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Cotton Ch VIII 26
- Record Id:
- 040-003214930
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026764440.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch VIII 26
- Title:
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Physician's folding almanac
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac consisting of a calendar, tables and diagrams:
ff. 1r-8r: Kalendarium for January to December;
f. 9r: Diagram of a Zodiac man with animals;
f. 9v: Explanation of the calendar;
f. 10r: Diagram of lunar and solar eclipses;
f. 11r: Table of moveable feasts;
f. 11v: Astronomical table;
f. 12r: Diagram of Vein Man ('Homo Venarum');
f. 12v: Lunar table.
Decoration: Two pen diagrams: Zodiac man and Vein man. Diagram of eclipses in red, blue and brown. KL initials and small initials in blue. Tables in red and brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-003214930 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch VIII 26 : Physician's folding almanac - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0025]/040-003214930
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 6 folios, each folded into eight parts
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_Ch_VIII_26 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1469
- End Date:
- 1469
- Date Range:
- c. 1469
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm (160 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 7 (folded leaves).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Folded separate leaves, sewn together at the lower edges with two outer parchment covers to which triangular tabs are attached, containing holes with a cord threaded through them to attach to a girdle.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, N.
One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey, 'Folded Almanac' (2003).
Provenance:
The Cotton collection was acquired by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: see Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 212-13.
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, (Acts of Parliament: 12 and 13 William III, c. 7 of 1701); formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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The Kalendarium of John Somer, ed. by Linne R. Mooney (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998), pp. xi [H2], 48, 53, 68.
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), 481-509 (p. 489, 505, 508).
J. P. Gumbert, Bat Books: A Catalogue of Folded Manuscripts Containing Almanacs or Other Texts, Bibliologia, 41 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), no. 59, pp. 201-02.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)