Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 165

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 165

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 415 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 345 x 239 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of two codicological sections: section A (ff. 1r- 378v ) and section B (ff. 379r- 415r ).
  • Decoration:
    Section A has initials in gold, ornated in various colours. The initials of each tractate have their title illustrated with pictures in the Gallic way. Section B has initials in blue and gold, separately. Alternately, within this section we also have initials in red or blue, decorated with little lines in a possibly Anglican way.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by at least two hands.
    Section A is apparently written in a large Gallic script, section B is written by a different hand.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 402v we have: "Explicit Epistola Aristotilis ad Alexandrum regem, suum discipulum. Anno Domini 1288 factus fuit; anno 1000 et 200 et 88 fuit completus iste liber". Lacombe states uncertainty about the significance of the date: It may have been transcribed from another copy of the text.
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Universität Regensburg - Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Philosophie: ALCUIN, Online database on authors and texts from the Middle Ages [Works of Robertus Grosseteste]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.1162 - 1164
  • Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino: Mirabile - Online Catalogue. Archivio digitale della cultura medievale. Digital Archives for Medieval Culture [description]
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 109v
  • Note:
    The beginning of chapter I^i is torn off.
Aristotle Physica 110r - 188v
Aristotle De caelo 190r - 233v
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 234r - 255v
Aristotle Meteorologica 257r - 298r
Aristotle De anima 299r - 329v
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 330r - 340v
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 340v - 344v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 344v - 354r
Aristotle De motu animalium 354v - 359r
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 359v - 362r
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 362r - 373r
Aristotle De bona fortuna 373r - 376r
Aristotle Physica 376v - 378v
Aristotle De causis 379r - 382r
Aristotle De lineis indivisibilibus 382r - 383r
Aristotle De pomo 383r - 384v
Aristotle De intelligentia 384v - 385v
Aristotle De plantis 385v - 389v
Aristotle De coloribus 389v - 391v
Aristotle De causis proprietatum elementorum 391v - 391v
  • Note:
    This is just the beginning of the text.
Aristotle De inundatione Nili 392r - 393r
Qusta Ibn Luqa De differentia spiritus et animae 392r - 392r
  • Note:
    This is just the end of the text.
Anonymous De secundo philosopho 393r - 393v
Martin of Braga Formula vitae honestae 393v - 394v
  • Incipit:
    Gloriosissimo et tranquillissimo ... Martinus humilis episcopus. Non ignoro, clementissime rex ... altitudo scientie et sapientie Dei etc.
Aristotle De progressu animalium 395r - 397r
Aristotle Physiognomonica 397r - 399r
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 399r - 402r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et scire quod haec quaestio est valde bona ...
Aristotle Epistola ad Alexandrum 402r - 402v
  • Incipit:
    Oportet te, Alexander ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ad invicem operantur.
  • Note:
    This text is from the Secretum Secretorum.
Robert Grosseteste De accessu et recessu maris 402v - 403r
  • Incipit:
    Intendentes de accesione et recessione maris ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ultima propositione de speculis.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives a "Boecius" as author. ALCUIN lists the work under Robertus Grosseteste , cf. also Dales .
Robert Grosseteste De iride 403r - 404r
  • Incipit:
    Et perspectivi et phisici est speculatio ...
  • Explicit:
    ... racione clarescunt.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives a "Boecius" as author. ALCUIN lists the work under Robertus Grosseteste .
Thomas Aquinas De aeternitate mundi 404r - 405r
  • Incipit:
    Supposito secundum fidem ...
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title as "De Duracione Mundi" and the author as "Boecius", whom he identifies with Thomas Aquinas .
Dominicus Gundissalinus De unitate et uno 405r - 405v
  • Incipit:
    Unitas est qua ...
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the author as "Boecius", whom he identifies with Dominicus Gundissalinus .
Anonymous Tractatus algoristicus de fractionibus volgaribus 405v - 406v
  • Incipit:
    Multiplex est modus scribendi ...
  • Explicit:
    ... radix cubita igitur et sic de aliis.
Anonymous Tractatus de figuris geomantie 406v - 407r
  • Incipit:
    Scientia dividitur in theoricam et practicam ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cardines confortantes.
Anonymous De signis 407r - 407v
  • Incipit:
    Signa aquarum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in insula aquam signant.
  • Note:
    Lacombe also gives the title "De Astronomia Navali". Just the first chapter.
Thomas Aquinas De mixtione elementorum 407v - 408r
Thomas Aquinas De motu cordis 408r - 408v
  • Incipit:
    Quia omne quod movetur ...
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title "Tractatus fratris Thome de Albino de Motu Cordis".
Thomas Aquinas De ente et essentia 408v - 411v
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title "Tractatus fratris Thome de Aquino de Essentia sive de Quiditate entium".
Albert the Great De passionibus aeris 411v - 414v
  • Incipit:
    Passiones aeris ...
  • Explicit:
    ... pura reperitur.
  • Note:
    Lacombe gives the title "Tractatus Alberti de Impressionibus factis in aere"
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 415r - 415r
  • Note:
    The text consists of just two excerpts, the prologues of the third and eigth book.