France, Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 3497

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 160 + (I-II) leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 345 x 235 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Modern foliation with pencil in the upper right corner (ff. 1r- 160v ).
    In section 1, the folios of fascicles 4-5 and 7-8 are numbered in pencil with small letters in the lower right margins.
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of two codicological sections: section 1 (ff. 1r- 74v = fasc. 1-9) and section 2 (ff. 75r- 160v = fasc. 10-16). The two parts have to have been bound together in early days, which is suggested by the titles in the upper margin on f. 1r (see notes to item 1, the Expositio in Aristotelis libros Elenchorum). These were not added by the scribe of the text, but by a contemporary hand, nonetheless.
    Collation of section 1 (first words on the second folio are: iam dicta scientia): 1^8 (ff. 1r- 8v ); 2^8 (ff. 9r- 16v ); 3^8 (ff. 17r- 24v ); 4^8 (ff. 25r- 32v ); 5^8 (ff. 33r- 40v ); 6^8 (ff. 41r- 48v ); 7^10 (ff. 49r- 58v ); 8^8 (ff. 59r- 66v ); 9^8 (ff. 67r- 74v ).
    Collation of section 2 (first words on the second folio are: methodus ut compositio): 10^12 (ff. 75r- 86v ); 11^12 (ff. 87r- 98v ); 12^12 (ff. 99r- 110v ); 13^12 (ff. 111r- 122v ); 14^12 (ff. 123r- 134v ); 15^12 (ff. 135r- 146v ); 16^(12+2) (ff. 147r- 160v ).
    Reclaimers on ff. 8v , 40v , 48v , 58v , 86v , 98v , 110v , 122v , 134v , 146v and 158v . There is a trace of a reclaimer on f. 16v .
  • Condition Description:
    The flesh side is the outer side.
    Ff. 159r- 160v seem to have been added at a later date, to complete the text. They measure 330 mm x 235 mm.
  • Decoration:
    We have running titles: for book I of the Expositio in Aristotelis libros De anima, these can be found up to f. 136v , where decoration for the beginning of book II was done. This book already begins on f. 132r and its actual beginning is without decoration. The running titles in section 2 have letters and ciphers in alternating red and blue. On f. 1r , we have an initial over five lines in red and blue, with a stem in the same colours in the inner margin. A similarly decorated initial over three lines can be found on f. 47v . Initials of chapters in section 1 are three lines high and alternately blue entwined with red lines or red entwined with green-azure lines. However, ff. 74r- 74v in this section are without any decoration and we also have spaces for initials left empty in ff. 1r- 74r . F. 75r has an initial over eight lines in red and blue, with a stem in the same colours in the inner and upper margin. On f. 93v we can see an initial over six lines, also in red and blue, with a stem in the same colours between the columns. The same decoration can be found on ff. 135v and 136v , with initials being four and two lines high, respectively. In section 2, the initials of chapters are two lines high, alternately blue entwined with red lines or vice versa. We have paragraph signs in alternating red and blue. Ink lining in section 1.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns. In section 1, the written area is 227 mm x 140 mm with 10 mm between the columns. Section 2 has a written area of 230 mm x 147 mm in ff. 75r - 158v and 220 mm x 140 mm in ff. 159r - 160v with 13 mm between the columns.

    55 lines to the page in section 1, 58 in ff. 75r - 158v and 44 in ff. 159r - 160v.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by seven hands.
    In section 1, we have four hands: ff. 1r- 74r (libraria, not using the first line), 74r , 74v lines 1 - 22 and on the same folio lines 23 - 39. The latter hands are all in cursiva and quite irregular.
    In section 2, we have three hands: ff. 75r- 158v (probably Parisian, not using the first line), 159r (not using the first line) and 159r- 160v .
  • Binding Description:
    Old binding, wooden covers with leather, five nervatures. Traces of three clasps: two on the outside of the front cover, one at the top and one at the bottom.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 1r we find the older signatures "957" and "499" and a note on costs: "lx sol. paris.". F. 74v has: "xii sol. de par. nichil plus nec minus quos simpliciter [?] solvi". On the back side label, the signature reads: "P/499".
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (France): Calames. Online catalogue of archives and manuscripts in French University and Research libraries [Ms 3497]
  • Concetta Luna , Aegidii Romani Opera Omnia I, Catalogo Dei Manoscritti (294 - 372), Francia (Parigi) Vol. I. 1/3**, Florence (1988) , p. 60 - 65
  • Auguste Molinier , Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Mazarine Vol. Tome III, Paris (1890) , pp. 109 - 110
  • Władysław Seńko , Repertorium Commentatoriorum Medii Aevi in Aristotelem Latinorum Quae in Bibliothecis Publicis Parisiis Asservantur Vol. Tom. 5, Fasc. 2, Warsaw (1982) , pp. 161 - 162
Content
Anonymous Notabilia super De animalibus 74r - 74r
  • Incipit:
    Ad evidentiam quorumdam dictorum in libro de animalibus sciendum est quod alta genera et magis continua nominantur habere sanguinem et esse sine sanguine ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ita quod quando sanguis est multum dulcis et multum obediens digestioni plus quam requiratur ad nutrimentum membrorum, tunc propter eustrophiam convertitur in sanguinem sive in pinguedinem, ut dicitur secundo de partibus et ideo pingues homines non multum habundant in sanguine.
