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Detailed record for Sloane 7
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| Title |
Medical miscellany, including Godfridus super palladium (ff. 88-92); Agnus Castus, fragmentary (ff. 30-33v) |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin and English |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
Large simple initials in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Diagrams in red with washes of other colours (ff. 58-60). Rubrics in red or blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
270 x 210 (250 x 175) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 119 + i ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1981. |
| Provenance |
Inscribed date of 1562 (f. 94v).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector; acquired by him in 1693 for 2s 6d (see his list of manuscripts in Sloane 3972C; M. A. E. Nickson, 'Hans Sloane, Book Collector and Cataloguer, 1682-1698', British Library Journal, 13 (1987), 52-89 (p. 64) (his manuscript no. 8).
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Notes |
Various additions (ff. 1-3; 112-119) |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 7.
Agnus Castus: A Middle English Herbal Reconstructed from Various Manuscripts, ed. with introduction by Gösta Brodin, Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature, 6 (Upsala: Lundequistska Bokhandeln, 1950), pp. 88, 104-6.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), pp. 58-9, pl. IV.
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 (fig. 1).
David G. Cylkowski, 'A Middle English Treatise on Horticulture: Godridus Super Palladium' in Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England, ed. by Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Texts and Studies, 11 (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1994), pp. 301-329 (p. 319-44 (p. 306 as 'S2').
George R. Keiser, 'Epilepsy: The Falling Evil' in Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England, ed. by Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Texts and Studies, 11 (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1994), pp. 219-44 (p. 233).
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first publ. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), p. 46, fig. 35.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd ed. (London: British Library, 1998), p. 46, fig. 35. |
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