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Sloane MS 1977
- Record Id:
- 040-002114335
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x00028c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165172297.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1977
- Title:
- A medical anthology including Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia
- Scope & Content:
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The longest text in this medical anthology is a French translation of the Chirurgia, written by the Lombard surgeon Roger Frugardi (or Roger Frugard of Salerno, Roger Frugard of Parma, Roger de Salerne, Rogerius Salernitanus, b. before 1140, d. before 1195) in the late 12th century. This manuscript is remarkable for its series of surgical illustrations, which uniquely juxtapose surgical procedures with scenes from the life of Christ.
Contents:
ff. 1r-46r: Roger Frugardi of Salerno (or Roger Frugard of Parma, Roger de Salerne, Rogerius Salernitanus), Chirurgia, translated into French, beginning 'Ce cyrurgie est li cyrurgie Mestre rogier de salerne', preceded by a list of chapters.
ff. 46r-47v: Medical recipes in French, the last of which is attributed to the surgeon Richard de Fournival (b. 1201, d. c. 1260).
ff. 48r-135v: Mattheus Platearius, Circa instans, a treatise on pharmaceutical plants, translated into French (beginning 'Le livre de toutes herbes appele "Circa instans"').
ff. 136r-144v: Recipes attributed to Galen and Hippocrates ('Ordonements des vraies sciences que galien et hypocras noterent de fisique'), in French and Latin.
Decoration:
21 full-page miniatures, 16 in three registers in colours and with some gold backgrounds and details in the upper registers (ff. 2-9v), 1 in a single register in colours and gold (f. 49v), and 4 in blue, reds, white, and grey, in four registers (ff. 50r-51v). 2 one-third-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 136v). 5 column-width miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 46v, 48r, 136r, 136v (2)). 1 historiated initial in colours on a gold background (f. 1r). 4 3-sided borders in colours and gold with animals and foliage (ff. 1r, 1v, 48r, 136r). 3 large decorated initials in colours on gold grounds (ff. 1v, 28r, 136r). 3 large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and blue pen-flourishing forming a partial border (ff. 10r, 48r, 52r). Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing throughout. Small simple initials in red or blue throughout. Paraphs in red. Line-fillers in blue and red throughout. Highlighting of letters in red throughout.
The decoration has been attributed to the Master of the Vie de sainte Benoît manuscript (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett 78 B 16), which was produced in 1312 in either Laon or Saint-Quentin (see Stones, Gothic Manuscripts (2013), nos. III-100 (the Berlin MS) and III-112 (Sloane MS 1977)). The dating and localisation of the Berlin manuscript led Stones to propose Laon as a possible place of production for Sloane MS 1977. Other scholars have previously argued the decoration was completed by an artist in Amiens (see Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (1984), p. 63).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002114335 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 1977 : A medical anthology including Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[1983]/040-002114335
- 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_100165172297.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 13th century-1st quarter 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm (text space: 160 x 110 mm) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. ii + 144 (+ 47*, where ff. i-iv are unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and ff. v-ix are unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end)
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. BM/BL in-house; rebound in 1957; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France (Laon or Amiens?)
Provenance:
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliothecae Sloaniana' (f. ii recto); contents note of Sloane library pasted onto paper flyleaf, with 'N. 234' cancelled, and 'XIV E' (f. i recto).
Former shelfmarks (?) 'Min. 234' overwritten '156', cancelled (f. ii recto); 'MS 1830', cancelled (f. ii recto). Possibly an older shelfmark, 'No. 711' (f. 1r).
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 1900-1993 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 1977 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Georg Graf Vitzthum, Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei von der Zeit des Hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei in Nordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907), p. 151.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), pp. 195-96, pl. 27.
Karl Sudhoff, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Chirurgie im Mittelalter: Graphische und textliche Untersuchungen in mittelalterlichen Handschriften, 2 vols (Leipzig: Barth, 1914-1918), I, Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, 10, pp. 19-33.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 1, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. xxi.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 44.
Eric G. Millar, Souvenir de l'exposition de manuscrits français à peintures organisée la Grenville Library (British Museum) en janviers-mars 1932 (Paris, 1933), pp. 24-25.
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5, 2 parts bound together (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), Part I, Early Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, nos 65, 76, 94, figs 65, 76, 94; with Thomas Herndon, Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, no. 86.85.
Mario Tabanell, La chirurgia Italiana nell-alto medioevo, Rivista di storia della scienze mediche e naturali, 15 (Florence: Olschki, 1965), p. 15, pls I, II.
Robert Herrlinger, History of Medical Illustration from Antiquity to A. D. 1600 (Nijkerk: Pitman Medical & Scientific Publishing, 1970), pp. 33-34, 39 pl. XVI.
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals (New York: Dover Publications, 1971, repr. of Longmans, Green, 1922), p. 191.
Marie Farquhar Montpetit, 'Catalogue', in Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, The National Gallery of Canada, 1972 (Ottowa: National Gallery, 1972), pp. 71-175 (p. 86).
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190-1250, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, p. 127.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), pp. 19, 63-65, 91, 103-07, figs 25, 40, 46-47, pl. IX.
Patricia Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1990), p. 117, fig. 64.
Alison Stones, 'L'atelier artistique de la Vie de sainte Benoîte d'Origny: nouvelles considérations', Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1990), 378-400 (p. 382, fig. 3).
Tony Hunt, Anglo-Norman Medicine (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), I: Roger Frugard’s Chirurgia, The Practica Brevis of Platearius, pp. 11-13.
Michael Camille, 'The Image and the Self: Unwriting Later Medieval Bodies', in Framing Medieval Bodies, ed. by Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1994), pp. 62-99 (p. 79).
Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1995), pl. on frontispiece, pp. 52, 157.
Helen Valls, 'Illustrations as Abstracts: the Illustrative Programme in a Montpellier Manuscript of Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia', Medicina nei Secoli, 8 (1996), 67-83 (p. 69).
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first publ. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), pp. 50-51, 73, 84-86, figs 42, 65, 75, 76, 78.
Julia Schlozman, Christ Among the Surgeons: Devotion and Healing in a Fourteenth-Century Manuscript (Undergraduate Thesis, Harvard University, 2009).Joseph L. Henderson and Dyane N. Sherwood, Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis (Hove: Brunner-Routledge, 2003), fig. 8.
James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 9.
Alixe Bovey, Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health (London: Sam Fogg, 2005), p. 15, fig. 2.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), pg. 21.
Ingrid Gardill, Sancta Benedicta - Missionarin, Märtyrerin, Patronin. Der Prachtcodex aus dem Frauenkloster Sainte-Benoîte in Origny, Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, 36 (Petersberg: Michael Imhof-Verlag, 2005), pp. 219, 224-39, 240-41, 244 n. 31-51, figs. 52-54.
Peter Murray Jones, 'Image, Word, and Medicine in the Middle Ages', in Visualising Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550, ed. by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, 5 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 1-24 (p. 13).
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 88-89, pl. 47.
Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, Part 1, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), vol 1: pp. 24, 38-9, figs. 715-719, col. pl. 66; vol. 2: no. III-112 [with additional bibliography].
Karl Whittington, 'Picturing Christ as Surgeon and Patient in British Library MS Sloane 1977', Mediaevalia, 35 (2014), 83-115.
- Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)