MS. Radcliffe Trust d. 5
Summary Catalogue no.: 51842
Contents
Medical advice and recipes prescribed for a sick prince with an Auvergne title, perhaps the Dauphin or a duc de Bourbon, in the form of a four-part treatise.
Part 1
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
33–38 long lines, with only the bounding lines ruled, in hard point
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.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
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'.
Transferred from the Radcliffe Science Libary, 1928.
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.