Switzerland, Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, 20, fol. 17v, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-CH-SHT-E-20/page/34
Foliation:
A foliation from the 15th or 16th century: 1-100.
Collation:
4IV^32; VI^44 + V^54 + 2 VI^78 + I^80; VIII^96 + II^100
A counting of the layers: i - xi.
In the second part reclaimers at the beginning of the layers: i - iiii. The third and fourth layer mixed up.
Decoration:
The whole manuscript is illuminated very beautifully. The first part has the most initials. On 32 leaves one can find all in all 16 Initials. The initials have red, blue, green, ocher and rose letters on golden ground.
I.e.:
1v
: Aristotle gives the book to the messenger.
2r
: Alexander the Great with warriors and advisors.
In the second part just the beginnings of the two works are illustrated (cf. ff.
33r
and
62r
). Here red, blue, green, ocher and rose colours were used. Paragraphs are red and blue, titles in red.
The third part contains no pictures.
Layout:
Text is set in
2
columns.
The number of lines in the first part differ from 35 to 55. In the second part each column has 44, in the third part each has 49 lines.
Hand Description:
At least four scribes, two rubricators and two bookpainter worked on the book.
The manuscript is composed of three partes. The first part, which was created after the following two, contains Aristotelian and Pseudo-Aristotelian works in translations of the 13th century. The second part consists of "De mineralibus" and "De natura loci"
Albert's the Great
. In the third part one can find various commentarys, i.e.
Averroes
"In de longitudine et brevitate vitae".
[Incipit prologus Guidonis de Valencia super librum de secretis secretorum Aristotilis qui intitulatur de regimine principum ad regem Alexandrum Magnificum] Prologus: Domino suo excellentissimo ... Textus: Prologus [Rest is wiped out]. O fili gloriosissime iustissime imperator confirmet te deus in via cognoscendi ...
Explicit:
... ad meliorem et probabiliorem partem. [Completus est tractatus de signis et moribus naturalibus hominum ad regem magnificum Alexandrum qui dominatus fuit toti orbi, dictus monarcha in septentrione. Explicit quartus liber de secretis Aristotilis.]
Prologus: [Incipit prologus super librum Aristotilis de pomo.] Cum clausa esset via veritatis sapientibus ... Textus: [Incipit liber Aristotilis de pomo.] Fuit in illo tempore quidam sapiens magnus et famosus et in omnibus sapientia intelligens et eius nomen Aristotiles ...
[Incipit liber quintus de secretis secretorum Aristotilis et vadis ad tale signum in 4o folio superius... ] O Alexander iam scivisti illud quod antea tractavi (?) et exposui non semel ...
[Incipit liber de motu animalium Aristotilis.] De motu autem eo qui animalium quecum[que] quidem circa unumquodque genus ...
Explicit:
... Reliquum autem de generatione dicere. [Ego frater Guifredus scripsi hoc opus. Scriptorem libri conservet gratia Christi. Auxilio cuius destera scripsit opus.]
[Incipit liber de lineis indivisibilibus Aristotilis.] Uutrum [sic] sunt indivisibiles linee et totaliter in omnibus quantis est aliquid inpartibile ...
[Incipit liber de natura loci ex latitudine et longitudine eiusdem proveniente ...]. De natura locorum que provenit ex habitudine loci ad celum tractaturi ...
Explicit:
... ab oriente Numidiam. [Explicit iste liber set [instead of: sit] scriptor crimine liber].
Prologue: Reverentissimo Toletane sedis arciepiscopo et Ispanarum primati Iohanni Avetanth Israelita philosophus ... Text: Liber iste dividitur in V partes et unaqueque pars in capitula sua ...
Explicit:
... in viijo ostenditur que sunt instrumenta anime.
Ut testatur Plato in Timaeo mundus iste sensibilis factus est ad similitudinem mundi arcithepi ...
Explicit:
... demum martirizatus. [Expliciunt glose super speram. Amen]. Annex: Probatur ab auctoribus astronomie quod X sunt corpora magna et maxima in celo(?) omnia corpora que in universo continentur unde versus: sol. stel. fix ...- ... sunt corpora magna.
[Incipit commentum Phtolomei super librum Aristotilis de longitudine et brevitate vite]. Et in hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite. Dicamus ergo quod concessum est hic circa causas naturales in hiis duobus accidentibus ...
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