A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Rawl. G. 49

Summary Catalogue no.: 14780

Contents

Logica uetus

All with copious notes, chiefly of the 13th and 14th centuries

Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
Porphyry, Isagoge (tr. Boethius)
Incipit: Cum sit necessarium, Grisaorori
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 9)
Aristotle, Categoriae (tr. Boethius)
Incipit: Equiuoca dicuntur quorum solum nomen commune
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 28)
Aristotle, De interpretatione uel Periermenias (tr. Boethius)
Incipit: Primum oportet constituere quid sit nomen
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 40v)
Boethius, De Differentiis Topicis
Incipit: Omnis ratio disserendi

The third book ends some lines short of the printed end at 'a Themistio ab oppositis'

The fourth book is out of place, occupying fols 89-102

Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 67)
Boethius, Liber Divisionum
Incipit: Quam magnos studiosis
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 79)
Gilbertus Porretanus (?), Liber Sex Principia
Incipit: Forma est compositioni contingens
Language(s): Latin

Fols 89-102 are the continuation of Item 4 above (De Differentiis Topicis)

(fol. 102)

'Expliciunt Topica Boycii & omnes libri Veteris Logices v. Porfirius cum libra Predicamentorum & liber Pery Armenias cum libro Sex Principiorum (etiam Diuisionum, etiam Topicorum Boicii)' (13th century); cf. fols 78, 78v, 99v

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 105 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8 × 5.875 in.

History

Origin: 13th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

From some scribbling on fol. 100v, 'Reuerendo patri suo G. de Balgameshelle Scolaris Occonie [Oxonie]', etc., this volume would seem to have been in an Oxford student's hands c. 1300

No. 909 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, 4 March 1733/1734

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-06-04: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)