Cambridge, Peterhouse Library, 74

From Clavis Canonum

Cambridge, Peterhouse, 74 (today kept in the University Library like all medieval manuscripts from Peterhouse) is a copy of the Collectio Lanfranci. It survives in its twelfth-century binding, and is complete except for the los of one quire

The manuscript was owned by William of Saint-Calais, the bishop of Durham (1080-1096) who bequeathed it to the cathedral library. It was used for the famous tract defending William's position known as De iniusta vexacione Willelmi episcopi primi.

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Note that the description dates the manuscript saec. XIV and contradicts itself about the date the manuscript arrived at Peterhouse (before 1600 or after 1604).

Literature

Kéry, p. 116, 240