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Alternative title

Martianus Capella. Aristoteles, Boethius etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 131

Date created

[ca. 900 CE - 999 CE]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

26, 24 and 23 lines to a page

Height (mm)

305

Width (mm)

225

Collation

1(10) 2(8) 3(6) (wants 6) | 4(8)-9(8) || 10(8)-16(8) 17 (four).

Writing

in a good Carolingian minuscule: three or four hands

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-131 + iii-iv

Provenance

I have not detected any vernacular glosses in the book. Very probably it was given by Daniel Rogers.

2 fo.

fraudulenta

Summary

CCCC MS 206 is a volume of philosophical works of the type which were studied at a high level in late Anglo-Saxon England. It contains texts by Boethius, Martianus Capella, Alcuin, and Aristotle. Although there has been much debate about its origins, it was probably written in England in the first half of the tenth century. The script is a form of Caroline minuscule with many Insular abbreviations, and both North East France and Wales have also been suggested as possible places of origin. It was never owned by Parker, and probably came to Corpus from the collection of Daniel Rogers, d. 1581, eldest son of one of Foxe's martyrs.

Contents

De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 4 -- Categoriae decem -- Liber peri hermeneias -- Isagoge in Categorias Aristotelis, transl. by Boethius -- De trinitate -- Utrum pater et filius et spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur -- Quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint -- Liber contra Eutychen et Nestorium -- De dialectica -- Dialectica

M.R. James Date

x

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wc961rg1816/MS_206.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cf324wd3385/206.pdf

Contains

• Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 4. 1r-23v

  Nasmith

  Martiani Minei Felicis Capellae Afri Cartaginensis de arte dialectica. 1r-23v

  Author

  Martianus Capella

  Note

  (1r) Title in red and green capitals

  Rubric

  (1r) Martiani . Minei . Felicis . Capelle . Affri. / Cartaginensis. de arte dialectica

  Note

  (Liber IV De Nuptiis Philologiae)

  Incipit

  (1r) Hec quoque contortis

  Note

  (1r) Fine initial in white, red, purple, green, with dragon, and some plaited ornament
  (1r) This page is in an upright round hand, unlike what follows

  Explicit

  (2r) promere cepit facultate

  Rubric

  (2v) De dialectica felicis capelle Incipit liber

  Incipit

  (2v) Ac mox dialectica quamquam

  Note

  Ends 23r
  (The whole of the text from Perita fandi (f. 22v) written as verse)

  Explicit

  (23r) Compluresque eam diuirum (diuorum) qui inter initia diris: Serant (deriserant) horruerunt. martioni dialectica. explicit.

  Note

  23v blank
  Glosses cease after f. 2v

• pseudo-Augustine, Categoriae decem. 24r-39v

  Nasmith

  Aristotelis chategoriae ab Augustino translate. 24r-39v

  Author

  pseudo-Augustine

  Note

  (24r) Verses of Alcuin (10). Dümmler, MGH. Poetae aevi Carolini I 295

  Incipit

  (24r) Continet rite (iste) decem nature uerba libellus

  Explicit

  (24r) Munere qui (tali) gaudes modo mitto legendum

  Rubric

  (24r) Incipiunt aristotelis chategoriae ab agustino translatae

  Note

  (P. L. XXXII 1419)

  Incipit

  (24r) Cum omnis scientia disciplinaque artium diuersarum

  Note

  Copious marginal notes beginning
  (24r) Franci ut ferunt a francone quodam principe ... Alcuinus magister partibus scithiae nostras deueniens partes
  Diagrams are in the margin: one of the earth on f. 38r
  Ends imperfectly in Cap. IX

  Explicit

  (39v) Eodem modo accipienda sunt

• pseudo-Apuleius, Liber peri hermeneias. 40r-48v

  James

  Apuleii periermeniae. 40r-48v

  Author

  pseudo-Apuleius

  Note

  beginning imperfectly (Hildebrand, ed. min., p. 229)

  Incipit

  (40r) obnoxia. quem uocat sergius effatum

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (48v) Quousque ueritas ipsa passa est propter quod earum non potest numerus augeri

  Rubric

  (48v) Expliciunt periermeniae apulei In quibus continentur omnes cathegorici sillogismis

  Note

  Few glosses after the first leaves

• Porphyry, Isagoge in Categorias Aristotelis, transl. by Boethius. 49r-71v

  Nasmith

  Liber Isagogarum Porphirii. 49r-71v

  Author

  Porphyry

  Boethius

  Rubric

  (49r) Incipit liber Isagogarum porphirii

  Incipit

  (49r) Cum sit necessarium crisa///ori i.e. Chrysaori, the person addressed by Porphyry: in the later MSS. the form is nearly always Grisarori. et ad eam que est apud aristotilem

