2014), pp. 190-225 (pp. 210-11).
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/944/?search_term=Sloane%201621&page_size=500 [accessed 1 August 2016].
- 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.