Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, SCA 51

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  • SCA 51
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  • Apennine Peninsula, 15th century, second half
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  • Ancient Greek
Title
    • Composite manuscript, two parts (Greek)
    • Ex Alexandro Aphrodisiensi Excerpta
    • Quaestiones et solutiones
    • De anima
    • Bessarionis et Gemistii Plethonis Epistolae mutuae
    • Epistulae et quaestiones ad Plethonem
    • Responsa ad quaestiones Bessarionis
    • De scientia naturae
    • De fato
    • Polybii Historiae
    • Historiae
    • De motu circulari corporum caelestium
    • De eclipsibus solaribus et lunaribus
    • Isaaci Argyri Methodus cyclorum solarium et lunarium
    • Methodus cyclorum solarium et lunarium
    • Solutio arabica problematis
    • 1. (ff. 1-28) Excerpts from Quaestiones et solutiones / Alexander of Aphrodisia, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 29-53) Methodus cyclorum solarium et lunarium / Isaac Argyros, and other text(s), SCA 51
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  • Form:
    1 volume, 53 leaves ; Part 1: ff. 1-28 ; 210x145 mm ; Part 2: ff. 29-53 : tables ; 210x140 mm
    Content:
    Part 1 contains, in Greek: (ff. 1r-10v) Quaestiones et solutiones / Alexander of Aphrodisias. Excerpts (quaest. I.4, II.4, 5; III. 13). - De anima / Alexander of Aphrodisias. Incomplete (2 chapters). - (ff. 10v-19v) Epistulae et quaestiones ad Plethonem / Bessario. - Responsa ad quaestiones Bessarionis / Georgius Gemistus Pletho. - (ff. 19v-23v) De scientia naturae / Andronikos Kallistos. - De fato / Andronikos Kallistos. - (ff. 23v-26v) Historiae / Polybius. - (ff. 26v-27v) Lexica: names of days, months, rhetoricians, muses a.o. - Empty: f. 28r-v.
    Part 2 contains, in Greek: (ff. 29-31v) Fragment: De motu circulari corporum caelestium / Cleomedes (book 2.6 lin. 101-end). - (ff. 32r-50v) Methodus cyclorum solarium et lunarium / Isaac Argyros. Incomplete (introduction missing). - (ff. 51v-52v). - Solution of an Arabic mathematical problem. With table. - (f. 53r-v) Notes by Scaliger on Isaac Argyros.
    Note:
    Beginning of part 2 mutilated.
    Script: (part 2) Written by Demetrios Castrenos (see Orlandi 2014).
    Binding: Post-medieval binding.
    Textual: (ff. 1-10, item 2) Title: Τῶν παρὰ Ἀριστοτέλους περὶ τοῦ ἐφ' ἡμῖν. - (ff. 1v-19v) Bessarionis et Gemistii Plethonis Epistolae mutuae: MPG 161: 713-724. - (ff. 19v-23v) Incipit: Ἐπειδὴ τῆς περὶ φύσεως ἐπιστήμης". - Incipit: Ἡ τύχη καὶ τὸ αὐτόματον. - (ff. 29r-31v) Not identified yet by Molhuysen 1910 ("Fragmentum de Eclipsibus Solaribus et Lunaribus"). - (ff. 32r-50v) Part of this treatise edited in Scaliger 1598, p. 306-310. - (ff. 32r-52r) Transcriptions of these texts in codex VGF 17. - (ff. 51v-52r) Incipit: Δυὸ δοθεισῶν εὐθειῶν δύο μέσας ἀνάλογον εὑρεῖν.
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Heinsius 1640): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1551005
    Description (Molhuysen 1910): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:2040420
    Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
    Also described by Pinakes.
    Part of:
    Scaliger, J.J. (1540-1609)
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    15th century
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