France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 12953

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 12953

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 383 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 320 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Titles are written on top of the pages, their letters coloured alternating in red and blue up to f. 271v . Thereafter, we have the title of the tractates and books on their respective first page only. The largest initials are artfully illustrated with pictures, the others are golden, in various colours.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines, except for the De Causis and the De Substantia Orbis.

    26 lines to the page, except for ff. 271v - 275r .

    About 46 - 57 lines to the page in ff. 271v - 275r .

    Ff. 165v , 231v , 275v and 335r- 335v are without script.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written neatly and elegantly by many librarians.
  • Provenance:
    The codex was once Sanctus Maurus Fossatensis 1077 and thereafter Sanctus Germanus de Pratris 604.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven: HIW Microfilm Database [Manuscript lat. 12953]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.537
Content
Aristotle Physica 1r - 75v
  • Note:
    The text starts abruptly at the end of book III.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 7r - 7r
  • Note:
    These are two fragments, given in two glosses. The first fragment (f. 7r ; book IV, 18) is in the lower right margin, the second (f. 22r ; book IV, 117) in the bottom margin. There may be more fragments of Averroes' commentary throughout the Physica.
Aristotle De caelo 76r - 165r
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 166r - 195v
Aristotle Meteorologica 196r - 231r
  • Note:
    Six chapters from the end of book II and ten chapters from the beginning of book III are missing.
Aristotle De anima 232r - 271r
Aristotle De causis 271v - 274r
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 274r - 275r
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste.
  • Explicit:
    Dignior eum est hoc nomine quod intitulavit [?] in hoc titulo.
  • Note:
    This is just the first tractate.
Anonymous De differentia 276r - 282v
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , this is an anonymous recension.
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 283r - 285v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 285v - 297r
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 297r - 310r
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 310r - 314v
Aristotle De plantis 315r - 334v
  • Note:
    According to Long , ff. 315r- 317r and 326v have fragments of glosses by Adam of Bockenfield on De Plantis, on f. 326v beginning with "nota quod Aristoteles dicit de generatione pumicis ...".
Aristotle Metaphysica 336r - 338v
  • Note:
    This is the oldest translation (Metaphysica Vetustissima). The text ends in the third chapter of book I.
Aristotle Metaphysica 339r - 383v
  • Note:
    This is the new translation (Metaphysica Nova). The text ends with the first words of book VII.