Cambridge, Peterhouse, 74

{{Infobox manuscript

   | library       = Cambridge, Peterhouse Library
   | shelfmark     = 74
   | digitalimages = [https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PETERHOUSE-00074/1 cudl.lib.cam.a
   | author1       = [[User:Lotte Kéry|Lotte Kér]
   | normregion    = unknown <-- manuscript cannot at present be categorized in one of our regions according to [[Categories for manuscripts by regio]. -->
   | coll          = Collectio Lanfranci
   | century       = saec. XI

}}Cambridge, Peterhouse, 74 (today kept in the University Library like all medieval manuscripts from Peterhouse) is a copy of the [[Collectio Lanfranc]. 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.

Links

• Description and digital images: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PETERHOUSE-00074/1

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, Collections p. 116, 240

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