Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 251

Medical compendium

Introduction: This manuscript is a composite volume with its Parts deriving from nine separate original sources written in England and Italy between the 11th and 15th centuries. Part 1 is a set of medieval endleaves with notes, annotations, and lists of the contents, Parts 2-8 contain medical treatises in Latin, and Part 9 is another set of medieval endleaves that preserve damaged copies of letters from a Carmelite foundation in England as well as a number of smaller and more informal annotations. Peterhouse MS 251 appears to have reached its current composite form after two distinct phases of compilation, the first of which seems to have brought together Parts 1-7, and the second of which seems to have added Parts 8-9 to Parts 1-7. Precisely how and when Peterhouse MS 251 Parts 1-7 were brought together is unknown, but they seem to have been together by 8 December 1330, the date of a Caucio note on f. i verso (a medieval endleaf). This note is partly illegible due to rubbing, but the remaining text can be read as 'Caucio Walteri de Wasten exponitur ciste Batulfi ...(?) concepionis beate Marie anno Domini M^o CCC^o xxx', i.e., the book was pledged as surety for a loan and placed in Botolph's chest on 8 December 1330 by Walter de Wasten. Caucio inscriptions in manuscripts reflect a practice common (but not limited) to Oxford and Cambridge in the 14th and 15th centuries, where borrowers could pledge books or other high-value items in exchange for a monetary loan. The lender would add a description of the loan to the item (or presumably add a label to non-codex pledges) usually beginning with the word 'Caucio' or 'Cautio' (pledge/security) followed by details such as the date, the amount loaned, and the original owner of the item, and would then store the deposit in a chest for the duration of the loan, which borrowers could redeem on repayment. The loan chests and their funds were often initially supplied by a single benefactor, and the chest that they endowed usually bore their name thereafter. In this example, 'ciste Batulfi' is probably a reference to 'St Botoloph's Chest', which was established by Thomas de St Botolph, parson of South Dalton in Yorkshire and personal clerk to John le Romeyn (d. 1296), archbishop of York. Thomas was still alive in 1293 and the chest was probably founded at some point afterwards. It operated until at least 1347. If this identification is correct, it places at least some parts of Peterhouse MS 251 in Cambridge in 1330. The Caucio inscription on f. i verso is briefly discussed in Thomson's Catalogue, p. 158; Thomson does not mention the location of Botolph's Chest in Cambridge, but he makes a Cambridge connection for the Caucio inscription as he suggests that 'Walteri de Wasten' may be the Walter de Weston in Emden BRUC, p. 631, a cleric of Cambridge who complained about the violence from the mayor and townspeople of Cambridge in 1322 as recorded in Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office 1216-1509 (1891-1916). Underneath the Caucio inscription on f. i verso and in a late 14th- or 15th-century hand is a medieval list of the contents of the volume. This enumerates 12 items, the final one of which - 'liber de ffebribus' - was added by another, probably 15th-century hand and almost certainly refers to the texts on ff. 106-191 (i.e., Part 8). The work now known as Galen's Ad glauconem de medendi methodo (not to be confused with the larger Galenic text now known as the Therapeutica or De methodo medendi, which in the Middle Ages was usually known as the Ars magna or the Megategni), was a treatise on fevers addressed to Galen's nephew or friend Glauco(n), and was often known in the Middle Ages by the title 'Liber de febribus' or 'De febribus ad Glauconem'. On folio 106r, in the upper margin, a late 14th or early 15th century hand has also added a title for the text,'liber de ffebribus'. The last original entry in the medieval list of the contents then is 'Pronostica ypocratis incompletus', which seems to be a reference to the Prognostica of Hippocrates on ff. 102v-105r, which is complete, but which is immediately followed by an incomplete copy of Theophilus' De urinis, which begins near the bottom of a column of text on f. 105r with a rubric similar in size and distinction to the internal subheadings in the preceding text. As such, it seems to have been read by the main compiler of the medieval list of the contents of the volume as an incomplete final section of the Prognostica. It seems likely that Parts 8-9 joined Parts 1-7 at Peterhouse during the 15th century. Part 9 is a medieval bifolium that preserves copies of two letters by a single scribe, one of which is dated to 1400 in the text. Part 9 is badly damaged through rubbing and use as a pastedown and endleaves, but in addition to the copies of the letters, it also preserves several informal annotations including names and accompanying 15th century dates. It is possible that Part 9 was added by itself to the volume, perhaps for a late 15th-century or 16th-century rebinding, but given that the 'liber de ffebribus' entry in the medieval table of contents on f. i verso is in a different (?15th century) hand, it seems probable that Parts 8 and 9 were joined to Parts 1-7 in the 15th century, with Part 8 added due to the similarity of its content to Parts 2-7 and Part 9 as a protective wrapper for the new end of the volume. A portion of the manuscript (almost certainly Parts 1-7) were given to Peterhouse in 1385 by William Irby , a Fellow of Peterhouse; Irby's donation is recorded in the upper margin of f. 1r - 'Memorandum quod magister Willelmus Irby socius domus Sancti Petri contulit istum librum eidem domui anno Domini MCCC lxxxv^to' (Memorandum that master William Irby fellow of Peterhouse brought this book to the same house in A.D. 1385). Parts 8 and 9 must have joined the rest of the volume after Parts 1-7 had been absorbed into the Peterhouse library collection, and so it seems likely that Parts 8 and 9 were also donated by a member of the Peterhouse community. All of the Parts of this manuscript are interesting in their own right as well as when they are considered in their composite arrangement, but Dr Debby Banham has discussed the specific significance of Part 8 (ff. 106r-191v for the study of the history of medicine in England, and in particular within the context of the reception of Classical medical texts in medieval England. Dr Banham described the contents of Part 8 as 'the nearest thing to a standard medical textbook in early medieval Europe', i.e., for the study of medicine in Europe before it became a profession studied and researched at the new universities. Dr Banham has also pointed out that Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 106r-191v contains the 'earliest surviving English manuscript of Galen's Ad Glauconem de methodo medendi, and also of the pseudo-Galenic Liber tertius which travels with it, and of the Libri Aurelii and Esculapii, two works frequently found with the Galen complex, as here.' Although the origin of Part 8 has not been established with total certainty, in all likelihood, Peterhouse MS 251 Part 8 (ff. 106r-191v) was copied at the abbey of St Augustine's in Canterbury, and the quires are emblematic of a new style of medical study and enquiry in England that was to become a feature of the standard of scientific learning available at the wealthiest monastic houses in England in the 12th and 13th centuries. Dr Sarah Gilbert| Project Cataloguer| Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries References:

