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Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 182 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 328 x 242 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    The Newberry Library Online Catalogue gives the number of folios as 188, with modern foliation on ff. 1 - 183, and unnumbered folios after ff. 7, 14, 32, 112, and 116.
  • Collation:
    According to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue: (1-7)^8 + 8^10 (5 is a stub only) + (9-22)^8 + 23^12(-12). Quires are numbered I-XXII on the lower margin of the verso of the last folio. We have catchwords.
    There are some reclaimers in the final quaternion, which consists of 8 folios. They are signed at the bottom of the pages: "I', II', III'" etc.
  • Decoration:
    The titles on top of the pages are written in red and blue. Initials in red and blue, entwined and elongated with lines. According to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue the initial on f. 1r is 8 lines high extended to form partial margins. The Catalogue adds, that at the beginning of items 1 - 6 (up to f. 92r ) we have the initial word or words written alternately in red and blue. Paragraph signs throughout, according to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    40 lines to the page, according to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue. Prickings are visible in the outer margin of the verso of the last folio (f. 182v).
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one West German librarian, if d'Alverny is not mistaken.
    According to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue, the text is written in northern European gothic textualis media.
  • Binding Description:
    Brown morocco, according to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue.
  • Provenance:
    According to the Newberry Library Online Catalogue, the codex was written in Germany or Austria.
    On f. 1r we have an inscription from the 17th - 18th century on top of the page: "Monasterii Mellicensis L. 35". The codex was once Mellicensis 389 (529). The Newberry Library Online Catalogue notes the former signature Melk no. 529 (J47).
    After Melk, the codex was with the London booksellers P. Goldschmidt and later legally bought and transferred to the Newberry library.
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: Germany or Austria
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 293-297
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.266f.
  • The Newberry Library (Chicago): Newberry Library, Online Catalogue [VAULT folio Case MS 23]
Content
Aristotle De iuventute et senectute 163r - 164r
  • Incipit:
    De iuventute et senectute et vita et morte ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quo autem modo et qualiter dicendum sencientibus [= scientibus] rationem magis. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de iuventute et senectute.
  • Note:
    Lacombe lists this together with the following two texts (De respiratione and De vita et morte).
Thomas Aquinas De mixtione elementorum 180r - 181r
  • Incipit:
    Dubium autem apud multos esse solet quomodo elementa sunt vel manent in mixto ...
  • Explicit:
    ... nec ambo salvatur v[irtus] eorum. [In larger letters:] Explicit libellus de miscibilibus et mixtis et cetera.
Thomas Aquinas De motu cordis 172v - 173v
  • Incipit:
    Quia omne quod mouetur ...
  • Explicit:
    ... calefit et infrigidetur. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de motu cordis. [Rubr.:] De motu.
Thomas Aquinas De ente et essentia 140v - 145v
  • Incipit:
    Quia paruus error in principio magnus est in fine ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in quo est finis et consummatio sermonis. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de ente et essentia fratris Thome de Aquino . Amen.
  • Note:
    This is not listed in Lacombe .
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia 177r - 180r
  • Incipit:
    Interrogasti me de differentia spirito [sic] et anime, honoret te Deus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quia iam elongatum tempus est et cetera. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de differentia spiritus et anime.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the fuller title "De differentia spiritus et animae".
Dominicus Gundissalinus De unitate et uno 175r - 176r
  • Incipit:
    Unitas est qua unaqueque res una dicitur ...
  • Explicit:
    ... est id quod est esse. [In larger letters:] Explicit de unitate et uno.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny does not give an author and states the title as "De unitate".
Boethius of Dacia De summo bono 173v - 175r
  • Incipit:
    Cum in omni specie entis sit aliquod summum bonum possibile ...
  • Explicit:
    ... gloriosus et sublimis, qui regnat in secula seculorum. Amen. [In larger letters:] Explicit Boecius de summo bono. [Rubr.:] Amen, Amen.
Avicenna Liber meteorum 181r - 182v
  • Incipit:
    Capitulum de diluviis dictis in Thimeo Platonis ; et est diluvium victoria unius elementorum super quartum habitabilium ... ...
  • Explicit:
    ... putabantur a quibusdam fieri sine gingnitione [sic]. [In larger letters:] Explicit capitulum de diluviis. Amen.
  • Note:
    This is just the last chapter of the text. According to Lacombe , this is a pseudonymous work. He titles: "De Diluviis".
Avicenna De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum 176r - 177v
  • Incipit:
    Ex pura terra lapis non fit quia continuationem non facit ...
  • Explicit:
    ... accidunt res quedam extranee. [In larger letters:] Expliciunt mineralis Avicenne .
  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the title as "De mineralibus" and notes, that this text may contain excerpts from the Aristotle's Meteorologica, as translated by Alfred of Sareshel .
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 130r - 135r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... hec questio est valde bona. [Rubr., in bolder letters:] Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor eat. [Below the last line, in larger letters:] Explicit libellus Auerroys de substantia orbis.
