United Kingdom, Durham, Chapter Library, C. III, 15

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 130 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 345 x 230 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles are written on top of the pages in alternating red and blue. The larger letters are partly in red, partly in blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.



    No script on ff. 18v- 19v .
  • Hand Description:
    Text is elegantly written by multiple hands in turn.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 1r a hand of the 15th century wrote: "Tractatus De Generatione et Corruptione cum aliis tractatibus IX naturalis philosophie de communi libraria monachorum Dunelmensium".
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning of the 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.366 - 367
  • Thomas Rud , Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus Classicus, Durham (1825) , pp.286 - 288
Content
Alfred of Sareshel Commentary on the Meteorologica 11v - 18r
  • Incipit:
    Postquam precessit rememoratio: Titulus talis: Liber Aristotilis philosophi sapientis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... ipso est repugnante.
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear. This text is not mentioned in Rud .
Alfred of Sareshel Commentarium in De plantis 115r - 116v
  • Incipit:
    Vita in animalibus et plantis inventa est ...
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear. Lacombe gives title and author as: "Tractatus Alvredi super librum De Vegetalibus". Rud states, that the title " Aluredi tractatus super librum de Vegetabilibus" is written by the first hand and the textus is in parts accepted, in parts rejected.
Aristotle De causis 117r - 121r
  • Incipit:
    Omnis Causa primaria plus est influens super Causatum suum, quam secundaria ...
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 127r - 130v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendi perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur Corpus celeste ...
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 1r - 11v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit primus tractatus Avenroïs super librum de Generatione et Corruptione. Intentio in hoc libro est, quod oportet determinare causas universales ...
  • Note:
    According to Rud , the textus is adjoined to the commentary.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 20r - 106v
  • Incipit:
    Av[erroës] intendit per subtilitatem demonstrationem confirmationis ...
  • Note:
    According to Rud , the textus is annexed to the commentary.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 106v - 108r
  • Incipit:
    Iste tractatus incipit perscrutari de rememoratione et inquisitione ...
Nicholas of Amiens De articulis fidei 121r - 126v
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Clemens Papa , cujus rem vitae et nominis, subjecti sentiant, et tu a Domino consequaris ...
    [First axiom:] Causa per quam aliquid dicatur esse, quod dicitur Causatum ...
  • Note:
    Authorship is not clear.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 106v - 108r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu perscrutatur de Caussis [sic, in Rud ] longitudinis et brevitatis vite ...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 106v - 108r
  • Incipit:
    Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt necessarie in esse alium ...
  • Note:
    On flyleaf III^v we have a marginal annotation written with a stylus, about the De sensu et sensato: "Iste liber naturaliter debet succedere librum de Memoria et Reminiscentia".
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 106v - 108r
  • Incipit:
    Sompnus igitur et Vigilia describuntur multis modis ...