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Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, divided into 8 books. Occasional marginal notes.
Support: parchment; Extent: 94 leaves : 320 x 225 (242 x 170) mm bound to 325 x 235 mm; Collation: Parchment, i + 94; 1-7¹² 8¹²(-2); 1-92, [93-94], early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords, lower right last verso of gatherings 1-7, horizontal, framed in red ink.
Written in 2 columns of 71 lines; faintly ruled in lead.
Written in Gothic script by 2 hands (f. 1r-84v, 85r-92v).
Opening illuminated initial in gold, pink, blue, and yellow, with extensions forming a three-quarters border, somewhat damaged by flaking or rubbing (f. 1r); 6 3-line initials and 1 marginal initial, in pink, blue, and yellow, with extensions sometimes including blue dragons, marking the beginning of Books 2-8 (f. 13r, 24r, 33r, 50v, 57v with dragon, 69v, 75v with dragon); numerous initials in red with blue penwork or red with blue penwork; rubrication and paragraph marks in red. Occasional manicules (for example, f. 34v-35r, 72r)
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Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
France
Written in northern France, in the region historically known as Flanders, before 1349 (erased inscription recording purchase in 1349, inside upper cover).
Contemporary (14th-century) leather over boards, blind-tooled, with remnants of 2 pairs of clasps; worm damage. Marginal notes, especially in the lower margins, show signs of trimming.
Latin
Formerly owned by Otto H. F. Vollbehr (Washington, D.C.).
Sold for 4 pounds to Johannes a Toscanella, possibly at Marola, in 1452 (erased inscription at end of text, f. 92v).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in Part III of the Honeyman collection, 2 May 1979, lot 1093.
Formerly held in the Bergendal Collection, Ms. 10.
Owned in northern Italy later in the 14th-century (inscription concerning a financial transaction at Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, near Forli, in 1355, inside lower cover).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Sold by Benost for 4 Parisian pounds, possibly to Mg. Nicholaus Pons, 7 October 1349 (erased inscription inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman (San Juan Capistrano, California).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, February 1998.
France
Written in northern France, in the region historically known as Flanders, before 1349 (erased inscription recording purchase in 1349, inside upper cover).
Latin
Formerly owned by Otto H. F. Vollbehr
Sold for 4 pounds to Johannes a Toscanella, possibly at Marola, in 1452
Sold at auction at Sotheby's in Part III of the Honeyman collection, 2 May 1979, lot 1093.
Formerly held in the Bergendal Collection, Ms. 10.
Owned in northern Italy later in the 14th-century
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Sold by Benost for 4 Parisian pounds, possibly to Mg. Nicholaus Pons, 7 October 1349
Formerly owned by Robert B. Honeyman
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd.
Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, divided into 8 books. Occasional marginal notes.
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
Written in Gothic script by 2 hands (f. 1r-84v, 85r-92v).
Opening illuminated initial in gold, pink, blue, and yellow, with extensions forming a three-quarters border, somewhat damaged by flaking or rubbing (f. 1r); 6 3-line initials and 1 marginal initial, in pink, blue, and yellow, with extensions sometimes including blue dragons, marking the beginning of Books 2-8 (f. 13r, 24r, 33r, 50v, 57v with dragon, 69v, 75v with dragon); numerous initials in red with blue penwork or red with blue penwork; rubrication and paragraph marks in red. Occasional manicules (for example, f. 34v-35r, 72r)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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