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A mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book containing calendar, tables of solar and lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, and urine wheel.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 10; 357 x 150 mm bound to 200 x 60 mm; Collation: Ten single sheets, folded individually, and bound together on one end
Ruled in red ink; prickings extant; folios folded once in half and twice width-wise to form three columns on each half-sheet; written area: 160 x 140 mm (per half-sheet)
Gothic--anglicana
Large initials decorated in blue, red, and gold; three-line initials in red and blue with pen flourishing; paragraph signs and one-line initials in blue and red or gold throughout; calendars in red and black; tables of eclipses in red and gold (solar) and blue and gold (lunar); anatomical phlebotomy diagram in red and black with veins and conditions indicated in circles; wheel of the 20 urines in colors
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Page dimensions 357 x 150 mm (unfolded); Bound dimensions 200 x 60 mm (folded)
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
York, England
1364
Latin
William A. White, acquired 1927
York, England
1364
Latin
William A. White, acquired 1927
A mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book containing calendar, tables of solar and lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, and urine wheel.
Page dimensions 357 x 150 mm (unfolded); Bound dimensions 200 x 60 mm (folded)
Gothic--anglicana
Large initials decorated in blue, red, and gold; three-line initials in red and blue with pen flourishing; paragraph signs and one-line initials in blue and red or gold throughout; calendars in red and black; tables of eclipses in red and gold (solar) and blue and gold (lunar); anatomical phlebotomy diagram in red and black with veins and conditions indicated in circles; wheel of the 20 urines in colors
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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