Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 1674

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: A + 282 + BCDE leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 328 x 220 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    The initials, as well as paragraph signs, are in red and blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.



    No script on ff. BCDE.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written most beautifully by one Gallic or English librarian.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden cover with leather.
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.920
  • Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino: Mirabile - Online Catalogue. Archivio digitale della cultura medievale. Digital Archives for Medieval Culture [description]
Content
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 219r - 225r
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia spiritus et animae 247r - 251v
  • Note:
    This is an anonymous translation.

Averroes De Substantia Orbis 275r - 282v
Aristotle De proprietatibus elementorum 269r - 275r
Aristotle De causis 261r - 268v
  • Explicit:
    Completus est sermo. Explicit liber de causis.
    [By another hand ( 15th century ):] Completus est sermo Alfarabii de essencia pure bonitatis.

  • Note:
    The text has a commentary. The text is distinguished from the commentary by larger letters.

Aristotle De plantis 251v - 261r
  • Note:
    The text has a prologue.

Aristotle De progressu 241v - 247r
Aristotle De coloribus 237r - 240v
Aristotle De bona fortuna 235r - 237r
Aristotle De lineis 232v - 234r
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 225r - 231v
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 66r
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.

Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 216r - 218r
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 209r - 216r
Aristotle De anima 191r - 209r
Aristotle Meteorologica 159r - 191r
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 157r - 158v
Aristotle De motu animalium 153v - 157r
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 139r - 153v
Aristotle De caelo 112v - 139r
Aristotle Physica 66r - 112v