Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. H. VII. 238

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 218 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 315 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    The titles on top of the pages are written in red and blue. Initials are ornated in red and blue and entwined with lines.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is well written by one Gallic librarian.
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript Chigi, H. VII. 238]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1180
Content
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 169r - 170v
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius Opus Agriculturae 1r - 54r
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia spiritus et animae 137r - 141v
  • Note:
    This is an anonymous recension.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus Epitoma rei militaris 54v - 90v
Dominicus Gundissalinus De unitate et uno 199r - 201r
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the author as "Ps.- Boetii (Gundissalini) ".
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 179r - 186v
Augustine De spiritu et anima 186v - 199r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum ...
Aristotle Epistola ad Alexandrum 201r - 203r
  • Incipit:
    T. Hyspaniarum regine Iohannes Hyspanus salutem. Cum de utilitate ...
  • Explicit:
    ... corpus exsiccant.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the full title "Epistola ad Alexandrum de Sanitate seu de Dieta".
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 171r - 179r
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Alfred of Sareshel De motu cordis 203v - 218v
  • Incipit:
    Organum vite ...
  • Explicit:
    ... pollicebatur intentio.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives title and author as: " Al[vre]di Liber Motus Cordis".
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 161v - 168r
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 159r - 161v
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 157r - 158v
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle De causis 142r - 150v
Aristotle De plantis 127r - 137r
Aristotle Physiognomonica 121r - 126v
Aristotle Secretum secretorum 91r - 120v
  • Incipit:
    Domino suo ...
  • Explicit:
    Guidoni de Valentia ... probabiliorem partem.