Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

A catalogue of Western manuscripts and papyri at Cambridge University Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and selected Cambridge colleges

Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 95

Medical Texts

Contents

Introduction: Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 95 (hereafter Peterhouse 95) is a composite manuscript of two unequally sized Parts. The first and larger part (ff. i-vii, 1-120) is largely comprised of popular medical treatises in Latin, and the second and smaller part contains a glossed copy of Guillaume de Mandagout's De electionibus in Latin. Both Parts of the manuscript were together by 1501 at the latest, since Thomas Deynman (d. 1501), a former Master of Peterhouse added his name to leaves in both Parts. Before passing into Deynman's care, Peterhouse 95 was once owned or used by Roger Marchall (c. 1417-1477) a doctor and physician to Edward IV. In common with numerous other manuscripts, Marchall added a table of contents to the beginning of the manuscript (f. iii verso) as well as rubrics and running headings for some of the treatises in the volume (see e.g., f. 1r). Marchall's ownership or use of manuscripts is very well-attested, with forty-five surviving books (including this one) bearing evidence to connect him to them in some way; six others may have been his or accessed by him, and a further twelve are recorded but not traced. Thirteen manuscripts owned or used by Marchall (and another with possible Marchall connections) have been digitised, catalogued and conserved as part of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project: Peterhouse 95 contains several popular medieval medical treatises including the Liber aggregationum of Serapion the Younger in the Latin translation by Simon of Genoa and Abraham of Tortosa, the Areolae of Iohannes de Sancto Amando, and the De simplicibus medicinis of Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (Mesue). Examination of the copy of the De simplicibus medicinis in the manuscript reveals two unusual codicological features. First, the production of Quire 9 (ff. 80-91) appears to have been completed with some difficulty; some text is struck through at the end of f. 83v, the following leaf was cancelled, and a singleton was added, not, as is typical, in the position of the cancelled leaf, but one leaf after (i.e., the singleton is f. 85 not f. 84), and there are further deletions and corrections on ff. 86-87. As it now stands, the text in that quire (Mesue's De simplicibus medicinis) is correct, but the scribes responsible for producing this part of Peterhouse 95 appear to have performed some very precise codicological surgery in order to fix their copy of the De simplicibus medicinis while also retaining as much of their existing work as possible. Secondly, a large number of leaves have been lost between the leaves now designated ff. 98v and 99r. There are 12 stubs present in the gutter between ff. 98v-99r; these stubs are probably what remains of the last three leaves of Quire 10 and the first nine leaves of Quire 11. The text at the end of f. 98v is the last part of Mesue's De simplicibus medicinis) in this manuscript, and it ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence. The number of stubs present in the gutter suggests that some further text-leaves have been lost from Peterhouse 95, as the only remaining leaf of Quire 11, f. 99, is blank, and it is unlikely that Quire 11 would have been placed in the manuscript if it were entirely blank. Dr Sarah Gilbert| Project Cataloguer| Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries References:
L. E. Voigts, ‘A Doctor and His Books: The Manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477)’, in New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A.I. Doyle, ed. by R. Beadle and A. J. Piper (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995), pp. 249–314

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Composite manuscript; all leaves parchment
Extent: Codex: 127 | 8 leaves.
Foliation:

20th century foliation

i-vii; 1-79; 80-99; 100-120 | 121-128

Foliated in pencil in Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of each recto. The rear pastedown in the manuscript has the designation '128' (recto) and is referred to as such throughout this catalogue record.

Collation

A composite manuscript comprised of two unequally sized Parts, the first and larger Part perhaps originally produced as codicological units, with a second Part consisting of a single quire now bound at the end of the volume. The numbering of the quires and the interpretation of their structure that is presented here differs from that in R.M. Thomson's descriptive catalogue.

