United Kingdom, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. class. lat. 288

Aristotelianmanuscript
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 158 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 280 x 270 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    An unnumbered paper binding leaf at each end.
  • Condition Description:
    Two folios missing between 155v- 156r , probably causing a loss of text of "De caelo".
  • Decoration:
    Decoration in Parisian style: f. 1r : an 8-line 'O' in colours and gold with 2 side border, showing Aristoteles teaching. Hound chases hare. On f. 47r an 8-line 'Q' in colours and gold, showing two seated philosophers dispute. Red and blue flourished initials with long extensions, red or blue initials flourished in the other colour. Ornated with leaves or animals. Running heads in capitals in red and blue, paragraphs in red or blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns. The writing box:

    44 lines to the column.
  • Hand Description:
    A single scribe, writing proficient large gothic rotunda bookhand.
    Glossing in small informal hands using pale ink. The earliest are from the 14th century, probably French origin, but most are from the 15th century and Italian.
  • Binding Description:
    Canonici binding. An earlier binding was covered with pink skin. The book was apparently once chained from the foot to the rear board. The condition of the first and the last leaves suggest that it was disbound for a time.
  • Acquisition:
    The code was acquired in 1817 by the Bodleian Library from the collection of the Venetian Jesuit Matteo Luigi Canònici (d.1805).
  • Provenance:
    A typical Parisian professional product. At the foot of f. 21r is pencilled "Abbas sancti Petri in ualle Carnotensis" by a hand from the 14th century. The book was later in a univeristy context in Italy.
History
  • Origin Date: beginning of 14th century
  • Origin Place: Paris
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 392f.
  • Henry Octavius Coxe , Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars tertia codices Graecos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Oxford (1854) , p. 235 [Link]
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 1: Oxford, Turnhout (2011) , p.61f.
Content
Anonymous Vita secundi philosphi 46r - 46r
  • Incipit:
    [S]ecundus philosophus tacens et per totam uitam tempus suus Pitagoricam ducens uitam.
  • Note:
    Three columns of text written by one of the gloss-hands. Italian, 15th century. No text on f. 46v
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 45v
  • Incipit:
    Omnes homines natura scire desiderant...
Aristotle Physica 47r - 76v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam quidem intelligere et scire contingit circa omnes sciencias...
  • Note:
    Glossed in serveral small hands, heavily at first, spasmodically thereafter. The margins of f. 47r- 48v are completely filled.
Aristotle De anima 77r - 89v
  • Incipit:
    Bonorum honorabilium noticiam ...
  • Note:
    Spasmodic glossing.
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 89v - 94v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem (de) anima secundum ipsam...
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 94v - 96v
  • Incipit:
    De memoria autem, est memorari...
  • Note:
    A single line inscription above the Explicit has been smudged out.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 97r - 101v
  • Incipit:
    De sompno et vigilia considerandum est ...
  • Note:
    A few glosses on f. 101r .
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 102r - 103r
  • Incipit:
    De eo autem quod est, hoc quidem...
Aristotle De iuventute 103r - 104v
  • Incipit:
    De iuventute autem et senectute, et vita et morte
Aristotle De respiratione 104v - 106r
  • Incipit:
    De respiratione enim animi, qui quidem ...
Aristotle De morte 106r - 108v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem dictum est prius...
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 109r - 118v
  • Incipit:
    De generatione autem et corruptione et natura generatorum...
  • Note:
    Spasmodic glossing. Averroes is referred to.
Aristotle Meteorologica 119r - 140v
  • Incipit:
    De primis quidem igitur causis nature
Aristotle De caelo 141r - 158v
  • Incipit:
    De natura, scientia fere plurima...
  • Note:
    Two folios missing between 155v- 156r , probably causing a loss of text. As far as f. 153v the margins are crammed with gloss in the hand of f. 47r- 48v . Scarcely any thereafter.
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 109r - 118v
  • Incipit:
    De generatione autem et corruptione et natura generatorum...
  • Note:
    We find Excerpts of the Middle Commentary on De generatione et corruptione in the margins of the Aristotelian text.