France, Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, 450

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 198 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 295-320 x 200-240 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of three codicological sections: section 1 (ff. 2r- 109v ) dates from the late 13th century , section 2 (ff. 110r- 119v ) and 3 (ff. 120r- 198v ) from the beginning of the 14th century .
  • Decoration:
    In section 1, the titles are given in minium or black at the top of the pages. In section 3, the title ("Meth.") is given in red and blue at the top of the pages. In section 1 he larger initials are coloured in red and blue, entwined and elongated with lines. The other, smaller ones are in alternating red and blue. None of the initials within the lines in minium are ornated. Section 2 has initials alternating in red and blue, entwined with lines in violet or red. Section 3 has initials in red and blue, entwined and elongated with lines, the larger ones ornated with leaves around the page. In section 1 and 2, the paragraphs are signed in alternating red and blue.
  • Layout:
    Text in section 1 is set in two columns.



    F. 119v is without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text in section 1 is written by many librarians.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 2r one can find an ex libris from the 16th - 17th century : "ff. Minorum Recollectorum conventus Balmetae catalogo inscriptus".
    The flyleaf I contains a signature: "n° 354".
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 14-15
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript 450]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 439f.
Content
Al-Kindi De somno et visione 53v - 56v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber Auicenne de sompno et vigilia [sic].
    Tu, cui Deus occultorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sermo enunciationis sustitit. Explicit liber Auicenne de somno et vigilia.
  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the short title "De Somno".
Aristotle Problemata 62r - 109r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Propleumata [sic] Aristotilis secundum nouam translationem.
    De problematibus ...
  • Explicit:
    ... consumere mundum. Explicit. Expliciunt propleumata [sic] Aristotilis .
  • Note:
    This is the translatio vulgata.
Aristotle De causis 110r - 114r
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria ...
  • Explicit:
    ... adquirere non adquisitum, sicut ostendimus. Amen.
  • Note:
    The title "De causis", added in the 15th century , is given at the top of the page.
Aristotle Physiognomonica 114r - 119r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem et anime ...
  • Explicit:
    ... super apparencia sit. Explicit liber Phisionomie Aristotelis de nouam latione [sic = noua translatione] Deo gracias.
  • Note:
    The title "De phisionomia", added in the 15th century , is given at the top of the page.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 56v - 61v
  • Incipit:
    In tractatu isto intendimus scrutari ...
  • Explicit:
    ... hec questio est valde bona. Explicit de substantia orbis.
  • Note:
    The title " Auerroys " is given in minium at the top of the page. "De substantia orbis" is added in black.
Avicenna De anima 2r - 53v
  • Incipit:
    Reuerentissimo Toletane sedis archiepiscopo et Hyspaniarum primati Ioh. Auendauth israelita philosophus gratum debite seruitutis obsequium. Cum omnes homines ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit 6^us liber naturalium Auicenne .
  • Note:
    Textus with prologue ("Prologus in Sextum Naturalium").
Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Metaphysics 120r - 198r
  • Incipit:
    Sicut docet Philosophus in Politicis suis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... Deum, qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen.