France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16097

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16097

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 237 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    Ff. 199r- 199v are cut in half, the outer sides are missing.
    On f. 176v , the script is very weak in parts, affecting readability.
    On ff. 169r- 171v there seems to be an underlying previous script, affecting readability of the main text as well.
  • Decoration:
    Titles are written on top of the pages and coloured in red and blue. Initials on ff. 226r- 237v partly in red, partly in blue, entwined and elongated with lines. Rubricated. Paragraph signs in red or blue, except for ff. 128r- 148r .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 50 lines to the page.

    Ff. 71r- 71v , 110r- 111v , 126r- 127v , 182v- 184v and 203v are without script. However, f. 111v seems to have some residual very weak script on it and d'Alverny points out marginal notes in a weak contemporary current script on ff. 126v , 127v , 199v and 203v .
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by multiple hands.
    In the first part (ff. 1r- 125r ) the text is written by one Gallic librarian.
    In the second part (ff. 128r- 225v ) the text is written by several Gallic librarians, if d'Alverny is not mistaken, except for the Theorica of Al-Kindi (ff. 200r- 203r ). This text is partly written by some English librarian.
    The third part (ff. 226r- 237v ) was apparently written in the beginning of the 14th century .
  • Provenance:
    On f. 1r , we have: "Incatenetur in magna libraria Sorbone".
    On f. 237v , we have: "Iste liber est collegii pauperum magistrorum de Sorbona, ex legato magistri Jacobi de Padua († paulo post 1338) in arcium, medicine et theologie facultatibus professoris. Precii 4 libris."
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th to beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 42-44
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Bnf. Gallica - Online catalogue [Latin 16097]
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript lat. 16097]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp. 559f.
Content
Avicenna Metaphysica 1r - 70v
  • Incipit:
    Postquam, auxilio Dei, expleuimus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... vicarius Dei in illo. Toleti translatus.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the title: "Liber Auicenne de philosophia prima siue scientia diuina. Capitulum de inquisitione subiecti prime philosophie ad hoc ut ostendatur ipsa esse de numero scientiarum", Lacombe shortens this to "De Prima Philosophia". The text is rubricated.
Alexander of Aphrodisias In metheora 72r - 107v
  • Incipit:
    De primis quidem igitur causis ... Incipiens Metheorologica ...
  • Explicit:
    ... que sunt ex hiis. Anno Domini M°CC°LX° in vigilia Marchi euangeliste.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Guilelmus de Moerbeke .
Aristotle Physiognomonica 107v - 109v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam et anime sequuntur corpora ...
  • Explicit:
    ... apparentia fit. Explicit Phisionomia Aristotelis .
Proclus Elementatio Theologica 112r - 125v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis multitudo participat aliqualiter uno ...
  • Explicit:
    ... descendit Procli Dyadochi Lycii platonici philosophi Elementatio theologica; explicit capitulum 211. Completa fuit translatio huius operis Viterbii a fratre G. de Morbecca , ordinis Fratrum Predicatorum 15° Kal. iunii anno Domini M°CC° sexagesimo et octauo.
  • Note:
    Added below the explicit is: "unitas est indiuisionis ratio, principium multitudinis et eius in ipsam reductionis". According to the explicit, the translator is Guilelmus de Moerbeke .
Thomas Aquinas Commentum in libros Meteorum 128r - 148v
  • Incipit:
    Part 1: Sicut in rebus naturalibus ... (f. 128r )
    Part 2: dariis que propter vehementiam motus ... (f. 185r )
  • Explicit:
    Part 1: ... sicut bullencium in cal ... (f. 148v )
    Part 2: ... De coruscatione autem, etc. (f. 185r ).
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , the first part of the text (ff. 128r- 148v ) ends in the chapter "De Terre Motu". The second part (f. 185r ) contains the penultimate chapter from the end of book II.
Peter of Auvergne Commentum in libros Meteorum 149r - 182r
  • Incipit:
    De coruscatione autem. Postquam Philosophus determinauit ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ingratitudinis signum. Explicit sententia magistri Petri de Auernia super libris Metheororum Aristotelis .
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , the text begins with the ultimate chapter of book II.
Anonymous De halone 185r - 185r
  • Incipit:
    Cum sit intentio nostra de quadam impressione que nobis apparet secundum circulum completum cuiusmodi halo appellatur ...
  • Explicit:
    ... caderet in omni parte circumferentie.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 185v - 187v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit tractatus Auerrois de substantia orbis. In tractatu isto intendimus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... vale [sic pro: valde] bona.
Al-Farabi Didascalia in Rhetoricam Aristotelis 188r - 196v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Quoniam omnis nouitas et inusitata edicio ... (f. 188r )
    [Main text:] Inquid Alpharabius : Propositum nostrum est explicare quod contexuit Aristoteles in libro suo quem nominat Librum Rethorice ... (f. 188r )
  • Explicit:
    [Prologue:] ... suffragantur (f. 188r ).
    [Main text:] ... non acquiretur apud ipsum credulitas (f. 196v ).
  • Note:
    D'Alverny also gives the title "Incipiunt didascalia in Rethoricam Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii . Capitulum primum prohemiale". Moreover, she notes Hermannus Alemannus as translator of the prologue.
Anonymous Commentary on the Ethica 196v - 198v
  • Incipit:
    Ad intelligentiam autem dicendorum quatuor sunt declaranda. Nam ut habeamus noticiam tractatus sequentis, ubi de passionibus agitur, primo videndum est quid sit passio ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in prosequendo patebit. Sunt autem passiones, etc. In parte ista philosophus vult determinare de hiis secundum que fit persuasio ex parte auditoris ... quia primo describit quid est passio.
  • Note:
    The text is not complete. D'Alverny additionally gives the title "De Passionibus".
Al-Kindi De radiis stellarum 200r - 203r
  • Incipit:
    Omnes homines qui sensibilia sensu percipiunt ...
  • Explicit:
    ... elementaris nature nota habent. Explicit Theorica.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the shortened title "Theorica de Radiis".
Peter of Auvergne Sententia super Librum De vegetalibus et plantis 204r - 225v
  • Incipit:
    Oportet autem intellectus discipline amatorem prudentissime ... inquirere ... in diuersas mixtiones talium. Explicit Sententia super librum de vegetabilibus et plantis composita a magistro Petro de Aluernia .
  • Note:
    Title and author from the explicit, d'Alverny gives neither.
Themistius Commentaria in Analytica posteriora 226r - 237v
  • Incipit:
    I. Posteriorum. Scio quod si intendo ad exponendum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... dispositio totius ad totum. Explicit comentum Themistii super librum Posteriorum Aristotelis .
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , the text has some lemmata in the margins.