France, Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, 412

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 228 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 275 x 195 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of eight codicological sections: section 1 (ff. 1r- 15r ), section 2 (ff. 16r- 20v ), section 3 (ff. 22r- 33v ), section 4 (ff. 34r- 42r ), section 5 (ff. 43r- 69v ), section 6 (ff. 70r- 136r ), section 7 (ff. 137r- 178r ) and section 8 (ff. 179r- 228r ). Lacombe gives nine codicological sections, splitting the above section 6 into two (the second beginning with f. 102r ).
  • Condition Description:
    The two last folios of section 2 and the three last folios of section 5 are missing.
  • Decoration:
    Section 3 and 7 have titles in red and blue on top of the pages. In section 2, 4, 5 and 8, spaces for initials are left empty. Section 3 and 7 have initials in red and blue, entwined and elongated with lines. In section 6, some initials are red, some left empty. In section 3, the paragraphs are signed in red and blue. Section 4, 5 and 8 have no rubrics, spaces for rubrics are left empty. Section 6 is rubricated, the paragraphs are signed in minium. Section 1 is written in a fine script with red ink.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns, except for ff. 101v and 200r - 201r, where we have long lines.



    F. 21r is without script, f. 179v possibly as well, according to d'Alverny .
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by many librarians, according to d'Alverny : relatively careless. In section 8, we have different hands even within a section.
  • Provenance:
    The codex once belonged to Sancta Maria Laudunensis.
    On flyleaf I a hand from the 18th century added: "cotte xxxxxx" and "n° 337 Collectio operum medicorum". Similarly, "xxxxxx" is added on f. 228r .
    On f. 228v , a hand from the 16th century added "D. B.".
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 15-21
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript 412]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 471ff.
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982) , p. 88
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 7v - 9r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus disputare de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et adquirere.
  • Note:
    The text has marginal glosses, but is not complete.
Moses Maimonides De plantis 3r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    Sciendum autem quod cedrus et pinus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et precipue a superiori parte.
Isaac of Stella Epistola De anima 41r - 42r
  • Incipit:
    Dilecto sibi Alchero frater Ysaac ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ad amorem virtutis. Explicit Ysaac de anima.
Hugh of Saint-Victor Didascalicon 22r - 33v
  • Incipit:
    Multi sunt ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in Babilonem.
  • Note:
    The end is missing.
Dominicus Gundissalinus De processione mundi 16r - 20v
  • Incipit:
    Inuisibilia Dei per ea que facta sunt mundi conspiciuntur [sic] ... Si autem vigilanter hic visibilia conspicimus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sub natura intelligit.
Boethius De hebdomadibus 40r - 40v
  • Incipit:
    Postulas ut ex ebdomadibus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... omnia bona.
Boethius De trinitate 38v - 40r
  • Incipit:
    Inuestigantem [sic] diutissime questionem ... Xristiane religionis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... coniunge.
  • Note:
    This includes the proemium. In the margins, we have: "Incipit prohemium libri Boecii de Trinitate ad Simachum socerum suum".
Avicenna Metaphysica 180r - 228r
  • Incipit:
    Cum autem, auxilio Dei, expleuimus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... vicarius Dei in illo.
  • Note:
    This is an emendated version.
Avicenna Physica 144r - 178r
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Postquam expediuimus nos, auxilio Dei ... (f. 144r )
  • Explicit:
    [Prologue:] ... dator auxilii (f. 144v ).
    [Main text:] ... et hee propositiones per se note sunt (f. 178r ).
  • Note:
    The text has a prologue.
Avicenna De caelo et mundo 135r - 136v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Collectiones expositionum ab antiquis grecis ... (f. 135r )
    [Main text:] Primum quod corpus ... (f. 135v )
  • Explicit:
    [Prologue:] ... sextum decimum de generatione IIII elementorum et quod corpus fuit eis (f. 135v ).
    [Main text:] ... quia iam declarauimus (f. 136r ).
  • Note:
    The text is with a prologue, but not complete (ending according to Lacombe in cap. 3).
Avicenna De anima 102r - 135r
  • Incipit:
    [Preface:] Translatio libri Auiscene de Anima archiepscopo Tholetane [sic] R. [R]euerentissimo Toletane sedis archiepiscopo ... Iohanni [...] philosophus ratam [sic] debite servitutis obsequium ... (f. 102r )
    [Main text:] Incipit diuisio librorum et capitulorum. [Liber] iste diuiditur in tres [sic] particulas ... (f. 102r )
  • Explicit:
    [Preface:] ... non dubitetis (f. 102r ).
    [Main text:] Explicit liber de anima. (f. 135r )
  • Note:
    The text has a preface by the translator (f. 102r ).
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 51r - 52v
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 179r - 179r
  • Incipit:
    Dicamus ergo quod nos querimus elementa corpora [sic] ...
  • Explicit:
    ... calor enim est congregans.
  • Note:
    This is just an excerpt.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 58r - 69r
  • Explicit:
    Explicit Comentum Auerroys ...
Al-Kindi De intellectu 7v - 7v
  • Incipit:
    Solutio breuis secundum sententiam Aristotelis et Platonis . sed sententia eorum est quod intellectus est secundum IIII species ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et hoc ad presens sufficit de diuisione intellectus.
