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Detailed record for Sloane 4016
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| Title |
Herbal |
| Origin |
Italy, N. (Lombardy) |
| Date |
c. 1440 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
Full-page miniatures of plants in colours, usually predominantly in green and brown, with captions and often with animals or people, on each folio. |
| Dimensions in mm |
360 x 255 |
| Official foliation |
ff. 108 (+ an unfoliated leaf after f. 10 + 3 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Green leather with blind tooling in form of flowers and fleur-de-lys. |
| Provenance |
Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms [sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (f. 1).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1).
Former shelfmark (?) '5Vh' , and crossed out (ff. 1, 1v).
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
This manuscript is classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116; see also Collins 2000 pp. 279, 226 n. 71.
For Foucault's library generally see Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale [Nationale]: Étude sur la formation de ce dépôt 3 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), I, 373-380. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 4015-4047 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 4016 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Felix Andreas Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese und die Bildtradition des Tractatus de herbis, Berner Schriften zur Kunst, 12 (Bern: Benteli, 1974), esp. pp. 105, 161-71.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 43.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), p. 90, pl. VII.
Peter Jones, 'Secreta Salernitana', Kos (1984), 33-50.
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, ‘Toward the Scientific Naturalism: Aspects of Botanical and Zoological Iconography in Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Second Half of XV [sic] century’, 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. 91-101 (p. 98).
Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988), p. 7.
Michael Camille, The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire (London: Laurence King, 1998), pp. 79-80, pl. 65.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first publ. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), pp. 70-73, fig. 63.
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 112 n. 314, 226 n. 71, 239, 279, 294 n. 125, 295 n. 141, 296 ns 154, 155, 309, pl. XXVIII.
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. 10.
Pamela Porter, Courty Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 10.
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 20, 25-27, pl. 19, 25.
Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 30.
Tractatus de Herbis: Sloane MS. 4016, ed. by Alain Touwaide (Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2013), [facsimile edition and companion volume] |
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Binding
Front binding |
Binding
Back binding |
Spine
Spine |
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Headband
Headband |
Inside Front Cover
Inside front cover |
Inside Back Cover
Inside back cover |
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f. 1
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f. 1v
Blank folio |
f. 2
Plants and figure |
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f. 2
Figure |
f. 2v
Plant |
f. 3
Plants |
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f. 3v
Plants |
f. 3v
Scorpion |
f. 4
Plants |
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f. 4
Duck |
f. 4v
Plants and a duck |
f. 4v
Duck |
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f. 5
Plants |
f. 5v
Plants and a boar |
f. 5v
Boar |
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f. 6
Tree |
f. 6
Eagle |
f. 6
Spider web |
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f. 6v
Plants, sheep, and dragon |
f. 6v
Sheep |
f. 6v
Dragon |
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f. 7
Plants |
f. 7v
Plants |
f. 8
Plants |
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f. 8
Donkey |
f. 8v
Plants and a donkey |
f. 8v
Donkey |
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f. 8v
Map |
f. 9
Plants |
f. 9v
Plants |
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f. 10
Plants |
f. 10v
Balsam arden |
f. 11
Plant |
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f. 11v
Plants, bird of prey, and duck |
f. 11v
Bird of prey and duck |
f. 11v
Plants |
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f. 12
Daffodil |
f. 12v
Plants |
f. 13
Plant |
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f. 13v
Plant |
f. 14
Plants |
f. 14v
Plants |
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f. 15
Plants |
f. 15v
Plants |
f. 15v
Snake |
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f. 16
Plants |
f. 16
Man |
f. 16v
Plant and a fish |
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f. 16v
Fish |
f. 17
Plants |
f. 17v
Plants |
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f. 18
Plants |
f. 18v
Plants |
f. 19
Plants |
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f. 19v
Plants and a bull |
f. 19v
Bull |
f. 20
Plants |
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f. 20
Bulls |
f. 20v
Plant |
f. 21
Plant |
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f. 21v
Plants |
f. 22
Plants |
f. 22v
Plants |
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f. 23
Plants |
f. 23v
Plants |
f. 24
Plant |
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f. 24
Camel |
f. 24v
Plants |
f. 25
Plants |
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f. 25v
Plants |
f. 25v
Crabs and a scorpion |
f. 26
Plant |
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f. 26
Capons |
f. 26
Rams |
f. 26v
Plants |
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f. 27
Plants |
f. 27v
Plants |
f. 28
Tree and beaver |
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f. 28
Beaver |
f. 28v
Plants |
f. 29
Plants |
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f. 29v
Plants |
f. 30
Plants |
f. 30v
Plants, snake and der |
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f. 30v
Snake and deer |
f. 31
Plants |
f. 31v
Plants and building |
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f. 32
Plants |
f. 32v
Plants |
f. 33
Plants |
