MS. Rawl. G. 49

Summary Catalogue no.: 14780

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