Collection of works by Aristotle

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Description

Title
Collection of works by Aristotle
Alternative Title
Opera varia
Creator
Aristotle
Contributor
Aristotle.
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187, translator.
Nicolas, d'Amiens, 1147-approximately 1203.
Nicolaus, of Damascus.
Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912.
Published / Created
1250-1299.
Publication Place
France
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of texts by Aristotle: Physica (f. 1r), De caelo (f. 74r), De generatione (f. 131v), De anima (f. 151v), De memoria (f. 177r), De sensu (f. 180r), De somno (f. 189r), De longitudine et brevitate vitae (f. 198r), Meteorologica (f. 218r), Metaphysica (f. 251v). Also includes Costa Ben Luca's De differentia spiritus et animae (f. 200r), Nicholas of Damascus' De plantis (f. 206r), Pseudo-Aristotle's Liber de causis (f. 332r), and Nicholas of Amiens' Ars fidei catholicae (f. 335v).

Description
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: southern gothic textualis.
Layout: 2 columns of 37 lines.
Decoration: contains 12 historiated initials: the Lord separating water and earth (f. 3), the Lord creating Heaven and earth (f. 74), the soul delivered rom the body (f. 151), five men at a table (f. 180), man sleeping (f. 189), the living and the dead (f. 198), young men in front of a tree (f. 206), the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (f. 206), meteors falling from heaven (f. 218), Christ appearing to a philosopher (f. 261), philosopher visited by angels (f. 332), dispute between two monks and a young man (f. 335r). Also, 29 ornamental initials in red, blue, and polished gold. Titles and subheadings in red and blue; rubrication.
Binding: 20th-century brown leather half-binding over wood. Includes metal clasps and leather straps closing on the front cover. Remnants of the previous blind-stamped brown leather binding preserved separately.
Note by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf: Isti libri naturales deputati sunt ad usum fratris Nicolay de Probstdorf lectoris. Et sunt empti pro II marcis argenti.
Also available on microfilm.
Provenance
Contemporary list of contents (f. 1v) and annotations throughout. Ownership inscription(?) by Arnoldus de Machlinia (f. 1r). Previously owned by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf. Previously owned by the Benedictine abbey of Admont (number 126 on former pastedown): accompanied by their 19th-century description. Accompanying documents also include descriptive material by and correspondence with Dr. Ignaz Schwarz of Vienna, antiquarian bookseller from whom Dr. Cushing purchased the manuscript in 1936. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Extent
1 item (ii + 342 + ii leaves) : 320 mm x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 12 Vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Annotations 13th century
Monasteries
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts
Philosophy
Subjects
Medicine, Greek and Roman > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Philosophy > Early works to 1800
13th century
Monasteries > Austria > Admont > Ownership
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Ownership
Stift Admont > Ownership
Benedictines > Austria > Admont > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4477489
Object ID (OID)
16960292

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