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Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v

Record Id:

041-003344583

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002112337

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035378133.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100056413287.0x000002

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v

Title:

Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect.

ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mondays, beginning: 'Cave multum ne in his tribus diebus sanguinem minuere'(f. 6r).

ff. 6r-7r: A treatise on bloodletting, beginning: 'De quibus locis fleotomamus (sic). Id est de arteriis duabus in occipio propter querelas capitis', followed by another text on bloodletting, beginning: 'Item de fleotomia (sic) et quid est. Id est vene recta incisio' (ff. 6v-7r).

ff. 7v-8r: A treatise on bloodletting related to the dies caniculares (Dog Days), beginning: 'Bonum est per singulos dies et menses studium habere'. A note on the Egyptian days, beginning: 'Dies Egiptiaci, qui per totum annum obervandi sunt' (f. 8r).

ff. 8r-10r: Marcellus (fl. 4th or 5th century), De Medicamentis (On Medicaments), imperfect.

ff. 10r-13r: Remus Favinus (fl. c. 400), Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris (Song about Weight and Measures), beginning: 'Remi Favini de ponderibus et mensuris. Pondera Peoniis veterum memorata libellis'.

ff. 13r-23r: Various recipes mainly related to the stomach and chest, beginning: 'Ad stomachi dolorem vel ad varias passiones', followed by the charms and prayers for exorcism (ff. 22v-23r).

ff. 23r-30v: Antidotaries, beginning: 'De libro Ypochratis. Potio optima, que assumpta omnium vires excidit'.

ff. 30v-34r: Oxiepate, a medical text on acute illness, beginning: 'Incipit expositio egritudinum, que dicitur oxiepate idest intelligentia'.

ff. 34v-35r: Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dynamidiis (Book on the Dynamis), beginning: 'Incipit dogma Galieni ad Paterno. LXXIX. Hec dinamis et monstratio omnium medicamentorum'.

ff. 35r-36r: A dietary calendar.

ff. 36r-37r: Excerpt from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De Temporum Ratione (On the Reckoning of Time), chapter 30, beginning: 'Epistula Ypochratis ad Antigonum. Ypocras archiares Antigono scripsit regi per anni spatial qualiter ad precavendas inbenecillitates'.

f. 37r: A bloodletting lunary.

ff. 37r-58v: Various recipes related to the stomach, uterus, and other body parts, beginning: 'Incipit liber tertius. Ad ventris rigidi'.

ff. 59r-60r: A monthly diet regimen.

ff. 60r-77v: Recipes related to various parts of the body.

ff. 77v-80r: Pseudo-Democritus, prognostics and interpretation of signs.

ff. 80r-80v: A treatise on uroscopy, beginning: 'Signa urine, qua cognoscitur vita, si nocte in calicem mittis ad lucem videbis. Urina pura et super nebulam natantem'.

ff. 80v-82r: Medical lunary.

ff. 82r-v: A dietary calendar.

ff. 83r-85v: An anonymous treatise on humours.

ff. 85v-124v: Various medical recipes with charms and other magical uses as making a magic sigil for protection (f. 111r), including two prognostics in Anglo-Norman (ff. 109r-109v).

Decoration:

Small initials in brown, some with penwork decoration and highlighting in red and/or blue, one with a face (f. 74v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Sloane Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002112337
040-002112824
041-003344583

Is part of:

Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 475 : Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen…

Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v : Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus…

Hierarchy:

032-002112337[0487]/040-002112824[0001]/041-003344583

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Sloane MS 475

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1124

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 150 x 105 mm (text space: 130 x 75 mm).

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The prognostics contained in this part are probably not of Anglo-Saxon origin, according to Liuzza, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2011), p. 16.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Favinus, Remus, writer, fl 400,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120955048,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/8730149296216080670001
Marcellus Empiricus, 4th or 5th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000444593047,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/196567001
Pseudo-Democritus, c 460 BC-c 379 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000364601895,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/228724785
Pseudo-Galen,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121302401,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/163576513

Subjects:

Science

Places:

England