Germany, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Magdeb. 201, fol. x1, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-DE-BER-SB-Magdeb.201/page/1
Collation:
Part I: 5VI^60 + 7VII^74 + 3VI^110 + IV^118 + VII^134 + VI^146
Part II: 5 Sesternions
Part III: 1 Septernion and 1 Sesternion, some halfpages
Part IV: V^268 + (III-3). On f.
268v
below a reclaimer.
Part V: 3V^301 + IV^309 + 5V^359 + IV^367. Reclaimer, but in the last layer missing.
Condition Description:
The folios of part II are cut for binding, thus parts of the text are missing.
Part III is , f.
259r
is very dirty.
Decoration:
Part I: The beginnings of the books are rubricated and on ff.
91v
-
92r
. There are also some larger Lombards, some of them in a frame including the headline. On f.
67v
one can find a mannered Q, on ff.
111r
-
114r
very elegant Lombard initials, on ff.
119r-
120v
some demonstrations of spheres and on ff.
122v-
124r
schemata in the margin.
Part II: Broad margin for commentary. Commentary and glosses in the interlines sometimes at the same time. Rubricated on ff.
151v-
152r
. We can find a twelve lines tall Lombard initial "P" on f.
147r
, the internal surface of the initial is decorated with clumsy floral decor. Sometimes space for initials is recessed.
Layout:
The manuscript consists of five parts: Part I: ff.
1r-
146v
. Part II: ff.
147r-
206v
. Part III: ff.
207r-
258v
. Part VI: ff.
259r-
271v
. Part V: ff.
272r-
368v
.
First part:
Text is set in 2 columns, but on ff. 111r - 120v in one column.
Writing box:
45-50 lines to the column.
Second part:
On ff. 148r - 204v the text is set in long lines, the rest of the part in 2 columns.
Writing box:
First 13-16 lines, then 56 lines to the column.
Third part:
Text is set in 2 columns.
Writing box:
46-51 lines to the column.
Fourth part:
Text is set in 1 column.
Writing box:
34-35 lines to the page.
Fifth part:
Text is set in 1 column.
Writing box:
23-31 lines to the page.
Hand Description:
A lot of hands.
Michael de Novimago on ff.
108r-
110r
. Johannes Antonii on ff.
121r-
146v
. Both members of the Dominican monastery Magdeburg. A third hand on f.
148r
. A lot of hands in part three, ff.
207r-
211v
from Johannes Antonii in Magdeburg again.
Provenance:
Each part is dated to a different time: Part I: 1474 and 1477, part II: 15th century, part III: 15th century, partly 1475, part VI and V: about 1400
History
Origin Date: 15th century
Origin Place: Germany (Magdeburg)
Ursula Winter ,
Die Manuscripta Magdeburgica der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Preußischer Kulturbesitz Vol. Teil 3: Ms. Magdeb. 170 - 268, Wiesbaden (2008) , pp. 121-126
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 714
Circa inicium librorum phsiscalium Aristotelis. Sicut habetur sexto metaphisice tres sunt philosophie theorice...
Explicit:
...Quia scilicet sua est maxime (infinita crossed out) intensiue et sic est intensive infinitus. Et sic est finis huius etc. Finitum est completum per fratrem Mychaelem de Nouimagio anno domini millesimo quadrigentezimo septuagezimo septimo feria tertia ante dominicam in ramis palmarum (26.3.1477) et petit humiliter orari pro salute eius ab illis qui vsi fuerint hoc libri etc. Deo gracias. Amen.
In nomine domini. Amen. In nomine domine. Qvoniam scire et intelligere contingit circa omnes scientias. Est ergo primo notandum quomodo Philosophus procedit...
Explicit:
...patet ergo quod primus motvs est indiuisibilis, immobilis, igenerabilis, incorruptibilis et infatigabilis nullam penitus habens magnitudinem, cui sit honor et gloria in seculorum. Amen. / Et sic est finis, deo laus et gloria trnis nota etc.
Note:
No script on ff.
115r-
115v
.
Nib tests on f.
118v
.
Two notes on the following illustrations of spheres on f.
119r
, saying: "Raby Moyses, Celum est vniuerso sicut cor in animali", and on f.
120v
: "Alexander de Villa Dei/ Cui celum seruit celus et cuncta creauit".
Illustrations of spheres on ff.
119r-
120v
.
No script again on f.
120r
.
Assit ad inceptum sancta Maria mater Ihesu Christi./ Circa dicta librorum de celo et mundo sunt aliqua antequam./ Antequam ad textum procedatur premittenda sunt...
