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Sloane MS 2030
- Record Id:
- 040-002114390
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x0002c3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064376213.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2030
- Title:
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Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber Receptionis; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili, Liber Iudiciorum; Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; Abū Ma`shar Ja`far, Ysagoga Minor; Proportiones competentes in Astrorum Industria; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum; Solinus, De Mirabilibus Mundi; Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia; De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates; various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form.
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript is made up of three parts bound together perhaps in the early modern period. The three parts include compilations of scientific texts by various authors.
Contents:
ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things).
ff. 9v-10r: Divisio Scientiarum (The Division of the Sciences), beginning: ‘Ut dicit Boecius in commento super Por’.
ff. 11r-30r: Pseudo-Ptolemy (fl. 10th century), Centiloquium (One Hundred Sayings) (version ‘Mundanorum’, Book 1, Chapter 4), beginning: ‘Centilogium A Ptholomeo editus, beginning: ‘mundanorum ad hoc et ad illud’.
ff. 31v-40v: Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari (also known as Messahala) (d. 815), Liber Receptionis (The Book of Receptions), beginning: ‘Invenit quidam vir ex sapientibus librum ex libris secretorum’.
ff. 41r-76v: Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili (also known as Zahel) (b. 786, d. 845), Liber Iudiciorum (The Book of Sentences).
ff. 79r-83r: Martianus Capella (b. 360, d. 428), De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage of Philology and Mercury) (excerpts from Book 8), beginning: ‘[A]strigere iam sedis iter cursumque’ with occasional marginal glosses and corrections.
ff. 83r-87r: Abū Ma`shar Ja`far (also known as Albumasar) (b. 787, d. 886), Ysagoga Minor (The Lesser Ysagoge).
ff. 87r-87v: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium, beginning: ‘[D]octrina stellarum ex te et illis’.
ff. 88r-94r: Proportiones Competentes in Astrorum Industria (Agreeing Proportions in the Diligence of the Stars).
ff. 95r-103r: Pseudo-Aristotle (fl. 300 BC), Physiognomia (Physiognomy) (Book 4), beginning: ‘Ex qualitate corporis proprietates anime’.
ff. 103r-108r: Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna) (b. 980, d. 1037), Physiognomia (Physiognomy), beginning: ‘Vox grossa caliditatem designat’.
ff. 108v-110r: C. Plinius Secundus (also known as Pliny the Elder) (b. 23, d. 79), excerpt of the Historia Naturalis (History of Nature): the section De Presagiis Temporum (On the Signs of the Times) in Book 18, beginning: ‘De presagiis tempestatum’.
ff. 110r-114r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum (About Communicating Fluids), beginning: Quia tuum amice Marzotom iam novi desiderium’.
ff. 114r-118r: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (version ‘Mundanorum’, Book 1, Chapter 4), beginning: ‘Incipit libellus de scientia astrorum. Scientia astrorum ex te et illis’.
ff. 118v-124v: Solinus (fl. 3rd century), De Mirabilibus Mundi (About the Wonders of the World), beginning: ‘Nilus non tantum hominum set terrarum materna secundat.
ff. 125r-126v: Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia (Chiromancy), beginning: 'Lineae naturales tres sunt in planicie omnis ciros’.
ff. 128r-129r: De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates (On the Four Parts of the Soul, the Manner of Avoiding Sickness), beginning: ‘Quatuor sunt elementa mundi’.
ff. 129r-136r: Various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form, beginning: ‘Antidotum Galieni quo utebatur solus’.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 30v: a note beginning: ‘Notandum quod 10 sunt effectus quos universaliter significat omnis cometa…’ added in a 15th-century hand.
f. 1r: a list of contents of the entire manuscript added in an 18th-century hand.
[ff. 1r-2v, 77r-78v, 136v are blank]
Decoration:
See Sloane MS 2030, ff. 3-30, 99-135; Sloane MS 2030, ff. 31-78; Sloane MS 2030, ff. 79-94.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002114390 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 2030 : Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber… - Contains:
- Sloane MS 2030, ff 3-30, 95-135 : Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Pseudo-Aristotle,…
Sloane MS 2030, ff 31-78 : Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber Receptionis; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili, Liber Iudiciorum
Sloane MS 2030, ff 79-94 : Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; Abū Ma`shar Ja`far, Ysagoga Minor; Pseudo-Ptolemy,…
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- 032-002112337[2038]/040-002114390
- 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_100064376213.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 140/145 x 85/95 mm, in 2 columns (ff. 3-30, 95-135); 170 x 100 mm (ff. 31-78); 165 x 115 mm ff. 79-94).
Foliation: ff. 136 ( + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Binding: Pre-1600. 16th century ?English brown leather, blind-tooled with geometric decoration; rebacked in 1972, with portions of the former back pasted into the inside upper cover; the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: 'PHILOSOPHICAL TRACTS SLOANE MS 2030 OR 2422'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
An unknown 18th-century owner: added list of contents on f. 1r in an 18th-century hand.
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.
- Former Internal References:
- Sloane MS 2422
- 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. 2030.
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 1994-2267 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 2030.
Hardin Craig, The Works of John Metham, Including The Romance of Amoryus and Cleopes, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 132 (London: Early English Text Society, 1916), pp. xxv, xxx (n. 3).
Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, 6 vols (London: Macmillan, 1923-1941), I (1923), p. 652.
Francis J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin translation: A Critical Bibliography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956), p. 42.
Claudio Leonardi, ‘I codici di Marziano Capella’, Aevum, 34 (1960), 1-99 (pp. 80-81, no. 106).
Charles Burnett, ‘Catalogue of the Writings of Adelard of Bath and Closely Associated Works, Together with the Manuscripts in Which They Occur’, in Adelard of Bath. An English Scientist and Arabist of the Early Twelfth Century, ed. by Charles Burnett (London: Warburg Institute, 1987), 163-96 (p. 183, no. 66).
The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. by Margaret Gibson, Thomas A. Heslop, and Richard W. Pfaff, Modern Humanities Research Association, 14 (London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), p. 165 (n. 3).
Paul Acker and Eriko Amino, 'The Book of Palmistry', in Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England, ed. by Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Texts and Studies, 11 (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1994), 141-83 (pp. 235-61, p. 145 (n. 19)).
Charles Burnett, 'The Arabic Hermes in the Works of Adelard of Bath', in Hermetism from Late Antiquity to Humanism: La Tradizione Ermetica dal Mondo Tardo-antico all'Umanesimo, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Napoli, 20-24 Novembre 2001, ed. by Paolo Lucentini, Ilaria Parri, and Vittoria Perrone Compagni, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 40 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), 369-84 (pp. 369, 371, 375).
David Juste, Les Alchandreana Primitifs. Étude sur les Plus Anciens Traités Astrologiques Latins d’Origine Arabe (Xe siècle), (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007), pp. 331-32.
Jean-Patrice Boudet, ‘Astrology Between Rational Science and Divina Inspiration: The Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium’, in Dialogues among Books in Medieval Western Magic and Divination, ed. by Stefano Rapisarda and Erik Niblaeus (Florence: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014), 47-73 (p. 51).
David Paniagua, 'An Inventory of the Manuscripts of Julius Solinus', Scriptorium, 73 (2019), 101-25 (p. 109).
- 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.