Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Physica ... etc. manuscript, ca. 1300?

Other related names

• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.b.32
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=231293

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

Contains ten works on natural philosophy (the "libri naturales") by Aristotle, as well as four works falsely attributed to Aristotle: De vegetalibus and De plantis (leaves 126v-141r), De mundo (part of leaves 166r-238v), and De causis (leaves 243r-250v). De plantis is now attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus. Also, appended to Aristotle's Meteors, Book IV (chapters 20ff), is a small, complete treatise by Avicenna on the congealment and concretion of stones (leaves 285v-289v).

Notes

• Manuscript on parchment (goatskin).
   
• Manuscript composite codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Table of contents written on second fly leaf in contemporary hand: No. 1. Phisica Aristotelis. No. 2. De Anima, lib. 2. No. 3. De Sensu. No. 4. De Memoria, et reminiscentia. No. 5. De Somno, et vigilia. No. 6. De morte, et vita. No.7. De vegetalibus, et plantis. No. 8. De generatione, et corruptione. No. 9. De Coelo, et Mundo. No. 10. De causis. No. 11. De meteoris. No. 12. Translatio metaphisice Aristotelis.
   
• Foliation (in a medieval hand): Leaves 2-238, 243-293, [294-359]; leaves 165, 207-208 partially trimmed; leaves 239-242 apparently canceled.
   
• Uniform title: [Works. Selections. Latin. 1300]
   

Extent

Ii (paper) + 354 + ii (paper); 295 x 230 mm

Foliation

Foliation

Collation

1 (10) (wants 1), 2 (10) (wants 1), 3-7 (10), 8 (4) (wants 2), 9-24 (10), 25 (10) (wants 7, 8, 9, 10), 26 (10) (wants 1), 27 (10) (wants 1), 28 (10), 29 (10) (wants 9), 30-32 (10), 33 (12), 34-35 (10), 36 (12), 37 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in vellum; Spine title: Fhisica Aristotelis.

Layout

Written in 26 to 32 long lines (dimensions of written space: 170 x 100 mm); writing below first line; full pricking; double vertical lines in crayon; wide margins; small diagrams within text in work 9; heavy marginalia and interlinear scholia on leaves 1r-106r, 141r-166v, and 313r-327v, as well as manicules and drawings of animals, men, swords, etc. throughout, dating from the 14th century.

Decoration

Decorated illuminated initials throughout manuscript, typically in red, blue and purple. Historiated initials of lions, humans, griffins, and mermaid images on leaves 215r, 232r, 243r, 256v, 264r, 291r, 289r, 314r, 334v, 338r, 347v, and 355v. Marginal cosmological drawing in red and brown ink on leaf 267r. Marginal drawing of a queen[?] and her subject on leaf 70r and of an animal on leaf 69v scratched out.

Script

Written in round Gothic by one or more scribes; corrector has added missing words and phrases.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by W.T. Smedley. Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.3

Subjects topical

• Aristotle --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --13th century
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Manicules (Provenance)

Keywords

• 14th century
• France
• Science
• Philosophy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 verso — [Later table of contents]
• fol. 2r — Physica / Aristotelis
• fol. 73r — Liber de anima / Aristotelis
• fol. 101r — Liber de sensu et sensato / Aristotelis
• fol. 110v — Liber de memoria et reminiscentia / [Aristotle]
• fol. 114r — Liber de sompno et uig[i]lia / [Aristotle]
• fol. 124r — Liber de morte et uita / [Aristotle]
• fol. 126v — Liber de uegetabilibus et plantis / [Unknown author and Nicolaus of Damascus]
• fol. 141r — De generatione et corruptione / [Aristotle]
• fol. 166r — Liber de celo et mundo / [Aristotle and unknown author]
• fol. 243r — Liber de causis / [Unknown author]
• fol. 251r — Liber methaurorum / [Aristotle]
• fol. 286r — [De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum] / [Avicenna]
• fol. 290r — Noua translatio Metaphysice / Aristotelis
• Flyleaf 2 verso — [Later table of contents]

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Zoomorphic initial Q
• fol. 8v — Inhabited initial E, Grotesque
• fol. 23r — Zoomorphic initial S
• fol. 36v — Zoomorphic initial T
• fol. 36v — Diagram, Triangle types
• fol. 42v — Zoomorphic initial S
• fol. 52v — Inhabited letter O, Grotesque
• fol. 57v — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial U
• fol. 69v — Effaced marginal drawing, Animal
• fol. 70r — Effaced marginal drawing, Royal figure and subject?
• fol. 73r — Anthropomorphic initial B
• fol. 81v — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial H
• fol. 94r — Inhabited initial O, Birds
• fol. 97r — Logic diagram
• fol. 101r — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial Q
• fol. 110v — Zoo-anthropomophic initial R
• fol. 114r — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial D
• fol. 124r — Inhabited initial D, Birds
• fol. 126v — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial T
• fol. 133r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 141r — Inhabited initial D, Dogs
• fol. 155v — Inhabited initial D, Dog
• fol. 166r — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial S
• fol. 170r — Geometric diagrams, Arcs and circles
• fol. 171v — Geometric diagram, Circle
• fol. 172r — Geometric diagram, Circle
• fol. 173v — Geometric diagram, Circle
• fol. 174v — Geometric diagram, Lines
• fol. 177r — Geometric diagram, Lines
• fol. 197r — Geometric diagram, Circle
• fol. 215r — Inhabited initial N, Man
• fol. 232r — Inhabited initial V, Grotesque
• fol. 243r — Inhabited initial O, Mermaids
• fol. 251r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 256v — Inhabited initial D, Two men
• fol. 264r — Inhabited initial N, King's head
• fol. 267r — Diagram, The twelve winds
• fol. 274v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 290r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 298v — Inabited initial D, Ox
• fol. 299v — Historiated initial N, Adam and Eve?
• fol. 305r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 312v — Inhabited initial P, Bird
• fol. 322r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 323v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 332r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 334v — Inhabited initial E, Two animals
• fol. 338r — Inhabited initial U, Animal
• fol. 343r — Inhabited initial D, Grotesque
• fol. 347v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 355v — Decorated initial E