United Kingdom, Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, 114

United Kingdom, Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, 114

Aristotelisopera
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 332 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 310 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A^(lacks 6-8), 1-5^12 (5 mutil, lacks 6) 7-13^2, 14-15^8, 16-19^12, 20^4 (4 mutil.), 21-22^12, 22^14, 23-26^12, 27^16, a bifolium.
    Catchwords.
  • Condition Description:
    The edges of the folios retrimmed and spattered with red. The lower third of ff. 4 and 5, the outer half of 76 and three quarters of 228 have been excised. The book appears to have spent some time in the vicinity of a pigeon-loft.
  • Decoration:
    Titles on the top of the page are written in ink by an Anglican current script. The greater initials opening the works and books are decorated with dragons and wreath of leaves, large and handsome coloured. Oxford work, very similar to those in MS 111 of the same library. The following words are written in bright or rufous colours. Red or blue initials flourished in the other colour, red or blue paraphs plain or flourished in the other colour. Some of the glossing is accompanied by the same large coloured paraphs as the main text.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two colums. A box of script with the measures:

    Ruled with crayon, 29 lines per column. Extra cols for glossing, two each in the outer and lower margin, one in the inner.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand wrote the text splendidly with dark ink in a proficient gothic rotunda.
    The main glossing hand, a small neat bookhand, also wrote the index on ff. 2r- 4v and notes on f. 331v .
  • Binding Description:
    Polished blind-tooled calf over pasteboard, sewn on six bands formerly chained from the usual position. Three unnumbered paper binding leaves at each end. The outermost parchment leaves were pastedowns in earlier binding.
  • Provenance:
    Doubtless made in Oxford. On f. 331r a thoroughly erased two-line inscription, apparently beg. "Reuerendo". On f. 331v serveral erased pledge-notes. One can be read "Caucio Iohannis Deneg' et Willhelmi fratris sui inpugnorata in sista regine consortis [erasure] in die veneris proximi post diem dominicam in passione Domini Anno Domini MCC nonagesimo quarto et ponunt predictus Iohannes et Willhelmus dominum Walterum de Goldecote procuratorem eorum ad predictum librum aquietandum quandoque uenerit". At he foot is "xiij s. iiij" and "?Emptio magisti Edwardi de Shiptone" from the 14th century, erased. None of these men is otherwise known. At the head of f. 332r : "4 s. i d. 17 Augusti hora 6a ante meridiem anno Christi 1405 inceptum emi a cissore in Watlyngstrete 4to die autem .s. die sabbati et tunc solutus eidem cissore 41 d. et dicto 17 die Augusti 8 d." In f. 5r : "Liber Coll. Corp. Christi Oxon. ex dono Mri Henrici Parry eiusdem socii April. 23° 1619". On the first unnumbered flyleaf are the CMA number 1581. 114 and "E.3. 5" from the end of 17th or from the 18th century.
History
  • Origin Date: End of 13th century
  • Origin Place: Oxford
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp. 408f.
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Supplementa altera, Bruges-Paris (1961) , p. 79.
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Cambridge (2011) , pp. 52f.
Content
Aristotle Physica 5r - 76r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam intelligere et scire circa omnes sciencias accidit...
  • Explicit:
    ...et incorruptibile et nullam habens magnitudinem. Explicit liber phisicorum Aristotelis.
  • Note:
    f. 76v blank but for a few glosses.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 5r - 76r
  • Note:
    We can find a lot of Glosses of the Commentary in the margin.
Aristotle Meteorologica 77r - 112v
  • Incipit:
    Postquam precessit rememoratio nostra de rebus naturalibus...
  • Explicit:
    ...et res quedam extranee. Explicit.
Aristotle De plantis 113r - 125r
  • Incipit:
    Tria ut Empedocles ait in tanta rerum uarietate precipua excellentissimum...
  • Explicit:
    Vita in animalibus et plantis insita est.. et erit fructus amarus.
  • Note:
    Authorship: Maybe Nicholas of Damascus, translated by Alfred of Shareshel.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 125v - 134r
  • Incipit:
    De sompno autem et uigilia considerandum quid sint et utrum propria sint anime...
  • Explicit:
    ...de ea que ex somniis diuinatione dictum est. Explicit liber de sompno et uigilia.
  • Note:
    In the old translation.
Aristotle De causis 134v - 136v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria plus est influens...
  • Explicit:
    ...adquirere non adquisitum sicut ostendimus. Explicit liber Aristoteles de pomo citrino quod alio nomine appellatur liber de causis.
  • Note:
    In the translation by Gerard of Cremona.
Aristotle De anima 137r - 165v
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum honorabilium noticiam opinantes...
  • Explicit:
    ...quatenus significet aliquid alteri. Explicit liber de anima.
  • Note:
    In the old translation.
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 165v - 168v
  • Incipit:
    Reliquorum autem primum considerandum et de memoria et memorari quid sit...
  • Explicit:
    ...et propter quas causas dictum est. Explicit liber de anima.
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 168v - 176v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem de anima secundum se ipsam determinatum est ...
  • Explicit:
    ... considerandum de memoria et memorati.
Aristotle De caelo 177r - 228r
  • Incipit:
    Summa cognitionis nature et sciencie...
  • Explicit:
    ... et uenimus super intencionem nostram in eu. Explicit liber celi et mundi.
Aristotle De differentia spiritus et animae 229r - 234v
  • Incipit:
    Interrogasti me, honoret te Deus, de differentia que est inter spiritum et animam...; Spiritus est corpus quoddam subtile...
  • Explicit:
    ...et det tibi fortunam in hoc seculo et futuro amen. Explicit liber de differencia spiritus et anime.
  • Note:
    Recensio anonyma. Authorship: Costa ben Luca.
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 235r - 237r
  • Incipit:
    De eo quod est alia longe uite animalium alia uero breuis uite...
  • Explicit:
    ...sic semper est longioris uite. Explicit liber de morte et uita.
  • Note:
    In the old translation.
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 237v - 258r
  • Incipit:
    De generatione et corruptione et natura generatorum et corruptorum...
  • Explicit:
    ...talis qualis contingit non esse.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 237v - 258r
  • Note:
    We can find excerpts of the Commentary in the margins.
Aristotle Metaphysica 258r - 266r
  • Incipit:
    Omnes homines natura scire desiderant...
  • Explicit:
    ...ad posteriores dubitationes proficiemus.
  • Note:
    Old translation, just Book I. No script on f. 266v .
Aristotle Metaphysica 267r - 329r
  • Incipit:
    Consideracio quidem in ueritate difficilis est uno modo...
  • Explicit:
    ... non ponere contrarium boni et intellectus.
  • Note:
    New translation. The rest of f. 329r and ff. 329v- 330v are covered with early pencil notes. On f. 332r is a table of contents from the 15th century, f. 332v is blank.