The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.10a.31
Manuscript Title

Aristotle, De caelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione

Alternative Title

Liber De Celo et Mundo

James Number 1498
Century 13th
Physical Description

25 and 30 lines to a page. Neatly written. On the cover are the remains of a paper label inscribed (Aris)totelis ... h. 25.

Provenance

Given by ? From the Carthusian Monastery at Erfurt. At the bottom of f.1 is Cartusiae Erfordensis (xvi, xvii).

Size (cm) 22.5 x 15.5
Folio 60 + 1 ff.
Binding Old stamped leather over boards, rebacked, clasp gone.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

18-48 512 | 68 78: one paper fly-leaf.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.10a.31/manifest.json
Online Since 14/03/2016

Contents

I. Title of cent. xv.
Liber de celo et mundo habens 4 or parciales libros.
Primus liber de celo et mundo.
Hec est noua translacio.
De natura scientia fere plurima uidetur circa corpora
-ab eisdem ipsis corrumpuntur. Expl. primus liber de celo et mundo.
f.16b Liber II
Quod quidem igitur.
Liber III.
f.30 De primo quidem ergo celo
Liber IV.
f.39b De graui autem et leui
Ends f.44b: determinatum sit nobis hoc modo. Explicit lib. de celo et mundo aristotilis noue translacionis.

II. In another hand, with copious marginal notes.
f.45 Liber de generacione et corrupcione per Aristotilem (xv)
De generatione autem et corruptione.
Ends (unfinished?) f.60a
melius desiderare naturam semper autem me.
On f.60b a circular diagram.
On the paper flyleaf (xv) two notes, one beginning
Nota liber de anima diuiditur in tres libros parciales.
Also the name Kilianus.

 

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