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Detailed record for Egerton 845
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-8v |
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| Author |
Johannes de Sacro Bosco |
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| Title |
Tractatus de sphaera |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
last quarter of the 13th century or 1st half of the 14th century |
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| Language |
Latin and English |
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| Script |
Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
Small initials in red or brown. Paraphs in red. Line-fillers in brown and red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
200 x 140 (165 x 125 ( in two columns) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 9-13v |
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| Title |
Astronomical treatise, fragment |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
first half of the 14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
Small initial in red with blue penwork decoration (f. 9). Small intials in red or blue. Highlighting of letters in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
180 x 130 (140 x 75) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 14-21v |
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| Title |
Alchemical treatise and diagrams, fragmentary, English verse on alchemy (f. 16v) |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
1st half of the 16th century |
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| Language |
Latin and English |
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| Script |
Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
Drawings or diagrams in ink, some with a brown wash, one with a green, blue, and brown wash (f. 21v), some unfinished (ff. 14v-16, 17, 17v, 19v, 21v). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
Various |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 21 ( + 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 8 unfoliated paper leaves after ff. 8 and 13)+ |
| Form |
Parchment and paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Trinity College, Cambridge: ff. 9-13v part of its MS O.7.2 (see Winstanley and Hunt).
James Orchard Halliwell-[Phillipps] (b. 1820, d. 1889), antiquary and literary scholar: inscription 'No. 68 J. O. Halliwell 1838' (f. 1); 'No. 120' (f. 9); 'J. O. Halliwell 1838 No. 202' (f. 14); catalogued for sale, 27 June 1840, lot 134, but withdrawn, along with the other manuscripts, all but one of which were sold en bloc to Rodd in July 1840 for £50: see Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman, ‘Phillipps, James Orchard Halliwell- (1820-1889)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006].
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller; bought from him by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for 10s, along with 32 other manuscripts formerly owned by Halliwell-Phillipps, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Notes |
f. 20 is the verso of f. 21, folded up.
Part 2 (ff. 9-13v) was originally part of the same volume as Egerton MS. 851 and Trinity College Cambridge MS. O.7.2. |
| Select bibliography |
List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), 1840, p. 19.
D. A. Winstanley and R. W. Hunt, 'Halliwell Phillipps and Trinity College Library', The Library, 5th series, 2 (1947-48), 250-82 (pp. 258, 279-81).
W. L. Braekman, Studies on Alchemy, Diet, Medecine [sic] and Prognostication in Middle English, Scripta, Mediaeval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 22 (Brussels: Scripta, 1986), p. 17. |
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Part 1
ff. 1-8v |
| Johannes de Sacro Bosco Tractatus de sphaera |
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f. 15
The world |
f. 15
The world |
f. 19v
Diagram |
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f. 21
Diagram |
f. 21v
Constellations |
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Part 3
ff. 14-21v |
| Alchemical treatise and diagrams, fragmentary, English verse on alchemy (f. 16v) |
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