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Detailed record for Sloane 3195
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| Author |
Gautier Agilon |
| Title |
La somme de diverses maladies |
| Origin |
France, S. (Montpellier) |
| Date |
1457 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 2, 5). Smaller and small initials in plain red, a few with reserved designs. |
| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 220 (190 x 135) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 278 (f. 1 is a parchment leaf; + 1 original leaf after f. 1, and 1 after f. 277; + 2 paper and 1 original flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 original and 3 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house; rebound in 1985. |
| Provenance |
Colophon: 'Je Jehan le sueurs ay fait faire ce present livre en la ville de montpellier par guille brunier et fut finit le vj. Jour de septembre lan mil [i]iijc lvij' (f. 277v).
Jean Faucher, 15th-century: inscribed with his name (f. 278v).
Inscription, 16th-or 17th-century: 'Rene de montauban' (f. 139).
Inscription, 16th- or 17th-century: 'Chris Tellyer' (f. 270).
Inscription, dated 1610 (f. 270).
Inscription, 16th- or 17th-century: 'Gutillet(?)' (f. 277).
Inscription: 'Jaques(?) du Poirier damboise doct. med. à Tours 1683' (f. 2).
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 3105-3281 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 3195 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 941. |
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