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Darrera modificació: 2021-08-23
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Chardonnens, László Sándor - Kienhorst, Hans, "Newly discovered notebooks of a sixteenth-century flemish astrologer physician", Queeste, 25/1 (2018), 1-31.
- Resum
- The manuscript introduced in this article is a hitherto unknown composite volume containing Dutch practical science, which is now part of Oxford, bod, ms Ashmole 189. The manuscript consists of 85 folios of astrology and medicine in Flemish and Latin, spread across five notebooks and a single leaf that were produced by a single scribe. The scribe organised the units by topic and worked on them in separate stints. Codicological and textual evidence suggests that he was active in the 1520s and 1530s, and the dialect of the texts points at a Flemish astrologer physician. The units subsequently came into the possession of another person, who added a few items in Flemish in the 1540s or 1550s. What makes the Flemish part of ms Ashmole 189 such a valuable addition to the manuscripts of Dutch practical science is the fact that it consists of booklets of private working papers that are unlike the more carefully constructed medical and astrological compendia known from late medieval Dutch sources, such as the Vienna codex and hs. Hattem C5. The six units, in fact, are thematically organised units that would have been meaningful primarily to the person that copied them, without any claim to long-term significance. Even so, these private notebooks circulated in Flanders for some time before they eventually ended up in the collection of Elias Ashmole, where they were bound together with English practical science, only to be wrongly identified as German in all descriptive catalogues since 1698. This oversight has been corrected with the publication of the present article.
- Matèries
- Manuscrits
Astronomia i astrologia
Medicina
Llatí
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/38126841/Newly_Discovered_ ...
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