Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, D.XXII.3

Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, D.XXII.3

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 104 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 363 x 249 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    The whole text is decorated by filigree initials and paragraph-signs alternating in blue and red. Figurated initials on ff. 3r (shows a philosoph in an arabic coat, holding a green book in his hands), 74r (shows a philosoph in a red cape in a blue and golden field), 79r . Some decorated initials, i.e.: 19r .
  • Layout:
    The text is set in 2 columns.

    There are 60 written lines in each column. The lines are made with colour.
  • Hand Description:
    The code is worked out by many hands:
    A (ff. 3r - 18v and 38r- 104r ) in gothic cursive handwriting of the 14th century in brown ink.
    B (ff. 19r- 38r ) in maroon littera bastarda of the 14th century.
    Giovanni di Marco : ( 1r , 2r , 78v , 104r- 104v ) in brown littera bastarda.
  • Binding Description:
    Leather.
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript once was property of Giovanni di Marco .
History
  • Origin Date: End of 14th, Beginning of 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.899
  • Anna Manfron , Appendice II. Catalogo, a cura di Anna Manfron, in La biblioteca di un medico del Quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Biblioteca Malatestiana, Torino, Allemandi (1998) , pp. 177f.
  • Giuseppe Maria Muccioli , Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Malatestianae Bibliothecae fratrum minorum conventualium Vol. Tomo I, Cesena (1784) , pp. 78f.
  • Raimondo Zazzeri , Sui codici e libri a stampa della Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena. Ricerche e osservazioni, Cesena, Vignuzzi (1887) , pp. 181-183.
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
Content
Flavius Josephus Antiquitates Iudaicae (Excerpt) 1r - 1r
  • Incipit:
    Fuit autem eisdem temporibus Ihesus sapiens vir...
  • Explicit:
    ...qui ab ipso nuncupati sunt et nomen perseverant et genus. Josephus Antiquitates iudaice 4°.18°.c°.8°.
Al-Kindi De intellectu 2r - 2r
  • Incipit:
    Intellexi quod queris sermonem brevem scribendum...
  • Explicit:
    ...ad intentionem tuam tantum semonis de hoc sufficiat. Hic finis est Epistole Averois de intellectu.
Albert the Great De anima 3r - 69v
  • Incipit:
    Omnibus que de corpore mobili...
  • Explicit:
    ...hec igitur de anima secundum quod in se ipsa consideratur determinata sufficiant. Deo gratias. Amen.
  • Note:
    Aristoteles De anima is in the vetus-Translation.
Albert the Great De nutrimento et nutribili 70r - 73v
  • Incipit:
    De anima secundum se ipsam in precedente libro dictum est...
  • Explicit:
    ...hec igitur de nutrimento et nutrito secundum suum diversum esse secundum peripateticos dicta sunt a nobis. Amen.
Albert the Great De intellectu et intelligibili 74r - 78v
  • Incipit:
    Sicut a principio huius operis diximus scientia de anima...
  • Explicit:
    ... de compositione unius ad alterum et distinctione utriusque. Deo gratias amen.
Albert the Great De generatione et corruptione 79r - 104r
  • Incipit:
    Cum due sint considerationes de mobili simplici...
  • Explicit:
    ...Hec autem de generatione elementorum sufficiant dicta quia cetera ad naturam elementorum pertinentia 3° et 4° celi et mundi sunt dicta amen. Deo gratias amen.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 104r - 104v
  • Incipit:
    Et in hoc tractatu persrutandum est de causa longitudinis...
  • Explicit:
    ...dictum est igitur de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite. Die Sancte Marie Augusti scripsi hunc tractatulum Averois.
  • Note:
    After the little work of Averroes eight lines follow which cite Avicenna and Petrus de Abano .