United Kingdom, Oxford, Magdalen College Library, 112

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 246 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 245 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    The codex consists of six booklets, together by the end of the 15th century .
  • Decoration:
    Red or blue initials. Red highlighting and underlining.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns, except for the first text (three columns).

    45 to 66 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by several scribes in anglicana, secretary and textura.
  • Provenance:
    The codex was at Magdalen College by 1600 .
History
  • Origin Date: Middle of the 14th century to 15th century
  • Origin Place: England
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.409 - 410
  • Rodney Malcolm Thomson , Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. Vol. 1: Oxford, Turnhout (2011) , pp. 294 - 295
Content
Anonymous Fourteen Homilies 212r - 223v
Anonymous Extracts from Synodalia 224r - 225r
  • Note:
    Thomson associates the names of Stephen Langdon and Robert Wynchelsey with this text.
Anonymous Speculum Sacerdotis 225v - 232v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 241r - 243v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutari de rebus ex quibus componitur corpus celeste...
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 233r - 240v
  • Incipit:
    Intencio nostra in hoc libro est quod oportet determinare causas naturales generatorum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... et faceret alios. Manifestum quod differt principaliter postremum numero a precedentibus.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 240v - 241r
  • Incipit:
    De morte et uita. In hoc tractatu perscrutatur de causis longitudinis et breuitatis uite. Dicamus igitur quod concessum ...
  • Explicit:
    ... de causa longitudinis et breuitatis uite secundum posse nostrum et intellectum.
Haymo of Halberstadt Expositio in Pauli Epistolas 13r - 171r
Roger Swineshead Expositiones Vocabulorum Bibliae 172r - 211r