France, Bourges, Bibliothèque municipale, 298

France, Bourges, Bibliothèque municipale, 298

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 171 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 212 x 145 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    F. 151 (cf. ff. 151r and 152r ) is signed out twice. The DARE-counting tries to represent the correct foliation, increasing the total number of folios to 171 leaves.
  • Layout:


    About 47 lines to the page.

    Ff. 48v , 86r- 87r and 107v- 109v are without script.
  • Binding Description:
    Green leather.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Ministère de l'instruction publique (France): Catalogue Général des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques publiques de France, Départements, Tome IV (1886) , pp. 70f.
  • Bibliothèque Municipale (Bourges): CESR - Digibook - 2012 [Ms 298]
Content
Anonymous Expositio in Missam 1r - 41r
  • Incipit:
    Raptus est in paradisum et audivit ...
  • Explicit:
    ... pro dilectione proximi. Explicit expositio et ministratio misse.
Anonymous Recipes 41v - 45v
  • Note:
    This part of the codex contains various recipes, among them, attributed to Avicenna : "utrum mulier pregnans concepit masculum vel feminam".
Miscellaneous Rubrice librorum Aristotelis et aliorum philosophorum et commentatorum 46r - 48r
  • Note:
    The full title given by the Catalogue Général is: "Rubrice librorum Aristotelis et aliorum philosophorum et commentatorum tam philosophie quam logice, quorum flores et auctoritates sequuntur postea".
Miscellaneous Excerpts 49r - 73v
  • Note:
    Among others, we have excerpts from the Aristotelian Metaphysics (book I) and De Caelo.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 73v - 74r
  • Note:
    Authorship is not clear. This text seems to start within the first chapter of De Substantia Orbis ("id, quod movetur ex se, componitur ex duabus naturis ..."). Following up, we have extracts and/or reformulated summaries from various parts of the De Substantia Orbis.
Faltonia Betitia Proba Cento Vergilianus 95r - 109v
  • Incipit:
    Centones apud grammaticos vocari solent qui de carminibus Homeri ...
  • Explicit:
    ... novumque peregit. Explicit Proba Valeria .
Anonymous Tractatus de Sphaera 110r - 115v
  • Incipit:
    Tractatum spere 4^or capitulis distinguimus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... directi illis suppositis.
Thomas Aquinas De Sensu Communi 116r - 118r
  • Incipit:
    Queritur de sensu communi ...
  • Explicit:
    ... omnia sensata propria. Explicit.
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear. The incipit/explicit of the text could not be identified on Corpus Thomisticum.
Anonymous De Potentiis Animae 118r - 122r
  • Incipit:
    Nunc autem secundum quosdam philosophos ...
  • Explicit:
    ... vel eadem cum memoria. Explicit ...
Albert the Great De Potentiis Animae 122v - 123v
  • Incipit:
    Ad evidenciam autem predictorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... qui visionem percipit.
Anonymous Ratio Quare Facimus istam Artem est ut Ars Magna Facilius Sciatur [...] 124r - 142r
  • Incipit:
    Ratio quare facimus istam artem est ut ars magna facilius sciatur, nam dicta ista ars supra dicta et eciam alie artes de facili poterunt addisci ...
  • Explicit:
    ... doceat vos in predictis. Actum Pisis, ... 1307 , in januario. Finis.
  • Note:
    The incipit is similar to incipit of the Ars Brevis of Raymundus Lull .
Anonymous Tractatus Parvus de Divina Trinitate 142v - 143v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam per plures modos novos ...
  • Explicit:
    ... coram divina Trinitate. Ad laudem ... Dei finivit Raymundus istum tractatum, in civitate Messane, mense octobris anno 1313 .
Anonymous Ciceronis Synonyma 144r - 171v
  • Incipit:
    [C]icero Lucio Veturio ... Collegi ea ...[A]bditum, opertum ...
  • Explicit:
    ...Instituo, Destituo.