Miscellany
Ms. textual miscellany, written and illustrated in France, possibly Paris [suggested by E. P. Goldschmidt], end of 13th - beginning of 14th century.
Texts by authors: 1) Aristotle: Meteora, translation of William of Moerbeke (fols. 1-16v); De memoria et reminiscentia (fols. 72-73v); De sompno et vigilia (fols. 73v-76v); De causis longitudinis vite (fols. 76v-77v); 2) Albertus de Orlamunde: Summa naturalium (fols. 17-44); 3) Thomas Aquinas: De ente et essentia (fols. 44-49), De mixtione elementorum (fols. 53-53v), De motu cordis (fols. 53v-54v), Vita Aristotelis (fols. 54v-55v); 4) Albertus Magnus: De quiditate et esse (fols. 49-51v); 5) Pseudo-Aristoteles: De pomo sive de morte, with Manfred's preface (fols. 55v-57v), De presagiis tempestatum (fols. 69-69v); 6) Alfarabi: De intellectu et intellecto (fols. 57v-59v); 7) Boethius: Liber de summo bono (fols. 59v-61), De somno et vigilia (fols. 61-62v), Liber de necessario et possibili (fols. 63v-69); 8) Gundissalinus: De processione mundi (fols. 62v-63v); 9) Averroes: Commentary on Aristotle (fols. 69v-72), De substantia orbis (fols. 77v-79v); 10) Algazel : Physica (fols. 84-98); 11) Alfred of Saveshel (Alfredus Anglicus): Commentarium super librum de plantis (fols. 79v-83). [#11 was previously attributed to Averroes: according to a note by Dr. R. James Long March in 1979, this passage is rather by Alfred of Saveshel (Alfredus Anglicus).
Decoration: 3 textual illustrations: 1) an astrological diagram on folio 1; 2) a wind map on folio 8; 3) a large circle on fol. 31v.