Austria, Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, 578

Collection of philosophical texts
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 60 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 250 x 175 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Quaterinons are constituted in 8+8+10 in the first part. The Quaterinons of the second part are each of 8 folios, except of the last, wich is constituted of only 2 folios. One can consider that a lot of Quaternions are missing, because the beginning of the commentary by Averroes is missing.
  • Decoration:
    The first part of the manuscript is decorated with red initials and convulted lines elongated with red ornaments. The first one is just red. The second part is written in pale ink. Little red intials and little lines of the same color as simple ornamentation. Signs of each paragraph are painted in red or blue. Red signes for paragraphs, rubrications in pale red ink. No Rubrications, but on the first folios notes for the rubricator are placed on the top of the page. No emendations.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in 2 columns.

  • Hand Description:
    Both parts are worked out by German or Austrian librarians.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th cenutry
  • Origin Place: German, Austria
  • Jakob Wichner , Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Admontensis, Admont (1888)
  • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Manuscripta.at, Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Österreich, Onlinekatalog [Cod. 578]
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 172-173
Content
Gratianus Decretum Gratiani , Fragm. x - x
Al-Farabi De scientiis 27r - 32v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber Alpharabii de divisione scienciarium. [rubr.] Prol: Nostra in hoc libro intentio est sciencias famosas comprehendere... - ut extimetur quod sit ex eis.
    De grammatica [rubr.] Capitulum primum de sciencia lingue in summa est duorum modorum...
  • Explicit:
    ... et eo quod errare facit sicut fit mulieribus et infantibus. Completus est liber Alpharabii vel Albunazir de scienciis.
  • Note:
    Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis .
Al-Kindi De somno et visione 33r - 34v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber Alchindi philosophi de sompno et vigilia. [rubr.] Tu, cui Deus occultorum varietas patefaciat...
  • Explicit:
    ...hoc igitur est sufficiens ad illum de quo quesiuit secundum locum in speculatione
  • Note:
    Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis .
Al-Kindi De ratione 34v - 34v
  • Incipit:
    Tractatus Alpharabii de modis acceptionum huius nominis: ratio. [rubr. in the magrin]. Intellexi que sciuisti (=quod quesiuisti) de scribendo sermonem de ratione abreuiatum enumante scienciam Aristotelis ...
  • Explicit:
    ...sermo enunciatuus sufficit. Amen. Explicit.
  • Note:
    Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis .
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 35r - 60v
  • Incipit:
    Et sic animalia anelantia indigent apud olfactum anelitu ad aperiendum vias clausas olfactus.. per quas impossibile est ut olfaciat antequam aperiantur...
  • Explicit:
    Dixit Aristotelis : Et intellectus operatiuus ... Cum igitur hee due propositiones fuerint concesse, consequitur ex eis quod in animali est membrum quiescens. ...a quo incipit motus expulsionis et ad quod peruenit.
  • Note:
    On f. 60v some philosophical notes by two cursive handwritings.
Boethius of Dacia De modis significandi 1r - 26v
  • Incipit:
    Secundum quod vult Aristoteles in primo Celi et mundi, modicus error in principiis est magnus in effectibus... - si sit aut essencialis aut accidentalis.
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber de modis significandi. Laus tibi sit Christe, quoniam liber explicit iste. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
  • Note:
    On f. 26v : "Coniunctio significat per modum... - et sic sunt coniunctiones rationales etc." on top of the page in cursives of the 14th century.