MS C189 Textblock
Textblock
Language: Latin
Country: France? Italy?
Century: 13th, 12th, 11th?
Date: c. 1301 and 1400
Searchable Date Range: 1200 - 1299
Script: Gothic miniscule, Gothic rotunda
Number of Scribes:
- Written by a Robertus: “Robertus nomine scripsit” and at least 1 other scribe
- Small sketches of fish as decoration for catchwords
- Red initials
- titles in red
- 6-line blue initial flourished in red
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