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and intermixed with it four hundred verses of his 
own composition, distinguished from the original by 
being in the elegiac metre, and without rhyme. 
18 entitled, Novo-antiqua Sehola Salernitana. It 
begins : 
Corpore tu quicunque voles, animoque valere, 
Sincera jugitér mente precare Deum. 
Hine noscenda tui tibi sunt primordia prima 
Corporis, et quinam sit status inde tibi. 
Cognita que certam possint monstrare salutem, 
Ne malé conveniens ingredieris iter. 
Ergo rudes simul hee, simul et versate periti, 
Omnibus iste potest utilis esse labor. 
Sunt duo, mens, corpus, fragilis primordia vite : 
‘iius celum est, hujus origo solum : 
Vilius idque licet, constat tamen ex elementis 
Quatuor, et sunt hec, aér, aqua, ignis, humus. 
ss mes given an account of the commentators, 
to Principal printed editions, I shall now proceed 
describe such manuscripts as have come within 
my knowledge. 
VI. THE MANUSCRIPTS. 
The manuscripts of the Schola Salernitana differ 
wmatially in the number of lines, in the variety of 
readings, the additions, and the order. Whilst 
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