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Detailed record for Harley 1585
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| Title |
Medical miscellany of a pharmacopeial compilation, including a herbal and bestiary illustrating the pharmocopeial properties of animals (see Notes) |
| Origin |
Netherlands, S. (Mosan region), or England? |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
Large drawing in ink (f. 7v). Full page drawings of medical procedures or of figures in ink, most on backgrounds of coloured washes, some also with gold (ff. 8, 8v, 9, 9v, 12v, 13). Numerous ink drawings of plants or scenes, most in colours. Initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour. |
| Dimensions in mm |
215 x 155 (165 x 115) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 92 ( + an unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end) |
| Collation |
i-ii6, iii10-1 (tenth missing), iv-ix8, x8-1 (eighth missing), xi8, xii6, xiii2 |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. 19th century; gold edges. |
| Provenance |
Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1741), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31), his manuscript no. 49; donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley 1586-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712: a note in pencil (f. i) in the hand of Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), reads 'Coll Worsley'.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Contents:
Table of contents (ff. 1v-6v);
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem (ff. 6v-7v);
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate) (ff. 10-12);
Prayers to the Earth Goddess and the Herbs (ff. 12v-13, 13v);
Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 13v-16v);
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium or De medicaminibus herbarum (ff. 16v-58);
De taxone (f. 58r-58v);
(Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus (ff. 58-78v);
Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (ff. 79-92v);-
Text relating to a plaster against gout (excerpt from Theodorus Priscianus, Euporista ?) (f. 92v).
The Pseudo-Apuleius text often lacks a description of the form of the plants themselves. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II, no. 1585.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 5.
Karl Sudhoff, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Chirurgie im Mittelalter: Graphische und textliche Untersuchungen in mittelalterlichen Handschriften, 2 vols (Leipzig: Barth, 1914-1918), I, Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, 10, pp. 15, 81.
Hanns Swarzenski, Die Lateinischen Illuminierten Handschriften des XIII. Jahrhunderts in den Ländern an Rhein, Main und Donau, 2 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verin fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1936), I, 101 n. 2.
T. S. R. Boase, English Art 1100-1216, Oxford History of English Art, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 193 n. 2.
Loren MacKinney and Thomas Herndon, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, New Series, 5 (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), nos 50, 86.41.
D. H. Turner, Romanesque Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 15, pl. 6.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xix-xx.
Florens Deuchler, Der Ingeborgpsalter (Berlin: de Gruyter & Co., 1967), pp. 135-36, pls 213-14.
Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), no. 36.
M.W. Evans, Medieval Drawings (London, New York, Sydney and Toronto: Hamlyn, 1969), no. 63.
Robert Herrlinger, History of Medical Illustration from Antiquity to A. D. 1600 (Nijkerk: Pitman Medical & Scientific Publishing, 1970), p. 32, fig. 32.
Harvey Stahl, ‘Le bestiaire de Douai’, Revue de l’art, 8 (1970), 6-16 (pp. 10-11, n. 19).
C. R. Dodwell, Painting in Europe: 800 to 1200 (London: Penguin Books, 1971). p. 162, fig. 179.
Larry M. Ayers, 'A Miniatuer from Jumièges and Trends in Manuscript Illumination around 1200', in Intuition und Kunstwissenshaft:Festschrift für Hanns Swarzenski, ed. by Peter Bloch and others (Berlin: Mann, 1973), pp. 115-40 (pp. 126-27, fig. 17).
Elisabeth Klemm, Ein romanischer Miniaturenzyklus aus dem Maasgebiet, Winer Kunstgeschichtliche Forschungen, 2 (Vienna: Adolf Holzhausens, 1973), pl. 82.
Reiner Haussherr, 'Der Ingeborgpsalter Bemerkungen zu Datierungs- und Stilfragen' in The Year 1200: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), 231-50 (p. 236).
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), pp. 113, 126.
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, 'One Anglo-Saxon View of the Classical Gods', in Studies in Iconography 3 (1977), 3-16 (p. 14, n. 32).
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, p. 55.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), pp. 84, 86, 99-100, 102. figs 37, 44.
John E. Murdoch, Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by I. B. Cohen (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984), nos 195, 203.
C. R. Dodwell, The Pictorial Arts of the West 800-1200 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), p. 273, pl. 270.
