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Brasenose College MS. 24

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fols. 2r-82v)
Averroes, Colliget
Rubric: Incipit colligeth in medicina editus in arabico a mahamet auentost qui a latinis dicitur aueroys
(imperfect?)
Incipit: Quanto uentillata fuit super me
Explicit: existit tunc illud ...

Printed often, GKW 3103. The last words here are in edn. 1552, f.72ra/56 (bk.7, sect.10). The end of bk.4 and beginning of bk.5 are in a gap (12 leaves?) after f.47, which ends at edn., f.39ra/35: f.48 begins at edn., f.46vb/67.

(ff.83-95v)
William of Conches, De philosophia mundi
Incipit: Post tractatum de creatore et anima mundi et demonibus
Explicit: illius actiones non sint.

Particula 2, f.85v: 3, f.89v, f.92. Each is preceded by an unnumbered table of chapters. Within parts the writing is continuous.

Bound with printed book, Johannes de Tornamira, Clarificatorium (Lyons, Johannes Trechsel, 1490) which is lacking final three leaves.

Recipes added (15th-century hand) on fol. 95v.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 97 leaves of manuscript; then printed book; [2 manuscript waste flyleaves].
Dimensions (leaf): 242 × 170 mm.
Foliation: Foliated 1-35, 35*, 36-40, 40*, 41-95.

Hand(s)

Brown ink.

Decoration

Initials in red and blue ink with contrasting penwork decoration, paragraph markers in red and blue.

Diagrams.

Binding

Late 15th century calf over wooden boards; Cambridge blind stamped panels by Unicorn binder using ornaments 50, 58, 63, 69, 74; chain staple mark.

History

Origin: First quarter 14th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Brasenose College MS. 24 - pastedowns (lifted)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Grammatical questions
Incipit: Disputacio Magistri Guidonis questio prima. An uerbum substancialiter secundum operacionem intelligitur. Quod non quia

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Current anglicana

History

Origin: 13th century ; England

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description by Sophie Floate, based on N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries (Oxford, 1969), pp. 601-602.

Bibliography

    Rand, Kari Anne, ed. Index of Middle English Prose: Index to Volumes I to XX. Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.