Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. Soppr. I. 3. 7

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Mixed
  • Pages: VII + 208 + VI leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 408 x 286 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    (1-18)^10 + 19^6 + 20^10 + 21^12.
    Reclaimers.
  • Condition Description:
    The first fascicle is on the flesh side.
  • Decoration:
    We have an initial with white vine-stem border (bianchi girari), ornated with gold on f. 1r , otherwise filigree initials as well. The text is rubricated. We have coloured lines.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    60 lines to the page.
    In some folios, the horizontal lines were not kept, but the written area and number of lines are constant throughout.
  • Binding Description:
    The codex was restaurated, now having a leather binding.
  • Provenance:
    Bianchi gives the time of origin as 28.01.1445 .
    On f. 1r we have an erased emblem.
    The codex is from the library of the convent of San Marco. It can be identified within the catalogue from the end of the 15th century as: "in bancho XII ex parte occidentis nr. 3". On the back side we have an old signature: 63 ( 17th century ).
    From 1808 onward, the codex was part of the present collection (Conventi Soppressi).
    We have numerous hints to a " Dordrecht " within the codex, e.g. on f. 153v : " Dordrecht letare non te potuit superare". On f. 182r we have in larger letters: " Dordrecht . Anno Domini millesimo CCCC 45, 28 die ianuarii ". At the end of the Tabula quaestionum (item 2, f. 183v ), one can see: "Finit tabula questionum libri de homine Alberti Magni . Dordrecht letare. [Following in larger letters:] Dordrecht letare, non te potuit superare, finivi librum, scripsi sine manibus ipsum". The scribe " Dordrecht " is also responsible for the copies of the codices Padua, , 360, 361 and 362.
    We have a signature from the registry in red on the last two fascicles, where we find the initial "A".
History
  • Origin Date: 1445
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Simona Bianchi , I manoscritti datati del Fondo Conventi Soppressi della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Florence (2002) , p. 102
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982) , p. 264
Content
Albert the Great De homine 1r - 182r
  • Incipit:
    Circa secundam partem summe de creaturis restat querere de homine de quo ...
  • Note:
    Bianchi gives the title "Summa de creaturis", Fauser gives a different last folio (f. 180r ).
  • Colophon:
    ... De Dordrecht anno 1445 28 die Januarii .
Anonymous Tabula quaestionum 182r - 183v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 187r - 190v
Thomas Aquinas De formis 190v - 208v