Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
Ps.-Robert Grosseteste,
Summa philosophiae Incipit: Philosophantes famosi primi fuerunt Caldei a tribus filiis Noe sanguinis vel institucionis originem trahentes
Text apparently missing between fols. 55-6 and 70-1 and at end.
Thomson, Grosseteste, 266, lists with spuria.
MS. E in the edn. by Baur, Grosseteste, 275-643
TK 1040
5. (fol. 84)
Robert Grosseteste,
Commentary on Aristotle, Physics Incipit: Cum scire et intelligere adquirantur ex principiis
Explicit: et finietur motus et tempus cum oessabit hominum generacio
Final rubric: Explicit scriptum Lincol. Super libros phisicorum. Jesus, Maria, Johannes.
Grosseteste's notes have been extensively copied into margins: see Robert Grosseteste, Scholar and Bishop, ed. D. A. Callus (Oxford, 1955), 27.
MS. D in the edn. by R C. Dales, Roberti Grosseteste ... Commentarius in VIII libros Physico rum Aristotelis (Boulder, CO), 1963, descr. xxviii-xxx.
Fols. 104ra/15-105ra is MS. F in the edn. by Baur, op. cit., 101-6.
Thomson, Grosseteste, 98
TK 338.
6. (fol. 105)
Robert Grosseteste,
De statu causarumIncipit: Aristotiles in primo Philosophie sue supponens causas esse quatuor
Explicit: remotissima est yle, sc. materia prima
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus domini Lincol. : Roberti Grosted de statu, sufficiencia et ordine causarum. Jesus, Maria, Johannes.
MS. F in edn., Baur, 120-22
Thomson, 117
TK 137.
7. (fol. 106)
Robert Grosseteste,
De luce siue De inchoatione formarum Incipit: Formam primam oorporalem quam corpus esse nominat lucem esse arbitror
Explicit: in musicis modulacionibus, gestilacionibus et rithmicis temporibus. Jesus, Maria, Johannes.
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus R. G. Lincol.
MS. F in edn., Baur, 51-9
Thomson, 108
TK 568.
8. (fol. 107v)
Robert Grosseteste,
De colore Incipit: Color est lux incorporata perspicuo terminato
Explicit: quos voluerint ostendunt
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus B. G. Lincol. de colore. Jesus, Maria, Johannes.
MS. F in edn., Baur, 78-9
Thomson, 93
TK 234.
10. (fol. 183v)
Arnoul of Provence,
De ortu scientarum (abbreviation) Incipit: Cum secundum philosophum Aristotelem aliosque philosophos precipuos anima in prima sui creatione est quasi tabula nuda
Explicit: Rethorica est sermocinalis sciencia raciscionativa ['racisciona'] circa questionem civilem terminand.
Attributed to Robert Kilwardby in the table of contents.
Added in another hand. Bale, Index, 383, cites a manuscript from Windsor, probably this.
R-A. Gauthier, 'Arnoul de Provence', Revue du moyen aye latin, 20 (1963), 129-70
TK 339.
Table of contents includes the following items now missing: 'Albertus de origine statu et immortalitate anime. Secretum Sigillum Sancti Cipriani Cartaginensis episcopi et martiris. Confescio ejusdem Sancti Cipriani. Burley de divisione scienciarum.'
Origin: 15th century, first half ;
English Provenance and Acquisition
Windsor, Berkshire, Royal collegiate chapel of St George: "L. E. ¶ [?]" (large flourished letters, followed by a sort of paragraph -- typical Windor style -- cf. particularly Bodley 141 (LC); on fol. ii verso. Rebound, but traces of chain mark show on the first leaf at foot about the middle. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
Thomas Allen. On fol. 1 is Allen's number '44' (i.e. in the fol. section of his catalogue) and his hand is found passim. On fol. i is the Digby/ Allen inventory number 'A.6.' 'To Mr E. Dyer' on fol. 188v presumably refers to Sir Edward Dyer (d. 1607), from whom Allen may have received the volume: on him see DNB. On fol. 1 are Digby's motto and name.
Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665
Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.
