Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 500
- Source
- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Latin MS 500
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- De corpore et anima
- De complexionum cognitione
- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 28 (i+26+i) Leaf height: 210 mm, width: 150 mm.
Binding:
19th century.
Decoration:
The only space for an initial, folio 1v, is not filled.
Capital letters in the ink of the text touched with red.
The whole manuscript contains drawings of various parts of the body. These are the stomach 4r, the spleen 4v, the liver 5r, blood vessels, kidneys and bladder 6v, heart 8r, lungs 8v, skull 10r, brain 10v, brain ventricles 11r, a full body diagram showing the placement of the organs 13r, and a diagram showing the relationship between understanding, memory, imagination and the five senses 20v .
Acquisition:
Incorporated into the John Rylands Latin collection in 1976, after the merger between the University Library and John Rylands in 1972. The shelfmark 'Latin MS 500' was assigned to this manuscript circa 1997 by Caroline Hull, a researcher at John Rylands, as attested in an unpublished draft handlist made c. 1997.
Layout:
Written space height: 160 mm, width: 80 mm. .
Collation:
Quire 112
Quire 214
Data Source(s):
Description based on Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval Manuscripts Lat. 184 and following (draft) (c. 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Human anatomy--History; Senses and sensation--History
Abstract:
'De corpore et anima' and 'De complexionum cognitione', produced in German-speaking lands in 1497. Contains a number of medical drawings and initials highlighted with red ink. Margins filled with notes in the same hand.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper.
Provenance:
In 1879, the manuscript was gifted by Thomas Windsor (1831-1910), then Honorary Librarian at the Manchester Medical Society, to the Library from his personal collection.
At the Medical Society Library, the manuscript was given the shelfmark O.876 (on the front endleaf), and the Society's stamps were placed on ff. 1r, 7r, 13v, 20r and 26v.
In the Medical Society's 1890 catalogue: ‘Anathomia humani corporis. MS. paper (26 fol.) Saec. xv'.
In 1930, the running of the Medical Society Library was taken over by Manchester University Library, and this is where our manuscript was probably given the shelfmark 'Medical Society AN.1'.
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- Rights
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