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Detailed record for Sloane 3844
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| Author |
Johannes Arderne |
| Title |
Practica medicinalis |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
last quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in blue and red and yellow wash in the bowl (ff. 2, 9). Smaller and small initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing and yellow wash in the bowl. Large and small ink drawings with wash in colours throughout. |
| Dimensions in mm |
255 x 170 (185 x 120) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 67 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 3833-4014 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 3844 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Peter Murray Jones, ‘Sicut hic depingitur . . . : John of Arderne and English medical illustration in the 14th and 15th centuries’, 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. 103-126 (figs 10, 11). |
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f. 5
Surgical tools |
f. 5v
Anatomical drawings |
f. 6
Anatomical drawings |
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f. 15
Detail |
f. 15v
Detail |
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