VMs: Rylands Latin MS 228...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi GC,

Please accept my apologies - when you mentioned Rylands Latin MS 228 
before, I (wrongly) assumed that it was held at either the British Library 
or the Wellcome Institute Library, but that I would (in time) overcome my 
inability to find it in their on-line catalogues.

However, the web-reference to it comes from an exhibition on English herbal 
culture held at John Rylands Library, Manchester University (having 
graduated from there myself, I really should have picked up on the 
connection before now, d'oh!) - and it's clear that it's the same place 
where Rylands Latin MS 228 is held.

Herbal exhibition homepage:-
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/exhibition/herbs/

Herbal exhibition page containing reference to Rylands MS 228:-
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/exhibition/herbs/cult.html

John Rylands Library's visitors details:-
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcollcat/spghome.htm

The home page for the John Rylands Library Latin MS collection:-
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data2/spcoll/latin/

I guess you'd have to contact the manuscript librarians/curators there if 
you want to find out more about this Ms.

Finally: a nice page on Michael Scot's (supposed) Magic Book (actually 
dating from the 16th Century, and wrongly attributed to Michael Scot), held 
at John Rylands. Curiously, the "sham Arabic" text (in the first diagram) 
looks like a badly Europeanised version of siyaqat - if I didn't know 
better, I'd say it was either written in a cipher or hoaxed by Edward Kelly 
(sounds familiar?). I wonder if there's a transcription of this anywhere... :-)
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data2/spcoll/latin/scot.html

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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