Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.226

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.226
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.226
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.226
    • Wellcome Library, MS.226
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • Early 15th Century
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 70 leaves folio. 29 x 20 cm. On vellum. The first leaf, and the end, are missing; lower margins badly cockled, with loss of text.

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  • Henry Daniel, Liber uricrisiarum, in English

    Written in an upright formal hand; 36 lines to a page. On f. 55r is an unfinished pen-drawn diagram of the geocentric universe.

    Contents

    1. ff. 1r-70v Henry Daniel, Liber uricrisiarum, in English, prologue and end wanting (ends with part of the eighth chapter of the second book).

    f. 1r The firste boke. The firste chapiture. [U]ryne ys as mekyll to say yn ynglysche as on yn the Reynys. Reynys frenche Renes latyn lendys in englysche ... f. 70v ... eucomia yt seth gude dygestione or ellis mene And the ...

  • Anglo-Saxon letter forms in Moorat's catalogue description (such as contraction marks and thorn and yogh symbols) have been replaced with Latin characters.
  • In the lower margin of the last leaf verso, 'Iste liber constat Ricardo Burton Vicario Lancastrie'. According to the entry in the Sotheby's sale catalogue, Richard Burton became Vicar of Lancaster in 1466.
  • Purchased at Sotheby's 5/6/1929, Lot 538.

Bibliography

  • Bibliography

    Eimas, Richard. Heirs of Hippocrates: the development of medicine in a catalogue of historic books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1990), p. 57.

    Hanna, Ralph. The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist I: Manuscripts in the Henry E. Huntington Library (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), p. 33.

    Tavormina, M. Teresa. Uroscopy in Middle English: a Guide to the Texts and Manuscripts (University of Michigan Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 2014), p. 90.

    Jasin, Joanne. 'A Critical Edition of the Middle English Liber uricrisiarum in Wellcome MS 225', (Unpublished PhD thesis, Tulane University, 1983).

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