Robert Ashley and the Authorship of Newberry MS 5017, The Book of Magical Charms

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-23 DOI:10.1353/mns.2021.0017

Renae Satterley

{"title":"Robert Ashley and the Authorship of Newberry MS 5017, The Book of Magical Charms","authors":"Renae Satterley","doi":"10.1353/mns.2021.0017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Newberry MS 5017, the Book of Magical Charms, a manuscript miscellany dated no later than 1639. The manuscript formed part of the Newberry Library's crowd-sourcing project to transcribe and translate three of the manuscripts in their exhibition, Religious Change 1450-1700. This article establishes Robert Ashley (1565-1641) as the manuscript's author. Ashley was a lawyer, translator and bibliophile whose bequest of over 5,000 books established the library at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. The article analyses the manuscript's charms, ritual magic, medical recipes and Christian esotericism excerpts to show that they were mainly transcribed from identifiable manuscript sources, with some from printed books. The author draws conclusions, based on Ashley's Ashley’s life, translations and book collection, about the manuscript's purpose and use, situating it within Ashley's library and the information gathering networks centered around the Inns of Court in the early modern period.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"268 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2021.0017","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract:This article examines Newberry MS 5017, the Book of Magical Charms, a manuscript miscellany dated no later than 1639. The manuscript formed part of the Newberry Library's crowd-sourcing project to transcribe and translate three of the manuscripts in their exhibition, Religious Change 1450-1700. This article establishes Robert Ashley (1565-1641) as the manuscript's author. Ashley was a lawyer, translator and bibliophile whose bequest of over 5,000 books established the library at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. The article analyses the manuscript's charms, ritual magic, medical recipes and Christian esotericism excerpts to show that they were mainly transcribed from identifiable manuscript sources, with some from printed books. The author draws conclusions, based on Ashley's Ashley’s life, translations and book collection, about the manuscript's purpose and use, situating it within Ashley's library and the information gathering networks centered around the Inns of Court in the early modern period.

查看原文本刊更多论文

罗伯特·阿什利和纽伯里MS 5017的作者，魔法咒书

摘要:本文研究了纽伯里MS 5017，魔法符咒书，一个不迟于1639年的手稿杂记。这份手稿是纽伯里图书馆众包项目的一部分，该项目是在他们的展览“宗教变化1450-1700”中转录和翻译三份手稿的一部分。这篇文章确定罗伯特·阿什利(1565-1641)是手稿的作者。阿什利是一名律师、翻译家和藏书爱好者，他遗赠了5000多本书，建立了四大法院学院之一的中庙图书馆。本文分析了手稿的符咒、仪式魔法、医药配方和基督教神秘主义节选，表明它们主要来自可识别的手稿来源，其中一些来自印刷书籍。作者根据阿什利的生平、翻译和藏书，将其置于阿什利的图书馆和近现代以法院律师事务所为中心的信息收集网络中，对手稿的目的和用途进行了总结。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

0.30

自引率

0.00%

发文量