CPR: Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office 1216-1509, 54 vols (1891-1916)

Graham Pollard, 'Medieval loan chests at Camrbidge', Historical Research 17 (1940), 113-160

BRUC: A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (Cambridge, 1963)

P. Kibre, I. A. Kelter, 'Galen's "Methodus medendi" in the Middle Ages', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 9.1 (1987), pp. 17-36

D. Banham, 'Medicine at Bury in the Time of Abbot Baldwin', in Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest, ed. by T. Licence (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), pp. 226–46, esp. pp. 227-228

R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (2016)

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: apparet ei colorano

Form: codex

Support: All medieval leaves parchment; modern handmade-paper pastedowns and endleaves added in 2023.

Extent: Codex: ii + 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 43 | 14 | 86 + 2 + ii leaves.

Foliation:

20th-century foliation

[a]-[b] + [ia] recto - i | 1-6 | 7-11 | 12-26 | 27-48 | 49-91 | 92-105 | 106-191 | 192-[193] + [c]-[d]

Foliated in the upper outer corner of each recto in pencil in Hindu-Arabic numerals, ff. i + 1-192. The outermost medieval parchment flyleaves (ff. [ia] and [193] were pastedowns until September 2023 and as such were not included in the folio designation scheme present in the volume; these leaves have been assigned temporary designations in order to produce a functional TEI-XML catalogue record, and those designtions are enclosed in [square brackets] throughout this record. The modern handmade paper flyleaves added to the beginning and end of the volume as part of the 2023 conservation and rebinding work have been assigned temporary designations ff. [a]-[b] and ff. [c]-[d] respectively. Note that the modern paper endleaves ff. [a]-[b] and [c]-[d] do not appear in the digital image set for Peterhouse MS 251.

Collation

A composite manuscript comprised of nine originally separate parts arranged in the following way:

Medieval parchment bifolium (ff. [ia]-i) |
Quire 1^8-2 (ff. 1-6: 1st and 7th leaves cancelled) |
Quire 2^8-3 (ff. 7-11: 1st leaf missing, 7th and 8th leaves cancelled) |
Quire 3¹⁰ (ff. 12-21)
Quire 4^6-2(+1) (ff. 22-26: 5th and 6th leaves missing, a mutilated singleton after the 4th extant leaf) |
Quires 5-6⁸ (ff. 27-42)
Quire 7⁶ (ff. 43-48) |
Quires 8-12⁸ (ff. 49-88)
Quire 13^4-1 (ff. 89-91: 4th leaf missing) |
Quire 14⁸ (ff. 92-99)
Quire 15⁸ (ff. 100-105: 7th and 8th leaves missing)|
Quire 16⁸ (ff. 106-113)
Quire 17⁶ (ff. 114-119)
Quires 18-26⁸ (ff. 120-191) |
Medieval parchment bifolium (ff. 192-[193])

No leaf signatures common to the entire manuscript.

No quire signatures common to the entire manuscript.

No catchwords common to the entire manuscript.

Additions

A note on f. i recto, partially erased: 'liber florum et Regularum Magistri aflaticii de monte pesulano breuiter gyl[?]'. The note refers to the text on ff. 27r-48v, which is attributed to a Magister Afratisius/Alfacius of Monte Pesulano (Montpellier) in the incipits and explicits supplied with the text now known as the Practica sometimes attributed to Copho.

Quire signatures ('a-i, k-t, v, x-z, aa-cc') 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.

Binding

Rebound in September 2023 by James Cassels . Tawed goat skin over quarter-sawn oak boards. Two silver pin-and-ring fore edge fastenings with tawed goatskin and vellum straps. Four raised bands on spine; double linen cords fitted to the medieval sewing stations. Head and tail bands of linen and finished with decorative sewing of alternate blue and cream segments.

Handmade paper pastedowns pasted over the turn ins. Two handmade paper endleaves (unphotographed) added at each end of the volume, ff. [a]-[b] and [c]-[d] respectively, all blank.

Medieval parchment pastedowns lifted; the newly free leaves assigned the designations ff. [ia] and [163] respectively.

Peterhouse MS 251 is now stored in an archival box made from acid free mill board, covered with archival buckram, and lined with museum board. The box also contains an archival folder which contains the remains of the 18th century binding and a printed description by James Cassels of the conservation and rebinding work undertaken in 2023.

Binding dimensions (L x W x D): 255 x 180 x 55 mm

18th century binding preserved in an archival folder stored in the manuscript box after the September 2023 rebinding. Undecorated parchment cover over thin rope fibre boards. Boards attached to text block by laced in cords glued into 3 deep saw-cuts across the spine.