  • Note:
    This is not listed in Lacombe .
Aristotle De motu animalium 169v - 172r
  • Incipit:
    De motu autem eo qui est animalium ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et communi motu diximus causas. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de motu animalium.
Aristotle De bona fortuna 168r - 169v
  • Incipit:
    Habitum querit autem erit utique ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quam vocamus kalok agiam [sic] et cetera.[In larger letters:] Explicit liber de bona forutuna Aristotilis . Amen.
Aristotle De vita et morte 165v - 168r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem dictum est prius quod vivere ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quia in speculationis [sic] fere de omnibus dictum est. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber Aristotilis de morte et vita. Amen.
  • Note:
    Lacombe lists this together with the two previous texts (De iuventute et senectute and De respiratione).
Aristotle De respiratione 164r - 165v
  • Incipit:
    De respiratione enim aliquid pauci phisicorum dixerunt ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et tantas habent difficultates. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de respiratione Aristotilis .
  • Note:
    Lacombe lists this together with the previous and following text (De iuventute et senectute and De vita et morte).
Anonymous Notes on Aristotle , De motu animalium 172r - 172v
  • Incipit:
    Sicut scribitur a philosopho in De motibus animalium, estimandum est constare animal quemadmodum civitatem legibus bene rectam ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in presenti disputatione relinquimus inquirendum.
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 161v - 163r
  • Incipit:
    Ab eo autem quod est hoc quidem longe vite animalium autem brevis vite et de vite totaliter longitudine et brevitate considerandum autem causas ...
  • Explicit:
    Hiis enim determinatis finem utique habebitque de animalibus methodus. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de longitate et brevitate vite.
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 160r - 161v
  • Incipit:
    Reliquorum autem primum considerandum de memoria et memorari quid sit et propter quam causam causam [sic] sit ...
  • Explicit:
    ... per quam causam dictum est. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de memoria et reminiscentia Aristotilis .
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , this is the old translation.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 155v - 160r
  • Incipit:
    De sompno autem et de vigilia considerandum est quid sint ... et utrum agenda ab homine ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de divinatione dictum est. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de sompno et vigilia.
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 150r - 155v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem de anima secundum se determinatum est ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de memoranda et reminisscentia [sic] et de sompno et de vigilia. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de sensu et sensato Aristotilis .
Aristotle De causis proprietatum elementorum 145v - 150r
  • Incipit:
    Postquam premissus est a nobis sermo ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cuius volumus declarationem. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de proprietatibus elementorum Aristotilis .
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Gerard of Cremona and is not listed in Lacombe .
Aristotle De causis 135v - 140v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria plus est influens ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sicut ostendimus. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber de causis causarum.
  • Note:
    This is not listed in Lacombe .
Aristotle Metaphysica 92r - 130r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] Omnes [Text:] homines natura scire desiderant. Signum autem est sensuum dilectio. Preter enim ... agere debentes ...
  • Explicit:
    ... encia vero non volunt disponi male, nec bonum pluralitas principatum, unus ergo princeps. [In larger letters:] Expliciunt duodecim libri methaphisice Aristotilis .
  • Note:
    This is the new translation by William of Moerbeke .
Aristotle Meteorologica 71r - 92r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] De primis [Text:] quidem igitur causis nature ...
  • Explicit:
    ... plantam et alia talia. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber metheororum Aristotilis . Amen.
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle De anima 58r - 70v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] Bonorum [Text:] honorabilium notitiam opinantes ... aut secundum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... linguam autem habet ut significet aliquid alteri. [In larger letters:] Explicit de anima liber Aristotilis et cetera.
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 47v - 57v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] De generatione [Text:] autem et corruptione et natura generatorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sed non quorum substantia generatur ens tale quale contingit non esse, etc.
    [F. 58r :] [Repetition:] ... hoc autem rationaliter contingit ... a principio stare. [In blue letters:] Explicit. Amen, etc. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber Aristotilis de generatione et corruptione. Amen.
  • Note:
    This is the greek-latin translation.
Aristotle De caelo 29v - 47r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] De natura [Text:] scientia fere plurima videtur circa corpora ...
  • Explicit:
    ... determinatum sit nobis hoc modo. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber Aristotilis de celo et mundo. Amen. Amen. Et cetera lator [sic]. Amen. [Rubr.:] Explicit et cetera.
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle Physica 1r - 29r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] Quoniam [Text:] quidem intelligere et scire convenit circa omnes ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et nullam habens magnitudinem. [In larger letters:] Explicit liber phisicorum Aristotilis . Amen.
  • Note:
    This is the old translation.
Anonymous Tractate on the form 181r - 181r
  • Incipit:
    Forma multiplex habet esse, quia primus per naturam ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et hoc per prima et vera et notiora principia. [In larger letters:] Explicit tractatus de forma.