Aristotelian treatises, etc.

Aristotelian treatises, etc.

Written 22-28 lines to a page: the remainder is in double column in a smaller hand, 60 lines to a column, and within this fol. 197v, col. 2 to fol. 213 are in a smaller current hand. The text is heavily contracted throughout. Some ornamental initials and paragraph marks in red and blue.

Contents

1. ff. 2r-49v Aristotle, Analytica posteriora

f. 2r Omnis doctrina et disciplina intellectiva ex preexistenti fit cognitione sensitiva ... f. 49v ... similiter se habet ad omneum rerum racionen.

2. ff. 50r-63v Albert the Great, Philosophia pauperum, incomplete

f. 50r Philosophia dividitur in tres partes scilicet logicam ethicam et physicam ... f. 63v ... sed in essendo ut ita dicam sive in substando non habet se ...

3. ff. 65r-176r Aristotle, Physica

f. 65r Quoniam quidem scire et intelligere contingit ... f. 176r ... nullam habens magnitudinem. Explicit textus libri phisicorum arestotilis [sic].

f. 176v blank

4. ff. 177r-179v Aristotle, De caelo et mundo, incomplete

f. 177r De natura sciencia fere plurima videtur eirca corpora ... f. 179v ... et languor secundum passiones aut quecunque infirmitates phiscicorum corporum habencia ...

5. ff. 180r-232v Giles of Rome, Commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry

f. 180r Circa inicium porphirii queritur primum ... f. 232v ... isti sufficiant. Et tantum de predicamentis.

6. ff. 233r-255v Giles of Rome, Commentary on De caelo et mundo

f. 233r De natura sciencia fere plurima. Iste est liber de celo et mundo ... f. 255v ... Et sic est finis et completio huius summule de quo deus sit benedictus.

7. ff. 256r-334v Giles of Rome, Quaestiones in Physica

f. 256r Utrum de rebus naturalibus possit esse sciencia ... f. 334v ... que quidem prima causa est deus gloriosus totius creationis gubernator et institutor qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen.

ff. 335r-v Leaf of an unidentified work.

8. ff. 336r-361v Giles of Rome, Quaestiones circa Analytica posterior

f. 336r Circa libros posteriorum. Queritur primo utrum silogismus ... f. 361v ... Et hec de questione. Et per consequens de toto 2o posteriore. Anno domini 1478 die vero lune post oculi loco habitacionis sue burse mysznensis.

9. f. 362r Registrum super libros posteriorum.

10. ff. 362v-364r Giles of Rome, De demonstrationis medio

f. 362v Tractatus domini egidii de roma de demonstrationis medio. Queritur quid est demonstracionis medium ... f. 364r ... et dicit passionis precedentis et non quid subiecti etc.

1478

1 volume 364 ff. 31 x 21 cm. Contemporary blind-stamped leather binding over wooden boards, wormed and badly rubbed: modern repairs to the upper cover, which is broken, by means of a leather strip and cardboard secured by nails. Both clasps wanting. 29 leaves have been cut out, viz: Between ff. 49/50, 12 ll.; 63/4, 3 ll.; 96/7, 1 leaf; 165/6, 2 ll.; 167/8, 1 leaf; 232/3, 5 ll.; 255/6, 2 ll.; 334/5, 2 ll.; 335/6, 1 leaf. The lower half of fol. 64 has been cut away. Produced in Meissen.

Purchased 1899.

Partly holograph manuscript by the hand of Johann Lindner of Mönchburg [1440-1524], the German historian (probably ff. 1-179)

The stamped ornamentation on the binding, and on the remains of the two brass clasps are the same as those found in MS.55 to which this manuscript was certainly a companion volume.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.