  • Quire 18-1 (ff. i-vii: ?1st leaf missing) ;
  • Quires 2-712 (ff. 1-72)
  • Quire 88-1 (ff. 73-79: 8th leaf cancelled) ;
  • Quire 912-1 +1 (ff. 80-91: the leaf originally between the leaves now designated as f. 83v and 84r cancelled, f. 85 inserted)
  • Quire 1010-3 (ff. 92-98: 8th-10th leaves missing, stubs visible)
  • Quire 11one (f. 99: 1st-9th leaves missing and/or excised, stubs visible, 10th leaf remains);
  • Quire 1212 (ff. 100-111)
  • Quire 136-1 (ff. 112-116: 6th leaf missing)
  • Quire 144 (ff. 117-120) |
  • Quire 158 (ff. 121-127 + 128 (rear pastedown))

18-1 (1st missing) ; 2-712 88-1 (8th excised); 912 1010-3 (8th-10th missing) 1110-9 (1st-9th leaves missing or excised) ; 1212 136-1 (6th missing) 144 | 158 (last leaf now the rear pastedown)

No leaf signatures common to the entire volume.

No quires signatures common to the entire volume.

No catchwords common to the entire volume.

Additions

Quire signatures ('a-i k-n'), in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, written in pencil by a hand of the 20th-century. The first quire (ff. i-vii) is unmarked, and the alphabetical designation sequence begins with an 'a' at Quire 2 and concludes with an 'n' at Quire 15. The loss of the majority of Quire 11 is not indicated by this sequence, since the sole remaining leaf of that quire is treated as the final leaf of Quire 10.

Binding

18th-century binding. Undecorated parchment cover over thin pasteboards. Five raised bands on spine. Description of the contents of the volume written in ink on the spine in an 18th century hand. The number '100' (a former catalogue number for this item) in ink on the spine. Small printed paper label fixed to the spine with an adhesive bearing the shelfmark designation '95'. Parchment pastedowns; the rear pastedown is the final leaf of the final quire.

Traces of a former title in light brown ink along the upper perimeter of the front cover. Traces of a title on the tail edge of the bookblock, now too rubbed to be legible.

The front pastedown contains:

  • A note, 'James 206' in ink - this refers to the catalogue number for this item in the Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis by Thomas James (1600).
  • A note, 'M. James 95' in pencil - this refers to catalogue number for this manuscript in A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Peterhouse (1899) by M. R. James.
  • A note in ink in the hand of Thomas Deynman Thomas Deynman (fl. 1473-d. 1501), Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Peterhouse : see Provenance for further information.
  • A short aphorism in ink (also on ff. 105v-106r in a ?16th century hand: 'Suche is ffortune | In space ys grace | In grace ys goodnes

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by Roger Marchall (c. 1417-1477) . List of the contents of the volume in Marchall's hand on f. iii verso, and titles to text added in his hand on ff. 1r, 78r, and 102r. Voigts suggests that the medical recipe in the right-hand column of f. 120v may be in Marchall's hand, but the hand appears to be closer to that of Thomas' Deynman rather than Marchall insofar as it represents the scribal activity of an identifiable scribe.

L. Voigts, 'A doctor and his books: the manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477)', in R. Beadle and A. J. Piper (eds.), New science out of old books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle (Aldershot, 1995) pp. 249-314. Peterhouse MS 95 is no. '24' in Voigts' inventory of manuscripts associated with Marchall.

Owned by Thomas Deynman (fl. 1473-d. 1501) , Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Peterhouse, who wrote his name in several places:

  • On the front pastedown: '...(?) Thome Deynman medico'
  • iii verso: over an erasure 'Thome Deynman medicus'
  • In the upper margin of f. 1r after Marchall's title to the text: 'Thome deynman medici'
  • On f. 76r: 'Thome Deynman medici'
  • On f. 77v: 'liber Thome Deynman medici'
  • On f. 120v: 'Constat Thome Deynman medici'
  • On f. 128r (rear pastedown): 'Thomas Deyman medicii'

When and how Peterhouse MS 95 came into the possession of the College library is not entirely clear; the volume probably passed into the College library collection in the 1470s (before 1477) through a donation by Roger Marchall (c. 1417-1477) .

