Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 363

Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 363

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 146 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 306 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of two codicological sections: (1) ff. 1r - 102v and (2) ff. 103r - 146v .
  • Decoration:
    Initials in section 1 alternating in red and blue, the first one gilded as well as decorated with an image in various colours and lines, which are elongated into the margins. Section 2 does not have decorations, spaces for the initials are left empty.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by two hands.
    Section 1 is diligently written by a Gallic librarian, as it seems.
    Section 2 is written by a German librarian.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden cover with white leather.
  • Provenance:
    On the cover, we have the old signature "77. phil. natur.".
History
  • Origin Date: 13th and 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Thomas Aquinas Expositio I-X Librorum Ethicorum Aristotelis 1r - 100v
  • Incipit:
    Sicut dicit philosophus in principio methaphisice: sapientis est.
  • Explicit:
    ... quod quidem est continuatio ad librum politice et terminatio sententie totius libri ethic.; Deo gr., am.
Themistius Expositio I Libri De Anima Aristotelis 100v - 102v
  • Incipit:
    De anima quecunque possibile est sciencia comprehendere.
  • Explicit:
    ... multitudo quam indeterminatam dualitatem vocant.
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , the text contains just the first chapters and already starts on f. 100v and this is correct. Other descriptions say the text would start on f. 101r (cf. i.e. f. x3 ).
Aristotle Physica 103r - 132v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam quidem scire et intelligere ...
  • Note:
    This is the new translation. This text is not mentioned by Markowski . Manuscripta medievalia notes, that on top of the page we have "Inc. primus liber phys." in a cursiva from the beginning of the 14th century .
Aristotle Expositio Libri De Causis Ps.- Aristotelis 133r - 137v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria -- universalis. Cum ergo removet causa ...
Thomas Aquinas De Ente et Essentia 138r - 142r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam parvus error in principio magnus ...
  • Note:
    Only Manuscripta medievalia mentions this text.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 142r - 146r
  • Incipit:
    In tractatu hoc intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... motu scilicet corrupcionis, et scias quod hoc questio est valde bona.