Title
De ystoriis animalium; De generatione animalium; De problematibus; De secretis secretorum
Physical location
Bruges Public Library
Associated names
Aristoteles - 384 - 322 v.Chr. (VIAF: 7524651) - auteurauteur (apocrief)
Associated names
Willem van Moerbeke - ca. 1215 - 1286 (VIAF: 2471391) - vertaler
Associated names
Bartholomaeus de Messina - fl. 1258-1266 - vertaler
Associated names
Philippus Tripolitanus - ca. 1243 - vertaler
Date of creation
13de-14de eeuw (1275)
Origin place
[West-Europa]
Summary
Manuscript 476 dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth century. It was owned by Ten Duinen Abbey, as indicated by presence of the coat of arms of the Abbey on the binding. The manuscript contains De animalibus by Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.), translated by William of Moerbeke (c. 1215 - 1286). The translation of Aristotle's book of animals is made up of five works. One of the works is De generatione animalium, in which Aristotle explains his theory of embryology and reproduction. The manuscript also contains a pseudoaristotelian treatise: De Secretis secretorum or the Secret Book of Secrets. In the manuscript, the titles are indicated alternately in blue and red letters. The initials are decorated with spiral ornaments, four initials in the document are also illuminated with animals or humans. Initial Q on Folio 67r is decorated within a golden frame, with pictures of dogs to indicate the beginning of a book on animals. [Summary by Sarah Vanroye]
Note
Bovenvermelde titel staat op de versozijde van het voorste schutblad
Note
Recto achterste schutblad (kolom a) bevat fragment 'Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum', inc.: 'Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant / hec tria: mens leta requies moderata dieta / Anglorum regi scripsit scola tota Salerni / Si vis incolumen si vis te reddere sanum'; expl.: 'Aer estas quies repletio gaudia sompnus / hec moderata iuuant immoderata nocent / ani clistere vulue pessariam iunge / auri siringa valet anagalia virge / nari nastale uel nastare nichil ob si vult propriare'
Note
Recto achterste schutblad (kolom b) bevat notitie: 'Millesimo IIIc LII et diem [habemus ?] septiam madii incepi cursum meum in medicina'
Note
Verso achterste schutblad bevat pennenproeven (voornamelijk citaten kerkvaders) en notitie: 'Qui scripsit hec scripta sua dextera sit benedicta / Et hoc fuit Gregorius de Campo qui scripsit hanc / litteram XIa die februarii anno XLIIIIto et posuit / hic signum suum manuale in signum omnium premissorum / Ita est G de Campo'
Topic general subdivision
Wiskunde - natuurwetenschappen
Material
Perkament (Wikidata Q226697)
Decoration and binding
gedecoreerde initialen|Q63872683
Decoration and binding
gehistorieerde initialen|Q4924460
Decoration and binding
Middeleeuwse band
Bibliographic references
De Poorter, A., Catalogue des manuscrits de la bibliothèque publique de la ville de Bruges (Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques de Belgique 2), Gembloux: Duculot, 1934
Bibliographic references
Aristoteles, De historia animalium. Translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka. Pars prima: lib. I-V, eds. P. Beullens - F. Bossier (Corpus philosophorum medii aevi. Aristoteles Latinus XVII.2.I.1), Leiden: Brill, 2000
Bibliographic references
Busine, L. - Ludo Vandamme e.a., Besloten wereld, open boeken: Middeleeuwse handschriften in dialoog met actuale kunst, Tielt: Lannoo, 2002
Bibliographic references
Cadden, J. Nothing natural is shameful : sodomy and science in late medieval Europe, (Middle Ages series), Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Bibliographic references
de Leemans, P. - Goyens, M. Aristotle's Problemata in different times and tongues, (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1, studia 39), Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006
Bibliographic references
Isaac, M.T., Les livres manuscrits de l'Abbaye des Dunes d'après le catalogue du XVIIe siècle (Livre - Idées - Société 4), Verviers: Gason, 1984
Bibliographic references
G. Lacombe, Aristoteles Latinus: Codices, Roma: Libreria dello Stato, 1939
Bibliographic references
Thorndike, L. - P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963 en supplementen (online via: http://cctr1.umkc.edu/search)
Bibliographic references
van Belleghem, Doenja (ed.), De Duinenhandschriften : over de manuscripten van de cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen in het Grootseminarie Brugge en de Openbare bibliotheek Brugge, Brugge: Openbare Bibliotheek, 2016
Provenance
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.)
Digitization project
Besloten wereld, open boekenMmmonk: Middeleeuwse Monastieke Manuscripten - Open - Netwerk - Kennis
Digitization date
2021-06-02
Alternative Identifier
B_OB_MS476
