Albertus de Saxonia (1316?-1390)

Quaestiones in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis. Written by Johannes de Manga. Written in double column of 46-48 lines to a column, by the same scribe throughout, in a semi-cursive gothic hand. Capitals and paragraph marks in red. Fol. 1, col. 1 Queritur primo. Utrum, de rebus/naturalibus posit [sic] habere aliqua no/ticia euidens et scientifica/... 32v, col. 2 EXPLICIUNT QUESTIONES PRIMI LIBRI PHISICORUM/MAGISTRI ALBERTI DE SAXONIA. 130, col. 2, line 16 ... Et ista suficiant super isto 8o libro phisicorum./Finito libro. gratias altissimo Ihesu christo./EXPLICIUNT QUESTIONES PHISICORUM/OPERIS MAIORIS ALBERTI./Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino viuat/Johannes vocatur qui scripsit benedicatur/questiones has frater Johannes de manga ordinis/beate virginis marie de monte carmeli studente [sic] in philosophia. scripssit [sic] In conuentu montispesu/lani. propria manu. conuentus tholeti prouincie/yspanie. 25. die marcii anni domini m1/cccci. viii1/QUAMDIU VIXERO MEMOR ERO PRO/MICHOLA MORTUUS ERO./gratias tibi christe quia liber explicit iste. This work was first printed at Venice in 1500.

1408

1 volume 130 ll. folio. 28 1/2 x 22 cm. Modern half-stamped calf binding over wooden boards. Last leaf slightly defective, and the outer margin repaired.

Purchased at Milan (Hoepli Sale), 3/5/1928, Lot 176.

Database description transcribed from 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).

On the verso of the last leaf is a note of ownership in a 15th cent. hand, crossed through and illegible. Below this by a later 15th cent. hand, 'Iste liber est ad usum librarii [?] Fratris Johannis baudi', who may possibly be the 'Jean Baude, barbier et chirurgien d'Amiens, 1488-1510' entered in Wickersheimer's 'Dictionnaire biographique' 1936, p. 359. At the bottom of the page 'Iste liber est ad usum Fratris francisci domini de bagulio.'. The name 'Michola', found at the end of the colophon, also occurs several times written at the end of the separate books.