List of the contents of the volume written in ink on the spine in an 18th century hand, now badly rubbed and partially illegible. A former ?shelfmark or designation in ink on the in the same hand as the 18th century list of the contents on the spine: '2-5-2'. Faint note in pencil 'James 210' for the catalogue number of this volume in the Ecloga of Thomas James (1600). Small printed paper label fixed to spine bearing the shelfmark designation '251'.

Traces of pre-18th century binding(?s) still visible in the volume.

Four raised bands made for an earlier binding visible on spine; double-twisted tawed leather supports cut at the joints.

Traces of fittings for a former fastening or chain staple visible in the centre of the tail edge of ff. [ia]-i and 192-[193].

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Some Parts of this manuscript (probably Parts 1-7) given by fellow of Peterhouse, William (de) Irby (Venn ACAD no. IRBY374W) in 1385. The donation is recorded on f. 1r: ‘Memorandum quod magister Willelmus Irby socius domus Sancti Petri contulit istum librum eidem domui anno Domini MCCC lxxxv^to ’ (Memorandum that master William Irby fellow of Peterhouse brought this book to the same house in A.D. 1385). Parts 8 and 9 probably added after 1400 through an unknown donation.

Part 1: medieval flyleaves [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. [ia]-i]

Language(s): Latin

1. i verso

Caucio note

Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: 'Caucio Walteri de Wasten exponitur ciste Batulfi ...(?) concepionis beate Marie anno Domini M CCC xxx'. See Provenance for further discussion.

2. i verso

Note on medieval weights and measures

Language(s): Latin

3. i verso

Medieval list of the contents of the volume

Language(s): Latin

Part of the entry for 'Pronostica ypocratis incompletus' is overwritten in another medieval hand, this hand also added 'Liber de ffebribus' to the end of the list.

4. i verso

List of the contents of the volume in an early modern hand

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (FHHF)

Extent: Codex: 22 parchment endleaves.

Collation

Medieval parchment bifolium (ff. [ia]-i)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

Folio [ia] was a pastedown until September 2023 when it was lifted and repaired as part of conservation and rebinding work undertaken by James Cassels. The text on f. [ia] recto is difficult to read due to rubbing and adhesive residue. Repair to f. [ia] by Cassels in 2023 using strong Japanese paper.

Layout

Folios [ia]- i have an informal and unruled mise-en-page.

Hand(s)

Endleaf annotations by several hands dating from the 13th-18th centuries.

Decoration

No significant decorative features in this Part.

Additions

Folio [ia] recto: illegible text including some medical notes in at least two hands, probably datable to the 13th century. Text badly damaged due to the use of this leaf as a pastedown in the pre-2023 binding.

Folio [ia] verso contains:

A note, 'M R James 251' in pencil
'James 210' in ink - this refers to the manuscript's designation in the Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis by Thomas James (1600).

Folio i recto contains a faded tabular diagram and a small string tie pierced through the centre of the fore edge, probably part of a medieval bookmark.

Folio i verso contains a 'Caucio' inscription, see the Provenance section for the volume for further discussion.

Binding

Evidence of a metal fastening on a pre-18th century binding visible as damage and metal-oxide staining along the tail edge of ff. [ia]- i.

History

Origin: 13th century, perhaps late 12th century. ; Probably England (?Cambridge).

The oldest annotations on these leaves probably date from the 13th century or perhaps the late 12th. The Caucio inscription on f. i verso is dated '1330' and so ff. [ia]- i were almost certainly with some of the remainder of the volume as endleaves by that date. There is a Caucio inscription on f. i verso which refers to a loan chest located in Cambridge.

Provenance

A note on f. i verso, badly rubbed: 'Caucio Walteri de Wasten exponitur ciste Batulfi ...(?) concepionis beate Marie anno Domini M^o CCC^o xxx', i.e., the book was pledged as surety for a loan and placed in Botolph's chest on 8 December 1330 by Walter de Wasten. Caucio inscriptions in manuscripts reflect a practice common (but not limited) to Oxford and Cambridge in the 14th and 15th centuries where borrowers could pledge books or other high-value items in exchange for a monetary loan supplied by a lender who would store the manuscript in a chest for the duration of the loan. The loan chests and their funds were often supplied by a single benefactor whose name became associated with the chest long after their death and became incorporated into the Caucio inscriptions usually in the form 'ciste [name]'; in this case, the 'ciste Batulfi' probably refers to a loan-chest in Cambridge known as 'Botoloph's Chest', which, if that identification is correct, places at least some parts of Peterhouse MS 251 in Cambridge in December 1330. 'Botolph's Chest' was supposedly endowed by a Thomas de St Botolph, chaplain to John Le Romeyn, archbishop of York, see Fuller and Billingfield, 'Section IV' in The History of the University of Cambridge, esp. p. 130.

This Caucio note is briefly discussed in Thomson's Catalogue, p. 158; Thomson suggests that 'Walteri de Wasten' may be the Walter de Weston in Emden BRUC, p. 631, a cleric of Cambridge who complained about the violence from the mayor and townspeople of Cambridge in 1322 as recorded in Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office 1216-1509, 54 vols (1891-1916).