Marchall was a doctor and manuscript collector, and was a royal physician to Edward IV; his annotations appear in several places in Peterhouse MS 95. Marchall gave several scientific and medical manuscripts to Peterhouse in 1472; the list of Marchall's donations is now preserved with the general inventory of books belonging to the College in a document known as the Registrum vetus ('The Old Register'). The record of Marchall's donations is in his own hand and is on a separate leaf sewn into the Registrum vetus. Marchall's donation document has the heading ‘Billa magistri Rogeri Marchall de dono suo scripta propria manu suo anno domini Millesimo 1472’ and is printed as UC48.385-396 in CMBLC 10. Marchall's donation document names or describes 12 books, none of them a good match for Peterhouse MS 95; three of Marchall's donations still belong to the College, but others now belong to other institutions or have been lost. Even though Peterhouse MS 95 is not one of the books included in Marchall's donation list, Marchall owned a substantial number of scientific and medical manuscripts and could have chosen to give the volume to Peterhouse at another time rather than as a part of the 1472 gift.

The Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues suggests that Peterhouse MS 95 may have been left to the College as part of a bequest by Master of the College, Thomas Deynman, c. 1501. Like Marchall, Thomas Deynman (fl. c. 1473, d. 1501), Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Peterhouse was also a doctor and royal physician (in Deynman's case he seems to be associated with Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Lady Margaret Beaufort), and was a Fellow of Peterhouse before becoming its Master for a shortlived tenure c. 1500-1501. Deynman added ownership inscriptions in several places in the volume, but whether he gave the book having obtained it personally from Marchall, or whether it was simply in the Peterhouse Library and he took it into his personal possession during his association with the College is unclear. In his will, Deynman left 20 of his better books (his 'uolumina meliora') to Peterhouse, and so it is possible that if Deynman had taken personal possession of Peterhouse MS 95 then it may have passed back into the general holdings of the College's library collection upon his death.

Much of the information above derives directly from L. Voigts, 'A doctor and his books: the manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477)', in R. Beadle and A. J. Piper (eds.), New science out of old books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle (Aldershot, 1995) pp. 249-314. Peterhouse MS 95 is no. '24' in Voigts' inventory of manuscripts associated with Marchall.
See also CBMLC 10 - UC48.385-396 and pp. 687-688, 718

Part 1: Medical texts [Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 95, ff. i-vii; 1-79; 80-99; 100-120]

Contents

Language(s): Latin and Old French

1. i recto
Medical recipe
Language(s): Latin

For itching, written by the hand of Thomas Deynman (fl. c. 1473, d. 1501), Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Peterhouse .

2. i recto - iii recto
Le livre dou tresor (extracts: 2.62-2.67) Brunetto Latini
Language(s): Old French
Incipit: || i recto ⟨T⟩out auant que tu dies mout tu dois considerer en ton cuer que tu es qui uiues(?) parler
Explicit: iii recto la chose deuant ce que on le dioit ||
Edition of the text: F. J. Carmody (ed.), Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor (Berkeley, 1948)
3. iii recto - iii verso
Distinctio ponderum et mensuraram Arnaldus de Villanova (d. 1311)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: iii recto Distinctio ponderum et mensurarum M⟨agistri⟩ Arnaldi de Villa noua secundum Serapionem Auicennam et alios auctores in medicina
Incipit: iii recto Kirath uel kirathes secundum Auicennamet Serapionem est pondus
Explicit: iii verso Chise uidetur esse mensura continens sub .i. uini

Thomson notes that this text is also in Salins-les-Bains, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 45 (P.38), ff. 376r-379r

eTK 0806H (t0155170000)
4. iii verso
Table of contents Roger Marchall
Language(s): Latin

Below, an erased ownership inscription; the final part of the inscription can still be read as 's. 16. d. 8.', probably a price paid for the volume.

5. iv recto - vii verso
De dosibus medicinarum Walter Agilon (fl. 13th century)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: iv recto Dosis medicinarum Magistri Galteri
Incipit: iv recto Medicinarum quedam sunt simplices
Explicit: vii verso Hec de dosi medicinarum sufficiant
Final rubric: vii verso Explicit liber de dosibus medicinarum secundum Galterum Salernitanum Deo gracias

Scribal colophon on f. vii verso, 'Vincentius de sixino scripsit'. Further research is needed to identify 'Sixino'.

