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Title

Composite medical miscellany

Other related names

• Mostyn, Thomas (1704–1758), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/68769160/#Mostyn,_Thomas,_Sir,_-1758)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 215
(Philadelphia, United States, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle English (1100-1500)

Origin

Place

England

Notes

• Part 1: Quire 1; Part 2: Quires 2 and 3; Part 3: Quires 4 and 5
   
• Part I: 10 (parchment); Part II: 11 (paper); Part III: 18 (paper); + part of 1 (parchment flyleaf)
   

Watermark

Part II: watermark in the form of a shield bearing three fleurs-de-lis, surmounted by a coronet, and from which is depended a gothic letter "t"(?); similar to Briquet, Filigranes, nos.1739–41, most of which are French; Part III: watermark in the form of a bull's head, perhaps closest to Briquet, Filigranes, no.14232 (Brussels, 1440)

Extent

Part I: 10; Part II: 11; Part III: 18 + part of 1; 215 × 145–50 mm bound to 203 x 160 mm

Foliation

Each section foliated separately in modern pencil, i.e. 1–10, 1–12, 1–18; Parts II and III and back flyleaf additionally foliated in modern pencil, 11–41

Collation

Part 1: 1 (12, -1 -12); Part 2: 2 (8), 3 (8, -1 -6 -7 -8); Part 3: 4 (10), 5 (8)

Support

Mixed

Catchwords

Part II: horizontal inner lower margin; fol.18v

Binding

Medieval parchment; The center of each quire reinforced with a strip cut from a fifteenth-century English (Sarum?) Breviary written in two columns in fine formal gothic script, preserving small parts of the feasts of Sts Fabian & Sebastian (January 20) and Agnes (January 21) between fols. 5–6, 11–12, 21–22, and 36–37 (the strip between fols. 27–28 has no text)

Layout

Part I: two columns typically of 29–31 lines, Prickings survive in the three outer margins; frame-ruled in two columns, the ruled space c.162×112mm, the column-widths variable, and the inner column usually narrower; inner: c. 39–47 mm, outer: c. 54–63mm wide; Part II: 23–27 lines per page, Frame-ruled in pale brown plummet, the ruled space c. 14×88mm; Part III: 23 lines per page, apparently frame-ruled with blind verticals only, the column c. 80–82mm wide, the written space c. 82×125–30 mm

Decoration

Part I: One two-line initial in blue, with red penwork flourishing; paragraph signs alternately red or blue; Part II: two-line initials in plain red; Part III: one two-line initial in dark brown ink highlighted in red (fol. 23r) and a few in plain red

Script

Anglicana

Provenance

• All three parts written by English scribes, presumably in England, although Parts II and III are apparently on imported paper; Inscribed, 15th century, "John Gower(?) of ?wehsgate in the brew? of asdan? debet magister ford xxxxiiij d vj d (?)", "John aly", "festum sancte Stefenis", and "dum finis(?) in mondo [sic] fuit homo missus a deo cui(?)" (cf. John 1:6) (fol.22v); Inscribed, 18th? century, "Aboute" (fol. 1r, lower margin); Sir Thomas Mostyn (1704–1758), 4th Baronet, in his library at Gloddaeth, Carnarvon: in the 1744 Gloddaeth library catalogue no.67 (Daniel Huws, "Sir Thomas Mostyn and the Mostyn Manuscripts", in James P. Carley and Colin G.C. Tite, eds., Books and Collectors 1200–1700: Essays Presented to Andrew Watson (London, 1997), pp. 451–72 at 466 no.19); Mostyn Library; described in the Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: Report and Appendix (London, 1874), p. 351 no.105; Apparently not in the Mostyn Library sale at Sotheby's in 1920, but apparently acquired in the same year by Messrs. J. & J. Leighton, London booksellers, offered to the College for £40 "before cataloguing" in a letter dated October 21, 1920 (see Heffernan, p. 292), and offered publicly in their Catalogue of Interesting and Rare Books, Illuminated & Other Manuscripts …, Part II (New Series, no.II) (London, [1920?]), no.846, priced £45; College Library bookplate, loose inside the front cover, with the accession number "104215", "Fund for Rare Books", and cost "205. 18 "; inscribed in pencil "Leighton" (fol.2r, inner margin); the Accession Register records that it was accessioned on March 22, 1921
   

Related resources

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia by Peter Kidd (http://www.academia.edu/19606281/A_Descriptive_Catalogue_of_the_Medieval_Manuscripts_in_the_Library_of_the_College_of_Physicians_Philadelphia)

Keywords

• Miscellany
• 15th century
• English
• England
• Science -- Medicine

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Bernard of Gordon
• fol. 11r — De regimine sanitatis
• fol. 23r — The Wyse Boke of Maystyr Peers of Salerne