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Detailed record for Sloane 1610
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| Author |
Secundus; Pseudo-Aristotle |
| Title |
Medical miscellany, the Ars medicine, including portions of the Secretum secretorum (ff. 42v-43v), with texts heavily glossed |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
last quarter of the 13th or 1st quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration. Paraphs in red or blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
260 x 185 (160 x 100) in two columns (ff. 186-187 in three columns) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 268 ( + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BL/BM in-house. |
| Provenance |
Added text (ff. 1, 46-47v); the Trotula added (ff. 186-187) probably in the 14th century with a red initial with brown penwork decoration, and paraphs in brown with highlighting in red.
List of contents added (f. 268).
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 1599-1777 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 1610 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Lloyd William Daly and Wather Suchier, Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 24 1-2 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1939), Part II: Walter Suchier, Die Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi: Nebst einigen verwandten Texten, p. 164 no. 71.
Mary Frances Wack, Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), p. 287 n. 1.
Monica H. Green, ‘A Handlist of the Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the So-Called Trotula Texts’, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 50 (1996), 137-175 (no. 43).
Steven J. Williams, The Secret of Secrets: The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. 377-78. |
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