The Caucio note is also briefly discussed in CBMLC 10 UC48.291 where the note is transcribed as follows: 'Caucio Walter de Kasten exspositus ciste Botulph' Concepionis beate Marie anno Domini M^o ccc^o xxx'

T. Fuller and R. Billingfield, ‘SECTION IV’, in M. Prickett and T. Wright (eds.), The History of the University of Cambridge: From the Conquest to the Year 1634, (Cambridge, rpr 2009), pp. 126–42

R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (2016)

BRUC: A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (Cambridge, 1963)

CPR: Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office 1216-1509, 54 vols (1891-1916)

CBMLC 10 UC48.291

Part 2 (Thomson Part I) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 1r-6v]

Language(s): Latin

1. 1r-6v

Commentary on Hippocrates, Prognostica Petrus Musandius

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 1r Incipit commentum super Pronostica secundum Petrum Musandia

Incipit: 1r Quoniam humana corpora

Explicit: 6v quia hec sunt certiora signa

Final rubric: 6v Explicit liber pronosticorum Ypocratis

eTK 1011B (t0194360000)

eTK 1277D (t0245230000)

eTK 1619N (t0309170000)

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r apparet ei coloratio

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 6 leaves. 240 × 170 mm.

Collation

Quire 1^8-2 (ff. 1-6; 1st and 7th leaves cancelled)

Condition

Thick parchment.

Layout

195 × 120 mm. Ruled in double-column format in (faint) leadpoint, frame and lines. Typically 53 lines to the column, written above top line.

Hand(s)

Written in a late and compressed Caroline minuscule of Italian appearance.

Decoration

Opening initial on f. 1r is a gold initial with red flourishing. Other major initials are blue with red flourishing.

Minor initials plain; red or blue

Rubrication (red only) for chapter headings.

Paraphs in red or blue touched with red.

History

Origin: Second half of the 12th century, or perhaps early 13th century. ; Probably Italy.

Part 3 (Thomson Part II) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 7-11]

Language(s): Latin

1. 7r-11r

De pulsibus with gloss Aegidius Corbeiensis

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: || 7r cum relique species aliquo mediante ligentur

Explicit: 11r Iam sterilis cultum Philareti nominis horret

Final rubric: 11r Explicit liber pulsuum Egidii

Prologue added in single-column format in a blank space after the final rubric on f. 11r.

Additions in later (?14th century) hands in empty spaces on ff. 11rv.

Text edited (not from this MS) by L. Choulant (Leipzing, 1828), pp. 21-43.

eTK 0820G (prologue)

eTK 0744C

WIC 9332

2. 11r

Medical recipe

Language(s): Latin

For the ?spleen.

3. 11v

Medical notes

Language(s): Latin

On urine analysis.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 8r: Spumum feruor uis

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 5 leaves. 240 × 170 mm.

Collation

Quire 2^8-3 (ff. 7-11; 1st missing, 7th and 8th leaves cancelled)

Condition

Text is a little rubbed and difficult to read in places. Large brown stain and small tear on f. 9r.

Layout

165 × 60 mm. Written in a single narrow column in the typical later medieval format for metrical texts. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines, main text is typically 36 lines to the page, written above top line. Text has an interlinear gloss, and occasional marginal glosses.

Hand(s)

Written in a southern European textualis rotunda bookhand.

History

Origin: Probably 13th century. ; Probably Italy.

Part 4 (Thomson Part III) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 12r-26v]

Language(s): Latin

1. 12r-26r

Commentary on Giles of Corbeil's De urinis ?Gentilis Fulginas

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 12r Hic incipit tractatus urinarum

Incipit: 12r Dicitur urina quia formatur generatur et discernitur et si est primo substantiam et colorem

Explicit: 25v quod autem dicit subrubeum peius

Explicit: 26r tenuem substantiam singnificat dolorem in sinistro latere pocius habundare quam in dextro

Text ends imperfectly on f. 25v; ?continued by a later hand on f. 26r?

eTK 0422E (t0083440000)

2. 26r-26v

Medical recipes

Language(s): Latin

The first preceded by the rubric 'Ad queritur'; the second for an unstated purpose (f. 26r). For largely unstated purposes, but including a recipe for a laxative (f. 26v).

3. 26v

Note about a legal dispute

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: 26v ...(?) excipiendo proposuit contra bartolomeum le noreys exceptioni rei judicate

Explicit: 26v contra beneficiatum

Description of a legal process against a Bartolomeus le Noreys where he pleaded benefit of the clergy. See Thomson (2016).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 13r: Lauacrum . ad differentiam balneorum

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 15 leaves. 240 × 165-170 mm.

Collation

Quire 3¹⁰ (ff. 12-21)
Quire 4^6-2(+1) (ff. 22-26; 5th and 6th leaves missing, a mutilated singleton after the 4th extant leaf)

Condition

Folio 26 is a tipped-in leaf that has been mutilated; the middle third (dividing the leaf horizontally into 3) has been cut away with losses to text on the remaining upper-third of the leaf.

Layout

200 × 120 mm. Ruled in pencil, in single-column format, frame and lines. Typically 42 lines to the page, written above top line.

Hand(s)

Written in a southern European textualis rotunda bookhand.

Decoration

Plain red initial at the opening of the text on f. 12r

Occasional paraph marks and occasional underlining for emphasis in red.

History

Origin: Probably second half of the 13th century. ; Probably Italy.

Part 5 (Thomson Part IV) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 27r-48v]

Language(s): Latin

1. 27r-48v

Practica ?Copho

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 27r Incipit liber frorum[sic] et regularum a magistro Afratisio de Monte Pesulano colectarum et complehenssarum breuiter

Incipit: 27r Cum uniuscuiusque humani corporis natura iiii ad sui conseruationem exigat humores

Explicit: 48r puluis fuliginis piretri ana dimidium i succi ciclaminis et olei quod .s.

Final rubric: 48r Explicit liber magistri aflaticii feliciter

The text is attributed to a Magister Afratisius/Alfacius of Monte Pesulano (Montpellier) in the manuscript.

