Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 4° 220

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: II + 90 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Some initials are missing, some were depicted at a later time in red, blue or both.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in long lines in the Aristotelian part.

  • Hand Description:
    Text is elegantly written by many similar German hands, apparently.
    Manuscripta medievalia notes different scripts, that is: minuscule, current and a pointed as well as an English cursive. According to this, Averroes' De Substantia Orbis is written in a beautiful minuscule of the earliest 14th century .
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden cover with brown leather.
  • Provenance:
    The cover contains the old signature 79. phil. natural. In the library of the Collegium Porta Coeli, the codex is listed as such (79 philosophiae naturalis).
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
Content
Anonymous Polythecon 40r - 49v
  • Incipit:
    Hoc quicumque cupis carmen cognoscere lector, Cum praecepta facis quae sunt gratissima vitae ...
Aristotle De causis 49r - 56r
  • Incipit:
    Omnis causa primaria plus ...
  • Note:
    According to Markowski , this is an anonymous exposition, including the actual text ("Expositio libri 'De causis' Pseudo- Aristotelis cum textu"). According to Manuscripta medievalia, this is the translation of Gerardus Cremonensis .
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 75r - 80v
  • Incipit:
    De somno autem et vigilia considerandum ...
  • Note:
    According to Lacombe , this is a contaminated version. Markowski notes, that the text has glosses.
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 81r - 83r
  • Incipit:
    De eo quod autem est hoc quidem esse longae vitae ...
  • Note:
    This is the new translation.
Aristotle De iuventute 83r - 84v
  • Incipit:
    De iuventute autem et senectute et vita cum morte ...
  • Note:
    This is the new translation. According to Lacombe , the end is missing.
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 85r - 87v
  • Incipit:
    De memoria autem et memorari dicendum ...
  • Note:
    This is the new translation. Markowski notes, that the text has glosses.
Aristotle De bona fortuna 88r - 90r
  • Incipit:
    Habitum autem erit utique hiis ...
  • Note:
    Markowski does not give an author, but notes, that the text has glosses.
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 59r - 66v
  • Incipit:
    In hoc quoque tractatu intendimus perscrutari ex quibus ...
  • Note:
    According to Manuscripta medievalia, the translator may be Michael Scotus .
Robertus Castrensis Sophistria Grammaticalis 1r - 39v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam circa orationes grammaticales in plerisque ...
Thomas Aquinas De ente et essentia 67r - 74v
  • Incipit:
    Quia parvus error in principio magnus ...