Austria, Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria, Zisterzienserstift, 40

Aristotelian Manuscript

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 314 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 340 x 232 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles on the top of the pages in alternating red and blue letters. Sometimes initials painted in red or blue colour.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in two columns.


  • Hand Description:
    The code seems to be worked out by one librarian.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 273
  • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Manuscripta.at, Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Österreich, Onlinekatalog [Cod. 40]
Content
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 245v - 248v
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 150r - 195r
  • Note:
    Glosses of the Middle Commentary on the Meteorology by Averroes .

Aristotle De bona fortuna 311r - 314v
Aristotle De coloribus 299r - 307v
Aristotle De plantis 281v - 299r
Aristotle De morte 279r - 281r
Aristotle De respiratione 271r - 279r
Aristotle De iuventute 268r - 271r
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 265r - 268r
Aristotle De motu animalium 258v - 265r
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 249r - 258v
Anonymous Nota de ordine librorum animalium 197v - 197v
  • Incipit:
    Inquit translator: Liber qui inscribitur de partibus animalium immediate sequitur librum Meteorologicorum...

Aristotle De sensu et sensato 235r - 245v
Aristotle De anima 206v - 234v
Aristotle De progressu animalium 197v - 206v
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 195v - 197v
Aristotle Meteorologica 150r - 195r
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 150r - 195r
Aristotle De proprietatibus elementorum 118v - 127v
Aristotle De caelo 79v - 118r
Aristotle Physica 1r - 79r
Anonymous Vita Aristotelis 307v - 311r