Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of a cönk, a mecmū'a of folkloric poetry, containing ilahis (hymns), nefes (mystical poems), gazels, masnavis, and excerpts of Sufi mystical poets, written in several hands. Poets excerpted include Ahmedî, Pir Abdal (پير ابدال), Yunus Emre (يونس امري), Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rûmî (أشرف أوغلو عبد الله الرومي), Âşık Viranî (ويرانى), Ismāʻīl I, Shah of Iran (Hatayî/خطايي), and Sezaî (سزائيى). Some pages blank
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish., Title assigned by cataloger. Title at head of table of contents, indicating the maqams: Fihrist-i maḳāmāt-ı be ḳavl-i [...] (...فهرس مقامات بقول)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 10-20 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'liq., Binding: Gold-tooled central mandorla and frames over brown leather on paper pasteboard on covers, cloth tape spine., Decoration: Illuminated gold headpiece and frame on opening folio; text frames in green, writing surface painted silver; rubrication., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands (f. ia): 'Alī (علي), Aliağa (علي اغا), Ḥasan (حسن), Ḥüseyin (حسين), Allāh (الله), Muḥammed (محمد).
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Masnavis, Turkish, and Turkish poetry
Manuscript (incomplete) on paper and parchment of Philomena, a treatise on surgery written by John Bradmore, here in Middle English translation. Text discusses anatomy, apostumes (abscesses), wounds and ulcers, fractures and dislocations, other diseases treatable by surgery, and includes an antidotary and a summary of contents. Book I on anatomy and the opening of book II on surgery are wanting; another leaf wanting between fols. 59 and 60. Present manuscript begins in book II, chapter 4. Includes an account of how Bradmore saved the life of the young Prince of Wales (Prince Hal, the future King Henry V) after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and Also includes a short text on bloodletting, fols. 85r-87v; an unidentified "tretys of mynd," about mind and memory, fols. 234r-239r; and recipes for ointments, plasters, etc., ending imperfectly, fols. 239v-241v
Description:
John Bradmore (d. 1412) was a surgeon based in London from at least 1377. He was appointed an overseer of surgery in the City of London by the mayor in 1390. From at least 1399 he was associated with the royal household. Bradmore married twice, first to Margaret, with whom he had a daughter named Agnes, and second to Katherine. John Bradmore died on 27 January 1412 and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate., In Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 14-28 lines., Script: several secretary hands., Binding: modern blind-tooled morocco., Secundo folio: Plaster., Leaves are foliated in a modern hand starting with the first leaf as fol. 3, the second as fol. 4, and so on. This modern foliation is followed here., and Bibliographical file available.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Name):
Bradmore, John. and Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
