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Detailed record for Egerton 2572
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| Part 1 |
ff. 5-43v; 54-70v |
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| Title |
Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York, including its ordinances |
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| Origin |
England, N. (York?) |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 16th century, with additions until 1786 |
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| Language |
English and Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic; Gothic cursive |
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| Decoration |
15 large miniatures in colours, of heraldry and portrait busts of English sovereigns from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (ff. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) with additions of various dates, including some added on panels, of sovereigns to George III (ff. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24), each covered by a green silk curtain. Diagram in black and red (f. 54). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 190 (180 x 120) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 44-53 |
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| Title |
Calendar, diagrams; medical texts |
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| Origin |
England (N., York?) |
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| Date |
last quarter of the 15th century (1486?) |
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| Language |
Latin and English |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
Full-page drawing in brown ink of a vein man (f. 50). Full-page drawing in brown ink with colour washes of a zodiac man (f. 50v). Full-page volvelle with movable parts with figures, in ink with colours and gold (f. 51). Full-page drawings of figures in ink with colours (f. 51v). Large 'KL' letters in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials in red or blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Diagrams in brown and red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 195 (180 x 120) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 124 ( 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + an unfoliated paper leaf after f. 114 and 12 after f. 118 + an unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 16 + 7 after f. 34) |
| Form |
Parchment and paper codex. |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown suede, extensively repaired, 10 June 1774 according to a note on f. 111v,, rebacked 1923, with metal clasps; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
The Guild of the Barber Surgeons of York, made in 1486: inscription, a later copy of an earlier colophon (f. 5); its arms, crest, supporters and motto (f. 6); numerous later dated inscriptions and signatures of members from 1645 to 1780 (ff. 70v-124v); inscriptions and table of contents (ff. 1v-4).
E. M. Alexander: inscription in gold 'This Book came into the possession of Mr. E. M. Alexander by purchase A.D. 1817' (f. 34v).
W. H. Richardson; bought by the British Museum on 9 April, 1881, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), no. Eg. 2572.
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5, 2 parts bound together (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), with Thomas Herndon, Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, no. 39.
Margaret C. Barnet, 'The Barber-Surgeons of York', Medical History, 12 (1968), 19-30 (pp. 21, 23-24).
Rossell Hope Robbins, 'Medical Manuscripts in Middle English' Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, 45 (1970), 393-415 (pp. 398, 402-03).
T. S. Pattie, Astrology as Illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum (London: British Library, 1980), p. 31, pls 8, cover
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), fig. 30.
John E. Murdoch, Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by I. B. Cohen (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984), no. 265.
Irma Taavitsainen, 'The Identification of Middle English Lunary MSS', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 88 (1987), 18-26 (p. 25).
Irma Taavitsainen, 'A Zodiacal Lunary for Medical Professionals', in Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England, ed. by Lister M. Matheson, Medieval Texts and Studies, 11 (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1994), pp. 283-300 (pp. 283-91, pl. 4).
John B. Friedman, Northern English Book Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 245.
Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1995), p. 132 n. 24, pl. on pp. 66, 131.
Peter Whitfield, The Mapping of the Heavens (London: British Library, 1995), pl. on p. 58.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, no.139 [with additional bibliography].
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd ed. (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 55-57, fig. 48.
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 54-55, pl. 45.
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), 481-509 (p. 487).
Peter Murray Jones, ‘Image, Word, and Medicine in the Middle Ages’, in Visualising Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550, ed. by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, 5 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 1-24 (p. 11). |
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Part 1
ff. 5-43v; 54-70v |
| Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York, including its ordinances |
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f. 6
Arms |
f. 7
Henry VII |
f. 8
Henry VIII |
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f. 9
Edward VI |
f. 10
Queen Mary |
f. 11
Elizabeth I |
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f. 12
James I |
f. 13
Charles I |
f. 14
Charles II |
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f. 18
Queen Anne |
f. 20
George I |
f. 22
George II |
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f. 24
George III |
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Part 2
ff. 44-53 |
| Calendar, diagrams; medical texts |
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f. 48
September |
f. 49
November |
f. 49v
December |
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f. 50
Vein man |
f. 50v
Zodiac man |
ff. 50v-51
Zodiac man; volvelle |
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f. 51
Volvelle |
f. 51v
The Four Humours |
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