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Sloane MS 4100/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002116497
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000711.0x00032a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192320311.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 4100/1
- Title:
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Volvelle, with a set of instructions concerning its use
- Scope & Content:
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A single parchment leaf featuring a circular volvelle on the recto, decorated in colours and gold, the verso originally blank.
The volvelle is comprised of several moveable parts arranged in concentric circles and fastened with a central pivot upon a base sheet marked with the hours of the day and the points of the compass, oriented with 'South' at the top. The first moveable disk features the yearly calendar divided into the calendar months and signs of the zodiac, together with scales to determine the length of a particular day and the noon altitude of the sun. The second and third disks feature large pointers indicating the relative positions of the sun and the moon, with a circular cutout in the third disk also used to simulate the moon's phases.
The volvelle is accompanied by a set of added rules or instructions concerning its use, written in Middle English, which appear above and below the central device.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002116497 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 4100/1 : Volvelle, with a set of instructions concerning its use - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[4119]/040-002116497
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100192320311.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 195 mm.
Foliation: f. 1 (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 24 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown speckled leather, tooled in gold, with the Sloane arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscribed, possibly with a former shelfmark or manuscript number, 'No 139' (f. 1r); the former press-mark, 'Press 92. F' tooled in gold on the spine.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
Transferred from the Department of Printed Books, 20 May 1854 (see inscription, f. 1v).
- Former Internal References:
- Sloane MS 4100*
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 4015-4047 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 4100.
Edward J. L. Scott, Index to the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1904), p. 27.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)