Sweden, Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek, C. 647

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 215 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 145 x 105 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Folionumbers 76 - 79 were wrongly omitted.
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of four codicological sections.
    The first (ff. 1r- 136v , quaternions: 8 + 12x2 + 8x2 + 10 + 8x3 + 12 + 6 + 8 + 6 + 8 + 10) and second (ff. 137r- 158v , quaternions: 8 + 6 + 8) sections are from the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century . The third section (ff. 159r- 180v , quaternions: 12 + 10) is from the 14th century and the fourth section (ff. 181r- 215v , quaternions: 7(5 + 2) + 8 + 4 + 8x2) from the end of the 14th century .
    For the first section, some reclaimers can be found in the final quaternion, the second section has a reclaimer on f. 144v .
  • Decoration:
    On ff. 1r- 26v , we have titles in minium on top of the pages and also in the margins. At the beginning of the second section, we have titles on top of the pages in red. In the first section, we have red initials. The second section has its larger initials in blue with red elongations (cf. f. 137r ) and the minor ones without further ornations either in red or in blue up to f. 151r , from then on just in red. In the third section, spaces for the initials are left empty. In the first and fourth section, we have paragraph signs in minium. We have no rubrication in the third section, but some in the fourth section.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines.



    F. 156r is without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by multiple hands.
    The first and second section of the codex are written by many librarians from the North, either Germanic or Danish. Additionally, the second part is written in a very fine script.
    The third section up to f. 179r is written by one Swedish or Danish librarian.
    D'Alverny proposes, that the fourth section is written by many Swedish librarians.
  • Binding Description:
    Within the binding one can see a parchment fragment of some codex from the 14th century.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 159r the name of Nicolaus Laghonis is inscribed. He was a lector at the Dominican convent in Helsingborg and had his floruit in the 14th century . The inscription (before the Rotulus pugillaris of Augustinus de Dacia ) is in a bolder hand and reads: "Liber fratris Nicholai Laghonis de conuentu Helsinburgensis ord. pr[edicatorum] prouincie Dacie".
    At the bottom of f. 184v , we have: "Brodher Illabrandus aeghir mik".
    On f. 215r one can see:"Fr. Olavus Petri " ( 14th - 15th century ).
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th and 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1157
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
  • Margarete Andersson-Schmitt , Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala: Katalog über die C- Sammlung Vol. Bd. 6. C 551-935, Stockholm (1993) , p.200 - 203 [C 647]
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Manuscripta medievalia, Onlinekatalog [Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek, C 647]
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 266-271
Content
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 18r - 19v
  • Incipit:
    Quod celum mouetur est duabus causis ...
  • Explicit:
    Hec est questio valde bona. Explicit.
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the De Substantia Orbis.
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia 26r - 31v
  • Incipit:
    Interrogasti me, honoret Deus, de differentia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et in futuro. Amen. Explicit liber de differentia spiritus et anime.
  • Note:
    According to d'Alverny , who gives the fuller title "De differentia spiritus et animae", authorship is not clear. The text is followed by a note: "Duo sunt principia humanarum actionum scilicet intellectus siue ratio et appetitus que sunt principia mouentia ut dicitur 3° de Anima ... ipsa operata sunt fines" (f. 31v ).
Plato Timaios 13v - 18r
  • Incipit:
    De prologo in Thymeum Platonis . Socrates in exortacionibus suis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sequebatur pulcris omnibus ex non talibus quondam institutis Hic est finis Platonis in Thimeo.
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the Timaios. D'Alverny gives Calcidius as translator.
Macrobius In somnium Scipionis 116r - 116v
  • Incipit:
    Plato dicit animam esse essentiam se mouentem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... e carcere volauerunt.
  • Note:
    The title " Macrobius super Sompnium Scipionis " is given in the margin. The text contains just an abbreviated excerpt.
Isidore of Seville Synonyma 156r - 158v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit prologus Ysidori episcopi in sinonimam. - [V]enit nuper ad manus meas quedam cedula Ciceronis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... Deus tibi omnia optata tri ... [buat] ...
  • Note:
    The end of the text is mutilated. According to d'Alverny , the text may be L. I, 4 - 56.
Isidore of Seville Etymologiae 19v - 20r
  • Incipit:
    Ysidorus 9. libro cap. 4 Ethim[ologiarum] (IX, 3, 46 - 55). Legio sex milia armatorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... multitudo tumultuosa in iram conflatur.
  • Note:
    The text contains an excerpt from the Etymologiae.
Cicero Laelius de amicitia 22v - 26r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit excerptum de amicitia eiusdem. - Quintus Mucius augur Sceuola , etc. Itaque feci non inuitus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ut ea excepta nihil amicitia probabilius putetis. Explicit Tullius .
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the Laelius de amicitia.
Cicero Cato maior de senectute 20r - 22v
  • Incipit:
    O Tite , si quid ego ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ut ea que a me audistis re experti probare possitis. Explicit.
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the Cato maior de senectute. The title "Ex libro Tulii de senectute" can be found in the margin.
Boethius De consolatione philosophiae 137r - 150r
  • Incipit:
    Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi -id est in finem duxi merens vel tristis tristitia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cum ante oculos agitis cuncta cernentis cuncta. - Explicit Boecius .
