COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE &c.; c. 1300

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Title

COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE &c.; c. 1300

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 296

Place of origin

script of English appearance.

Date

c. 1300

Language

Latin

Fols. i-iiv blank.

Quaestio-titles are given in the lower margins throughout, and there is some, but not copious, annotation. The condition of the parchment, however, shows that the book was heavily used.

Merton College MS. 296 – Part I (fols. 1–130v)

1. (fols. 1–7v) Quaestiones on PORPHYRY, Isagoge

2. (fols. 7v–24) Quaestiones on ARISTOTLE, Praedicamenta

3. (fols. 24–40v) PETRUS DE SANCTO AMORE Sententia Libri Perihermenias

4. (fols. 40v–6v) H. BRYGGEMORE Super VI Principia

5. (fols. 47–82v) BOETHIUS OF DACIA Quaestiones on ARISTOTLE, Topica

6. (fols. 83–106v) THOMAS AQUINAS Commentary on ARISTOTLE, Posterior Analytics.

7. (fols. 107–30v) Ps.-PETRUS DE HIBERNIA Commentary on ARISTOTLE, Posteriora Analytica

Merton College MS. 296 – Part II (fols. 131–168v)

8. (fols. 131–53) WILLIAM ROTHWELL De Principiis Naturae

9. (fols. 153v–63v; 164–8v blank) Quaestiones super Priscianum Minorum

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

168 leaves (ii + 166) Retrimmed with loss of marginalia. Fols. i-ii, 164–6, are of thick, stiff parchment.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position.

Provenance

The secundo folio reading identifies it as UO46. 68, ‘in xvii quaternis ligatus et sine asceribus’, bequeathed by John of Sandwich (BRUO 1639–40), fellow in 1321, still in 1324. In UO48. 118 it is described as ‘quaternus’, in UO50. 57 as ‘expositorem sex principiorum’, in UO51. 33 as ‘expositorem logice’.

At the foot of f. 77 are pencilled the names ‘Iohannes Westram’ and ‘Robertus Derby’, s. xiv. The second may have been Robert de Derby (BRUO 571), fellow of Oriel College in 1360, until his death, by July 1361.

Inside the front cover, on a sheet of paper, are a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘Q. 2. 12. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with modern ‘K. 1. 6 (CCXCVI)’, in red ink, and the College bookplate.

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