MS. Lat. misc. e. 111

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

John Buridan, Quaestiones on Aristotle, Physics

Here anon. and without title. An 18th cent. hand has written on fol.1 ‘Rogeri Baconis Commentaria’. Bk.II beg. fol.62v, III fol.87, IV fol.121, V fol.151, VI fol.161v, VII fol.174, VIII fol.186v. Breaks off incomplete in VIII q.8. For manuscripts and editions see Faral, Archives 15 (1946), 7–16.

Incipit: Circa phisicorum queritur primo utrum scientia naturalis sit scientia de omnibus rebus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Sit hec

Form: codex

Support: Paper. Watermarks: snake, cf. Briquet 12106 [sic]; letter P with cross, cf. Briquet 8462, 8465, 8467; dog, cf. Briquet 3607–8; steer's head, closest to Briquet 14223, 14228, 14232; anchor, cf. Briquet 350–1; unicorn, not close to types in Briquet.

Extent: ii + 196 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 145 mm.

Dimensions (written): 155–65 × 100–10 mm.

Foliation: medieval foliation

Collation

i–vii(12), viii(12) (10 torn out), ix–xii(12), xiii(6), xiv(12), xv(14) (10–14 cancelled), xvi(12), xvii(12) (12 lost) Quires numbered in roman numerals.

Condition

fol. 50 is torn, and the top of the right hand edge of the text is damaged from fol. 186 to end

Layout

2 cols. of 35–37, 48 lines, frame ruled in ink

Hand(s)

In two small current hands, fol.1–17va, 17vb-end

Decoration

Penwork initials in red and brown, some infilled with flowers or figures.

Binding

19th cent. English half calf binding.

History

Origin: 15th century ; French (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

‘ Edward Langford was 18 years ould when Kinge Denmarke came to Ingland, 1611’ (fol.138)

‘ Edward Powell ’, 17th cent. (fol.144)

Later in the library of B. Boncompagni , no.198 in the Catalogue by Narducci, Rome 1892.

Bought, 1967

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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