  • Note:
    The text contains glossated excerpts from the De consolatione philosophiae. The title on top of the page is: " Boetius de consolatione philosophie".
Bernard of Clairvaux De gratia et libero arbitrio 7v - 7v
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the De gratia et libero arbitrio.
Bernard of Clairvaux De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae 6v - 7r
  • Incipit:
    Ex libro beati Ber[nardi] de duodecim gradibus humilitatis, qui sic incipit : Locuturus de gradibus humilitatis etc. Ego sum via ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ligat consuetudo.
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae.
Avicenna Metaphysica 5v - 6r
  • Incipit:
    Ex Metaphisica Auicenne . - Postquam, Deo auxiliante, etc. Speculatiue scientie sunt in quibus querit perficiuntur [= perfici virtus] anime speculatiua ... In hiis ergo finis est certitudo scientie et operatuionis [= opinionis] et credulitatis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... Scias autem quod delectatio cuiusque virtutis plena est acquisitio sue perfectionis.
  • Note:
    The title on top of the pages is: "Metaphisica Auicenne ", the text contains excerpts from the Metaphysica.
Al-Ghazali Metaphysica et Physica 1r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    ... in cibo est secundum intensionem voluntatis [= voluptatis], similiter delectatio intellectus est nobilior in suo genere delectatione sensibilium ... Primus comprehendit se secundum quod est in se pulcritudinis et decoris ... sicut depingitur in anima eius esse omnium que sunt secundum ordinem suum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... finis divinis et naturalibus.
  • Note:
    This text contains excerpts, sometimes abbreviated, from the Metaphysica and the Physica. The beginning is mutilated. The titles on top of the pages are: " Algazelis ", "Metaphisica Algazelis ", " Alg. tract. 5" and " Alg. tract. 6".
Augustinus de Dacia Rotulus pugillaris 159r - 176v
  • Incipit:
    [T]heologia est scientia ducens humanum intellectum lumine fidei in cognicionem Dei ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in hiis autem omnibus sumitur gradus secundum exigenciam meritorum. - Explicit rotulus Ag[ustini] .
  • Note:
    The prologue is missing. Cf. Basel, , B. X. 9.
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 55r - 64r
  • Note:
    This is the old translation, with marginal glosses in the beginning and end of the text.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 35r - 43v
  • Note:
    This is the old translation, just parts I and II, with interlinear and around the page glosses.
Aristotle De virtutibus et vitiis 11r - 13v
  • Incipit:
    Ar[istotelis] de laudabilibus bonis. - Laudabilia quidem sunt bona ...
  • Explicit:
    ... vituperabilia sunt. Explicit.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the title "De laudabilibus bonis" and names Robert Grosseteste as translator.
Apuleius De deo Socratis 8v - 11r
  • Incipit:
    Apulegius discipulus Platonis de deo Socratis . Ex prologo. - Qui me voluistis. Infra. Aristippus interrogatus ... et gratiam celeritatis possit. Istut [sic] de prologo. Iamdudum scio .... nec oratione defectior. - Plato omnem naturam trifariam diuisit ...
  • Explicit:
    ... audiuit nec accessit. Finis libri de deo Socratis .
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the De deo Socratis .
Anonymous Excerpts from various historical and instructive texts 176v - 215v
  • Incipit:
    De officio confessoris ... [A]uditurus confessiones necessarium est ut sciat quantum potestatis habeat ...
Albert the Great De animalibus 151r - 156r
  • Incipit:
    Sermo de generatione hominis et principio quod est in feminis ... Nam locuti sumus superius in differentiis femine et maris ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et quando incipit a dorso et quando prolongatur. Explicit liber IX.
  • Note:
    The text contains excerpts from the De animalibus (1. IX). The title given on top of the page is: "Incipit liber 9us, c. primum de principio generationis humane quod est aput coitum maris et femine et de commutantibus ipsum".
Albert the Great Super libros Sententiarum 150v - 150v
  • Incipit:
    Nota de Alberto super principium Sententiarum d. 35. - Quia omnis diuersitas que est in qualitatibus secundis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in motibus declinacionis et inuolucionum decensus et assensus et stacionis et retrogradacionis.
  • Note:
    The text contains an excerpt (1. I, Dist. 35, art. 7) from the Super libros Sententiarum.
Albert the Great De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas 116v - 136v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.:] Incipit liber fratris Alberti ordinis predicatorum ...
    Quia aput nonnullos ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit questio de unitate et diuersitate intellectus ...
Albert the Great De natura et origine animae 86r - 116r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber de natura et origine anime [In the margin, rubricated, in a bold hand: fratris Alberti ordinis fratrum predicatorum]. Tractatus primus de natura anime in corpore ...
  • Explicit:
    ... dictum sit a nobis. Explicit liber fratris Alberti philosophi ordinis Predicatorum quondam episcopi ratisponensis de origine anime.
Albert the Great De spiritu et respiratione 64r - 86r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber primus Alberti de spiritu et respiratione ... Multa sunt animalia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de differentiis eorum dicta sunt. Explicit de spiritu et respiratione.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the title "Commentarium in Aristotelis librum de spiritu et respiratione".