eTK 0860F (t0166210000)
See P. Pansier, Janus IX (1904), n. 21, for a list of other manuscripts that contain this text.
6. vii verso
Note on suffering
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: Nota quod vj sunt passiones que faciunt amictere loquelam .scilicet. litargia appoplexia emigrane(?)a scothomia sincopis . et suffocacio matricis'

7. 1r-76r
Liber aggregationum (tr. Simon of Genoa and Abraham of Tortosa) Serapion the Younger
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1r Postquam uidi librum Dyascoridis et librum G⟨aleni⟩ in medicinis simplicibus aggregatos
Explicit: 76r Calefaccione et desiccacione forti
Final rubric: 76r Explicit liber aggregationum Serapionis . In nomine domine amen
Printed in Milan, 1473
eTK 0862E (t0166620000)
7.1. 20r
Medical note
Language(s): Latin

On the usefulness of 'garifolium' (i.e. cloves) for colic, stomach and intestinal pain and other ailments. Written in the top margin by a 15th century hand.

8. 76v-77r
Alphabetical index
Language(s): Latin

Absinthium - Zunar

9. 77v
Two notes on the plant 'Satiryon'
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 77v Nota hic secundum quod accepi de Diascoride de satyrion trifolia
10. 78r-79v
De regimine sanitatis
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 78r Secundum doctrinam sapiencium in arte medicine
Explicit: 79v consilio indigebit
Final rubric: 79v Explicit regimen sex rerum non naturaliam . Deo gracias amen

Title 'Tractatus de Regimine Sanitatis' added in the upper margin of f. 78r in the hand of Roger Marchall.

eTK 1419C (t0271790000)
11. 80r-98v
De simplicibus medicinis Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (Mesue)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 80r Incipit liber Mesue de simplicibus
Incipit: 80r In nomine Dei misericordis cuius tuitu[sic] sermo recipit graciam
Explicit: 98v semitam palmitis ||

Folio 99 is blank.

Presented as two books, the second book begins on f. 88r with a list of capitula and the opening words: ‘Protelauimus usque huc ...’, ends abruptly in the chapter on the plant ‘aristologia’.

eTK 1688D
Printed in Milan 1473
12. 100r-102r
Alphabetical list of medicines
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 100r Anisum calidum est in secundo gradu
Explicit: 102r Zarnice est bonum stomacho et epati renibus et vesice
Final rubric: 102r Explicit
eTK 0100E (t0019350000)
13. 102r-120v
Areolae de conferentibus et nocentibus Iohannes de Sancto Amando
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 102r Incipit aureola medicinarum magistri Iohannis de Sancto Amando
Incipit: 102r ⟨S⟩icut dicit G⟨alen⟩ primo simplicis medicine capitulo 8 in fine Non est possibile ut homo accipiat medicinam
Explicit: 120v respicientem et ipsum confortantem
Final rubric: 120v Explicit liber S. M. Thadei Mesue

The 'Mesue' in the final rubric has been added in another hand.

eTK 1484B (t0283870000)
14. 120v
Medical recipe
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 120v Praeservativi Regis Edwardi quarti
Incipit: 120v Recipe scabiose, radicis cicorie, cinamoni, radicis turmentille, calendule, diptani floris, herbe tunicus, pimpernelle siue acetosis, terre sigillate - ana uncia .i.; boli armoniaci - uncie .iiij.; ligni aloes, corticis citri, sandalis albi et citrini rasure, eboris rasure, cornu vnicornii, ossa de corde cerui, seduare, calami aromaticus, galange, macis, nucis muscate, croce, cardamoni seminis, Riche, genciane, aristologe rotundis, Iacinictorum, coralli vtriusque margaritarum - ana scrupule. iiij.; cardonis benedicte - uncie .iiij.; conserua boraginis, Buglosse, Rossis, Nenuphares, citranglorum, tiriace - ana uncie .i. drachm .ij. scrupule .ij.; zuccare - libre .x.; folii aure - numero 100; et facis puluis preservativi.

