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Incipit:
Quoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit circa omnes scientias quarum sunt principia...

Explicit:
...manifestum itaque quod indiuisibile est et impartiabile et nullam habens magnitudinem. Explicit liber phisicorum.

Note:
New translation.

De Substantia Orbis

Incipit:
In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celleste (!)...

Explicit:
...quia carent agente motuum et scias quod hoc questio est ualde bona.

Material: Parchment
Pages: II, 58, I leaves
Leaves Format: not available
Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm

Hungary, Budapest, Central Library of Corvinus University (Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Központi Könyvtár), lat. 16

Condition Description:
The manuscript was damaged in great measure by water. Also the margins of the folios are very damaged.
Decoration:
The initial letters and pictures are painted in an oriental manner. Simple initials are painted alternating in red and blue. Taller initials on ff. 1r , 6v ; 12r ; 17r ; 28r ; 32v ; 39r ; 43r . The initial on f. 1r shows a man reading in a book.
Layout:
Text is set in 2 columns.
Hand Description:
The text is written by one hand in Gothic textualis, rotund letters of a type from Bonn. A name of a writer is not transmitted.
Three hands wrote glosses in italic Kurrent.
Provenance:
A former owner was the Bibliotheca Regia in Buda until the pillage of the library through the Turkish Emperors, from which one Abdul Hamid II. from 1877 on was. Then the manuscript was donated to the University.

George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.865
Péter Tóth , Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii aevi Bibliothecae Universitatis Budapestiensis (2006) , p. 26 [Link]
Národní knihovna České republiky (National Library of the Czech Republic): Manuscriptorium. Digital library of Written Cultural Heritage [Cod. lat. 16]