Ursula Nilgen, 'Heinrich der Löwe und England', in Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit: Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235, ed. by Jochen Luckhardt and Franz Niehoff, 3 vols (Munich: Hirmer, 1995), II, pp. 329-342, (p. 331, pl. 221).
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 203-05, fig. 55-56.
The Grant Atelier: Patheways of Art in Europe (5th-18th Centureis), ed. by Roland Recht (Brussels: Europalia, 2007), no. IV.9, p. 114 [exhibition catalogue] [with additional bibliography].
Catalogued for the Harley Medical Manuscripts Project [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/INDEX.asp], accessed 29 May 2008.
The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages, ed. by David Badke, [http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manulocshelf.htm] [accessed 14 August 2009]. |
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f. 7
Text page |
f. 7v
Physician |
f. 8
Cautery points |
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f. 8v
Cautery points |
f. 9
Medical procedures |
f. 9v
Surgical procedures |
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ff. 12v-13
Physicians |
f. 12v
Physician |
f. 12v
Physician |
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f. 13
Physician |
f. 13
Physician |
f. 14
Plant |
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f. 14v
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f. 15
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f. 16
Miniature |
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ff. 16v-17
Plant and scorpion |
f. 18
Plant |
ff. 18v-19
Plants |
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f. 18v
Plant |
f. 19
Man and snake |
ff. 19v-20
Plants |
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ff. 20v-21
Plants |
ff. 21v-22
Plants and centaur |
f. 22
Plants |
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ff. 22v-23
Plants |
ff. 22v-23
Plants |
f. 23
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ff. 23v-24
Plants |
f. 23v
Plant |
ff. 24v-25
Plants |
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f. 24v
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ff. 25v-26
Plants and snake |
f. 26
Man spearing a snake |
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ff. 26v-27
Plants |
ff. 27v-28
Plants. |
ff. 28v-29
Plants and centaur |
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f. 29
Centaur |
ff. 29v-30
Plants and man |
f. 30
Plants |
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ff. 30v-31
Plants |
ff. 31v-32
Plants. |
ff. 32v-33
Plants |
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ff. 33v-34
Plants |
f. 33v
Plants |
ff. 34v-35
Plants |
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ff. 35v-36
Plants |
ff. 36v-37
Plants |
ff. 37v-38
Plants |
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ff. 38v-39
Plants |
f. 38v
Plants |
f. 39
Plants |
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ff. 39v-40
Plants |
ff. 40v-41
Plants |
ff. 41v-42
Plants |
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ff. 42v-43
Plants |
ff. 43v-44
Plants |
ff. 44v-45
Plants |
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f. 44v
Plant |
f. 45
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ff. 45v-46
Plants and man |
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ff. 46v-47
Plants |
ff. 47v-48
Plants |
ff. 48v-49
Plants |
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f. 48v
Plants |
f. 49
Plant |
ff. 49v-50
Plants |
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ff. 50v-51
Plants and dragon |
ff. 51v-52
Plants |
f. 51v
Plants |
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ff. 52v-53
Plants |
ff. 53v-54
Plants |
ff. 54v-55
Plants |
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ff. 55v-56
Plants |
f. 57
Mandrake |
ff. 57v-58
Plants and animal |
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ff. 62v-63
Deer and plants |
ff. 64v-65
Fox and deer |
f. 64v
Fox |
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ff. 65v-66
Boar and animals |
ff. 66v-67
Lions and bull |
ff. 67v-68
Elephant and dog |
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f. 68v
Horse |
f. 68v
Horse |
f. 69
Horse |
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f. 69
Horse |
f. 69v
Horse |
f. 70v
Sheep and goat |
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f. 72v
Urination |
f. 74
Animals |
ff. 74v-75
Animals and birds |
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ff. 75v-76
Birds |
ff. 76v-77
Chickens |
f. 77
Bird |
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f. 78
Bird |
f. 78v
Birds |
ff. 82v-83
Plants |
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ff. 83v-84
Plants |
ff. 84v-85
Plants |
ff. 85v-86
Plants |
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ff. 86v-87
Plants |
ff. 87v-88
Plant |
ff. 88v-89
Plants |
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ff. 89v-90
Plants |
ff. 90v-91
Plants |
f. 90v
Plant |
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ff. 91v-92
Plants |
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