France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6296

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6296

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 329 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 240 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    F. 129 is not signed out, but it seems to be a foliation mistake (cf. ff. 128v and 129r ). There appears to be no missing text. The DARE-counting tries to represent the correct foliation, reducing the total number of folios to 329 leaves, whereas Lacombe gives a total number of 330.
  • Decoration:
    Titles are written on top of the pages and coloured in black and blue. Initials depicted in gold and various colours, ornated with ramifications, elongations extend into the margins. On f. 217v we can see a drawing of a zonal map. On f. 224r we can see a drawing of a total lunar eclipse. On f. 225v we can see two drawings of the rainbow and its colours. Two explanatory drawings for the optical aspects of the formation of a rainbow can be found in ff. 226r and 227r .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    32 lines to the page in ff. 3r- 297v .

    About 40 lines to the page in ff. 300r- 307v . Initial lines of a paragraph written in normal script, the subsequent corpus in a smaller script.

    32 lines to the page in ff. 307v- 326v .

    Ff. 83v and 298r- 299v are without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one Gallic hand in black.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 3r we can see that the signature of the codex was once Colbertinus 1064, then Regius 4957/3A.
    On f. 328v one can find: "Liber Beate Marie de Noa [= La Noe, monasterium cisterciense, Lacombe ], Ebroycensis diocesis", and further on: " ... custodit frater Robertus monachus ejusdem domus commorans in sancto Bernardo Parisius".
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript lat. 6296]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.503
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Bnf. Gallica - Online catalogue [Latin 6296]
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 3r - 83r
  • Note:
    New Translation in 14 books.

Aristotle Physica 84r - 149r
Aristotle De caelo 149r - 181v
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 182r - 199v
Aristotle Meteorologica 200r - 235v
Aristotle De anima 236r - 261r
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 261r - 269v
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 269v - 272v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 273r - 280v
Aristotle De motu animalium 281r - 285v
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 285v - 288r
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 288r - 297v
Aristotle De causis 300r - 307v
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia spiritus et animae 307v - 314v
  • Note:
    Translator ( Johannes Hispalensis ) denominated in the first lines in the usual manner.

Aristotle De bona fortuna 314v - 317v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 317v - 326v