Henricus Amici, Johannes Burgeon — 15th century, middle; French (?)
MS. Radcliffe Trust. d. 5
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Henricus Amici, Johannes Burgeon — 15th century, middle; French (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Radcliffe Trust. d. 5
Date
15th century, middle
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper, watermark hand with cuff cut in heart-shapes, similar to Briquet 11096–7 (1436, 1439), a pattern designated by Briquet as 'prov. française, région du midi'.
Physical extent
iv + 27 leaves (fols. i-iii, 13–27 are 19th-cent. flyleaves and padding, fol. iv is a medieval flyleaf)
Binding
Early 19th-century binding (German?) of marbled paper over pasteboards, with the title written in ink on a rectangular label of blue paper on the front cover; the leather spine (bearing the title lengthwise in gilt capitals), the pastedowns, flyleaves and padding were probably added later in the 19th century in England.
Acquisition
Transferred from the Radcliffe Science Libary, 1928.
Provenance
Fol. 1 is marked with a parchment tab stuck on the outer edge, suggesting that the item was once part of a larger volume.
(fol. iv verso) 'NB si tibi defuerint medici medici tibi fiant haec tria. mens laeta, requies, tenuisque dieta' (15th cent.).
Dr. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss of Frankfurt am Main (1787–1854), printed bookplate, front pastedown.
His sale, Sotheby's, 7 May onwards 1835, lot 4539.
Front pastedown, clipping from a mid 19th-century English bookseller's catalogue, advertising the MS. as item 211 at 4s. (probably Thomas Rodd's catalogue of 1841, cf. MSS. Radcliffe Trust f. 1 [item 210], e. 4 [585], e. 30 [584] and others).
19th-century pencil annotations: 'Car' (?) (fol. iv recto, bottom edge); '30/' (fol. iv verso, lower right corner); '41' (fol. 1, bottom centre margin); 'R' (?) (fol. 12v, bottom centre margin).
'Radcliffe Library Oxford, University Museum' (round blue stamp, fol. iv; pencil shelf-marks on front pastedown 'G.161.J.1', '84 a 1'.
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Title
Regimen preservativum ab iniqua valitudine gutte
Shelfmark
MS. Radcliffe Trust. d. 5
Summary
'Regimen preservativum ab iniqua valitudine gutte', by Henricus Amici and Johannes Burgeon, prescribed for a French prince, mid-15th century
Date
mid-15th century
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Papers relating to the Radcliffe Library and Radcliffe Science Library
Radcliffe Trust manuscripts and collections acquired by the Radcliffe Library
Miscellanous collections acquired by the Library
Regimen preservativum ab iniqua valitudine gutte