Edited by R. Creutz based on a manuscript now in Wurzburg in Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 33, H. 5/6 (Juli 1941), pp. 249-338

Creutz (1941)

eTK 0349G (t0068730000)

Renzi, vol. 4, pp. 439-505

1.1. 40r

Medical recipes

Language(s): Latin

Written in the top margin. Three recipes for a laxative for the stomach.

2. 48r-48v

Medical recipes

Language(s): Latin

Written by at least two scribes writing an anglicana script of the late 14th century. For toothache and for eye pain (f. 48r). For uncertain purposes; leaf damaged and text lost/faded (f. 48v).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 28r tritis in coloquintidam pone

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 22 leaves. 240 × 165-170 mm.

Collation

Quires 5-6⁸ (ff. 27-42)
Quire 7⁶ (ff. 43-48)

Condition

Sewn repair to small tear on f. 39. Peterhouse stamp (purple ink) on ff. 41 and 42. Portions of the outer margins of ff. 46 and 47 cut away. Sewn repair to f. 48 - sewn after writing.

Layout

170 × 110-115 mm. Ruled in two-column format, in pencil, frame and lines. Typically 38 lines to the column, usually, but not always written below top line.

Hand(s)

Main text is written in a southern textualis bookhand.

Medical recipes on ff. 48rv written in anglicana script by more than one scribe.

Decoration

Decorative initials in either red or blue with minor flourishing in the other colour at the start of most divisions of the text.

Headings to each section of the text in red.

Paraph marks separating the minor divisions of the text in red or blue.

Additions

In the upper margin of f. 39v, a note, presumably by an English scribe giving an English translation of a Latin plant name: ‘betonia Wildnepe’.

History

Origin: Probably first half of the 13th century. ; Probably Italy.

Part 6 (Thomson Part V) [Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 251, ff. 49r-91v]

Language(s): Latin

1. 49r-49v

Aphorisms Johannitius

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 49r Sapientia amorosa

Incipit: 49r Philosophia interpretatur amor sapientie

Explicit: 49v membrorum sensibilium ex fumo pertranseunte

2. 49v-63v

Isagoge ad Artem paruam Galeni (tr. Constantinus Africanus) Johannitius

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 49v Incipit Iohannicius

Incipit: 49v Medicina diuiditur in duo

Explicit: 63v boni maliue discretio

Final rubric: 63v Explicit liber Iohanicii cum commento

Gloss incipit: Cum inter omnia animalia corpus humanum | Gloss explicit: quibus non utimur in medicina

eTK 0856F*

eTK 1352I

eTK 0311K (t0060810000) (gloss)

3. 64r-80v

Aphorismata (with gloss of Oribasius) Hippocrates

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 64r Incipiunt aphorismi Ypocratis

Incipit: 64r Uita breuis ars uero longa

Explicit: 80v deglutire non possit mortale

Gloss incipit: Temporibus Ypocratis doctissimi uiri pro multiplici medicorum uarietate | Gloss explicit: et modo corpus attenuatur

Printed alongside an edition of the Articella in Padua in 1476.

eTK 0113F (t0021740000)

eTK 1559F (gloss)

Kibre, Hippocrates Latinus (rev. ed. 1985), no 41

4. 81r-86v

Commentary on Theophilus, Liber urinarum

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 81r Commentum super urinas a uoce Theophili

Incipit: 81r Sicut in humano corpore non simpliciter sed multiformiter fit operacio

Explicit: 86v et caloris et hec est naturalis

eTK 0879C (t0169820000)

eTK 1083L (t0208830000)

eTK 1083L (t0208840000)

eTK 1492L (t0285560000)

5. 86v-91v

Glosae super pulsus Philareti

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 86v Commentum super libro pulsuum philareti

Incipit: 87r Virtutum operationibus perficitur vita animalium et eorum corpora reguntur

Explicit: 91v Duricia et mollicies ||

Commentary explicit (ends imperfectly): 'est Marcellinus su'

Also in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius MS 111/180, pp. 73a-80b.

eTK 1702H (t0324410000)

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 50r egritudinum procedit

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 43 leaves. 240 × 170 mm.

Collation

Quires 8-12⁸ (ff. 49-88)
Quire 13^4-1 (ff. 89-91; 4th missing)

Condition

Very thick and rigid parchment in this section. Tight crease in f. 73.

Layout

185 × 115 mm. Ruled in two-column format, frame and lines, in faint leadpoint. Typically 50 lines to the column and usually written above top line.

Hand(s)

Written in a late and compressed Caroline minuscule of ?southern ?Italian appearance. For the items where there is a main text accompanied by a gloss or a commentary - the 'main' text is written in a larger and more calligraphic style, usually a few sentences at a time, and then the gloss or commentary follows underneath in a smaller and plainer style.

Decoration

Major initials at the opening of each text: gold initials on a red and blue geometric ground, the grounds further decorated with flourishes in white, and red pen-flourishing extending from the frame of the initial along the length of the adjacent margin, e.g., f. 49v.

Minor initials in red or blue at the minor divisions of the text, occasionally with very minor pen-flourishing.

Some minor initials in gold, usually marking a new significant section within a text, e.g., f. 70r.

Headings, section titles and key words in red in the main text or in the margins.

Paraph marks in red and blue to mark the smallest sub-divisions of the text.

History

Origin: Probably late 12th century. ; Possibly ?Southern ?Italy.

