Trilingual compendium of texts (MS Gg.1.1) Diagram of the human brain (MS Gg.1.1, f. 490v)
First half of 14th century, after 1307 C.E.
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Assembled in the early fourteenth century, this "library within a book" contains a wide array of literary, historical, grammatical, scientific, astronomical, theological, pastoral and devotional texts. The texts are predominantly in Anglo-Norman (the form of French used in Medieval England), but also Middle English and Latin, illustrating the persistence of a multi-lingual culture centuries after the Norman Conquest.
An illustration to a short treatise derived from the works of Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna, this shows the human brain comprising five cells or "ventriculi" that represent the five "powers" of thought: common/imaging sense, imagination, estimation, cogitation and memory.
- Title: Trilingual compendium of texts (MS Gg.1.1) Diagram of the human brain (MS Gg.1.1, f. 490v)
- Date Created: First half of 14th century, after 1307 C.E., First half of 14th century, after 1307 C.E.
- Location Created: England, England
- Rights: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge University Library
- View the fully digitised item in Cambridge Digital Library using this link: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-00001-00001/1, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-00001-00001/1
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