Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 239

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 239
    • CCCC MS 239
    • MS 239
    • Parker Library MS 239
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1200 - 1299
  • Script :
    • very well written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 138
  • Dimensions :
    • 141 x 201
  • Codicological details :
    • 26 lines to a page
    • ff. i + 1-139 + ii
    • minamus
    • 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).

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  • Résumé : 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.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Aristotle - author

    1r-138v - Aristotle, Metaphysica || Aristotelis Metaphysica

    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

    Note : ff. 130r-133r are inserted in Liber XII to supply a defect. f. 133v is blank

    Note : Ends imperfectly in Liber XIII

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

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