Peterhouse : Two medical works by Galen

Peterhouse

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Two medical works in Latin ascribed to Galen. Translated into Latin from the original Greek. Formerly owned by Thomas Wendy</p><p>Contains a fragmentary manuscript leaf <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(205);return false;'>ii recto-ii verso</a> between <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(204);return false;'>172</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(207);return false;'>173</a>.</p><p>Thomas Wendy (1499/1500–1560), fellow of Gonville Hall from 1519, was royal physician to Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, Edward VI, Mary, and later to Elizabeth. His will left many books to Gonville Hall (refounded as Gonville and Caius College in 1557), and also apparently to a bookbinder, Aldus Manutius. Nineteen titles belonging to Wendy eventually came to Peterhouse, many likely through Perne’s friendship with John Caius. These titles greatly expanded Peterhouse’s supply of medical books, helping to ensure that Peterhouse became one of the colleges (along with Trinity, King’s, St John’s, and Caius) from which the highest number of doctors of medicine graduated successfully in the period 1550–1590 (David McKitterick; Scott Mandelbrote).</p></p>