Parker Library On the Web

Alternative title

Aristotelis Metaphysica

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 138

Date created

[ca. 1200-1299]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

26 lines to a page

Height (mm)

201

Width (mm)

141

Collation

1(12) 2(12) 3(10) (wants 10) || 4(12)-9(12) (7, 8 canc.) 10(12) 11(12) (8, 9 canc.) 12(18) (4 ff. inserted after 4th: 10-18 cut out).

Writing

very well written

Foliation

ff. i + 1-139 + ii

2 fo.

minamus

Summary

CCCC MS 239 is a copy of the Latin translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics made in England and dating to the period c. 1250-75. It was perhaps given, together with several other books, to Corpus Christi College by Daniel Rogers, probably the Latin scholar and diplomat who was a contemporary of Matthew Parker and lived c. 1539-91. The Metaphysics was an important text for the medieval university curriculum, and the script and ornament suggests this copy might have been made in Oxford. Although now partly rebound with modern binding, part of the red skin medieval binding survives, with evidence that it once had clasps, and there is some indication of marks for the attachment of a chain.

Contents

Metaphysica

M.R. James Date

xiii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yj617zm6030/MS_239.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jm557xk7006/239.pdf

Contains

• Aristotle, Metaphysica. 1r-138v

  James

  Aristotelis Metaphysica. 1r-138v

  Author

  Aristotle

  Rubric

  (1r) Incipit Methaphisica

  Incipit

  (1r) Omnes homines natura scire desiderant

  Note

  This hand continues to f. 33v, ending in Liber IV

  Explicit

  (33v) Et cum hoc dicunt facile

  Note

  Another hand begins with f. 34r. It recommences Liber IV

  Incipit

  (34r) Consideracio quidem in ueritate

  Note

  (= Liber I brevior (or II)), calling it Liber I, and continues with that numeration
  ff. 130r-133r are inserted in Liber XII to supply a defect. f. 133v is blank
  Ends imperfectly in Liber XIII

  Explicit

  (138v) Siue specialem numerum ex eis faciant siue(?) mathematicum

TJames

vac.

Stanley

Lib. ab Al. 25

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 239

Use and reproduction:

Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License