France, Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 3462

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I+87 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 303 x 230 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles on the top of the pages alternating in red and blue colours. Initials are ornamented with pictures.
  • Layout:
    Text is mainly set in 2 columns. Through the glosses there are sometimes 4 or even 6 columns.



    The Greek-Latin translation of the text is in the middle of the folio, whilst the Arabic-Latin versions of the text and the glosses by Averroes and Albert the Great are in the margins.
  • Hand Description:
    The code is worked out by a lot of French hands in a very similar way.
  • Provenance:
    On the postfolio some hand from the 13th century wrote: "Est liber hic sancti Martini Lovaniensis". And again: "Ego Johannes Voisyn, recepi istum librum ab executoribus... Britonis, pro nomine Domini Petri..., presentibus commendatore de Champaignes et domino Johanne May, domino Ludovico Guiart et Johanne Sennart. Actum anno Domini M.CCCC.XXIII, die XII° mensis junii."
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: France
  • Auguste Molinier , Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Mazarine Vol. Tome III, Paris (1890) , p. 90f.
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 492
  • Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (France): Calames. Online catalogue of archives and manuscripts in French University and Research libraries [Ms 3462]
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
Content
Albert the Great De anima 1r - 76v
  • Incipit:
    Omnibus que de corpore mobili et de mobili secundum locum...
Albert the Great De memoria et reminiscentia 77r - 81r
  • Incipit:
    Reliquorum autem primum considerandus (!) est de memorari, cum...
Albert the Great De nutrimento et nutribili 81r - 82v
  • Explicit:
    ...in augmentatis quoniam necdum exsiccatis//
  • Note:
    Ends incomplete in Treatise 2, ch.1.
Aristotle De anima 1r - 76v
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum et honorabilium noticiam opinantes magis...
    Quoniam de rebus honorabilibus est scire...
  • Note:
    In the vetus- and Scotus-translation.
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 77r - 82v
  • Note:
    In the old and the new translation.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 83r - 87v
  • Note:
    Ends abrupt in Book I.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 1r - 73r
  • Incipit:
    Intendit per subtilitatem, confirmationem, demonstrationem...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 77r - 80r
  • Note:
    Compendium on De memoria et reminscentia.