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f. 33v
Plants, doves, and coral |
f. 34
Plants |
f. 34v
Plants |
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f. 35
Plants |
f. 35v
Plants |
f. 36
Plants |
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f. 36v
Plants |
f. 37
Plants |
f. 37v
Plants |
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f. 38
Plant |
f. 38
Dragon |
f. 38v
Plants |
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f. 39
Plant |
f. 39
Two roosters |
f. 39v
Plants |
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f. 40
Plants |
f. 40
Cat and mouse |
f. 40v
Plants |
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f. 40v
Plants |
f. 41
Plants |
f. 41v
Plants |
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f. 42
Plant |
f. 42v
Plants |
f. 43
Plants |
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f. 43v
Plants |
f. 44
Plants |
ff. 44v-45
Field horsetail |
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f. 44v
Boy and woman |
f. 44v
Man and woman |
f. 44v
Field horsetail |
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f. 45
Plants |
f. 45v
Plants |
f. 46
Plants |
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f. 46v
Plants |
f. 47
Plants |
f. 47
Lizard |
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f. 47v
Plants |
f. 48
Plants |
f. 48v
Plant and coral |
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f. 49
Plants |
ff. 49v-50
Plants and animals |
f. 49v
Plant |
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f. 50
Animals |
f. 50
Lion |
f. 50
Leopard and rabbit |
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f. 50
Elephant |
f. 50v
Plants |
f. 51
Plants |
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f. 51v
Plant |
f. 52
Plants |
f. 52v
Plants |
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f. 53
Plants |
f. 53v
Plants |
f. 54
Plants |
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f. 54
Man urinating |
f. 54v
Plants |
f. 55
Plants |
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f. 55
Wolf |
f. 55v
Plants |
f. 56
Plants |
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ff. 56v-57
Plants |
f. 56v
Mandrake |
f. 56v
Mandrake |
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f. 57
Plants |
f. 57
Shell |
f. 57v
Plants and beehives |
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f. 57v
Beehives |
f. 58
Plants |
f. 58v
Plants |
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f. 59
Plants |
f. 59v
Plants |
f. 60
Plants |
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f. 60v
Plants |
f. 61
Plants |
f. 61v
Plants |
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f. 62
Plants |
f. 62
Rat and cat |
f. 62
Corpse |
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f. 62v
Hunting |
f. 63
Plant and weasel |
f. 63
Weasel |
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f. 63v
Plants |
f. 64
Plants |
f. 64v
Plants |
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f. 65
Plants |
f. 65v
Tree and snake |
f. 66
Plant |
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f. 66v
Plants |
f. 67
Plants |
f. 67v
Plants |
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f. 68
Plants |
f. 68v
Plants and hare |
f. 69
Plants |
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f. 69v
Plants and panther |
f. 70
Plants and birds |
f. 70
Birds |
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f. 70v
Plants |
f. 71
Plants |
f. 71v
Plants |
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f. 72
Plants |
f. 72v
Plants |
f. 73
Plants |
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f. 73v
Plants |
f. 74
Plants |
f. 74v
Plants |
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f. 75
Plants |
f. 75v
Plants |
f. 76
Plants |
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f. 76v
Plants |
f. 77
Plant and boar |
f. 77
Boar or pig |
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f. 77v
Plants |
f. 77v
Plants |
f. 78
Plants |
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f. 78v
Plant and tree |
f. 79
Plants |
f. 79v
Nut tree |
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f. 80
Plants |
f. 80v
Plants |
f. 81
Plants |
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f. 81
Frog |
f. 81v
Plant |
f. 82
Plants |
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f. 82v
Plants |
f. 83
Plants |
f. 83v
Plants |
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f. 84
Plants |
f. 85
Plants |
f. 85
Plants |
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f. 86
Plants |
ff. 86v-87
Plants |
f. 87
Plants |
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f. 87v
Plant |
f. 88
Plants |
f. 88v
Plants |
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f. 89
Plants |
f. 89v
Plant |
f. 90
Plants |
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f. 91
Plants |
f. 91
Plants |
f. 91v
Plants |
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f. 92
Plants |
f. 92v
Plants |
f. 93
Plants |
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f. 93v
Plants |
f. 94
Plants |
f. 94v
Plants |
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f. 95
Plants, birds, and insects |
f. 95
Birds |
f. 95v
Plant |
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f. 96
Plant and bird |
f. 96
Bird |
f. 96v
Plant |
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f. 97
Plant and animal |
f. 97
Animal |
f. 97v
Plants |
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f. 98
Plants |
f. 98
Plants |
f. 98v
Plants |
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f. 99
Plants |
f. 99v
Plant |
f. 100
Plants |
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f. 100v
Plants |
f. 101
Vines |
f. 101v
Plants |
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f. 101v
Glass-making |
f. 102
Plants and an animal |
f. 102
Animal |
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f. 102v
Plants |
f. 103
Plants and demon |
f. 103
Demon |
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f. 103v
Plants |
f. 104
Plants and fish |
f. 104
Fish |
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f. 104v
Plants |
f. 105
Plants |
f. 105v
Plants |
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f. 106
Plants |
f. 106v
Plants |
f. 107
Plants, birds, and goats |
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f. 107
Goats |
f. 107
Birds |
f. 107v
Plants |
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f. 108
Plants and bear |
f. 108
Bear |
f. 108v
Garden |
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