  Note

  Hardly any glosses occur

  Explicit

  (60r) communitatisque traditionem

  Rubric

  (60r) Explicit ysagogarum porphyrii liber equivoca dicunt
  (60r) Glossae de isagogis

  Incipit

  (60r) Fidi interpretis quod fidus solet interpres excedere

  Rubric

  (64v) Liber tertius incipit

  Incipit

  (64v) Putande sunt secundum aristotelem ad inferiora

  Rubric

  (66r) Incipit IIII

  Incipit

  (66r) Secundum genus discrepant homo et arbor

  Rubric

  (67r) Liber V. incipit

  Incipit

  (67r) De indiuiduis differunt

  Rubric

  (68r) De speciebus

  Incipit

  (68r) Hec est proprietas per se generis

  Explicit

  (69v) uiuit sentit intelligit

  Rubric

  (69v) De uisibilibus rebus

  Incipit

  (69v) Dicit tibi quispiam quem non recognoscis Nosti me

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (71r) Commune quod deus omnipotens spiritus sanctus non potest pater aut filius sed proprie spiritus

  Rubric

  (71r) Finit

  Incipit

  (71v) Neque enim est commune unum genus ominum(!) omnia que dicuntur aut ut genus

  Note

  Ends imperfectly

  Explicit

  (71v) nec ulla falsitate diffinitio maculatur. Rursus

• Boethius, De trinitate. 72r-78v

  Nasmith

  Anitii Manilii Severini Boetii liber, quomodo trinitas [sit] unus Deus et non III Dei ad Quintum Aurelium Memnium Simachum socerum. 72r-78v

  Author

  Boethius

  Note

  (72r) Title in capitals occupying a page

  Rubric

  (72r) Anitii Manilii Severini V. C. et IVL exconsulis Boetii ordinarii / patricii. Incipit liber / quomodo trinitas / unus deus ac non iii dii / ad Quintum AVRI Memmium Simachum ETILIV C ex cons. ordinat. AD DATR(!) socerum

  Note

  (P. L. LXIV 1247)
  Marginal notes beginning
  (72r) Trinitas appellata quod fiat totum unum
  Text

  Incipit

  (72v) Inuestigatam diutissime

• Boethius, Utrum pater et filius et spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur. 78v-79v

  Nasmith

  Idem ad Iohannem Diaconum utrum pater et filius et spiritus sanctus de divinitate substantialiter dicantur. 78v-79v

  Author

  Boethius

  Incipit

  (78v) Quaero an pater

• Boethius, Quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint. 80r-87r

  Nasmith

  Idem ad eundem quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint et non sint substantialiter bona. 80r-87r

  Author

  Boethius

  Incipit

  (80r) Postulas ut ex ebdomadibus

• Boethius, Liber contra Eutychen et Nestorium. 87v-101r

  Nasmith

  Ejusdem liber adversus Nestorium et Eutichen pro persona ac natura [Christi] domino sancto ac venerabili patri Diacono. 87v-101r

  Author

  Boethius

  Incipit

  (87v) Anxie te quidem

  Explicit

  (101r) omnium bonorum causa perscribi

  Rubric

  (101r) Explicit liber Boetii contra eutichen et nestorium

• Alcuin, De dialectica. 101r-119v

  Nasmith

  Dialectica magni Karoli regis ad Albinum magistrum suum. 101r-119v

  Author

  Alcuin

  Incipit

  (101r) Quia mentionem philosophiae in priore disputationis nostrae sermone

  Note

  (P. L. CI 951)

  Explicit

  (119v) oppositio ut socrates disputat socrates non disputat

  Rubric

  (119v) Finit dicendo ludit quicunque scriptor scribit. leti ut scribunt scribae

• pseudo-Augustine, Dialectica. 120r-131v

  Nasmith

  Dialectica Augustini quam fecit ad instituendum filium ad Theodatium suum. 120r-131v

  Author

  pseudo-Augustine

  Note

  In hoc codice plurimae occurrunt glossae interlineares et notae ejusdem aevi

  Rubric

  (120r) Incipit Dialectica Agustini quam fecit ad instituendum filium Adtheodatum suum

  Note

  (P. L. XXXII 1409)

  Incipit

  (120r) Dialectica est bene disputandi scientia

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (131v) Si ab eo quod est lepos non ab eo quod est lepus deflexum est

  Rubric

  (131v) Explicit aurilii augustini epistola de dialectica

TJames

vac.

Stanley

Lib. ab Al. 11

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/fv407hr1706

MS 206

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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