Shelfmark
MS 127
Title
Articella, etc. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Medica quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
France?, ca. 1275-ca. 1300.
Physical description
1 volume (v, 265, 5 leaves) : parchment, initials ; 34.3 x 24.3 cm.
Note
Comprises the seven texts forming an Ars Medicinae which circulated together in the Middle Ages and were printed as Articella, ca. 1476 (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendruck, 2678) and later.
Note
Four of the texts ([4]-[7]) are accompanied here by commentaries; cf. the similar 'Articella' manuscript in the Wellcome Library.
Note
The texts are: [1] Johannitius, Isagoge (ff. 1-7) ; [2] Philaretus, De pulsibus (ff. 7v-9) ; Theophilus, De urinis (ff. 9v-14) ; [4] Hippocrates, Aphorismi, in seven 'particulae', in the translation of Constantinus Africanus, with Galen's commentary (ff. 16-80) ; [5] Hippocrates, Prognostica, with Galen's commentary, in the translation of Gerard of Cremona (ff. 81-125) ; [6] Hippocrates, Regimen acutarum, with Galen's commentary (ff. 126-175) ; Galen, Ars parva, with commentary of Hali Abnrudianus (ff. 176-265v).
Note
Some pages left blank at the end of the individual texts: ff. 14v-15v, 80v, 125v, and 175v.
Note
A piece of the text in text [4] was left out on f. 79 and added on f. 80 in a slightly later hand.
Note
Medical notes and verses on the flyleaves (ff. iii-v verso, ff. 266v-276) and in a blank space at the end of the text of Theophilus (ff. 14v-15), in two 14th-century English hands. These include a medical dictionary, A-E on ff. iii verso-v verso and ff. 14v-15 with references to authorities including 'Parysiensis', 'Petrus de yspania', Avicenna, Isidore, Averroes, Ysaac, Gilbertus, Gerardus, Cardinalis. See Ker as cited in the references below for identification of the texts.
Note
Fairly numerous marginalia, some of them in the same 14th-century hand that added the medical dictionary; some of the other marginalia are earlier.
Note
Folios iii-v, 266-268 are medieval flyleaves.
Note
The medieval foliation of ff. iii-v, 1-268 '1-18', '22-131', 133-275', followed in M. R. James's catalogue as cited in the references below, takes into account the blank leaves now missing after ff. 15 and 125, as well as the six old flyleaves.
Note
Written space: 207-145 mm.
Note
Written in two columns, of 35 lines in the first three texts, and of 21 lines (text) and 42 lines (commentary) in the other four.
Note
Collation: 1¹⁰ 2⁸ wants 6-8. blank, after f. 15 3-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁸ wants8, blank, after f. 86 10-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁸ wants 8, blank, after f. 125 15-28¹⁰.
Note
A professional-looking piece of writing, with the text in a much larger script than the commentary and spaced so that every other ruled line is blank.
Note
Initials in blue and red with ornament of both colours in saw pattern the height of the written space; 2-line initials in blue or red with ornament of the other colour.
Note
Running titles in blue and red.
Note
Secundo folio: operaciones.
Note
Rebound at Eton in the early 17th century.
Note
Written probably in France and annotated in England in the first half of the 14th century.
Note
Parts of ten Oxford pledge notes, one on f. iii and the rest on f. 268v; all erased or crossed through but some legible under UV light, some legibly dated between 1330 and 1351/[52]. See provenance note and Ker as cited in the references below for legible names and partial transcriptions respectively.
Note
Inscription on f. 268v: "Liber M' Willelmi [....] pro xviii s'".
Note
Inscription on f. 1: "Donum Guilelmi Hormani".
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.3.13.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 746-748
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 127
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 97
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 127
Provenance
In Oxford by ca. 1330 on the basis of the pledge notes described above; names include: Master Thomas Corbet, 'M' Nicholai de Holebourne', 'Iohannis Giffard' [John Giffard], John de Hameldon, 'm' Gregorii Waterden(?)' [Gregory Waterden], 'Magistri Iohannis Nikelyn' [John Nikelyn], 'M' Iohanni de landreyn' [John de Landreyn]. For Nikelyn, see Emden, BRUO, p. 1361 and for Landreyn, see ibid., p. 1090.
Provenance
Given to Eton by William Horman.
Binding
Early 17th century English calf binding by Vincent Williamson.
Subject
Subject
Philaretus De pulsibus
Subject
Theophilos Protospatharios De urinis
Subject
Hippocrates Aphorisms
Subject
Hippocrates Prognostics
Subject
Hippocrates De diaeta acutorum
Subject
Galen Ars medica
Subject
Medicine, Medieval Manuscripts.
Subject
Science, Medieval Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Constantine, ca. 1020 - 1087 the African translator.
Added entry--name
Gherardo, 1113 or 1114 - 1187 da Cremona translator.
Added entry--name
ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān commentator.
Added entry--name
Horman, William, ? - -1535 former owner.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--place
France.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50084