Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 239: Aristotle, Metaphysica

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Summary: CCCC MS 239 is a copy of the Latin translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics made in England and dating to the period c. 1250-75. It was perhaps given, together with several other books, to Corpus Christi College by Daniel Rogers, probably the Latin scholar and diplomat who was a contemporary of Matthew Parker and lived c. 1539-91. The Metaphysics was an important text for the medieval university curriculum, and the script and ornament suggests this copy might have been made in Oxford. Although now partly rebound with modern binding, part of the red skin medieval binding survives, with evidence that it once had clasps, and there is some indication of marks for the attachment of a chain.
Contents: Metaphysica

Alternative title	Aristotelis Metaphysica
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 138
Date created	[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	26 lines to a page
Height (mm)	201
Width (mm)	141
Collation	1(12) 2(12) 3(10) (wants 10) \|\| 4(12)-9(12) (7, 8 canc.) 10(12) 11(12) (8, 9 canc.) 12(18) (4 ff. inserted after 4th: 10-18 cut out).
Writing	very well written
Foliation	ff. i + 1-139 + ii
2 fo.	minamus

M.R. James Date	xiii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yj617zm6030/MS_239.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jm557xk7006/239.pdf
Contains	Title Aristotle, Metaphysica. 1r-138v James Aristotelis Metaphysica. 1r-138v Author Aristotle Rubric (1r) Incipit Methaphisica Incipit (1r) Omnes homines natura scire desiderant Note This hand continues to f. 33v, ending in Liber IV Explicit (33v) Et cum hoc dicunt facile Note Another hand begins with f. 34r. It recommences Liber IV Incipit (34r) Consideracio quidem in ueritate Note (= Liber I brevior (or II)), calling it Liber I, and continues with that numeration ff. 130r-133r are inserted in Liber XII to supply a defect. f. 133v is blank Ends imperfectly in Liber XIII Explicit (138v) Siue specialem numerum ex eis faciant siue(?) mathematicum
TJames	vac.
Stanley	Lib. ab Al. 25
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rw486rg6730
Location	MS 239
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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