Shelfmark
MS 132
Author
Title
Galenus. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Galeni quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
France?, ca. 1250-ca. 1300.
Physical description
1 volume (iii, 285, iv leaves) : parchment, illustrated ; 27 x 19 cm.
Note
A collection of works by or attributed to Galen in the Latin of various translators.
Note
See contents note for a summary of the texts contained in this manuscript; see Ker as cited in the references below for details.
Note
According to Ker, Thorndike and Kibre (A catalogue of incipits of medieval scientific writings in Latin, 2nd ed., 1963) give references to similar collections in Montpellier 18, Paris University 125, and other manuscripts and to the printed editions of 1490 and 1515. All but two of the same texts are found in Peterhouse College, Cambridge, MS 33 and Edinburgh University Library, MS 166; other MSS with some of the same texts in the same order are Vatican, Pal. lat. 1094 and Chartres 284.
Note
The scribe began on f. 1 but wrote only one column there and began again on a slightly larger scale on f. 2; f. 1v was left blank until a table of contents was added in the 15th century (reproduced in M. R. James's Descriptive catalogue).
Note
Folios 188v-190v were left blank; additions were made in the late 13th/early 14th century, described by M. R. James as two pages of 'sortes' with accompanying diagrams, mainly wheels of 12 divisions each headed with the name of a region (the names apparently derived from an oriental source), with the oracles appertaining to each given below. These are described in greater detail in Ker, who relates them to the Prognosticon Socratis Basilei. This copy is noted by R. Vaughan, Matthew Paris, p. 258.
Note
Folio 258rv is blank and without ruling.
Note
Further late 13th/early 14th-century addition on ff. 284v-285 related to Apollonius, Ars notoria, and a 14th-century addition on f. 285v related to John of Parma, De medicinis simplicibus.
Note
Running titles in red by a careless writer who misunderstood the still visible pencilled instrustions; usually more or less full on their first occurrence and by first letters afterwards.
Note
Written space: 178 x 120 mm.
Note
Two columns of 51-53 lines (ff. 259-270: 45 lines).
Note
Collation: 1-14¹² 15¹⁴ 16⁸ (ff. 183-190) 17⁸ 18-21¹² 22⁸ 23⁴ (ff. 255-258) 24-25⁸ 26¹² wants 12 after f. 285, except for a narrow strip.
Note
The first line of writing below the top line.
Note
Written in several small hands, expert, but not easily legible.
Note
Initials in pink or blue patterned in white on decorated coloured grounds; some animal heads in the decoration and on ff. 237 and 269, a dog and a hare; 2-line initials in blue or red with ornament of the other colour.
Note
Secundo folio: quod omne.
Note
Rebound at Eton by Williamson in 1608-9.
Note
Written probably in France; with 15th-century marginalia in an English hand.
Note
At Eton by 1465; see provenance note below.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.4.5.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Formatted contents note
Partial contents: [1] De criticis diebus (ff. 2-19) -- [2] De crisi (ff. 19-40v) -- [3] De accidenti et morbo (ff. 41-56v) -- [4] De interioribus (ff. 56v-83v) -- [5] Metategni (ff. 83v-110) -- [6] De ingenio sanitatis [books 1-13 and part of book 14] (ff. 110-160) -- [7] De tactu pulsus (ff. 160-163) -- [8] De utilitate pulsus (ff. 163-165) -- [9] De motibus liquidis (ff. 165-168v) -- [10] De voce et anelitu (ff. 168v-170) -- [11] Anatomia vivorum (ff. 170-179v) -- [12] De secretis (ff. 179v-184) -- [13] De spermate (ff. 184-188) -- [14] [Late 13th/early 14th-century additions] (ff. 188-190v) -- [15] De simplici medicina [books 1-5 only] (ff. 191-235) -- [16] De malicia complexionis diverse (ff. 235-237) -- [17] De iuvamentis membrorum (ff. 237-257v) -- [18] De elementis (ff. 259-269) -- [19] De complexionibus (ff. 269-284) -- [20] [Late 13th/14th century additions] (ff. 284v-285v).
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 752-754
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 132
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 46
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 132
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; 2162
Provenance
Listed as item no. xxxiii in the Eton inventory of 1465: "Item a boke of Fesyke ii fo. quod omne". See M. R. James in Etoniana, ser. 1, no. 28 (1921), p. 444.
Binding
Early 17th century English calf binding by Williamson, blind tooled with 'Herculis and Vena' roll.
Subject
Subject
Prognosticon Socratis basilei Manuscripts.
Subject
Medicine, Ancient Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--place
France.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B50089