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Sloane MS 1712
- Record Id:
- 040-002114063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x00017d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165172130.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1712
- Title:
- Ars Notoria texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Two texts of the Ars Notoria, a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as granted by God to Solomon:
ff. 1r-22r: The Ars Notoria, with the rubric, 'Ars Notoria Salomonis, Machinei et Euclidis; a text with set of diagrams or notae on a variety of subjects, including grammar, rhetoric and astronomy. It begins 'Ego artium magister merito nuncupatur', and ends, 'lunationibus et diebus et horis determinatis';
ff. 22v-37r: The Opus Operum, with the rubric, 'Ars notoria quae nova ars appellatur'; a derivative text of the Ars Notoria, ascribed to John of Morigny, including 6 diagrams notae, on subjects including dialect, arithmetic and geometry. It begins, 'Incipit opus operum, scientia, scientiarum', and ends, 'et per virorum omnium gratissina et potentissima suffragia. Amen'.
Decoration:
Full-page diagrams in red and brown, some with green, with figures, symbols, including crosses, and text in circular, rectangular and geometric shapes (ff. 14v, 15r, 15v, 16v, 17v-22r, 36r-37r). Spaces for initials and rubrics in red throughout. Spaces left for initials, some with guide letters.
Description of the diagrams or notae:
ff. 14v-15v: Prima nota, secunda nota et tertia nota artis gramatice,
ff. 16v,17v: Prima nota et secunda nota artis dialectice,
ff. 18r-19r (left column): Prima, nota secunda nota, tertia nota, et iiii nota artis rethorice;
f. 19r (right column): Nota geometrie;
ff. 19v-21v: Geometric diagrams and symbols, including faces of hybrid creatures (f. 20r);
f. 22r: Nota in ineffabilis et est v theologie, or the fifth figure of theology, with symbols including swords, birds and serpents, used to attain theological knowledge;
f. 36r: Nota gramatice;
f. 36v: Notae dilectice, rethorice and aritmetice;
f. 37r: Nota geometrie and signifier circulus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002114063 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 1712 : Ars Notoria texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[1713]/040-002114063
- 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_100165172130.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 170 mm (text space: 175 x 125 mm)
Layout: Written in two columns of 35-37 lines.
Foliation: ff. 37 (+ 3 paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: i-iv8(ff. 1-32), v5 (ff. 33-37). Catchwords on ff. 8, 24, 32.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather; rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Italy.
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:
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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), no. 1712 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science: during the first Thirteen Centuries of our Era, 6 vols (New York: Macmillan, 1923-1958) II, p. 282.
Frank Klaassen, 'English Manuscripts of Magic 1300-1500', in Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic, ed by Claire Fanger (Stroud: Sutton, 1998), pp. 3-31, (p. 16).
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 40-43, pl. 41-42.
Stephen Clucas, John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), pp. 266, nn. 117, 127.
Julien Veronese, L'Ars notoria au Moyen Age: Introduction et édition critique (Florence: Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007), ms L, pp.19, 31-32, 297, figs 1-5.
Laura Mitchell, 'Cultural Uses of Magic in Fifteenth Century England (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2011), pp. 41, 236; online at https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/31869/1/Mitchell_Laura_T_201111_PhD_thesis.pdf [accessed 08.2018].
Frank Klaassen, The Transformations of Magic (Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2013), pp. 96-97.
Stephen Marrone, A History of Science, Magic and Belief, From Medieval to Early Modern Europe (London: Palgrave, 2015), p. 98.
Brett Taylor Kirchner, 'Description and Essay: London British Library MS Sloane 1712 (University College London: unpublished MA research, 2017).
- Exhibitions:
- Spellbound: Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 31 August 2018 - 6 January 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)