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Detailed record for Sloane 475
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-124 |
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| Title |
Medical treatises, divided into 5 books, including Remius Fauinus; Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; receipts; and charms |
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| Origin |
France or England? |
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| Date |
1st quarter of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
Small initials in brown, some with penwork decoration and highlighting in red and/or blue, one with a face (f. 74v). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
150 x 105 (130 x 75) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 125-231 |
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Medical texts, incomplete, including Isidore, De quattuor humoribus (Etymologiae book IV, 5); Galen, Epistola de febribus; recipes; glosses; and a treatise on urine |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Caroline minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Large initials in red, green, or brown, some with penwork decoration. Highlighting of letters or words in yellow or red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
150 x 105 (130 x 70) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 231 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
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BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1971. |
| Provenance |
Added 14th-century text (ff. 209v-210v).
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 |
Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 475.
Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, 6 vols (London: Macmillan, 1923-1941), I, 723-26.
M. L. Camerson, 'The Sources of Medical Knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo Saxon England, 11 (1983), p. 144.
Tony Hunt, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century England: Introduction and Texts (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1990), p. 82.
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: University Press, 1999) p. 121 nos 566, 567.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 498.1 (ff. 125-231).
Philip G. Rusche, 'Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary' in Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden, ed. by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008), pp. 128-44 (pp. 137-38). |
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Part 1
ff. 1-124 |
| Medical treatises, divided into 5 books, including Remius Fauinus; Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; receipts; and charms |
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ff. 74v-75
Decorated initials |
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Part 2
ff. 125-231 |
| Medical texts, incomplete, including Isidore, De quattuor humoribus (Etymologiae book IV, 5); Galen, Epistola de febribus; recipes; glosses; and a treatise on urine |
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ff. 158v-159
Decorated initials |
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