Ars medicinae (Articella); France or Germany, 13th century, end

Title

Ars medicinae (Articella); France or Germany, 13th century, end

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 106

Place of origin

France or Germany

Date

13th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (paper) + i (parchment) + 255 + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves

Hands

Textualis

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 560)

Red or blue initials, flourished in the other colour

Running headings in alternating red and blue capitals, red rubrics.

Fols. 250r-255v: spaces for initials unfilled.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Localized to France by Pächt and Alexander, to Germany by Hunt (annotations to the Quarto catalogue).

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: mark of the chain staple of the libraria maior on fol. 255 (cf. N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), 182-3); identifiable as as P3, P7 or P12 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502 (the entries are too summary to allow further identification): Palmer, Zisterzienser, 248, without reference to the present manuscript.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Title

Ars medicine collection, with assorted medical texts

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 106

Date

13th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

255 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2706 acquired by the Bodleian Library