Avicenna — s. xiv; English, prob. Oxford
Merton College E. 3. 38
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Avicenna — s. xiv; English, prob. Oxford
Shelfmark
Merton College E. 3. 38
Place of origin
English, prob. Oxford
Date
s. xiv
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
Two leaves
Hands
Written in a gothic rotunda bookhand influenced by anglicana.
Decoration
A blue initial flourished in red; red or blue paraphs.
Provenance
Taken from 79. c. 1 (Tertullian, Paris 1545, at the College in 1556). Another two leaves (De Intelligentiis) in 32. a. 8 (G. Agricola, Basel 1546, given by Robert Barnes, for whom see MS 268); ten in Bodl. Libr., MS Lat. misc. b. 18, nos A. 42–51 (A. 43 taken from Merton Coll. 78. i. 30, Isychius, Basel 1527, another leaf from 82. i. 15, Cajetanus, Paris 1539, A. 51 from a book with the old shelfmark H. 3. 6 Th). The Bodleian leaves contain parts of Avicenna, De Anima, Liber de Causis, Algazel, Physicaand Metaphysica, Alexander of Aphrodisius, De Intellectu, and Averroes, De Intellectu and In Metaphys. (IX, comm. 128).
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