Merton College MS. 220
Former shelfmark: N. 3. 3
ARTICELLA &c.; S. XIV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fol. 1 blank. Fols. 1v-2v are covered with writing, faint to very faint, in anglicana hands little later than the main text. The main one annotates throughout. Apparently a copy of a medical text; chapters ‘de alimentis’ are referred to on fol. 2. On fol. 2v is a table of contents, s. xv.
Ed. D. Garcia and J. L. Vidal, Asclepio 26–7 (1974–5), 267–382
eTK 0856F eTK 1352IPr. as part of the Articella, Padua 1476 &c..
eTK 0393LPr. Venice 1483 &c.
eTK 0764KOn the rest of fol. 11v, and fol. 12rv, originally blank, are additions in an anglicana hand, s. xiv ex.: subject-indexes to arts 5 and 8, in 4 cols; notes on art. 5.
HIPPOCRATES, Prognostica, with the commentary of GALEN, transl. CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN
, ,Pr. as part of the Articella, Padua 1476 &c.; text eTK 1002B, ; this copy Hippocrates Latinus 210.
At the foot of fol. 28 are verses ‘Vis leuitas sensus mens sompnus spiritus uirtus’ (WIC 20631).
HIPPOCRATES, Aphorismi, with the commentary of GALEN, transl. CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN
, ,Text and comm. pr. as part of the Articella, Padua 1476 &c.; text eTK 1704J, , 0828F, , this copy Hippocrates Latinus 56; comm. eTK 1055C, ; Hippocrates Latinus 39–40.
Pr. Venice 1497, fols. 149v-151, &c.
eTK 0824A eTK 0481DDe Regimine Acutorum Morborum, with the commentary of GALEN, transl. GERARD OF CREMONA
, ,Text and commentary pr. Articella, Padua 1476, &c.; text eTK 1205K, , Hippocrates Latinus 7–18, not this copy; comm. eTK 0660A.
GALEN, Tegni, with the commentary of ALI IBN RODHAN (HALY ABBAS), transl. GERARD OF CREMONA
, ,On fol. 156 the commentary (on cc. 216–231) concludes ‘et ista sunt nomina librorum eius in quibus docuit artem medicine scilicet expositionem et determinacionem ... sed quod magis completum est. Explicit tegni G. cum commento. H.
Text pr. as part of the Articella, Venice 1487; eTK 0757H, 1585J, ; commentary pr. as part of the Articella, Venice 1483, fols. 157–210 (GW 2679); eTK 0700J, 0757H.
GILES OF CORBEIL, De Vrinis, glossed by GILBERTUS ANGLICUS
, ,Text ed. L. Choulant (Leipzig, 1826), pp. 4–18; WIC 4432; eTK 0422D; Wickersheimer 196–7; commentary eTK 1483B, 1588F.
Followed by medical verses, beg. ‘Ista calore uigent tria salsus amarus acutus’.
At the end is an explanatory rubric: ‘Primus numerus est numerus ordinis M’ Nicholai. 2us numerus est numerus ordinis Ypocratis intitulata in 3º ordine qui est ordo librorum Ypocratis in Afforismis.’ Written apparently in the same hand as fols. 175–7.
Tingewick (BRUO 1877) was at Oxford University c. 1292–1305, physician to Edward I by 1306, d. by Feb. 1339; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 393.
Fols. 177v-9v are covered with notes as at the beginning. In this case they are quaestiones on medical topics.
The book is copiously annotated throughout in various anglicana hands, mostly s. xiv in.-med.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols for 71 lines of gloss (or 36 when only text fills the page, as art. 6). The text is set against the left hand margins, in blocks occupying part or the whole width of a col., in larger script on alternate lines.
Hand(s)
Probably a single English gothic rotunda bookhand throughout. The additions are all in anglicana hands, little later than the main text.
Decoration
Large and handsome red and blue flourished initials; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; plain red or blue initials and paraphs; occasional highlighting in red.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, rebacked; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. iii and 180 are modern paper blanks; fols. i-ii, 181–2 are s. xvii, fols. i and 182 from the same printed book as in MS 117. Near the foot of fol. 179v is the mark of the large iron chain-staple. Fol. 1 was pasted down in an earlier binding, which probably had an iron chain-staple near the foot of the foredge. Marks on the first and last leaves suggests the presence of two straps on earlier covers.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Probably made at Oxford, and perhaps owned and annotated by Nicholas Tingewick.
At the College beforec.1500; seen there by John Bale (Appendix C, no. 9). Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents and ‘P. 2. 3 Art:’, s. xvii; the same or a similar hand writes some of the contents onto the turn-in and board. Also the College bookplate, and another paper slip with the shelf-mark s. xvii, canc. and ‘No. CCXX N. 3. 3’ in red. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge.
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College .
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-08-01: First online publication