Manuscript Description Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College MS 176/97 | |
| MS Appellation: | Medical miscellany |
| Title: | Contains extracts from Chaucer and Gower |
| Author: | Chaucer and Gower |
| Contents: | 1) Of Phlebotomie (english tract on blood-letting) 1-11; 2) miscellaneous notes and short texts in verse or prose 12-13; 3) tract on the kalendar These termes of the newe kalender..., 13-21, with 22 mostly blank with one scribble; 4) A pure balade of love and the Confessio Amantis extract, 23 with medicinal notes on 24 (the verso) in 16th-century hand, followed by blank pages 25-32, notes on zodiac, more blanks; treatise on medicine in 42 chapters, in another hand, 37-228 'Prologus istius tractatus secundum linguam maternam' on top p. 37 in rubric. |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Date Range: | 1475-1525 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 1 paper stub + 2 blank paper flyleaves + text block of pages 1-228 (so 114 folios) + 2 blank paper flyleaves |
| Pagination: | Pagination on rectos only, 1-227, modern arabic numbers in ink, upper outer corners recto. |
| Quiring: | From James catalogue, p. 201: 124 (1 replaced, six leaves (?all blank) cut out in the second half 2-520 (one replaced, one cancelled in 2nd half) 620 (wants 1, 9, 10). |
| Catchwords: | None in first booklet. |
| Page Size: | 216 x 148 |
| Writing Space: | Page 23 170 x c. 90 |
| Marginal Headings: | By scribes who wrote texts, none on 12 except 'lenvoye' by scribe in left margin beside the envoy; on p. 23, 'a pure balade of love' may be by a different hand. |
| Flourished Initials: | On p. 23 the initials of each line of the two short pieces here are touched with red. Red is used in similar ways on pages 12-13 (notes relating to earls, barons etc on 12 and verses on the 7 spices, etc on 13) but no other coloured ink in the first part of the MS. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | May have been two separate booklets, since hands so different; or combined by someone with interest in medicine since some texts in early part also relate to medicine. |
| Further Information: | James catalogue 201-203. |