Czech Republic, Prague, Library of the Metropolitan Chapter (Knihovna metropolitní kapituly), L. LXII

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 132 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 245 x 178 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of two codicological sections.
  • Condition Description:
    The textus in section 2 (ff. 106r- 132v ) is very corrupt.
  • Decoration:
    Section 1 (ff. 1r- 105v ) has red and blue initials, separately. The first words, with capital letters alternating in red and blue, are written out. Section 2 (ff. 106r- 132v ) has few initials, just in minium.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines in section 1 (ff. 1r - 105v) and dates from the end of the 13th century.

    Text is set in two columns in section 2 (ff. 106r - 132v).

  • Hand Description:
    Text in section 1 (ff. 1r- 105v ) is written by one librarian.
    Text in section 2 (ff. 106r- 132v ) is written by one hand in thin current script, sufficiently refined, but abbreviated. If Lacombe is not mistaken, it is an English hand.
  • Binding Description:
    Old binding.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 132v one can find: "Iste Liber est Johannis de hy... cz est emptus pro grossis... 3...". Podlaha reads: "Iste liber est Johannis de Hradecz et est emptus pro grossis 13 ...".
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript L. 62]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 328f.
  • Antonín Podlaha , Soupis rukopisů knihovny Metropolitní kapitoly pražské. Soupis rukopisů knihoven a archivů zemí českých, jakož i rukopisných bohemik mimočeských Vol. Part 2 (F - P), Prague (1922) , pp. 236 - 237 [1307 L. LXII.]
Content
Aristotle Analytica priora 1r - 49r
  • Incipit:
    Primum oportet dicere ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber priorum.
  • Note:
    The text has interlinear and marginal comments.
Aristotle Analytica posteriora 49v - 83v
  • Incipit:
    Omnis doctrina et omnis disciplina ...
  • Note:
    The text has interlinear and marginal comments.
Aristotle De sophisticis elenchis 84r - 105v
  • Incipit:
    De sophisticis autem elenchis ...
  • Note:
    The text has interlinear and marginal comments.
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 106r - 109r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem et de anima ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de sensu et sensato. Amen.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 109r - 111v
  • Incipit:
    De sompno autem et vigilia considerandum est ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de sompno et vigilia Amen.
Aristotle De motu animalium 111v - 113v
  • Incipit:
    De motu antem communi animalium ...
  • Explicit:
    ... reliquum antem de generacione dicere.
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 113v - 114r
  • Incipit:
    De eo autem ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de longitudine et brevitate vite.
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 114r - 117v
  • Incipit:
    De iuventute et senectute et vita et morte ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de morte et vita. Amen.
  • Note:
    Podlaha gives the title "Liber de morte et vita".
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 117v - 118v
  • Incipit:
    De memoria autem et reminiscencia ...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit de memoria et reminiscencia Amen.
Aristotle De anima 118v - 128r
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum honorabilium noticiam ...
  • Explicit:
    ... significet aliquid alteri. Explicit lib. de ... [erased]
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 128r - 132v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus, ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Note:
    Podlaha gives the title "Tractatus de compositione corporis coelestis".