Commentaries of Henry of Ghent on Aristotle

Commentaries of Henry of Ghent on Aristotle

Written in a small gothic script in double column of 51 lines to a column. Illuminated initials in gold and colours, with marginal decoration on fol. 1 and fol. 111. Other initials in red, paragraph marks in red -a few in blue. The hand is somewhat difficult, and there are extensive contractions.

Contents

1. ff. 1r-110v Henry of Ghent, Quaestiones in Physica

f. 1r Ad ingtessum huius sciencle prima questio debet esse utrum de rebus naturalibus debeat esse sciencia ... f. 110v ... qualiter ad animam cum reincorporatur alicui corpori contra cacit idem complementum huius require in parte inferiori etlege terminum.

2. ff. 111r-112r Henry of Ghent, Quaestiones in Metaphysiciam

f. 111r (In the upper margin, by a later hand) Questiones secundum textum methaphisice valde subtiles quarum tituli sunt in fine libri notati ... Infine nobilitatis bonorum primo existit metaphysica ... f. 112r ... quod poterit transire metafisicam disciplinam Aristotelis.

3. ff. 112v-152v Henry of Ghent, Quaestiones in Physica

f. 112v Necesse est nobis considerare primo questiones. In hoc libro enumerat aristoteles xxv questiones difficiles ... f. 152v ...utrum anima rationalis inducitur cum semine.

Early 14th Century

1 volume

Purchased 1910.

For a discussion of the Author and his Commentaries, cf. Grabmann 'Mittelalterliche lateinische Aristotelesübersetzungen und Aristoteleskommentäre', 1928, pp. 70-98.

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Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).