Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 466: Medical Tracts
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 466 is a twelfth-century collection of medical tracts assembled at St Augustine's, Canterbury. Like many such medieval collections, what constitutes a 'medical' treatise is somewhat elastic, this volume including as it does the verse discussion on the properties of stones by Marbod, bishop of Rennes (1035-1123), the Liber lapidum, a copy of the Somniale Danielis, a guide to the interpretation of dreams, as well as more conventional material such as the treatise on the humours by Vindicianus (fl. late 4th century), Epistula ad Pentadium. Something of the codicological history of this manuscript can be inferred, as the flyleaves consist of a papal document from the time of Urban VI (1378-89) and a note that the volume was 'reparacione fratris laurentii lenham'. Lenham has been identified as a mid-fifteenth-century figure, suggesting that this volume was rebound twice in the medieval period.
- Contents
- Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis -- Liber de gradibus simplicium (transl. byConstantinus Africanus) -- Liber lapidum -- Liber aureus de remediorum et aegritudinum cognitione -- Epistula ad Pentadium -- Somniale Danielis -- Speculum medicarum
Description
| Alternative title | Medica |
|---|---|
| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 4 + 147 |
| Date created | [ca. 1100 - 1199] |
| Language | Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 23 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 163 |
| Width (mm) | 114 |
| Collation | a(4) 1(4) 2(2) 3(8)-7(8) 8(4) 9(8) 10(8) | 11(8)-15(8) | 16(10) | 17(8)-20(8) (wants 8). |
| Writing | in several interesting and good hands |
| Foliation | ff. a + i-iv + pp. 1-294 + f. b |
| Provenance | From St Augustine's Canterbury. See Ancient Libraries, p. 343, no. 1245. |
| Additions | The flyleaves are a papal absolution of Urban (VI) to Juliana Welde mulier Cantuariensis. Given at Perugia 5 kal. Feb. year blank. On f. iv: Liber de reparacione fratris laurentii lenham. On f. iiir partly erased: Liber graduum et in eodem lapidarium Evax. liber aureus liber de urinis de librario S. Aug. cant. exstra muros. |
| 2 fo. | facile |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xii |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 42 |
| Stanley | Sub D. 11 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qt651bq6363 |
| Location | MS 466 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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