Explicit:
...quod plus uel minus descendit et sic finitur quartus liber de celo et mundo anno domini 1474 eodem die quo theologie studentem vtrumque conscriptus ('studentem' is added above the line and would actually stand behind 'vtrumque').
Note:
On f.
128r
: "Anno domini M° CCCC lxxiiii in profesto sanctorum decem milium martrium (21.06.) per fratrem Iohannem Anthonij scripti studentem sacre pagine ordinis predicatorum..."
On f.
132v
: "Anno domini M° CCCC lxxiiii° in vigilia Johannis baptiste (23.06) a fratre Iohanne Anthonij sacri numinis studente peroptime exarati..."
Antequam autem textus (!, recte: ad textum) huius libri procedatur aliqua sunt precedenda scilicet quod titilus (!) huius libri est Iste est liber metheororum...
Explicit:
...quia huiusmodi conclutinosum (!) est sequitur in dissolucio et hec in generali sufficiunt de mineralibus. Et sic explicit tercius metheororum anno domini 1474 hora semioctaua de sero in sequenti die post festum sancti Jacobi apostoli (26.07.).
Note:
On f.
137v
: "... Infra octauam visitacionis quidem festum tunc fuit et sabbato (5.7.) et et (!) in secunda feria finitus est liber hic anno domini M° CCCC lxxiii..."
On f.
141v
: "...Et sic est finis huius etc. sequenti die post AllexiJ (18.07) anno domini 1471 in Magdeburg...
(147r) Commentarius: Pro recommendeacione aliquali materie librorum de anima. Summatur hec verba anima se ipsam ignorans... (148r) Textus: [B]Onorum honorabilium noticiam opinates...
Explicit:
(204v) Textus: ...linguam autem habet quatenus significet aliquid alteri.
Note:
The comment dissolves into single, finally diminishing marginal notes. The translation correspondes with the one from
Guilelmus of Moerbecke
, but holds also elements of the Translatio vetus in the beginning where variants were crossed out later and replaced by versions of the Translatio nova. The same anonymous commentary is handed in the Ms. Halberstadt Domgymnasium, Cod. 18 but without Prooemium. Hence it is possible, that this manuscript has a local tradition of the commentary.
No script on f.
205r
-
206r
.
Tu pater cum nato pariter, cum flante benigno/ Scribere annum prestes alitrix Christique Maria./ 'Liber de anima.' Prohemium in libros de anima./ Postquam in libro de celo et de generacione determinatum est de corporibus simplicibus...
Explicit:
...possit exercere suas diuersas operaciones tale autem est corpus mixtum diuersi modi organizatum. Et in hoc finitur tercias de anima.
Postquam in libro de anima determinatum sit de principio corporis animalis...
Explicit:
...quod visio alibi et visio nigri con conterminantur sicut nec species intellectuales ipsarum. Et in hoc finitur liber de sensu et sensato. Deo gracias.
Incipit tractatus
Averrois Commentatoris
super De sensu et sensato in quo ostendit de organis quinque sensuum. Capitulum primum. Uirtutes quidem sensibiles. Quedam sunt necessarie in esse animalis...
Explicit:
...in dando causam de fortitudine rememoracionis. Loquendum est de eo in secundo tractato.
Note:
The Commentary on the Parva Naturalia is printed in GW2427, Padua, about 1747.
Incipit tractatus
Commentatoris
super de memoria et reminiscentia. Capitulum primum. Iste tractatus incipit perscrutari de rememoracione et de inquisicione...
Explicit:
...quapropter figitur in aspectu earum, quapropter difficile amittit eas.
Note:
The Commentary on the Parva Naturalia is printed in GW2427, Padua, about 1747.
Averroes
Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia)
Incipit tractatus
Commentatoris
super de sompno et vigilia, capitulum primum. Et cum iam diximus de virtute hoc dicendum est de sompno et vigilia et priumum vtrum aproprientur anime...
Explicit:
... De quidditate igitur sompnorum verorum et falsorum et causis accidencium suorum dictum est.
Note:
The first sentence appears as the last of the previous text, so that the headline is on the top of f.
265r
.
The Commentary on the Parva Naturalia is printed in GW2427, Padua, about 1747.
Averroes
Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite)
Incipit tractatus
Commentatoris
de causis longitudinis et breuitatis vite, capitulum priumum. Et in hoc tractatu perscrutatur de longitudinis et breuitatis vite. Dicamus igitur quod concessum est...
Explicit:
...de causa longitudinis et vite secundum nostrum posse et intellectum.
Note:
The Commentary on the Parva Naturalia is printed in GW2427, Padua, about 1747.
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