Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 15 sin. 9

Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 15 sin. 9

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 78 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In folio
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    A folio assigned twice: see f. 37r and f. 38r ("37bis", respectively). Thus, there are 78 folios and not 77 as Lacombe suggests.
  • Decoration:
    Initial letters in different colours.
  • Hand Description:
    The code is written by one hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.947f.
Content
Aristotle Secretum secretorum 1r - 15r
Aristotle De bona fortuna 15r - 16r
  • Incipit:
    Capitulum Aristotelis de bona fortuna translatum de secundo magnorum moralium...
    Explicit istud capitulum et incipit aliud capitulum Aristotelis de bona fortuna translatum ex octavo ethicorum...
Aristotle De lineis indivisibilibus 16r - 17v
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 17v - 18v
  • Explicit:
    Ends a bit different before the end of the text with the words: "..quam predicti assignant divinamus prius. Nunc autem... "
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 18v - 19r
  • Note:
    New translation.
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 19r - 23r
  • Note:
    New translation.
Aristotle Physiognomonica 23r - 24v
  • Explicit:
    Ends similary: "...quoniam enim que videntur in corporibus dicuntur..
Aristotle De mundo 25r - 28v
  • Note:
    Most of the text is translated by Nicolai, but it seems to be contaminated with a translation from an anonymous author
Aristotle Oracula Sybillina 28v - 30v
  • Incipit:
    Exquiritis a me, o illustrissima turba Danaum, quatinus Grayos eventus frigiasque minas in scriptis referam..
Aristotle De natura libellum 30v - 32v
  • Incipit:
    Natura multis modis dicitur, nam aliquando sumitur in designatione cuiuslibet entis et tunc sic definitur..
  • Explicit:
    ... nam omne motum est aliud a movente.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 32v - 34r
  • Incipit:
    Virtutes quidem sensibiles, quedam sunt ..
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 40r - 44r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    Et scias quod haec quaestio est valde bona.
Dominicus Gundissalinus De unitate et uno 44r - 45r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Boetius de unitate et uno...
Al-Ghazali Metaphysica 45r - 78v
  • Incipit:
    Usus fuit apud philosophos prepositionem naturalem scientiam, nos autem eligimus...
  • Explicit:
    ... de scienciis philosophorum logicis divinis et naturalibus.
  • Note:
    tr. Johannes Hispalensis .
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 32v - 34r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 32v - 34r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompniis) 32v - 34r