Full transcription. Full translation:| A preservative of King Edward IV. Take scabious, chicory root, cinnamon, tormentil root, calendula, dittany flowers, the leaves of tunic flower, pimpernel or sorrel, terra sigillata — of each one ounce; Armenian bole — four ounces; aloe wood, citrus bark, white sandalwood and citrus shavings, ivory shavings, unicorn horn, bones from the heart of a deer, zedoary, sweet flag, galangal, mace, nutmeg, saffron, cardamom seeds, frankincense, gentian, smearwort, cornflower, either coral or solution of pearls — of each four scruples; groundsel — four ounces; conserve of borage, bugloss, roses, water-lily, orange, theriac — of each one ounce, two drachms and two scruples; sugar — ten pounds; gold leaf — to the number 100; and make a preservative powder.

The scribe of the recipe has been identified as Thomas Deynman (d. 1501) by R. M. Thomson, and Roger Marchall (c. 1417-1477) by Linda Voigts. Marchall was physician to Edward IV, and Deynman to Henry VII, but the hand of the recipe appears more like Deynman's than Marchall's; Marchall and Deynman knew each other, presumably through their Peterhouse connection and subsequent roles as royal physicians, and Deynman seems to have had access to several of Marchall's manuscripts (including this one) after Marchall's death in 1477, so it is not impossible for Deynman to have copied one of Marchall's recipes for Edward IV into one of Marchall's manuscripts.

eTK 1335C (t0255470000)
See T. Lang, 'Medical recipes from the Yorkist court', The Ricardian 20 (2010), pp. 94-102 for a discussion of similar recipes
R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (Woodbridge, 2016), esp. p. 53
L. Voigts, 'A doctor and his books: the manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477)', in R. Beadle and A. J. Piper (eds.), New science out of old books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle (Aldershot, 1995) pp. 249-314, esp. pp. 276-277

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: ii recto: et amours est chose muable
Secundo Folio: 2r: Conbussit
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 127 leaves. 330 × 240 mm.

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves. It is possible that this Part of the manuscript consists of consecutive codicological units (ff. iv-vii; 1-79; 80-99; 100-120), made by several scribes copying their texts siumultaneously rather than sequentially as there are blank columns and leaves at ff. vii verso, 79v, 99v, rather than the more typical copying-practice, where the subsequent text continues on the next line or column after the previous text concludes. In addition, the textual and decorative mise-en-page of ff. iv-120 is similar, but not absolutely identical, and appears to be the work of several contemporary scribes who worked mostly in quire-units but who occasionally reappeared for short stints throughout the volume. The first seven leaves in the volume, ff. i recto - vii verso are treated here as originating from the same source manuscript as ff. 1-120, which differs from the codicological assessments of the volume made by M. R. James and R. Thompson who treat the first quire (ff. i-vii) as a separate codicological Part. The first three leaves (ff. i-iii) are written in an entirely different style to the rest of the volume with a more informal mise-en-page and none of the decorative features present elsewhere in the volume, but are nevertheless part of the same gathering as ff. iv-vii. The text on ff. iv-vii is decorated in a similar style to the text on ff. 1-120, and the scribe who added rubrication instructions to the lower margins of ff. v recto - vii recto appears to be the same scribe as the scribe who was responsible for the same task on ff. 83r-85v. It is possible that the first three leaves of the volume were originally blank protective endleaves for a volume whose 'main' texts started at what is now f. iv recto, but then, as is so common with medieval manuscripts, those blank endleaves were repurposed for the storage of additional text(s). The arrangement of the quires in this Part is as follows:

  • Quire 18-1 (1st leaf missing; ff. i-vii) ;
  • Quires 2-712 (ff. 1-72)
  • Quire 88-1 (8th leaf excised; ff. 73-79) ;
  • Quire 912-1 +1 (the leaf originally between the leaves now designated as f. 83v and 84r cancelled, f. 85 inserted; ff. 80-91)
  • Quire 1010-3 (8th-10th leaves cancelled or excised, stubs visible; ff. 92-98)
  • Quire 1110-9 (1st-9th leaves cancelled or excised, stubs visible, 10th leaf remains; f. 99);
  • Quire 1212 (ff. 100-111)
  • Quire 136-1 (6th leaf missing; ff. 112-116)
  • Quire 144 (ff. 117-120)

Numeric leaf signatures in Roman numerals (i-ui) in the lower margin of Quire 2. These signatures are not present anywhere else in this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

Catchwords in the lower margin of the last verso of most quires, typically enclosed in a rectangular frame.

