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Detailed record for Sloane 1977
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| ff. 1-46v |
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| Author |
Roger Frugardi of Salerno |
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| Title |
Chirurgia |
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| ff. 48-135v |
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| Author |
Mattheus Platearius, translated into French |
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| Title |
Circa instans |
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| ff. 136-144 |
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| Title |
Livre de Cyrurgie … Les Ordonements des Galen et Ypocras |
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| Origin |
France, N. (Amiens) |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
16 full-page miniatures in three registers in colours and with some gold backgrounds and details in the upper registers (ff. 2-9v). 2 3-sided borders in colours and gold with animals and foliage (ff. 1, 1v). 1 large miniature in colours and gold (f. 1). 1 small miniature in colours and gold (f. 46v). 1 historiated initial in colours on a gold background (f. 1). 1 large initial in colours on gold grounds (f. 1v). 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red with red and blue pen-flourishing forming a partial border (f. 10). Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small simple initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red. Line-fillers in blue and red. Highlighting of letters in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 160 (160 x 110) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 144 (+ 47* + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1957; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliothecae Sloaniana' (f. ii); contents note of Sloane library pasted onto paper flyleaf, with 'N. 234' cancelled, and 'XIV E' (f. i).
Former shelfmarks (?): 'Min. 234' overwritten '156', cancelled (f. ii); 'MS 1830', cancelled (f. ii); and 'No. 711' (f. 1).
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Notes |
f. i is a paper flyleaf; f. ii is a parchment flyleaf. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 1900-1993 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 1977 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 1900-1993 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 1977 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
[George Warner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series I, (London: British Museum, 1907), pl. 21.
Georg Graf Vitzthum, Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei von der Zeit des Hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei in Nordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907), p. 151.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), pp. 195-96, pl. 27.
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. 19-33.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 1, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. xxi.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 44.
Eric G. Millar, Souvenir de l'exposition de manuscrits français à peintures organisée la Grenville Library (British Museum) en janviers-mars 1932 (Paris, 1933), pp. 24-25.
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5, 2 parts bound together (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), Part I, Early Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, nos 65, 76, 94, figs 65, 76, 94; with Thomas Herndon, Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, no. 86.85.
Mario Tabanell, 'La chirurgia Italiana nell-alto medioevo', Rivista di storia della scienze mediche e naturali, 15 (Florence: Olschki, 1965), p. 15, pls I, II.
Robert Herrlinger, History of Medical Illustration from Antiquity to A. D. 1600 (Nijkerk: Pitman Medical & Scientific Publishing, 1970), pp. 33-34, 39 pl. XVI.
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals (New York: Dover Publications, 1971, repr. of Longmans, Green, 1922), p. 191.
Marie Farquhar Montpetit, 'Catalogue', in Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, The National Gallery of Canada, 1972 (Ottowa: National Gallery, 1972), pp. 71-175 (p. 86).
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190-1250, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, p. 127.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), pp. 19, 63-65, 91, 103-07, figs 25, 40, 46-47, pl. IX.
Patricia Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1990), p. 117, fig. 64.
Tony Hunt, Anglo-Norman Medicine (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994- ), I: Roger Frugard’s Chirurgia, The Practica Brevis of Platearius, pp. 11-13.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first publ. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), pp. 50-51, 73, 84-86, figs 42, 65, 75, 76, 78.
Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1995), pl. on frontispiece, pp. 52, 157.
Joseph L. Henderson and Dyane N. Sherwood, Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis (Hove: Brunner-Routledge, 2003), fig. 8.
James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives, preface by David Starkey (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 9.
Alixe Bovey, Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health (London: Sam Fogg, 2005), p. 15, fig. 2.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), pg. 21.
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. 13).
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 88-89, pl. 47.
Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, Part 1, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), vol 1: pp. 24, 38-9, figs. 715-719, col. pl. 66; vol. 2: no. III-112 [with additional bibliography].
Karl Whittington, 'Picturing Christ as Surgeon and Patient in British Library MS Sloane 1977', Mediaevalia, 35 (2014), 83-115. |
| Last revised: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
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ff. 1-46v |
| Roger Frugardi of Salerno Chirurgia |
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ff. 1v-2
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
f. 2
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
f. 2
Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity |
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f. 2
Cranial operation |
f. 2
Cranial operation |
f. 2v
Detail |
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f. 3
Detail |
f. 3v
Detail |
f. 5
Detail |
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f. 5
Detail |
f. 5
Detail |
f. 6
Detail |
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f. 7
Detail |
f. 7
Detail |
f. 7
Detail |
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f. 7
Detail |
ff. 7v-8
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
f. 7v
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
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f. 7v
Life of Christ |
f. 7v
Diseases |
f. 7v
Detail |
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f. 7v
Detail |
f. 8
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
f. 8
Easter Scenes |
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f. 8
Diseases |
f. 9
Detail |
ff. 9v-10
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
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f. 9v
Life of Christ; Surgical procedures |
f. 9v
Detail |
f. 9v
Detail |
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f. 10
Puzzle initial |
f. 47v
Detail |
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ff. 48-135v |
| Mattheus Platearius, translated into French Circa instans |
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f. 48
Detail |
ff. 49v-50
Apothecary shop; Consultations |
f. 49v
Apothecary shop |
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f. 49v
Detail |
f. 50
Medical consultations |
f. 50
Detail |
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f. 50
Surgical treatments |
f. 50
Detail |
f. 50v
Treatments |
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f. 50v
Detail |
f. 50v
Detail |
f. 50v
Detail |
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f. 51
Surgical treatments |
f. 51
Detail |
f. 51
Detail |
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f. 51v
Medical treatments |
f. 51v
Detail |
f. 51v
Detail |
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