United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 245

United Kingdom, Oxford, Balliol College Library, 245

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 190 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 340 x 235 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Negligent headings on top of pages in red. The headings of the poetria (ff. 183r- 190v ) are ornamented in red and blue in various cases. Simple initials alternately in red and blue. The first initial is embellished in various colours and artfully elongated to pikes surrounding the page. 183r- 190v ) are ornamented in red and blue in various cases. The part of the poetria (ff. 183r- 190v ) has also initials in red.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two colums.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written quite boldly by two hands in darker ink.
  • Provenance:
    On f. 2v written by a 16th century hand: "Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxonia ex dono Willelmi Gray, Eliensis episcopi."
History
  • Origin Date: 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.405
  • Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors , Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford, Oxford (1963) , pp.266f.
Content
Aristotle De animalibus 3r - 141v
  • Note:
    tr. Guillelmi
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 142r - 147r
  • Note:
    New translation.
Aristotle Physiognomonica 147r - 150v
Aristotle De pomo 150v - 153r
Aristotle Secretum secretorum 153r - 170v
Aristotle De coloribus 178r - 182v
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Poetics 183r - 190v