United Kingdom, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 497/996


Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 71 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 225 mm

Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    We have reclaimers in the last quaterions, which consist of twelve folios.
  • Decoration:
    The titles on top of the pages are written in red and blue. The larger initials are in red and blue, entwined and elongated with lines. The minor initials are in either red or blue, entwined with lines of the opposite colour. We have rubrication, paragraph signs are in either red or blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.


  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by one librarian, possibly Anglican.
History
  • Origin Date: End of the 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , Avicenna Latinus: Codices, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leiden (1994) , pp. 129-130
Content
Alexander of Aphrodisias De motu et tempore 53r - 54r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit tractatus Alexandri Affrodisii de tempore translatus a magistro Girardo Cremonensi in Toleto. Verba eius ...
    Sicut difficulta sermonum ...

  • Explicit:
    ... secundum dispositionem unam.

Alexander of Aphrodisias In De sensu et sensato 54r - 55r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit tractatus Alexandri Affrodisii de sensu et quomodo est secundum intentionem Aristotilis . Verba Alexandri ...
    Postquam consumauit Arist. in libro suo ...

  • Explicit:
    ... et motu omnino. Explicit Alexandri de sensu.

Alexander of Aphrodisias De augmento 55r - 55v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit tractatus Alexandri Affrodisii in hoc augmentum et incrementum fiunt in forma et non in yle. Alexander ...
    Aristotiles dicit in libro de generatione et corruptione ...

  • Explicit:
    ... augmentum sit in forma non in materia.

Alexander of Aphrodisias De intellectu et intellecto 55v - 57v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit liber Alexandri philosophi de intellectu et intellecto secundum sententias Aristotilis translatus in grecum [sic] in arabicum ab Ysaac filio Iohannici.
    Dixit Alexander quod intelletus ...

  • Explicit:
    ... sicut cum erat in nobis. Expletus est liber.

  • Note:
    According to ALCUIN, authorship is not clear.

Averroes De Substantia Orbis 67r - 71v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Tractatus primus in declarando quod differt materia et forma in corporibus celestibus a materia et forma transmutabilium secundum suam substantiam.
    In hoc tractatu intendimus perscrutare ...

  • Explicit:
    ... valde bona. Explicit.

Avicenna De anima 1v - 46r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit liber Auic[enne] philosophi de anima qui intitulatur sextus Naturalium Auicenne .
    Reuerentissimo Tolletane sedis archiepiscopo et Yspaniarum primati Aduendeuth israhelita philosophus gratum debite seruitutis obsequium. Cum omnes constent ...

Avicenna De causis primis et secundis et de fluxu qui consequitur eas 48r - 52v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit liber Auicenne de primis et secundis substantiis et de fluxu earum ...
    Principium principiorum gloriosus Deus ...

  • Explicit:
    ... et hoc est quod ostendimus et declarauimus.

  • Note:
    According to ALCUIN, the author of this text is not Avicenna .

Boethius De unitate et uno 46r - 47r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Boetius de unitate et uno ...
    Unitas est qua res dicitur siue enim sit simplex ...

  • Explicit:
    ... et est id quod est.

Boethius Opuscula sacra 58r - 59v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Anicii Manlii Seuerini ... Boecii ordinarii patricii incipit liber quomodo Trinitas unus Deus ac non tres dii ad Quintum Aurelium Meminium Simmacum ... socerum ...
    Inuestigatam ...

  • Explicit:
    ... vota supplebunt. - Boethius liber primus explicit.

  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the overall title "Opuscula theologica".

Boethius Opuscula sacra 60r - 60r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit eiusdem ad s. Iohannem diaconum Ecclesie Romane. Utrum Pater et Filius ac Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substancialiter predicantur.
    Quero an Pater ...

  • Explicit:
    ... coniungere. - Boecii liber secundus explicit.

  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the overall title "Opuscula theologica".

Boethius Opuscula sacra 60r - 61r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Incipit eiusdem ad eundem quomodo substantie in eo quod sint bone sint cum non sint substantialia bona.
    Postulas ut ex ebdomadibus ...

  • Explicit:
    ... anima bona.

  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the overall title "Opuscula theologica".

Boethius Opuscula sacra 61r - 62v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Fides sancti Seuerini Boecii ... patricii ...
    Christianam fidem ...

  • Explicit:
    ... laus perpetua Creatoris.

  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the overall title "Opuscula theologica".

Boethius Opuscula sacra 62v - 66v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubricated:] Boecii aduersus Nestorium et Eutichen pro persona et natura.
    Anxie te quidem ...

  • Explicit:
    ... prescribit. - Boecii Seuerini liber de Trinitate explicit.

  • Note:
    D'Alverny gives the overall title "Opuscula theologica".