Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 4° 310

Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 4° 310

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 151 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 208 x 140 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    According to Lacombe , the Aristotelian part of this codex has three distinct codicological sections: section 1 (ff. 1r - 17v ), section 2 (ff. 18r - 30v ) and section 3 (ff. 71r -190v) [sic, this exceeds the actual leavescount, probably 150v , instead].
  • Decoration:
    In section 1 of the Aristotelian part, the larger letters are missing; in section 2 ornations are missing as well. Section 3 has initial letters in minium, which mark the beginning of the text. Those are missing in the De Anima.
  • Layout:
    Text is varyingly set in long lines or two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by multiple hands.
    According to Lacombe , section 1 of the Aristotelian part is written by a German hand in current script of reddish colour. Section 2 is written by a different, but contemporary hand. Section 3 is written by a weak hand of the 13th century in a blackish colour. The latter scribe wrote glosses and emendations to just one text (De Anima).
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden cover with green leather.
  • Provenance:
    On the outer side of the front binding, we have the old signature "66. phil. natur." from the library "Collegium Porta Coeli". At the top of f. 63r , we have: "pro II solidis". This is written in the same hand, as the date (1340) on f. 17r .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Universität Regensburg - Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Philosophie: ALCUIN, Online database on authors and texts from the Middle Ages [Parvi flores von Iohannes de Fonte OFM]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.669
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Manuscripta medievalia, Onlinekatalog [Erfurt, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha - UB Erfurt, Dep. Erf. CA. 4° 310]
  • Markowski Mieczysław , Repertorium Commentatorium Medii Aevi in Aristotelem Latinorum quae in Bibliotheca Amploniana Erffordiae Asservantur, Wrocław [et al.] (1987) , p. 204
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
Content
Anonymous Glossae super I-II Libros De Generatione et Corruptione Aristotelis 1r - 17v
  • Incipit:
    [Text:] De generatione autem et corruptione et de natura generatorum ...
    [Commentary:] Sicut dicit Plato in Thimeo: Nihil est cuius ortum ...
  • Note:
    The glosses are accompanied by the text of a contaminated version. According to Manuscripta medievalia and the colophon, this text dates to 1340 .
  • Colophon:
    Explicit liber De generatione et corruptione sub anno 1340 ipso die Oculi tui.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 18r - 25v
  • Incipit:
    In tractatu hoc intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus caeleste ...
  • Note:
    According to Manuscripta medievalia, the text has marginal glosses and may be the translation of Michael Scotus .
Aristotle Liber sex principiorum 26r - 30v
  • Incipit:
    Forma est compositioni contingens ...
  • Note:
    According to Manuscripta medievalia, the author is Gilbertus Porretanus .
Anonymous Auctoritates Aristotelis et Aliorum Philosophorum 31r - 46r
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Cum omne nostrum appetitum movere ... (f. 31r )
    [Main text:] Omnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant. Sensus visus ... (f. 32r )
  • Note:
    Manuscripta medievalia lists this text as Johannes' de Fonte Parvi Flores, which, according to ALCUIN, has the alternative title "Auctoritates Aristotelis et Aliorum Philosophorum".
Anonymous Prooemii commentarii cuiusdam philosophici fragmentum 46v - 47r
  • Incipit:
    Apuleius dicit in libro qui intitulatur de deo Socratis : Ammiror utique ...
  • Explicit:
    credulitas inducatur in ipso addiscente.
  • Note:
    Only Manuscripta medievalia mentions this text.
Aristotle Secretum secretorum 48r - 55v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Alexander noli appetere quod corruptibile ...
    [Main text:] O clemens imperator, nolite ...
Anonymous Expositio libri De secretis secretorum Pseudo- Aristotelis 56r - 62v
  • Incipit:
    Utile est regi corpus ab anima ...
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 63r - 68v
  • Incipit:
    De somno autem et vigilia considerandum ...
  • Note:
    This is a contaminated version.
Anonymous Auctoritates librorum politicorum et ethicorum Aristotelis 68v - 70v
  • Incipit:
    Diogenes philosophus dum insudaret philosophiae ...
Albert the Great De intellectu et intelligibili 71r - 80v
  • Incipit:
    Sicut a principio istius operis diximus, scientia de anima ...
Albert the Great De anima 81r - 145r
  • Incipit:
    Omnibus quae de corpore mobili et inmobili secundum locum ...
  • Note:
    The text has glosses.
Aristotle De anima 145r - 150v
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum et honorabilium opinantes notitiam ...
  • Explicit:
    ...de parte autem anime qua cognoscit etc. //
  • Note:
    This is the old translation. According to Lacombe , the text ends abruptly at the beginning of book III.