Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, SCA 51

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  • Other label of the document :
    • Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Scal., gr. 51
    • Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, SCA 51
    • Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Scal., gr. 51
    • Leiden. Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Scal. 51
    • Leiden. Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Scaliger 51
    • Leiden. UB, SCA 51
    • Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, SCA 51
    • Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Scal. 51
    • Leiden. University Libraries, SCA 51
    • Leyde. Bibliothèque de l'Université, Scaliger 51
    • Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, SCA 51
  • Held at : Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek
  • Languages : Grec
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  • Script :
    • Script: (part 2) Written by Demetrios Castrenos (see Orlandi 2014).
  • Dimensions :
    • 1 volume, 53 leaves ; Part 1: ff. 1-28 ; 210x145 mm ; Part 2: ff. 29-53 : tables ; 210x140 mm
  • Binding :
    • Binding: Post-medieval binding.

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  • 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.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    15th century

    Titre(s) :
    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

    Langue(s) des textes : grec

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Alexandre d'Aphrodisias : De Anima ex Aristotelis institutione [grec].

Alexandre d'Aphrodisias : Problemata Moralia [grec].

Alexandre d'Aphrodisias : Quaestiones [grec].

Andronicus Callistus (1400?-1478) : De fato [grec].

Andronicus Callistus (1400?-1478) : De scientia naturae [grec].

Bessarion (1403-1472) : Epistulae et quaestiones ad Plethonem [grec].

Georges Gémiste Pléthon (1355?-1452) : Responsa ad quaestiones Bessarionis [grec].

Isaac Argyrus (1312?-1373?) : Opera astronomica dubia [grec].

Polybe (0200-0120 av. J.-C.) : Histoires [grec].

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Notes

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  • Beginning of part 2 mutilated.
  • 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.
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  • D. Harlfinger, Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften II, Berlin, Nikolaus Mielke, 1980
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