Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 4° 316

Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 4° 316

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 86 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    An older foliation made with a pencil makes mistakes at some points and was later corrected by another pencil from leave 55 on (cf f. 55r ).
  • Decoration:
    According to Lacombe , the first letters of the initials are in minium, the others are missing. Manuscripta medievalia notes, that some texts have red decorations in the beginnings. Averroes' Expositio Libri De Physionomia Ps.- Aristotelis has red initials and is rubricated. The De Substantia Orbis also has red initials, as well as paragraph signs.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines in the Aristotelian part. Other texts are set in two columns.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by multiple hands.
    According to Lacombe , the text of the Aristotelian part is negligently written by three apparently German hands.
    According to Manuscripta medievalia, we have multiple hands between and within the individual texts, cursiva as well as current script with different stylistic specificities. Burley's Expositio Librorum De Caelo et Mundo was written in the first half of the 14th century , the other texts have similar or even older dating. Averroes' Expositio Libri De Physionomia Ps.- Aristotelis is written in an older cursiva. The De Substantia Orbis is written in a current script, strongly leaning to cursiva.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden cover with green leather.
  • Provenance:
    Lacombe dates ff. 70r - 77v ,just, to the end of the 13th century, tentatively. The front cover has a paper sheet on the outside with the old signature 45. phil. natur.
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th and 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Walter Burley Expositio Librorum De Caelo et Mundo 1r - 23v
  • Incipit:
    Brevem intendo hic collectionem librorum.
  • Explicit:
    ... de gravi et levi, sufficit et perfecte de suis accidentibus. Expl. comm. libror. de c. et m. breve collectum in villa Oxoniensi.
Anonymous Expositio Brevis Librorum De Anima Aristotelis 23v - 24v
  • Incipit:
    Nos opinamur, quod cognicio est de rebus honorabilibus.
  • Explicit:
    ... ab inanimato nisi sensu et motu locali.
Anonymous Liber Ignium de 27 Mansionibus Lune et Deservit Astrologie 24v - 26v
  • Incipit:
    Inc. lib. ig. de 27 mans. l. Mansio prima. Alnach quoddam caput arietis.
  • Explicit:
    ... infirmitate que bulliet in natibus. Expl.
Aristotle Physiognomonica 27r - 34r
Anonymous Practica Novi Quadrantis 34r - 36r
  • Incipit:
    Et sciendum: per quadrantem novum declinacionem sic practicabis.
  • Explicit:
    ... quotiens est longitudo plani; am.
Anonymous Practica Astrolabii 36r - 38r
  • Incipit:
    Inc. pract. astr. compendiosa. Investigantibus nobis pract. astr primo.
  • Explicit:
    ... comperacio stature tue ad totam planiciem.
Averroes Expositio Libri De Physionomia Ps.- Aristotelis 38v - 42r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.: Inc. ph., de quo (!) est intencio cap. I.] Proficere phisionomia ex qualitate corporis.
  • Explicit:
    temperamentum est optimum. [Rubr.: Expl. phys.]
  • Note:
    It is very questionable, that this should be Averroes ' authorship.
Anonymous Quaestiones super Librum De Causis Ps.- Aristotelis 43r - 53v
Anonymous Quaestio naturalis (I) 54v - 56r
  • Incipit:
    Quaestio I : Queritur, utrum homo sit minor, mundus
  • Note:
    Written by a different hand, older.
Anonymous Quaestio naturalis (II) 56r - 56v
  • Incipit:
    Questio II: Queritur, utrum nobilior sit qui sola nobilitate
  • Note:
    Written by a different hand, older.
Giles of Rome Expositio in Aristotelis Librum De physiognomia 56v - 69r
  • Incipit:
    Quon. autem et an. sec. corp.; circa istum librum sex inquiruntur: que intencio.
  • Explicit:
    ... ex eis non est phisionomizandum et ideo etc. Expl. D. gr.
  • Note:
    Markowski gives the title as: "Expositio libri 'De physionomia' Pseudo- Aristotelis ".
Aristotle Physiognomonica 70r - 77r
  • Explicit:
    ... impotencia ad motum in loco tantum.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 78r - 85v
  • Explicit:
    ... impotencia ad motum in loco tantum.
  • Note:
    The text ends abruptly. According to Manuscripta medievalia, we also have a later title: " Commentator Av. d. subs. orb.".