France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6298

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6298

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 211 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 260 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Larger initials depicted in gold and various colours, the first one on f. 2r ornated with a picture of a king. The other smaller ones are in alternating red and blue. The titles are not coloured, but rubrics in minium can frequently be found within the text. On ff. 26r and 70r one can see basic geometric drawings on the right margin. On ff. 103r , 106r , 107r and 107v one can see some larger and more elaborate drawings, the first one within the main text, the others in the margins.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 50 lines to the page in ff. 2r- 211v , except for ff. 113r and 161v .

    Ff. 35v , 41r and 93v are without script. Ff. 41v and 113v are without main text, but have annotations in the margins.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written most elegantly by multiple Italian hands in a blackish colour.
  • Provenance:
    The codex was in Pavia ("in studio Papiensi") in 1395, cf. f. 161v . Thereafter, if George Lacombe is not mistaken, it was in the Bibliotheca Ducum Mediolanensium in Pavia (cf. on f. 1r : IIII tab. philosophie, liber VIII ).
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript lat. 6298]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.504 - 505
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Bnf. Gallica - Online catalogue [Latin 6298]
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 2r - 35r
  • Note:
    New Translation in 12 books, as one can see in the explicit on f. 35r .
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 36r - 39v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Averoys de substantia orbis.
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber Averoys de substantia orbis.
  • Note:
    The first initial on f. 36r contains a drawing of a lecturing animal.
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 40r - 40v
Aristotle Physica 42r - 72v
Aristotle De caelo 72v - 93r
Aristotle Meteorologica 94r - 112v
Magister Andrea de Burgariis de Janua Remedia Ordinata 113r - 113r
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 114r - 123v
Aristotle De anima 123v - 135v
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 135v - 140r
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 140r - 141v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 141v - 145v
Aristotle De motu animalium 145v - 148r
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 148r - 149r
  • Note:
    The last sentence is missing.
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 149r - 153v
Aristotle De bona fortuna 154r - 155r
Aristotle Physiognomonica 155r - 156r
  • Note:
    De Signis Corporis. This text is from the Ps.- Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum.
Aristotle De causis 156r - 160r
Al-Farabi De ortu scientiarum 160r - 161r
Magister Johannis de Capitaneis de Vitedonio Consilium super dispositione [sic] ardoris urine compilatum 161v - 161v
  • Note:
    Within the explicit one finds: "Consilium super dispositione [sic] ardoris urine compilatum ac scriptum propria manu per magistrum Johannem de Capitaneis de Vitedonio in felici studio Papiensi anno Domini M.CCC.LXXXXV".
Aristotle Secretum secretorum 162r - 180v
Aristotle Epistola ad Alexandrum 181r - 181v
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , this is the longer edition.
Aristotle Liber ethicorum 182r - 211v
  • Note:
    The text ends abruptly at the beginning of book X.