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Sloane MS 4016
- Record Id:
- 040-002116409
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000711.0x0002d2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165172997.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 4016
- Title:
- Herbal
- Scope & Content:
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An Italian Herbal, classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116 (see Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese, 1974).
Decoration:
Full-page miniatures on each folio of plants in colours, mostly in greens and browns, with captions, and often accompanied by animals or people.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002116409 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 4016 : Herbal - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[4031]/040-002116409
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165172997.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1435
- End Date:
- 1445
- Date Range:
- c 1440
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 360 x 255 mm.
Foliation: ff. 108 + vi (+ 1 unfoliated leaf after f. 10, and 6 unfoliated paper leaves; 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Green leather with blind tooling in form of flowers and fleurs-de-lys.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Lombardy, Italy.
Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms sable a lion rampant, dexter, crowned argent, as supporters two lions argent; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (f. 1r).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1r).
Former shelfmark (?) '5Vh' , and crossed out (ff. 1r, 1v).
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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
Tractatus de Herbis: Sloane MS 4016, ed. by Alain Touwaide (Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2013), [full printed facsimile].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 4015-4047 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 4016 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Felix Andreas Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese und die Bildtradition des Tractatus de herbis, Berner Schriften zur Kunst, 12 (Bern: Benteli, 1974), esp. pp. 105, 161-71.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 43.
M. Lupo, Un erbario-ricettario del XV secolo a Trento: continuitá della tradizione medievale nelle raffigurazioni miniate di argomentobotanico in La miniatura italiana in etá romanica e gotica, Atti del 1. Congresso di storia della Miniatura italiana (Cortona 26-29 Maggio 1978), ed. by G. Vailati Schoenburg Waldenburg (Firenze: Olschki, 1979), pp. 265-266.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), p. 90, pl. VII.
Peter Jones, 'Secreta Salernitana', Kos (1984), 33-50.
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, ‘Toward the Scientific Naturalism: Aspects of Botanical and Zoological Iconography in Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Second Half of XV [sic] century’, in Die Kunst und das Studium der Natur vom 14. zum 16. Jahrhundert, ed. by Wolfram Prinz and Andreas Beyer (Cologne: Acta humaniora, 1987), pp. 91-101 (p. 98).
Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988), p. 7.
G. Mariani Canova, Miniatura e stampa a Ferrara nel Quattrocento: Il Decretum Gratiani Roverella in Ferrara 1974: miniatura, tipografia, committenza; il Decretum Gratiani Roverella (catalogo della mostra Ferrara 3 settembre -20 novembre 1988), ed. by G. Mariani Canova anf F. E. Adami (Firenze: Centro Di, 1988), p. 23.
Michael Camille, The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire (London: Laurence King, 1998), pp. 79-80, pl. 65.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first published as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), pp. 70-73, fig. 63.
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 112 n. 314, 226 n. 71, 239, 279, 294 n. 125, 295 n. 141, 296 ns 154, 155, 309, pl. XXVIII.
Bestie e bestiari. La rappresentazione degli animali dalla preistoria al rinascimento ed. by F. Mezzalira, G. Cavallo, D. Mainardi (Torino: U. Allemandi 2001), p. 45.
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. 10.
Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 10.
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 20, 25-27, pl. 19, 25.
V. Segre Rutz, Historia Pantarum: erbe, oro e medicina nei codici medievali in Historia Plantarum (Modena: Panini 2004), vol. 2, p. 41-42.
Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 30.
Tractatus de Herbis: Sloane MS 4016, ed. by Alain Touwaide (Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2013), [full facsimile and commentary].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)