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Manuscript of the 'Viaticum' of Constantinus Africanus, from the south of France, later in England

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Manuscript of the 'Viaticum' of Constantinus Africanus, from the south of France, later in England
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Description	The manuscript was written in England in the 12th or 13th century, and contains the prologue and seven books, with a full marginal gloss and occasional interlinear glosses. At the end (folio 99) are notes, 14th century, on the treatment of hair-loss and on rapacious fish (this was originally the second leaf of a bifolium; of the first, probably blank, only a stub remains), and (folio 100) two leaves (turned sideways and folded; the lower half of the first pasted down, the second cut drastically) from a hymnal, 14th century. The manuscript is written by two hands, changing on folio 61; the first is more regular. There were originally large red and blue calligraphic initials at the beginning of each book; however, some of these have been cut out.
Shelfmark	Adv.MS.18.6.8
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Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Manuscripts Written and printed matter > Notes (documents) Written and printed matter > Glosses (annotations)
Dates / events:	1100-1299 [Date created]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England (country) [Place created]
Person / organisation:	Constantine the African (translator of medical treatises), b c 1015 [Compiler] St Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) [Former owner] Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal), 1641-1722 [Former owner]
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