Part 7 (Thomson Part VI) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 92r-105v]

Language(s): Latin

1. 92r-97r

Isagoge ad Artem paruam Galeni (tr. Constantinus Africanus) Johannitius

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 92r Incipiunt ysagoge Iohanieii ad tegni Galieni

Incipit: 92r ⟨M⟩edicina diuiditur in duas

Explicit: 97r a boni maliue discretione

Same text as Part 5, item 2, ff. 49v-63v, but unglossed.

eTK 0856F*

eTK 1352I

2. 97v-102v

Aphorismata Hippocrates

Language(s): Latin

2.1. 97v

Aphorismata (Prologue) Hippocrates

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 97v Incipit ars prologus amphorismorum ypocratis

Incipit: 97v Aphorismorum ypocratis ⟨h⟩uius noue editionis ea causa extitit quoniam atique[sic] nullum eorum que uitiosis translacionibus inesse adsolent culpe genus defuit

Explicit: 97v Sed iam tempus est ad ipsum ypocratem accedere

Final rubric: 97v Explicit prologus

2.2. 97v-102v

Aphorismata (Text) Hippocrates

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 97v Incipit liber i amphorismorum ypocratis

Incipit: 97v ⟨U⟩ita breuis ars uero longa

Explicit: 102v et deglutire non possit mortale

Final rubric: 102v Explicit liber aphorismorum Ypocratis

Printed alongside an edition of the Articella in Padua in 1476.

eTK 0113F

Kibre, Hippocrates Latinus (rev. ed. 1985), no 41

3. 102v-105r

Prognostica (tr. Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) Hippocrates

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 102v Incipit liber pronosticorum ypocratis

Incipit: 102v ⟨O⟩mnis qui medicine artis studio seu gloriam

Explicit: 105r exposite ordine preceptorum

Final rubric: 105r Explicit liber pronosticorum ypocratis

Printed alongside an edition of the Articella in Padua in 1476.

Kibre, Hippocrates Latinus (rev. ed. 1985), no 203

4. 105r-105v

Liber urinarum Theophilus

Language(s): :Latin

Rubric: 105r Incipit liber urinarum a uoce theophili

Incipit: 105r ⟨D⟩e urinarum differentia negocium multi ueterum medicorum agressi sunt scribere

Explicit: 105v equalis colore uero ruffa autem subruffa et rubei paululum partici ||

Ends imperfectly.

Printed alongside an edition of the Articella in Padua in 1476.

eTK 0393L (t0077890000)

5. 105v

?Medical recipe

Language(s): Latin

Text very faded. For the ?stone ('[...] ad lapidum [...]').

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 93r aut exteriora deducunt

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 14 leaves. 240 × 170 mm.

Collation

Quire 14⁸ (ff. 92-99)
Quire 15⁸ (ff. 100-105; 7th and 8th leaves missing)

Medieval catchword in ink in the lower inner corner of f. 99v.

Condition

Trimmed with minor loss to catchword on f. 99v.

Layout

180 × 120 mm.

Ruled in two-column format, frame and lines, in leadpoint. 35 lines to the column written below top line ff. 92r-99v.

180 × 120 mm.

Ruled in two-column format, frame and lines, in leadpoint. 46 lines to the column written below top line ff. 100r-105v.

Hand(s)

Written in a southern European textualis rotunda bookhand.

Decoration

Incipits, explicits and section headings in red.

Spaces left for decorative initials on ff. 92r, 97v, 102v, 105v.

History

Origin: Probably 13th century. ; Probably Italy.

Part 8 (Thomson Part VII) [Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 251, ff. 106r-191v]

Language(s): Latin

1. 106r-142v

Ad glauconem de medendi methodo with interpolation from Ps-Soranus Galen

Language(s): Latin

1.1. 106r-106v

Ad glauconem de medendi methodo Galen

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 106r ⟨Quonia⟩m quidem non solum communem omnium fisin

Incipit: || 106r naturam uel temperantiam corpo

Explicit: 106v sed sordida quidem est et difficilis ad curandum

Title added in upper margin of f. 106r in a late 14th or early 15th century hand 'Liber de ffebribus'.

Subtitle 'Liber primus' added in a late 14th or early 15th century hand to the upper margin of f. 106r.

Initial 'Q' on f. 106r cut away.

1.2. 107r-108r

Epistula de ratione uentris uel uiscerum

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 107r Ne quis ignorans medicinam morituro adhibeat

Incipit: 107r Ne ignorans quisque iam[sic] medicus rationem organi uentris uel uiscerum

Explicit: 108r siquidem per omnes egritudines sua simili uarietate uexentur ||

Also in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. misc. c. 73, ff. 16rv

eTK 0906F

Printed (not from this MS) as part of Ps-Soranus, In artem medendi isagoge in De re medica (Basel, 1528), ff. 5r-6r, chs xii-xiii

1.3. 108r-142v

Ad glauconem de medendi methodo Galen

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 108v De febrium speciebus

Incipit: 108v Febrium species nemo discernere potest

Explicit: 142v possum scientia manifesta ratione conscribam

List of capitula on f. 108rv: 'Incipit capitula Libri .I.', followed by a list of 53 numbered capitula

List of capitula on f. 129v: 'Incipit capitula Libri Secundi', followed by a list of 25 numbered capitula

?Medieval bookmark made from a small piece of yarn, dyed blue, and sewn through the lower outer corner of f. 130v.

Ad glauconem de medendi methodo presented in two books, with two prologues. Book 1 preceded by 53 capitula, Book 2 preceded by 25 capitula.

eTK 1297C

eTK 0553G-I

Edited (not from this MS) in C. G. Kühn, Galeni opera omnia, 20 vols in 22 (Leipzig, 1819–33), XI:1-146

2. 142v-158r

Liber tertius Pseudo-Galen

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 143r Incipit Liber Tertius

Incipit: 143r Cephalea est dolor capitis

Explicit: 158r clisma austerum adhibendum est

Final rubric: 158r Explicit liber tertius

List of capitula on f. 142v-143r: 'Incipit capitula', followed by 68 numbered items.