Condition

Parchment trimmed for binding with minor losses to marginal annotations. Rodent and water damage to the upper margins of the leaves in the latter half of this Part, but no significant loss of text due to this damage. 12 leaves lost at the juncture between Quire 10 and 11, with three leaves lost from the end of Quire 10 and nine leaves lost from Quire 11; at least some of these leaves were probably text-leaves as the text at the end of f. 98v ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence.

Layout

280-290 × 200 mm. The leaves ff. i recto - iii verso are ruled frame only, and written in single-column format with an informal mise-en-page, 49-53 lines to the page, written below top line. It is possible that these leaves were once blank endleaves protecting a 'main text' starting on f. iv, but which were then subsequently used to record additional material.

260 × 170 mm. The majority of this Part (ff. iv recto seq.,) is ruled in double-column format, frame and lines. Ruled in crayon, typically 65-70 lines to the column and written below top line.

Hand(s)

The leaves ff. iv recto-120v are written in a southern European textualis rotunda by several different scribes who work in long stints and occasionally reappear throughout the manuscript.

Colophon on f. vii verso: ' Vincencius de sixino scripsit'.

Decoration

Coloured initials of the 'puzzle' type at major textual divisions.

Minor initials in red or blue in the 'Lombardic' style throughout this Part from f. iv recto onward.

Headings to chapters and minor divisions of the texts in red.

History

Origin: Probably 14th century. ; Probably Italy.

Part 2: Guillame de Mandagout, De electionibus (glossed) [Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 95, ff. 121-128]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 121r-128r
De electionibus (with Latin gloss) Guillaume de Mandagout
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: || 121r capitales propter quam uel quas non poterat absque periculo
Explicit: 128r habeatur formas deseruimus adnectere .i. scriptas ||

Gloss incipit: 'In nomine domini amen etc tholose communionis . Nota quod locus est in procuratorio

Printed in Tractatus uniuersi iuris (Venice 1584-1586)
Dictionnaire de droite canonique 5.1077-1078

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 122r posset
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 8 leaves. 330 × 240 mm.

Collation

One quire of 8 leaves, the 8th leaf now the rear pastedown.

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

Rodent and water damage to the upper margin, with slight loss of text. The final leaf of the quire was used as the rear pastedown, and so the text on the verso of f. 128 cannot be read.

Layout

260 × 170 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines, ruling very faint on some leaves. Ruled in double-column format, typically 40 lines to the column for the main text, and 60 lines to the column for the gloss; written below top line.

Hand(s)

Written in a southern European textualis rotunda.

Decoration

flourished initials in red and blue at the opening of each section of main text and gloss.

Important words, clauses, and headings underlined in red.

Paraph marks in red.

History

Origin: Probably 14th century. ; Probably Italy.

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws substantially on R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (Woodbridge, 2016). Readers of this record are strongly encouraged to consult Thomson's Catalogue for further information. This catalogue entry also draws on:
  • M. R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Peterhouse (Cambridge, 1899)
  • CBMLC 10
  • Unpublished notes made by Dr Debby Banham in 1999 and 2000 as part of a survey of medical manuscripts in Cambridge

Availability

Researchers should note that Peterhouse's western European medieval manuscripts are housed at Cambridge University Library. Scholars who wish to consult Peterhouse manuscripts should contact the Special Collections Reading Room to arrange their visit; all University Library admissions procedures will apply. For information on eligibility and admissions procedures, see Joining the Library. For further enquiries, and to confirm the availability of the manuscript, please contact the Special Collections Reading Room.

Custodial History

The manuscript was displayed as part of the exhibition Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World (Cambridge University Library, 29 March-6 December 2025) (ff. 120v-121r and iii verso-iv recto).

Bibliography

    A doctor and his books: the manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477) New science out of old books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle, Voigts, Linda Ehrsam (Aldershot, 249-314, Scolar Press, 1995) Medical recipes from the Yorkist Court The Ricardian, Lang, Tig (20, 94-102, 2010)

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Wellcome

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