MS C189 Textblock
Textblock
Language: Latin
Country: Italy?
Century: 14th?
Date: c. 1301 and 1400
Script: Gothic rotunda
Scribe:
- Written by a Robertus: “Robertus nomine scripsit” -- colophon, folio 34r.
Figurative Decoration:
- Drawings of fish and birds in lower margins on folios 9r, 10v, 11r, 20v
- 6- line initial C in blue and red on folio 1r
- 2- and 3-line initials in two shades of red, some of which are embellished with pen decorations in blue or brown
- Paragraph marks in blue and red or just red
- Title "p[er] germinias" in red capital letters on upper margin of folios 19v-21r
- Spaces left for 2-, 3- and 5-line initials on folios 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 8r, 11v, 16v, 17r, 18r, 18v, 19r, 19v, 20r, 22v, 25r, 27r, 27v, 28v, 29r, 29v, 30v, 31v, 32r, 32v, 33r
- Guide letters visible on most folios in the upper left corner of the page
Description:
- Collection of works by Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle's works
- 34 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 211 x 153 (127 x 77) mm; bound: 215 x 160 mm
- ff. 1- 34v - Contemporary binding made from reused parchment bifolium
- Unfoliated, quarto manuscript
- 31 long lines ruled in lead.
- Front flyleaves
- Neumatic notation.
- Minor imperfections and signs of early repairs on the manuscript leaves.
- Ink is abraded, with some text illegible.
- Tears and holes with loss of text on several folios.
- Corrections, overwriting and annotations, including the use of trigons by at least two contemporary hands, one of which is probably the scribe.
- Later annotations, especially on folios 19r-33r, by at least two hands.
- Some of the annotations on the upper margins are lost due to damage to the parchment.
The text block of the manuscript was produced together as a single unit. It does not look like there are any missing leaves or that there were more gatherings either in the beginning or at the end.
Contents:
- Folios 1r-8r: Isagoge (Introduction to Categories), written by Porphyry of Tyre, translated by Boethius:
- Folios 8r-19r: Praedicamenta, also known as Categoriae, written by Aristotle, translated by Boethius
- Folios 19r-27r: Perihermenias, also known as De interpretatione written by Aristotle, translated by Boethius
- Folios 27r-34r: Liber sex principiorum
- Folio 34v: blank