?Medieval bookmark made from a small piece of yarn, dyed blue, and sewn through the lower outer corner of f. 142v.

eTK 0200G

Edited in K.-D. Fischer, Galenismo e medi- cina tardoantica: Fonti greche, latine e arabe. Atti del seminario internazionale di Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, 9 e 10 settembre 2002, ed. I. Garofalo and A. Roselli (Naples, 2003), pp. 283–346

3. 158v-167v

Liber Aurelii de acutis passionibus Galen

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 158v De iiiiuor humoribus qualiter egritudines faciunt

Incipit: 158v Omnibus hominibus generantur egritudines ex quattuor humoribus

Explicit: 167v in omnibus uulneribus ratio exigit

Final rubric: 167v Explicit liber iiii

Text preceded by 28 capitula

?Medieval bookmark made from a small piece of yarn, dyed blue, and sewn through the lower outer corner of f. 158v.

eTK 0993A

4. 168r-186r

Liber Esculapii de chronicis passionibus Galen

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 168r Incipit liber quintus

Incipit: 168r Cephaloponia id est capitis dolor commoto cerebro

Explicit: 186r acerrima induta fiant

Final rubric: 186r Explicit liber quintus

Text preceded by 60 capitula

eTK 0200G

Edited in F. M. Cano, ‘Liber Esculapii (Anonymus Liber chro- niorum): Edición crítica y estudio’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Madrid, 1996)

5. 186r-191v

De Podagra Alexander of Tralles

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: 186r Incipit liber sextus de podagricis

Incipit: 186r Podagriorum causas scire oportet

Explicit: 191v ad emigraneam et profluxum sanguinis prodest

Text preceded by 22 capitula

?Medieval bookmark made from a small piece of yarn, dyed blue, and sewn through the lower outer corner of f. 186r.

eTK 1056I

Edited in V. Knight, ‘The De Podagra (On Gout): A Pre-Gariopontean Treatise Excerpted from the Latin Translation of the Greek Therapeutica by Alexander of Tralles’ (unpublished PhD, Manchester, 2015)

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 107r Ne quis ignorans

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (HFFH)

Extent: Codex: 86 leaves. 240 × 150-160 mm.

Collation

Quire 16⁸ (ff. 106-113)
Quire 17⁶ (ff. 114-119)
Quires 18-26⁸ (ff. 120-191)

Quires 16-25 have medieval alphabetical signatures in ink A-K (J omitted) in ink in the lower margin of the last verso of each quire.

Condition

Parchment is irregularly shaped, not all leaves conform exactly to the measurements of the bookblock, but text conforms to the irregularities of the leaves. Damage to f. 106, a decorative initial on f. 106r has been excised.

Layout

175 × 105 mm. Ruled in single-column format with a stylus, frame and lines. Typically 37 lines to the page, written above top line. Capitulae arranged in two columns.

Hand(s)

Written in a late Anglo-Caroline minuscule. See T. A. M. Bishop, TCBS 2 (1954-1956), p. 189. See also, Gameson, Earliest Books (2008), pp. 191-192 and 203-204

Decoration

Plain initials in red, green, blue, and lilac at the start of major and minor divisions of the text.

Rubrication (red only) for chapter headings and most explicits.

History

Origin: Probably second half of the 11th century, or first quarter of the 12th century. ; Probably St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.

Date of origin for ff. 106r-191v given as 'xi/xii' by Gameson and 'xi ex. or xi/xii' by Gneuss and Lapidge. Both locate its production at St Augustine's.

R. Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c.1066-1130) (Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1999), Peterhouse MS 251 ff. 106-191 = no. 117

H. Gneuss, and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), Peterhouse MS 251 ff. 106-191 = no. 145

Part 9: Carmelite letters and pentrials [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 192-[193]]

Language(s): Latin

1. 192r

Copy of a letter written in 1400 to John and Alicia Horssyngton from a Carmelite foundation

Language(s): Latin

The letter greets 'John Horssyngton et Aliccie uxori sue' (John Horssyngton and Alicia his wife) and concludes with a dating clause 'Anno domini MCCCC^o', i.e., the year 1400.

The text of the letter is badly damaged and partly illegible due to rubbing. There is an annotation under the letter in a 15th century English cursive minuscule, now illegible due to rubbing.

See Thomson, Peterhouse (2016), no. 251

2. [193] verso

Copy of a letter (?from a Carmelite foundation)

The leaf was once used as a pastedown and most of the text is illegible due to adhesive residue and rubbing.

The text of the letter is in the same hand as the letter on f. 192r and presumably shares some origin and context features with that letter, but names, dates, and location information in the letter are too damaged to read with any certainty.

There is an annotation in a 15th century English cursive minuscule under the main text of the letter - this appears to be the same annotator who added a note in a similar location on f. 192r.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Parchment bifolium (HFFH).

Extent: Codex: 2 endleaves.

Collation

Medieval parchment bifolium (ff. 192-[193])

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

The two leaves in this part are a bifolium. Folio [193] was used as the rear pastedown in a former binding and is coated in an adhesive residue. All surfaces in the bifolium are badly rubbed and most of the text is illegible or gone entirely. Folio 193 was repaired with strong Japanaese paper in 2023 as part of a program of conservation and rebinding work.

