United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 112

United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 112

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 174 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 360 x 250 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Headings on top of pages as well as line-fillers in red and blue colours. Large initials partly in red and blue, artfully elongated to carobs. Small initials in various colours. Red or blue paragraph signs.
  • Layout:
    55 - 60 lines to the page. A box of script with the measures:

    Text is set in two columns.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by two or three hands.
    Similar English bookhands in Gothic rotunda, medium quality, written in darker ink.
    Possibly a German or Low Countries hand on ff. 39r- 105r .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.401
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 1: Oxford, Turnhout (2011) , pp. 219 - 220
  • Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors , Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford, Oxford (1963) , pp.89ff.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 3r - 105r
  • Incipit:
    [Text:] Consideracio quidem in ueritate ...
    [Commentary:] Quia ista sciencia perscrutatur simpliciter incepit notificare dispositionem uie inducentis ad ipsam ...
  • Explicit:
    ... secundum quod est agens motum et secundum quod est finis. Explicit.
  • Note:
    We have sparse but persistent marginal glossing in early Anglicana hands.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 105r - 116r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit de generacione et corrupcione. Intencio nostra in hoc libro est quod oportet determinare causas uniuersales omnium generatorum et corruptorum naturaliter ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quod differt primum numero a precedentibus.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 116r - 119v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et scias quod haec quaestio est valde bona. Explicit.
Aristotle De causis 119v - 123v
  • Note:
    Thomson gives Al-Farabi as author.
Nicholas of Amiens De articulis fidei 123v - 127r
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 127r - 129r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit de sensu et sensato. Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt necessarie in esse animalium et quedam propter melius ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de fortitudine et debilitate rememorationis loquendum est de eo secundo tractatu huius libri. Explicit ...
Aristotle Politica 133r - 161v
  • Incipit:
    Politica. Quoniam omnem civitatem...
  • Explicit:
    ...et quod decens. Reliqua huius operis in greco non dum inveni.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Guilelmus de Moerbeke . Up to f. 138v we have sparse marginal glosses in anglicana hands of the 14th century .
Aristotle Magna moralia 161v - 171r
  • Incipit:
    Liber Magnorum Moralium. Quoniam eligimus dicere de moralibus...
  • Explicit:
    ...et filios parentes. Explicit liber magnorum ethicorum Aristotelis Stragerice etc.
Aristotle Oeconomica 171r - 172v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Iconomia. Iconomica et politica differunt non solum...
  • Explicit:
    ... et filios et parentes. Explicit Yconomica Aristotelis translata etc.
  • Note:
    This is the recension of Durandus of Alvernia .
Alfred of Sareshel Commentarium in De plantis 173v - 174v
  • Incipit:
    Aluredus super librum de Plantis. [Text:] Vita in animalibus ...: [Commentary:] Inferioris mundi corporum quattuor sunt prima genera confusa congellata plante animalia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sed substancia subtili et liquida acidus uel amarus.
  • Note:
    The text ends unfinished.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 127r - 129r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit de memoria et reminiscencia. Incipit perscrutari de remeacione et de inquisicione per remeationem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... habet alteram illarum duarum uirtutum aut habeat utramque. Explicit.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 127r - 129r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit de sompno et uigilia. Sompnus igitur et uigilia describuntur menis [recte: multis modis] ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et de causis accidencium suorum dictum est. Explicit de sompno et uigilia. Averroes super causis longitudinis et breuitatis mortis et uite incipit.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 127r - 129r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causa longitudinis et breuitatis uite ...
  • Explicit:
    ... dictum est de causa longitudinis et breuitatis uite secundum nostrum posse et intellectum.