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Detailed record for Sloane 2435
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| Author |
Aldobrandino of Siena; Gautier of Metz |
| Title |
Le Régime du corps (ff. 1-75v); Image du monde (ff. 77-133v) |
| Origin |
France, N. (Lille?) |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 13th century (perhaps c. 1285) |
| Language |
French (Walloon dialect) |
| Script |
Gothic, written below top line |
| Decoration |
1 large miniature in colours and gold (f. 1). 12 1-sided borders in colours and gold or with pen-flourishing in red and blue, some with dragons or hybrids (ff. 1, 5, 10v, 15v, 16, 25, 26, 27v, 28v, 55, 69, 122v). Numerous large historiated initials in colours and gold, some also with hybrid creatures. Large initials in colours, some with animal heads, animals, and/or bodies, on gold grounds. Small initials in gold with blue and red penwork decoration. Writing in gold. Line-fillers in red, blue, and gold. Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, and in blue with red pen-flourishing, and small initials in blue or red (ff. 77-78). |
| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 190 (185 x 125/135) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 132 ( + an unfoliated leaf after f. 76 + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown diced leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Bernard of Florence, a note in gold at the beginning states that Aldebrandin made this copy for 'Bernard de Florenche', perhaps a wealthy merchant (see Stones, Gothic manuscripts (2014), p. 301).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana Min: 169' (f. 1).
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Notes |
Instructions for rubricators (ff. 52v-53, 76). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 2268-2496 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 2435 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
W. R. Tymms and M. D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XIII.3.
Louis Landouzy and Roger Pépin, Le Régime du corps de Maitre Aldebrandin de Sienne: Text français du xiiie siécle (Paris: Champion, 1911), pp. xxii, xxxiii.
H. P. Cholmeley, John of Gaddesden and the Rosa Medicinae (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), p. 125.
[Eric G. Millar], British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1928), pl. 20.
Loren MacKinney and Thomas Herndon, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, New Series, 5 (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), nos 56, 86.90.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), pp. 19, 125-26, 132-36, figs 57, 61-63, pl. XI.
Françoise Fery-Hue, ‘Le Régime du corps d’Aldebrandin de Sienne: Tradition manuscrite et diffusion’, in Santé, médecine et assistance au Moyen Âge, Actes du 110e congrès national des sociétés savants, Montpellier, 1985 (Paris: C.T. H. S., 1987), pp. 113-134 (p. 116) .
Patricia Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1990), pp. 116-117, fig. 63.
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), [exhibition catalogue] II, pl. 15.
Michael Camille, 'Manuscript Illumination and the Art of Copulation' Constructing Medieval Sexuality, ed. by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 58-90 (pp. 60-7, 87 ns 8, 15, fig. 4.1.
Michael Camille, The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire (London: Laurence King, 1998), p. 142, pl. 130.
Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1995), pls on pp. 39, 41.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first publ. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), pp. 98, 103-7, figs 90, 95, 97-99.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 73, pls 40, 42.
Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 1260-1320, 4 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2014), I.1: pp. 22, 23, 64, 99 ; I.2: 54, 111, Cat. III.55, pp. 299-302, 487-88, 530 [with additional bibliography] |
| Last revised: 30 November 2005 |
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f. 1
Creation |
f. 1
Creation |
f. 1
Author |
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f. 1
Creation |
f. 7v
Workman with an axe |
f. 8v
Bathing |
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f. 9v
Lovers in bed |
f. 9v
Lovers in bed |
f. 10v
Fiddler |
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f. 11v
Bloodletting |
f. 11v
Bloodletting |
f. 22
Frogs |
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f. 23
Four Seasons |
f. 25
Men |
f. 26
Horseman |
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f. 27v
Pregnancy |
f. 27v
Pregnancy |
f. 28v
Wet-nurse |
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f. 35v
Treatment of ears |
f. 36
Diagnosis |
f. 44v
Wine |
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f. 45v
Vinegar |
f. 46
Man |
f. 47
Bull |
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f. 47v
Ram |
f. 48
Goat |
f. 48v
Bear |
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f. 68
Baskets |
f. 68
Baskets |
f. 85
Cleric, knight and peasant |
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f. 85
Cleric, knight and peasant |
f. 113
Earth |
f. 131v
Text |
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