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Burney MS 350

Record Id:
040-002237271
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002236305
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00018e
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 350
Title:
Collection of Medical Texts
Scope & Content:
  • ff. 2ra-128vb: John, son of Serapion (Yahya ibn Sarayum), Breviarium medicinae translated by Gerard of Cremona (incomplete, about one gathering missing: breakes off at f. 83r of the printed text in Practica Johannis Serapionis dicta Breviarium (Venice 1505).)
  • ff. 129ra-132rb: Serapion, Synonyma (as printed in Practica Johannis Serapionis dicta Breviarium (Venice 1505), ff. 86v-91v.).
  • ff. 132rb-133rb: Anonymous Work on Alimentation ("Quedam de optimis generibus alimentorum"). Inc. : Panis sit bene recens, mundatus, fermentatus...
  • ff. 132va-133rb: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistola ad Alexandrum de sanitate tuenda (Extracted from Secretum secretorum in the translation of John of Seville as edited by Suchier (1883), pp. 473-480).
  • f. 133v: Medical prescriptions in Latin.
Decoration: Blue and red penwork initials, titles in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Burney Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002236305
040-002237271
Is part of:
Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

 

Burney MS 350 : Collection of Medical Texts
Hierarchy:
032-002236305[0345]/040-002237271
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
Parchment codex.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1375
End Date:
1425
Date Range:
end of the 14th century - beginning of the15th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 265 x 175 mm (text space 195 x 130 mm in two columns with intercolumnium of 15 mm).

Foliation: ff. 133 (where f. 1 is a modern paper flyeleaf preceded by 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves, 2 unfoliated modern paper flyeleaves at the end of the volume). A gathering of approximately six folios is missing between ff. 128-129 with some text loss.

Script: Two hands: ff. 1-132: late-14th-century Gothic book script; ff. 132-133v: 15th-century Gothic cursive (Anglicana).

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (cf. script).

Provenance:

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 93.

H. Suchier, Denkmäler provenzalischer Literatur und Sprache, vol. 1 (Halle: Niemeyer, 1883), pp. 473-480 (manuscript mentioned).

M. Nicoud, Les régimes de santé au Moyen Âge: naissance et diffusion d'une écriture médicale, XIIIe-XVe siècle, vol. 2. (École française de Rome, 2007), p. 837, num. 167.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Pseudo-Aristotle,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121180352,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2581859
Serapion, the elder, fl 9th century