United Kingdom, London, British Library, Add. 38810

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: I + 120 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 235 x 178 mm
Detailed Description
  • Acquisition:
    The codex was transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
  • Provenance:
    The British Library Online Catalogue states, that the codex was written in Germany, probably Breslau (Wrocław, Poland). According to the colophon of item 10 (the Theoremata de esse et essentia of Giles of Rome ) it was written around 1507 , roughly at least in the beginning of the 16th century (cf. also the colophon of item 2, the De diffinicione et diuisione philosophie, which gives the date 1504 ).
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 16th century
  • Origin Place: Germany (Breslau?)
  • Universität Regensburg - Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Philosophie: ALCUIN, Online database on authors and texts from the Middle Ages [Works of Aegidius Romanus OESA]
  • The British Library (London): British Library Online Catalogue [description]
Content
Albert the Great De potentiis animae 1r - 3v
  • Incipit:
    Tercia potencia est formatiua ...
  • Explicit:
    ... secundum essenciam est in omni parte corporis. Sequitur Recolligo igitur quod dictum est, etc.
  • Note:
    This is a treatise, with marginal commentary, on psychology, beginning imperfectly. According to the British Library Online Catalogue, the complete treatise, but with considerable differences, is found in London, , Royal 8 A. XVIII (ff. 49r - 56v), where it is called "Tractatus de anima et eius potenciis" and begins: "Sicut dicit Damascenus, impossible est." Title and authorship are not clear, see the British Library Online Catalogue for further information.
Anonymous De diffinicione et diuisione philosophie 4r - 50v
  • Incipit:
    Anima est principium et causa mouendi ... Iste est libellus ad philosophiam introductorius ...
  • Explicit:
    ... videri apud Scotum et beatum Thomam in libros sentenciarum.
  • Note:
    This is a commentary on another treatise.
  • Colophon:
    Foeliciter in finem deductus liber hic anno 1504 die Mercurii post nativitatem intemerate virginis matris saluatoris nostri [Sept. 8], qui cum eadem benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen.
Anonymous Table on the divisions of Philosophy 86r - 86r
  • Note:
    According to the British Library Online Catalogue, this is a table on the divisions of philosophy into its various branches.
Anonymous Notes on the nature of philosophic knowledge 86v - 86v
  • Incipit:
    Sciendum philosaphus est homo diuinarum humanarumque rerum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de anima.
Anonymous Miscellaneous philosophical notes 87r - 87v
Anonymous Oration 111r - 112v
  • Incipit:
    Solebant Romani illi prisci ...
  • Explicit:
    ... fidem amorem the obseruanciam dixi.
  • Note:
    According to the British Library Online Catalogue, the text is without title or author's name, addressed apparently to a public body, probably the senate, of Breslau by a person appointed by it "palestre rei literaria certaminis ... rectorem", on taking up the post. There is a reference to a "doctor egregius Schwofhaym ad quem tocius rei literarie cura[m] refertis", who may be Hieronymus Schwoffheim , who died 4 Apr. 1516 as scholasticus and cantor of Breslau cathedral, cf. the British Library Online Catalogue for further information and references.
Anonymous Notes on Giles of Rome , De partibus philosophiae essentialibus, De differentia ethicae, politicae et rhetoricae and the De gradibus formarum accidentalium 113r - 114v
  • Note:
    According to the British Library Online Catalogue, the first does not appear, at least under this title, in lists of the works of Giles of Rome . It can however be found in ALCUIN.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 88r - 110v
  • Incipit:
    [I]n hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ...
  • Explicit:
    Et sciendum quia hec questio est valde bona.
  • Note:
    According to the British Library Online Catalogue, the text does have neither title nor name of the author. However, the translation, made by one of the Toledo school of translators, is contained in London, , Royal 12 C. XV (ff. 251v - 254r), but there lacks the last two and a half chapters. The Catalogue adds, that the earlier part of the present text is furnished with a marginal commentary.
Gerardus de Monte Commentary on Thomas Aquinas , De ente et essentia 51r - 85v
  • Incipit:
    Insignis peripotetice [sc. peripatetice] veritatis interpres ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ipsa lux non eclipsabilis sed lucens eternaliter. Amen.
  • Note:
    According to the British Library Online Catalogue, this text is not a copy of the printed edition from 1497 .
  • Colophon:
    Explicit sentencia venerabilis viri arcium magistri ac sacre theoloy e doctoris eximij magistri Chirardi de Monte circa compendium de ente et essencia doctoris sancti fratris ordinis predicatorum Thome de Aquino .
Giles of Rome Theoremata de esse et essentia 115r - 120v
  • Incipit:
    Omne esse vel est purum per se ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et creatorem substancie et accidentis benedictum in secula.
  • Note:
    The British Library Online Catalogue gives the title as "Proposiciones de esse et essencia clarissimi doctoris Egidii de Roma " and adds, that the propositions are as in the printed texts and that the commentary consists of notes and extracts from that in C. Kacheloffen's edition (Leipzig) of 1493 .
  • Colophon:
    Finitur vigili studio 5 kal. Octobris 1507 salutis anno.