Summary:
Manuscript 502 is a fourteenth-century copy of Walter Burley's
exposition on Aristotle's Ethica. The author, Burley (c.
1275-1344), was an English cleric and logician. Following a
political career under Edward II, he acquired a master's degree in
theology and became a canon. At the request of others he translated
works of Aristotle into English. The text is written in a Gothic
hybrid script in two columns per page. Spaces have been reserved
for initials and rubrics, but these have never been added. The text
itself does not show any signs of use; there is hardly any
annotation (this is found primarily in the first part of the text)
nor any later additions or alterations. Furthermore, the text is
incomplete, it ends abruptly on f. 185v, halfway the second chapter
of Book 10. The presence of the Ten Duinen stamp on this leaf (see
below) indicates that this was already the case in the early
seventeenth century. The binding is medieval and consists of blind
stamped full brown leather over wooden boards. The fenestra has
survived and is attached to the back board. Traces of clamps and
mounds survive. The codex was originally owned by the Ter Doest
abbey, and found its way into the collection of Ten Duinen. The
cross-shaped stamp of the latter abbey is found on the first and
final leaves. The final end leaf is a twelfth-century fragment of
the Venerable Bede's Homeliarum evangelii, book 2, homily 2.
[Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer] Title:
Commentum Burley super Ethicas [fenestratitel] Note:
[f. 1r] incipit: '[R]euerendo in christo patri et domino suo domino
Richardo diuina disponente clementia episcopo dunelmensi Walterus
de borley (...) et si multorum scriptorum in philosophia
commendatorios vestra sollicitudo studiosa perlegerit'
[f. 185v] explicit: '... posset quando ab aliquo'; einde
onvolledig, de aanwezigheid van het Duinenkruisje op f. 185v wijst
erop dat de tekst reeds ca. 1625 onvolledig was
Dekblad achteraan is een 12de-eeuws fragment van Homeliarum
euangelii libri ii van Beda Venerabilis (Lib. 2 Hom. 2) Topic general subdivision:
Wijsbegeerte
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament en papier Extent:
185 ff. Dimensions:
290 x 210 mm Script:
gotische semi-hybrida
met cursiva antiquior kenmerken; meerdere handen Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.) Genre/form:
Commentaren
Preken Topic:
Ethiek
Aristoteles