  • Note:
    This is an anonymous translation. D'Alverny gives the title "De Divisione Intellectus".
Augustine Dialogus Quaestionum LXV 34r - 38v
  • Incipit:
    Dicet [sic] quidem multi ac probatissimi viri ...
  • Explicit:
    ... non prodesse.
  • Note:
    The title "De questionibus Orosyi ad Augustinum et de responsionibus eiusdem ad eundem" can be found in the lower margin.
Anonymous Notae breves tractatus de Philosophia Naturali 1r - 3r
  • Incipit:
    Considerare animam est dupliciter, aut secundum quod est separata a corpore, aut secundum quod est coniuncta corpori ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et hoc est quod accepi de dictis antiquorum Caldeorum in ista intentione.
  • Note:
    These tractates can also be found in the same order in London, British Library, Royal 12 C. XV, ff. 236 - 238. In the lower margin of f. 2r an addition from the 13th century can be found: "De probatione fidei. Ministerio angelorum qui dicuntur Virtutes faciunt homines miracula Alii angeli dicuntur archangeli ... aduenit eis sompnium quod dicitur species prophetie".
Michael Scotus Quaestiones Nicolai Peripatetici 9v - 14v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam terra sperica est ...
  • Explicit:
    ... potatur ab alio.
Al-Ghazali Metaphysica 70r - 88r
  • Incipit:
    Liber primus Methaphisici [sic] Algazelis . Usus fuit apud philosophos ...
  • Explicit:
    ... motus ad medium.
  • Note:
    The text is incomplete.
Al-Ghazali Logica 137r - 144r
  • Incipit:
    Quod autem preponi debent ...
  • Explicit:
    ... intelligi de Logica.
  • Note:
    The manuscript title can be found on top of the page.
Al-Zarqali Canones tabularum toletanarum 92v - 92v
  • Incipit:
    In nomine Domini scito quod annus lunaris sit ex 354 diebus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et adde desuper quod transierit.
  • Note:
    This part contains just the beginning (cf. ff. 94r- 101r ).
Al-Zarqali Canones tabularum toletanarum 94r - 101r
  • Incipit:
    In nomine Domini scito quod annus lunaris sit in 354 diebus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et operarent prius.
  • Note:
    In the margins, we have "Incipiunt lectiones Tabularum secundum Azarchel ", by a different hand. The notes on the eclipse include a table. Cf. also the fragment on f. 92v .
Alanus ab Insulis De articulis fidei 88v - 92v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Clemens papa ... (f. 88v )
    [Main text:] Liber de Trinitate. Potentia est vis facilis ... (f. 91v )
  • Explicit:
    [Prologue:]...sic pater propositum. Explicit ars fidei a Clemente papa auctorizata (f. 91v ).
    [Main text:]...homo iudex (f. 92v ).
  • Note:
    The text has a prologue (ff. 88v- 91v ). D'Alverny and Lacombe also give Nicolaus Ambianensis as author, d'Alverny only him. Lacombe separates prologue and main text into two different items, attributing the first to Nicolaus Ambianensis and the latter to Ps.- Alanus ab Insulis .
Albert the Great De anima 69r - 69v
  • Incipit:
    Nota questionem istam determinatam ab Alberto in fine commenti sui de anima, questionem scilicet ex anima sensibili, vegetabili, rationali, fit una substantia anime ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in libro de animalibus. Hec igitur de anima secundum quod in seipsa consideratur determinata sufficiant.
  • Note:
    These are excerpts from the Commentary on De Anima, tr. V, c. 4.
Alfred of Sareshel De motu cordis 43r - 50v
  • Incipit:
    Anima eo solo phisice inquisitionis speculationem admisit ...
  • Explicit:
    ... actui non.
  • Note:
    The text is not complete.
Aristotle De animalibus 6r - 6r
  • Incipit:
    Locutio vero non appropriatur homini soli ...
  • Explicit:
    Animal generans animal et habens IIII pedes habet vocem ... Modi vero avium noti sunt ... Modi vero piscium ...
Anonymous Notae de Philosophia Naturali 5v - 5v
  • Incipit:
    Tonitrua fiunt tripliciter ...
  • Explicit:
    Item, notandum quod dum forma rei vincit super pateriam, fit augmentum, et hoc est quod dicit Aristoteles .
Anonymous Notae de Philosophiae Naturali 6r - 7v
  • Incipit:
    Item, notandum, quod, cum abscindantur cornua ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et sunt.
Anonymous Notae de Philosophia Naturali 14v - 15r
  • Incipit:
    In sermone nostro de elementis, dicendum est quod quatuor sunt elementa ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et elementa non habentia propositum.
Anonymous Liber XXIV Philosophorum 92v - 93v
  • Incipit:
    Congregatis 24^or philosophis ... Deus est monos [sic] monadem ex se gignens ... Hec diffinitio data est ... Hec per Dei gratiam expleta sufficiant ...
  • Note:
    23 sentences, the last noted twice, with prologue and commentary.
Aristotle De animalibus 5r - 5v
  • Incipit:
    Vox est secundum quod narrabo. Debes scire quod vox est diuersa a sono ...
  • Explicit:
    ... neque quadrupedia.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus with some additions.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 51r - 52v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 51r - 52v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 51r - 52v