United Kingdom, Oxford, Merton College, 282

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 178 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    According to d'Alverny , we have quaternions consisting of 12 folios, the catchwords presumably having been excised. Thomson (2009) gives the following collation: a bifolium, the first leaf only a stub, 1^8, (2-15)^12, a bifolium. He notes, that there are indeed catchwords, and "cor[rigitur]" pencilled at the end of quires.
  • Condition Description:
    The codex was retrimmed. According to Thomson (2009), the edges are spattered with red.
  • Decoration:
    According to d'Alverny , the titles on top of the pages are written with black ink by a current hand on ff. 2r- 46r , and in libraria on ff. 46v- 175v . She adds, that the titles are written out in the margins. Blue initials flourished in red as well as red or blue initials. According to d'Alverny , we have no rubrics, but some paragraph signs in either red or blue. According to Thomson (2009), the text is ruled with pencil or crayon.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    51 - 54 lines to the page.

    The front side of flyleaf I has no script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by a single English gothic rotunda bookhand of university type. According to d'Alverny , the text was written with a blackish ink.
  • Binding Description:
    According to Thomson (2009), standard Merton binding with College bookplate, sewn on five bands and chained from the usual position.
  • Provenance:
    According to Thomson (2009), the codex was probably made and used at Oxford.
    The codex was given to Merton College by William Reed in 1374 . On the back side of flyleaf I we have an autograph: "Liber M. Willelmi Red ex dono magistri Nicholai de Sandwyco . Oretis igitur pro utroque ...". According to D'Alverny , we also have some ex-libris of Merton College. Thomson (2009) specifies these for flyleaf I^v: two quotes in the same hand as the table of contents - "proprietas domus Mertone", "2^us de sorte Mothyrby "; and one in the usual hand - "Liber domus scolarium de Merton' in Oxon' in communi libraria eiusdem et ad usum communem sociorum ibidem studencium cathenandus. Ex dono uenerabilis patris Willelmi tercii episcopi Cicestrie. Oretis igitur pro eodem et benefactoribus eiusdem ac fidelium animabus a purgatorio liberandis". D'Alverny adds, that the codex once had the signature "0.2.3" of .
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: England (Oxford?)
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 151-153
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 413f.
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford, Oxford (2009) , pp. 219 - 220
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 1: Oxford, Turnhout (2011) , pp. 335 - 337
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 46v - 49r
  • Incipit:
    Intendimus in hoc tractatu perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... nisi quia caret agente motum.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auer[roys] De substantia orbis" can be found on top of the page.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 59r - 68v
  • Incipit:
    Intencio nostra in hoc libro est quod oportet determinare causas ...
  • Explicit:
    ... postremo numero a precedentibus.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auerroys super librum de generatione" can be found on top of the page. She adds, that the textus is written in bolder letters.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Meteorology 55r - 59r
  • Incipit:
    Postquam uisum est quod principia et elementaria elementorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in eo quod est ei proprium.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus . According to d'Alverny , the title " Auerroys super 4. Metheororum" can be found on top of the page. She adds, that the textus is written in bolder letters.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 1r - 46v
  • Incipit:
    [Text:] Quoniam de rebus honorabilibus ...
    [Commentary:] Intendit per subtilitatem confirmationem demonstrationis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... uisus et auditus et hoc est manifestum. Explicit liber de anima.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the textus is written in bolder letters.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 49r - 51r
  • Incipit:
    Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt de necessitate ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et de eo in secundo tractatu.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auerroys de sensu et sensato" can be found on top of the page. She adds, that the textus is written in bolder letters.
Avicenna Metaphysica 69r - 110r
  • Incipit:
    Postquam autem auxilio Dei expleuimus tractatum de intencionibus scientiarum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quia ipse est rex terreni mundi et peruicarius Dei o[mnino] in illo.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Dominicus Gundissalinus . Thomson (2011) gives the title "Comm. on Metaphys.". According to d'Alverny , this is the emendated version and the title " Auic[enne] Liber Ius[-Xus] Methaphisice" can be found on top of the page.
Avicenna Physica 110r - 133r
  • Incipit:
    Liber iste diuiditur in 4. partes. Prima est de causis et principiis naturalium ; distinguitur in XV capitula ... 2a pars est de motu et loco temporum ; distinguuntur autem 13 capitula ...
  • Explicit:
    ... si autem totum fuerit occupatum, tunc non poterit illud aliud.
  • Note:
    Thomson (2011) gives the title "Comm. on Phys.". The text ends abruptly in III c. 'de comitantia et contactu et permixtione'. According to d'Alverny , the title " Auic[enne] Liber Phisicorum" can be found on top of the pages and on ff. 131v- 132r we have another hand in the margins.
Avicenna De anima 133v - 162r
  • Incipit:
    Reuerentissimo Tolotane [sic] sedis archiepiscopo et Hyspanorum primati Iohanni Auendenechi Israelita philosophus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cum loquemur de animalibus. Explicit liber Auicenne de naturalibus.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny notes, that the text has a preface by the translator and that the title " Auic[enna] " can be found on top of the pages.
Avicenna Commentary on De Caelo 162v - 168r
  • Incipit:
    Collectiones expositionum ab antiquis grecis in libro Aristotelis de mundo qui vocatur liber celi et mundi et expositiones iste in sexdecim continentur capitulis. Primum quod corpus perfectius est ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ut non moueatur. Completum est capitulum in cuius completione completus est liber. Laus sit creatori ... omni anime modeste et benigne. Explicit liber Celi et Mundi.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auicenne 1. Celi et mundi" can be found on top of the pages.
Avicenna Logica 169r - 176v
  • Incipit:
    Dico quod intencio philosophie est comprehendere ueritatem omnium rerum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... est accidens differentie et proprietatis. - Explicit logica Auicenne .
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auicenna , Logica" can be found on top of the pages. She adds, that chapter XI of the first part, De universalibus, is missing.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 49r - 51r
  • Incipit:
    Secundus tractatus incipit perscrutari de rememoratione ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quapropter difficile amittit eas.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title "Liber de memoria et reminiscentia" can be found on top of the page and in the margin, while the author is not clear. She adds, that the textus is written in bolder letters.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 49r - 51r
  • Incipit:
    Et cum ita diximus de hac uirtute dicendum est de sompno et uigilia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et de causis accidentium suorum dictum est.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auerroys de sompno et vigilia" can be found on top of the page. She adds, that the textus is written in bolder letters.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 49r - 51r
  • Incipit:
    Et in hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et breuitatis uite ...
  • Explicit:
    ... posse nostrum et intellectum.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , the title " Auerroys de morte et vita" can be found on top of the page. She adds, that the textus is written in bolder letters.