De caelo; Porphyry, Isagoge; etc

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Description

Title
De caelo; Porphyry, Isagoge; etc
Creator
Aristotle
Contributor
Galen.
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.
Published / Created
[between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place
Byzantium
Abstract

Manuscript on paper (no watermarks), divided into five distinct parts. Part I: Aristotle, De caelo. Part II: Aristotle, De incessu animalium, with marginal notes drawn from Michael of Ephesus; De longitudine vitae; De iuventute. Part III: Porphyry, Isagoge, with marginal notes. Part IV: Aristotle, Categories. Part V: Aristotle, De interpretatione, with marginal commentary of Michael of Ephesus; Analytica priora; Analytica posteriora. With Scholia to Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus, De locis affectis, De elementis secundum Hippocratem

Description
In Greek.
Script: Part I (ff. 1r-51v): Written in a rather careless Greek minuscule by two scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-16v; Scribe 2, ff. 17r-51v. Some marginal and interlinear notes by a later hand. Part II (ff. 52r-80v): Written in minuscule, large and rather careless, by Scribe 2 of part I; marginal and interlinear notes by same hand. Part III (ff. 81r-88v): Written in Greek minuscule, small and very neat (tops of letters close to but not touching ruling), by Scribe 3; marginal and interlinear notes in red by original scribe; notes in brown by a different hand. Part IV (ff. 89r-129v): Written in minuscule, large and rather careless, by Scribe 4, who adds flourishes in the margins; a few marginal notes by a later hand. Part V (ff. 130r-198v): Written in minuscule by several scribes: Scribe 5 (ff. 130r-176r), a small neat hand; Scribe 6 (ff. 177r-198v), a large and progressively more careless hand; f. 176v by a small, neat later hand. A few notes in margins by a later hand.
Part I: Diagrams, labelled by the original scribe: syllogisms, consisting of geometrical figures and other groups of curved or straight lines. One simple 2-line initial in red; line-fillers and heading also in red. Part II: Contains a few diagrams of syllogisms. Title in red crossed out and rewritten in blackish-brown; one 2-line initial in red. Part III: Four-line initials in red, with floral ornaments; red also used for headings, notes of original scribe, and diagrams of syllogisms. Part IV: Many diagrams of syllogisms with labels by the original scribe; some doodles in the margins. Part V: Spaces left for initials within the text were never filled.
Water damage on ff. 9r-16v and ff. 161-174; Parts I and III eaten by worms. The pattern of the damage suggests that the parts of the manuscript were not originally bound together.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Brown calf blind- and gold-tooled. Cloth label attached to the spine reads "ARISTOTELIS OPERA VARIA G. M-S."
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 890). Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Extent
ff. ii + 198 + ii : 230 x 151 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Beinecke MS 234
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval Byzantine Empire 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material
paper ;
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name)
Aristotle.
Michael, of Ephesus.
Subject (Topic)
Classical literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Science, Ancient
Subjects
Aristotle
Michael, of Ephesus
Classical literature
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Science, Ancient
Byzantine Empire > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation
Aristotle, Porphyry, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9794817
Object ID (OID)
31907127

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