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Se il parallelismo tra quanto andava compiendo il canonico Campi per la storia ecclesiastica piacentina ed il progetto di una storia delle diocesi italiane che poco dopo avrebbe intrapreso l’abate Ughelli nella sua Italia Sacra è intuitivo e spesso esplicitato dalla storiografia, l’indagine sulle testimonianze del rapporto tra i due studiosi seicenteschi si è sinora concentrata sulla corrispondenza dello storico cistercense conservata alla Vaticana. La ricerca di documenti in materia tra i manoscritti di Campi permette di collocare le loro relazioni in più piena luce. There is an obvious parallel between the work of canon Campi, who long searched archives and libraries in preparation for his ecclesiastical history of Piacenza, and the achievement of abbot Ughelli, who in the volumes of his Italia Sacra began publishing a history of all Italian dioceses when Campi was still striving to print his masterpiece. Historians have occasionally studied their relationship, focusing on the vast correspondence of the Cistercian abbot at the Vatican Library. A perusal of Campi’s papers has produced a new body of evidence regarding the relations between the two historians and their mutual influence.

The manuscript Vat. lat. 4418 contains, amongst rnedical and pharmacological works, a Latin glossary of plants, minerals and animal substances used in Medieval medicine and pharmacopedia. In this paper we offer a codicological description of the manuscript, followed by a descriptive transcription of the medical and botanical glossary. The majority of the terms contained in this glossary have suffered great deformations due to both copy errors and ignorance. Since a great deal of botanical terms come from Greek and the knowledge of such language in the IIth century West was very poor, we witness several morphological, phonetic and semantic transformations that make some words unrecognisable. In an attempt to regularize such terms, we have added a final index of cult forms which, however incomplete, tries to provide the reader with a useful tool for further analysis.