Manuscript Summary:A painstakingly annoted copy of the work De natura animalium tractatus XIX by Aristotle, in the Latin version by the scholar Michael Scotus († ca. 1235), written during the 13th century, with an opening "I" initial, partly decorated in gold, showing a man sitting before a book. In 1453 this manuscript was owned by one Johannes Kalf from Wangen (in Allgäu); bound in a Kopert (limp vellum) binding.(smu)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 284.
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Additional description: Lohr Carolus, Aristotelica Helvetica, Scrinium Friburgense (Sonderband 6), Freiburg 1994, S. 258.
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Online Since: 04/15/2010
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 836
Parchment · 209 pp. · 24 x 17 cm · 13th century
Aristotle, De natura animalium tractatus XIX
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 836, p. 4 – Aristotle, De natura animalium tractatus XIX (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0836)
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 284.
Manuscript title: Aristoteles de natura animalium Tractatus XVIIII, Mich. Scoto interprete
Date of origin: s. XIII
Support: Pgm.
Extent:
209 Seiten
Format: 4°
Page layout:
zweispaltig
Writing and hands: in schöner Schrift.
Decoration: mit schwarzer Dinte.
Additions: Alte Noten am Rand.
Contents:
Aristoteles: de natura animalium Tractatus XVIIII, Mich. Scoto interprete
Anfang:
>I. n. d.< …
translatio tractatus primi libri quem composuit Ar.[istoteles] in cognitione naturae animalium.
Ende:
>Completus est liber Aristotilis de animalibus secundum extractionem magistri Michael Scoti Alphagin [sic]<
Ziemlich seltenes Msc., das ein Joh. Kalb de Wangen a° 1453 um 2 Floren und 11 Schilling kaufte. (Dasselbe Buch Pgm. saec. XIII kostete a° 1309 zu Padua ‘septem solidis denariorum monetae Venetae grossorum’ Serapeum VIII p. 380). Diese - ungedruckte? - Uebersetzung ist verschieden von Mich. Scotus Uebersetzung des Avicenna über AristotelesAnimalia Hain No. 2220. Vgl. Jourdain p. 133-145.