United Kingdom, Oxford, Oriel College Library, 7

United Kingdom, Oxford, Oriel College Library, 7

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: III + 207 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 230 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Folio 179 is signed out twice (see f. 179r and 180r ) and there is a little additional folio f. 65r . Due to this, the DARE foliation differs from the foliation on the pages.
  • Condition Description:
    Fragments of tawed skin from the spine of an earlier binding are pasted inside the rear board.
    The codex was formerly chained from front to rear, at the middle of the foot. There was also an [?]early large brass chain-staple near the foot of the rear board.
  • Decoration:
    Headings on top of pages in red and blue. Red and blue flourished initials and: red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; red or blue ornaments flourished in the other colour. Red or blue paraphs.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two colums.

    54 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by two English hands in darker ink, the first writing just the first text, the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics.
    The texts are written in English gothic rotunda bookhands of university type.
  • Provenance:
    According to Thomson , this codex was probably made commercially at Oxford. It was at Oriel College by 1600 .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: Oxford [?]
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 156-158
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp. 415f.
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 1: Oxford, Turnhout (2011) , pp. 372 - 373
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 106v
  • Incipit:
    [Text:] Consideratio quidem in ueritate ...
    [Commentary:] Quia ista scientia perscrutatur simpliciter incepit notificare dispositionem uie inducentis ...
  • Explicit:
    [Text:] ... etiam non ponere contrarium boni et intellectus.
    [Commentary:] ... quod est agens motum et finis.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus .We have bad binding of Books VIII - XI: In the middle of the treatise we find Book XI. The right order would be: 1r- 64v , 65r , 78r- 89v , 66r- 77v , 90r- 106v . No script on ff. 107r- 107v . We have marginal notes from the 14th and 15th century .
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 108r - 165v
  • Incipit:
    [Text:] Quoniam de rebus honorabilibus ...
    [Commentary:] A. intendit per subtilitatem confirmacionem demonstracionis ...
  • Explicit:
    [Text:]... rem aliquo alio modo.
    [Commentary:]... et precipue uisus et auditus et hoc est manifestum.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus . We have early marginal notes and maniculi. In the margins of f. 165v in an Anglican cursive handwriting of the 14th century : "Explicit de anima".
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato) 165v - 167v
  • Incipit:
    Auer' de Sensu et Sensato. Virtutes quidem sensibiles quedam sunt necessarie in esse animalium ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et debilitate rememoracionis loquendum est in secundo tractatu.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus .
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 172r - 175v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et scias quod haec quaestio est valde bona.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 175v - 185v
  • Incipit:
    Commentum Au' super librum de Generatione et Corruptione. Intencio nostra in hoc libro et quod oportet est determinare causas naturales omnium generatorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... est quod differt postremum numero a precedentibus. Explicit commentum Aver[rois] super librum de generatione et corruptione.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus .
Anonymous Compendium Libri Ricardi Anglici de anatomia 185v - 187v
  • Incipit:
    Anathomia est membrorum interiorum et exteriorum divisio recta ordinata facta, scilicet a cerebro dorsum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... unde tantum masculus [sic] vel tantum feminas generant.
Al-Kindi De somno et visione 187v - 189v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Ysaac de sompno et vigilia. Te cui Deus occultorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... sermo enunciativus sufficit.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Gerardus Cremonensis .
Dominicus Gundissalinus De processione mundi 189v - 194r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber Gundipsalmi . Invisibilia Dei...
  • Explicit:
    Si enim vigilantes hec visibilia...sub natura reliquid.
Adelard of Bath Quaestiones naturales 194r - 196v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Adelardus Bathoniensis de questionibus naturalibus. Violentos principes mercenarios judices ...
  • Explicit:
    ... rerum causa simplex etiam in infinita.
Daniel of Morley Philosophia de Danielis de Merlai 196v - 198v
  • Incipit:
    Nos qui mistice liberati sumus ab Egypto ... Primus mundus fuit in mente ...
  • Explicit:
    ... cui servire regnare est.
  • Note:
    Thomson gives the title "De creatione mundi".
Macrobius De somno Scipionis 198v - 200v
  • Incipit:
    Dixit Colotes non oportere fabulam a philosopho fingi, nullum enim genus figmenti ...
  • Explicit:
    ... quia omnia a promovente proveniunt.
Avicenna De universalibus 200v - 201r
  • Incipit:
    De uniuersalibus secundum Auicennam . Quinque distincta quodam respectu sunt uniuersalia, et alio logica et alio intellctualia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et non constituente.
  • Note:
    Thomson gives the title "Isagoge I, Compendium c. 11".
Al-Farabi De intellectu 201r - 201v
  • Incipit:
    Intellectum secundum vulgus cum dicitur discrecio cum prudentia ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et principium essentie moventis speram stellarum fixarumque non est corpus ut in corpore.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 165v - 167v
  • Incipit:
    Auer' de Rememoracione. Secundus tractatus incipit perscrutari de rememoracione et inquisicione per rememoracionem ...
  • Explicit:
    ... in aspectu earum quapropter difficile amitterit eas.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus .
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia) 165v - 167v
  • Incipit:
    Tractatu Au' de Sompno et Vigilia. De sompno et uigilia dicendum est primo utrum approprientur anime aut corpori ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et de causis accidencium suorum dictum est.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 165v - 167v
  • Incipit:
    Tractatus Au' de causis longitudinis et breuitatis uite. In hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et breuitatis uite ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de causa longitudinis et breuitatis uite secundum posse nostrum et intellectum.
  • Note:
    This is the translation of Michael Scotus .