Anonymous Quaestio on medicine 74v - 74v
  • Incipit:
    Creator maxime apprehensibilis, minime apprehensus, maxime intelligibilis, minime intellectus, quem mens non capit, verbum non exprimit, in quo omnia ab eterno presentialiter describuntur in athoma specie et in individua quanditate [sic]: quicquid absens, quicquid presens, quicquid fuit, est et erit ... Questio est utrum sit ponere complexionem temperatam ita quod sit aliquod mixtum omnimode equalitatis et arguitur quod non, quia sicut dicit commentator , si esset aliquid tale, non haberet motum neque quietem naturalem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cum igitur iste qualitates secundum quas fit mixtio possint excedere et excedi ad invicem, ergo in mixto possunt adequari.
  • Note:
    In the margins, we have: "principium unum in medicina si placet vel alibi". This text is followed by another medical note.
Anonymous Philosophia 159r - 160r
  • Incipit:
    Sicut scribitur a Philosopho , decimo ethicorum, ultima felicitas hominis consistit in optima hominis operatione que est supreme potentie, scilicet intellectus respectu optimi intelligibilis. Cuius ratio est: nam cum felicitas sit operatio secundum virtutem, sicut in primo et decimo ethice est ostensum, ratio naturaliter sequitur quod sit operatio secundum virtutem optimam, quoniam ostensum est primo ethicorum quod felicitas est optimum inter omnia bona humana, cum omnium humanorum sit finis ...
  • Explicit:
    Propter quod idem concludit philosophus quod ex universalibus ad singularia oportet procedere, propter quod philosophus scientiam naturalem incepit tradere ab hiis que communissima sunt omnibus naturalibus, cuiusmodi sunt motus et principia motus unde et primo phisicorum dicit philosophus quod omnia naturalia aut quedam supponantur moveri, et quia ens mobile ut mobile dicitur subiectum in hac scientia, ut patebit, ideo iuxta divisionem entis mobilis quod similiter est subiectum in tota scientia naturali, licet aliter distinguetur scientia naturalis, sicut patet alibi.
  • Note:
    Luna also tentatively proposes the title "Prologus super Physicam [?]".
Anonymous Alia philosophia 160r - 160v
  • Incipit:
    Sicut dicitur decimo ethicorum, philosophia affert delectationes in puritate et firmitate et huius propositionis ratio est quia delectatio causatur ex coniunctione convenientis cum convenienti cum cognitione et perfectione eiusdem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et ideo non propter ista est a philosophia desistendum. fortuna autem mutabilis est et non est permanens, scientia autem permanens est. unde dicit tholomeus in introductionibus almagesti: scientia est fidelis socius et adheret ossibus, ipsum quoque loqui facit intrepide. ad presens autem est intentio de primo libro philosophie.
  • Note:
    Luna also tentatively proposes the title "Prologus super Metaphysicam [?]". In the margins, we have: "Alia philosophia".
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 155v - 159r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... est valde bona [In the margins: et scias ... bona]. [Subscribed:] Explicit liber de compositione corporis celestis [In another hand:] ... sive liber de substantia orbis quod idem est.
  • Note:
    The Calames catalogue gives Avicenna as author. Seńko does not mention this text.
Giles of Rome Expositio in Aristotelis libros Elenchorum 1r - 74r
  • Incipit:
    Egidius supra librum Elencorum. Ex illustri prosapia oriundo domino Phillippo ... frater Egidius Romanus ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti Augustini in eo a quo omnis sapientia derivatur. Nature sagacitas ex eius opere dinoscitur ... Alpharabius in loyca sua volens quandam notitiam tradere de dyalectica ait quod fundamentum dyalectice est ex intellectu ...
  • Explicit:
    ... si aliqua omisit meretur veniam, et de his que bene dixit meretur gratias. Et in hoc terminatur sententia super libro Elencorum, in quo tractatur notitia rationum et obligationum sophisticarum. Laus sit ipsi Christo qui cum sit ars rectissima omnipotentis atque sapientis Dei per ipsum tamquam per summe rectum omne obliquum cognoscitur, qui cum patre vivit ... Deus benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit Summa super libro Elenchorum, edita a fratre Egydio de Roma , ordinis fratrum Heremitarum sancti Augustini , veraciter scripta.
  • Note:
    At the beginning, we have in the upper margin, in another hand: "alexandre [?] egidius supra de anima et supra elenchos et de substantia orbis". In the inferior margin, we have - again, in another hand: " Egidius supra librum elenchorum". Book I can be found on ff. 1r- 47v , book II on ff. 47v- 74r .
Giles of Rome Expositio in Aristotelis libros De anima 75r - 155v
  • Incipit:
    De anima. - Ex Romanorum spectabili ac illustri prosapia oriundo sibi quamplurimum dilecto ... Jacobo Johannis Gaietani Rothomagensi frater Egidius Romanus ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti Augustini seipsum et promptam ad sua beneplacita voluntatem. Dum intra me taciturus cogitarem quid vestre generositati erga quam tanta dilectione afficior minus offerre valerem ... [proem] Philosophus in secundo physicorum volens investigare terminos et limites considerationis philosophi naturalis ait ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit Summa supra librum de Anima, edita a fratre Egidio , ordinis fratrum Heremitarum sancti Augustini . Deo gratias.
  • Note:
    The explicit is given according to Auguste Molinier . Book I can be found in ff. 75r- 93v , book II in ff. 93v- 132r and book III in ff. 132r- 155v .