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Detailed record for Egerton 2572
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| Part 1 |
ff. 5-43v; 54-70v |
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| Title |
Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York, including its ordinances |
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| Origin |
England, N. (York?) |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 16th century, with additions until 1786 |
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| Language |
English and Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic; Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
15 large miniatures in colours, of heraldry and portrait busts of English sovereigns from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (ff. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) with additions of various dates, including some added on panels, of sovereigns to George III (ff. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24), each covered by a green silk curtain. Diagram in black and red (f. 54). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 190 (180 x 120) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 44-53 |
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| Title |
Calendar, diagrams; medical texts |
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| Origin |
England (N., York?) |
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| Date |
last quarter of the 15th century (1486?) |
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| Language |
Latin and English |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
Full-page drawing in brown ink of a vein man (f. 50). Full-page drawing in brown ink with colour washes of a zodiac man (f. 50v). Full-page volvelle with movable parts with figures, in ink with colours and gold (f. 51). Full-page drawings of figures in ink with colours (f. 51v). Large 'KL' letters in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials in red or blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Diagrams in brown and red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 195 (180 x 120) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 124 ( 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + an unfoliated paper leaf after f. 114 and 12 after f. 118 + an unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 16 + 7 after f. 34) |
| Form |
Parchment and paper codex. |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown suede, extensively repaired, 10 June 1774 according to a note on f. 111v,, rebacked 1923, with metal clasps; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
The Guild of the Barber Surgeons of York, made in 1486: inscription, a later copy of an earlier colophon (f. 5); its arms, crest, supporters and motto (f. 6); numerous later dated inscriptions and signatures of members from 1645 to 1780 (ff. 70v-124v); inscriptions and table of contents (ff. 1v-4).
E. M. Alexander: inscription in gold 'This Book came into the possession of Mr. E. M. Alexander by purchase A.D. 1817' (f. 34v).
W. H. Richardson; bought by the British Museum on 9 April, 1881, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), no. Eg. 2572.
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5, 2 parts bound together (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), with Thomas Herndon, Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, no. 39.
Margaret C. Barnet, 'The Barber-Surgeons of York', Medical History, 12 (1968), 19-30 (pp. 21, 23-24).
Rossell Hope Robbins, 'Medical Manuscripts in Middle English' Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, 45 (1970), 393-415 (pp. 398, 402-03).
T. S. Pattie, Astrology as Illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum (London: British Library, 1980), p. 31, pls 8, cover
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), fig. 30.
John E. Murdoch, Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by I. B. Cohen (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984), no. 265.
Irma Taavitsainen, 'The Identification of Middle English Lunary MSS', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 88 (1987), 18-26 (p. 25).
Irma Taavitsainen, 'A Zodiacal Lunary for Medical Professionals', in Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England, ed. by Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Texts and Studies, 11 (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1994), pp. 283-300 (pp. 283-91, pl. 4).
John B. Friedman, Northern English Book Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 245.
Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1995), p. 132 n. 24, pl. on pp. 66, 131.
Peter Whitfield, The Mapping of the Heavens (London: British Library, 1995), pl. on p. 58.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, no.139 [with additional bibliography].
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd ed. (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 55-57, fig. 48.
Kristen Lippincott and others, The Story of Time (London: Merrell Holberton, 1999), no. 242 [exhibition catalogue].
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 54-55, pl. 45.
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), 481-509 (p. 487).
Peter Murray Jones, ‘Image, Word, and Medicine in the Middle Ages’, in Visualising Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550, ed. by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, 5 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 1-24 (p. 11).
Richard Wragg, ‘A Civic Relationship: The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York as an Expression of Professional Status and City Authority’ in Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland, ed. by Gregory Hulsman and Caoimhe Whelan, Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 4 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016), pp. 235-52 |
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Part 1
ff. 5-43v; 54-70v |
| Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York, including its ordinances |
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f. 6
Arms |
f. 7
Henry VII |
f. 8
Henry VIII |
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f. 9
Edward VI |
f. 10
Queen Mary |
f. 11
Elizabeth I |
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f. 12
James I |
f. 13
Charles I |
f. 14
Charles II |
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f. 18
Queen Anne |
f. 20
George I |
f. 22
George II |
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f. 24
George III |
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Part 2
ff. 44-53 |
| Calendar, diagrams; medical texts |
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f. 48
September |
f. 49
November |
f. 49v
December |
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f. 50
Vein man |
f. 50v
Zodiac man |
ff. 50v-51
Zodiac man; volvelle |
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f. 51
Volvelle |
f. 51v
The Four Humours |
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