Belgium, Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 873-885

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 164 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 302 x 210 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Red and blue initials.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

  • Binding Description:
    Binding in brown calf leather, the old binding was restored.
  • Provenance:
    The codex seems to have belonged to the Priory of Corsendonk (cf. the signature on f. 1v , which is known from the library of the priory: W. 2). According to de Wulf , the title noted on f. 1v , " Thomas Aquinatis et Humberti dicta" seems to be the same work, as the " Thomae et Alberti dicta ex sacra theologia in folio et pergamento" of said priory.
    The red stamp of the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris , R.F., can be found on ff. 3r and 161v .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Fundación Tomás de Aquino: Corpus Thomisticum, Online research tool on Thomas Aquinas [Opera Omnia]
  • Joseph van den Gheyn , Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique Vol. Tome III: Théologie, Bruxelles (1903) , p. 330 [1561]
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript 1561 (873-85)]
  • Maurice de Wulf , Les Philosophes Belges Vol. I. Le Traité "Du Unitate Formae" de Gilles de Lessines, Leuven (1901) , pp. 5 - 9 [Chapitre Premier, Les Manuscrits]
Content
Al-Farabi De intellectu 143r - 145v
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.
Anonymous Contra primam partem summe 96v - 119v
  • Note:
    Van den Gheyn gives the title as "Contra primam partem summe et est liber fratris Humberti", de Wulf notes "eiusd. [i.e. Thomas Aquinas ] et Humberti, dictata de prima summa", apparently merging this part of the manuscript with the preceding one.
Anonymous De unitate formae 134v - 138r
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.
Anonymous De potentiis animae 154r - 158r
  • Note:
    Van den Gheyn gives the title "Tractatus eiusdem fratris [i.e. Thomas Aquinas ] de quinque potenciis anime". According to Corpus Thomisticum, the author of this tractate is unknown.
Anonymous Fragment of a Tractate on Philosophy 163v - 163v
  • Incipit:
    ... creatura creata vel ... communicatum vel communicabile sit.
  • Explicit:
    ... que faciunt novum universum unitate ordinatum ad ipsum.
  • Note:
    According to de Wulf , the last part of the codex is a fragment of music with Saxon notation.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 138r - 143r
Giles of Lessines De unitate formae 120r - 134v
  • Note:
    Van den Gheyn gives the title "Tractatus de unitate forme fratris Egidi de ordine fratrum praedicatorum".
Thomas Aquinas Antiphonary (Fragments) 1r - 2v
  • Note:
    Title according to van den Gheyn .
Thomas Aquinas Dictata 3r - 95v
  • Note:
    Title and authorship are not clear.
Thomas Aquinas De ente et essentia 146r - 150v
  • Note:
    Van den Gheyn gives a shortened title: "De Essentia".
Thomas Aquinas De aeternitate mundi 150v - 152r
Thomas Aquinas De mixtione elementorum 152r - 153r
Thomas Aquinas Sentencia libri De sensu et sensato 153r - 154r
  • Note:
    Van den Gheyn gives a shortened title: "De Sensu". De Wulf gives the title "de sensu communi".
Thomas Aquinas De motu cordis 158v - 159v
Thomas Aquinas De principiis naturae 159v - 162r