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    • Author/Creator:Aristotle.
    • Title:Collection of works by Aristotle.
    • Published/Created:France ; 1250-1299.
    • Physical Description:1 item (ii + 342 + ii leaves) : parchment ; 320 mm x 210 mm.
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    • Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
      Script: southern gothic textualis.
      Layout: 2 columns of 37 lines.
      Decoration: contains 12 historiated initials: the Lord separating water and earth (f. 3), the Lord creating Heaven and earth (f. 74), the soul delivered rom the body (f. 151), five men at a table (f. 180), man sleeping (f. 189), the living and the dead (f. 198), young men in front of a tree (f. 206), the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (f. 206), meteors falling from heaven (f. 218), Christ appearing to a philosopher (f. 261), philosopher visited by angels (f. 332), dispute between two monks and a young man (f. 335r). Also, 29 ornamental initials in red, blue, and polished gold. Titles and subheadings in red and blue; rubrication.
      Binding: 20th-century brown leather half-binding over wood. Includes metal clasps and leather straps closing on the front cover. Remnants of the previous blind-stamped brown leather binding preserved separately.
      Note by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf: Isti libri naturales deputati sunt ad usum fratris Nicolay de Probstdorf lectoris. Et sunt empti pro II marcis argenti.
      In Latin.
      Contemporary list of contents (f. 1v) and annotations throughout. Ownership inscription(?) by Arnoldus de Machlinia (f. 1r). Previously owned by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf. Previously owned by the Benedictine abbey of Admont (number 126 on former pastedown): accompanied by their 19th-century description. Accompanying documents also include descriptive material by and correspondence with Dr. Ignaz Schwarz of Vienna, antiquarian bookseller from whom Dr. Cushing purchased the manuscript in 1936. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
    • Summary:Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of texts by Aristotle: Physica (f. 1r), De caelo (f. 74r), De generatione (f. 131v), De anima (f. 151v), De memoria (f. 177r), De sensu (f. 180r), De somno (f. 189r), De longitudine et brevitate vitae (f. 198r), Meteorologica (f. 218r), Metaphysica (f. 251v). Also includes Costa Ben Luca's De differentia spiritus et animae (f. 200r), Nicholas of Damascus' De plantis (f. 206r), Pseudo-Aristotle's Liber de causis (f. 332r), and Nicholas of Amiens' Ars fidei catholicae (f. 335v).
    • Variant and related titles:[Opera varia]
      Liber de causis.
    • Other formats:Also available on microfilm.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • References:De Ricci, S. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts; Errata and Addenda, 1937, page 2299, 12
      The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts, 1943, manuscript 6
    • Subjects:Medicine, Greek and Roman--Early works to 1800.
      Medicine, Medieval.
      Medicine--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800.
      Philosophy--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Monasteries--Austria--Admont--Ownership.
      Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.--Ownership.
      Stift Admont--Ownership.
      Benedictines--Austria--Admont--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Annotations--13th century.
    • Also listed under:Aristotle. De anima. Latin
      Aristotle. De caelo. Latin
      Aristotle. Metaphysics.
      Aristotle. Meteorologica. Latin
      Aristotle. Parva naturalia. Latin
      Aristotle. Physics. Latin
      Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187, translator.
      Nicolas, d'Amiens, 1147-approximately 1203. Ars fidei catholicae.
      Nicolaus, of Damascus. De plantis. Latin
      Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912. Risālah fī al-farq bayna al-rūḥ wa-al-nafs. Latin
      France.