De ente et essentia De aeternitate mundi De mineralibus De ortu scientiarum De sensu communi De potentiis animae De laudabilibus bonis De motu cordis De beneficiis
Layout: Ruled in lead, and text copied below top line. 2 columns of 26 to 30 lines (shift to higher number occurs between ff. 35v and 36). Final leaf, f. 71r-v, in long lines. Numerous different hands (cf. f. 44 with as many as four hands). Instructions for the missing rubrics are supplied in the lower margin in a different script. Script: Gothic Decoration: Opening initial, f. 2, 5-line letter in blue with red flourishing; alternating red initials with simple blue flourishing in the French style (hairpin tops to the flourishes), and blue initials with simple red flourishing; alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Rubrics often (but not always) written to occupy a triangular format. Previous foliation (medieval?) reads 79-150, showing that the present book represents approx. the second half of an earlier volume. The first five leaves have been painted over with a transparent substance that has contracted their size and left a shiny surface. Number of scribes: 4? Provenance: The book is said to have belonged to the Benedictins of St-Jacques in Liège, in that it is included in the list of manuscripts containing the works of Thomas Aquinas that belonged to that house Provenance: The list is published by Hugues V. Shooner, Codices manuscripti operum Thomae de Aquino, vol. 2, Bibliothecae Gdańsk-Münster (Rome: Ad sanctae Sabinae, 1973) Provenance: The list contains: Bruxelles, KBR (= Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Bibliothèque royale), 12014-41 (1387); Darmstadt, Hochschule Bibliothek, 512; Darmstadt, Hochschule Bibliothek, 2777; Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL181A; Leuven, Universiteitsbibliotheek, G57; Liège, Bibl. du Séminaire, 6 A 13; New York, Academy of Medicine, MS 6. Provenance: On the front pastedown, the bookplate of Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947; he graduated from Yale as a doctor of medicine, and practiced in Boston), and the bookplate reporting its acquisition, "Purchased through the generosity of the Friends and Fellows of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1928" Provenance: Also on front pastedown, handwritten notes in French: "XIV [for the century in which the book was copied]; Manuscrit du 14eme siècle sur l'alchimie." Provenance: Bookseller code (?) in pencil on back pastedown: emdj (with the "m" underlined). 112(+1) 212(through f. 25) 3-610 7(6 leaves of uncertain structure); catchwords on f. 13v and in barely visible form on f. 55v. Late medieval foliation, 79-87 and 89-150, with the leaf number "88" skipped between the present f. 9 and f. 10. Leaf is entirely loose; presumably it was the last leaf in the previous, and no longer present, quire, with catchword to the present f. 2. The diagram contains the twelve signs of the zodiac divided according to the qualities of heat/cold, dry/humid. Note in upper margin, in red ink: Assis principiis virgo decora nimis. Thomas Aquinas, De ente et essentia. See online: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/oee.html Thomas Aquinas, De aeternitate mundi. See online: https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/ocm.html Elisa Rubino, Samuela Pagani, “Il De mineralibus di Avicenna tradotto da Alfredo di Shareshill,” Bulletin de Philosophie médiévale 58 (2016) 23-88, in the Latin translation done ca. 1190 by Alfred of Shareshill [his dates, according to the Virtual International Authority File, online, are 1175-1245], with his text on pp. 35-44 (online pp. 12-21 of pp. 66). Two notes, written in a formal book hand, the one listing the seven metals and the other listing the four spirits Text is attributed to "Albertus" in a note in the lower margin, "istud est de <"sa" expunged> parte alberti ubi multa loquitur de eternitate in principio libri." Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum, ed. Albert G. Judy (London: British Academy, 1976) using 18 mss, including the present one. Kaeppelli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 3516. By incipit, this work appears in: Del culto di S. Tommaso d’Aquino in Padova (Padua 1882), “Omnium Elenchus,” p. 57, n. 1; it does not appear, however, to have been written by Thomas Aquinas. A work with some similarities to this text, and attributed to an “unknown author” is listed among the “Opera aliqua falsa adscripta Thomae” on the website of the Corpus Thomisticum, as: Ignoti auctoris, [91014] De potentiis animae, cap. 4 at https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/xp8.html The incipit of this text is listed by P. Glorieux, Répertoire des Maitres en Théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1933) p. 72, among works of “Les Maîtres Dominicains,” in these two manuscripts: Klosterneuburg, Augustiner Chorherrenstift, MS 270, f. 44; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 453, ff. 195-205v. Translation into Latin by Robert Grosseteste, De laudabilibus bonis, of the Greek text, Peri Pathon; the two versions are edited by A.Glibert-Thirry, Pseudo-Andronicus de Rhodes "Peri Pathon": édition critique du texte grec et de la traduction latine médiévale (Leiden: Brill, 1977); the edition begins on p. 238. Thomas Aquinas, De motu cordis ad magistrum Philippum de Castro Caeli; see online http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/opc.html Added at the end of the book. At least in part derived from Thomas Aquinas; cf. his Secunda secundae partis, Quaestio CVI, art. IV for the end of this text. Added at the end of the book. Added at the end of the book. Seneca, De beneficiis, 3:18.2 (for the first sentence); 3.28.1 for the second sentence.f
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