Germany, Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Naturales 3

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 77 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    The codex has suffered due to humidity, particularly ff. 1r- 1v and 75r- 77v .
  • Decoration:
    Spaces for decorated letters left empty. The Meteorologica has some mathematical drawings, including a schema on an inserted parchment sheet after f. 32v . There are different watermarks. Up to f. 57v , we have two circles with stars. From then onward we have an ox head and in the second part (starting with f. 70r ) we have circles and a star in different shape.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines.

    16 - 25 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one weak hand, nearly vanished.
  • Binding Description:
    Damaged pigskin binding.
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.627
  • Friedrich Leitschuh , Katalog der Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Bamberg Vol. I, 2 (Philosophische, Naturwissenschaftliche und Medicinische Handschriften), Bamberg (1899) , p.410 [Msc. Nat. 3]
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Manuscripta medievalia, Onlinekatalog [Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Msc.Nat.3 ]
Content
Aristotle Meteorologica 1r - 68v
  • Explicit:
    ... velud hominem et plantam et alia talia. Et sic est finis huius quarti metheororum et totius libri p... schuch.
  • Note:
    The text starts with book I, but the first chapter is completely vanished. There is a lacuna in the middle of the first book. After f. 8v , there is a larger gap. The explicit is from the end of book IV.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 70r - 77r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intrauimus [?] perscrutari ex quibus componitur [?] corpus celeste . declaratum est corpus celeste componi ex duabus naturis.
  • Note:
    Leitschuh gives the title "Tractatus astronomicus", without mentioning an author. The end is illegible.