VMs: Balneological comparisons...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

While looking for balneological similarities, I stumbled (again) across 
Pietro da Eboli (AKA Petrus de Ebulo) whose "De Balneis Puteoli" / "De 
Balneis Puteolanis" (1227) was first mentioned on-list here by Brian Smith.

What I didn't realise about this was that it was a poem dedicated to 
Frederick II, describing the virtues of 35 different spas.

http://www.abruzzoitalico.it/intro/deaqua/en/elisir.asp?ID=16&sez=elisir

Now: thanks to the sharp eye of Philip Neal, we should know that f81r is 
the only page in the VMS whose text looks obviously as though it's a poem. 
And given that it should connect with f78v... taken together, this pair of 
pages seem to imply that the text describes a spa-town with three connected 
baths (or perhaps on the side of the hill, with two above the third).

It's possible that these disparate pieces of information may be enough to 
significantly shorten the list of possible candidate stanzas of the poem to 
compare against!

Just a thought... :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....