Layout

130 × 135 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines. Folios 192r and [193] verso ruled in single-column format; the 'text box' is only ruled for the number of lines necessary for the text rather than to the lower bound, so e.g., there is an unruled space of c. 45mm in the lower portion of the text box on f. 192r. Folios 192v-[193] recto have margin ruling but no line ruling and are informally written.

Hand(s)

The copies of the letters on ff. 192r and [193] verso are written in a formal northern textualis.

Decoration

Folios 192r and [193] verso: significant initials in black ink with decorative flourishes in black and red.

Additions

Folios 192v-[193] recto: informal annotations written by ?three scribes in formal northern textualis with further annotations in an informal minuscule, all of 15th century appearance. The annotations on this opening are mostly written 90° clockwise and anticlockwise relative to the 'normal' orientiation of the book. Annotations as follows:

'Dyllforde (?Dylsforde) anno domini ...(?)'
'Robert(?)o Leycester 7 Alicie | coci consorti sue(?)
'Roberti de '
'... ...(?)ford Anno domini M^o CCCC^mo lxx(?)'
'Johannis Banham & caterine | anno(?) domini millesimo CCCC'
'Adam Scherynton(?) |Mariana uxor eius(?)

Binding

Traces of a pre-18th century binding visible as damage to ff. 192r-[193] verso. Small dots of cupric oxidation visible along the fore edge of the leaves probably caused by fastenings on an old binding. Damage to upper and lower margins now repaired with conservation-paper probably caused by metal book furniture such as staples for a chained binding.

History

Origin: 15th century. ; England.

Folio 192r contains a copy of a letter dated to 1400 and annotations on folios 192v-[193] recto contain 15th century dates. Several English names appear on the leaves.

Provenance and Acquisition

It is probable that this bifolium (and perhaps other Parts of the volume) were a later addition to the codex. There is a 'Caucio' inscription on f. i verso dated 1330, so presumably the opening flyleaves and at least the first substantial Part of this volume (i.e., Part 2) were together at that date. These endleaves (ff. 192r-[193] verso) include a copy of a letter dated to 1400 and several nearly-illegible annotations with 15th century dates, so it is likely that these endleaves and perhaps some of the other Parts were added to the 1330 form of the volume after 1400.

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws on M. R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Peterhouse (1899), and R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge (2016) by kind permission of the author. Readers of this record are encouraged to consult Thomson's Catalogue for further information about this manuscript.

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

Recorded in the catalogue of Peterhouse books for 24 December 1418. See CBMLC vol. 10, UC48.291.

Bibliography

A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Peterhouse, James, M. R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1899)

Der Magister Copho und seine Stellung im Hochsalerno Aus M. p. med. Q 2 (saec. XIII) fol. 85 a -103 a Würzburg Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Creutz, Rudolf (33, 5/6, 249-338, 1941, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20774081)

Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Bishop, T.A.M. (2, 2, 185-192, 1955, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154356)

Notes on Cambridge manuscripts, Part V: MSS. connected with St Augustine's Canterbury, Continued Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts V (cont'd) Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Bishop, T.A.M. (3, 1, 93-95, 1959, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41154383)

Manuscripts of early Anglo-Norman Canterbury Medieval art and architecture of Canterbury before 1220 British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Lawrence, A. (s.l., 101-111, British Archaeological Association, 1982)

Bald's Leechbook and cultural interactions in Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England, Cameron, M. L. (19, 5-12, 1990)

Anglo-Saxon medicine. Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Cameron, M.L. (Cambridge, University Press, 1993)

English manuscript art in the late eleventh century: Canterbury and its context Canterbury and the Norman conquest: churches, saints, and scholars, 1066-1109, Gameson, Richard (London, 95-144, Hambledon Press, 1995)

The manuscripts of early Norman England (c.1066-1130), Gameson, Richard (Oxford, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1999)

The Latin Alexander Trallianus: the text and transmission of a late Latin medical book Journal of Roman studies monographs, Langslow, D.R. (London, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2006)

Instructional manuscripts in England: the tenth- and eleventh-century codices and the early Norman ones Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence: papers presented at the international conference, Udine, 6-8 April 2006 Textes et études du moyen âge, Lendinara, Patrizia (Turnhout, 59-113, Brepols, 2007)

St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury Corpus of British medieval library catalogues, Barker-Benfield, B.C. (London, British Library in association with the British Academy, 2008)

The earliest books of Canterbury Cathedral: manuscripts and fragments to c.1200, Gameson, Richard (London, Bibliographical Society, 2008)

A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge colleges Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge, (London, 1: Insular and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, c. 700-c. 1100, Harvey Miller, 2013)

Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a bibliographical handlist of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 Toronto Anglo-Saxon series, Gneuss, HelmutLapidge, Michael (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2014)

Medicine at Bury in the Time of Abbot Baldwin Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest, Banham, Debby (226-246, Boydell & Brewer, 2014)

The De podagra (On Gout): a pre-Gariopontean treatise excerpted from the Latin translation of the Greek Therapeutica by Alexander of Tralles, Knight, Valerie (Manchester, 2015, https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/54569823/FULL_TEXT.PDF, PhD)

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Wellcome

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Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 251

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Part 1: medieval flyleaves [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. [ia]-i]

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Part 2 (Thomson Part I) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 1r-6v]

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Part 3 (Thomson Part II) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 7-11]

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Part 4 (Thomson Part III) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 12r-26v]

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Part 5 (Thomson Part IV) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 27r-48v]

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Part 6 (Thomson Part V) [Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 251, ff. 49r-91v]

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Part 7 (Thomson Part VI) [Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 251, ff. 92r-105v]

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Part 8 (Thomson Part VII) [Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 251, ff. 106r-191v]

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