Aegidius RomanusDe materia coeli et de intellectu possibili.
Analysis of content:
A1r Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): De materia coeli. Edited by Aegidius Viterbiensis. Incipit: ‘Questio est, vtrum in celo sit materia vel sit celum corpus simplex, ut posuit commentator . . .’ Called ‘Quaestio de materia coeli' by Bruni, ‘Saggio'; ‘Tractatus de materia Cœli contra Averroistas' by Bruni, Opere, 22. Two quaestiones in this edition. Bruni, Opere, 22 and Zumkeller both list a manuscript which contains three quaestiones; see Bruni, Opere, 22; Glorieux, Répertoire, II 300; Zumkeller 11.
B1v [Note on the editor.] Incipit: ‘Finis. Habeto itaq[ue], candide lector, tres has questiones clarissimi doctoris Egidii. Duas scilicet de celi materia et vnam de possibili intellectu . . . ’ Explicit: Frater Egidius Eremita Viterbiensis castigauit et dedit’
B2r Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): ‘De intellectu possibili contra Averroim questio aurea.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uia enim sunt nonnulli dubitantes quomodo intellectus variatur . . .’ Aegidius Romanus, De plurificatione intellectus possibilis, ed. Helda Bullotta Baracco (Rome, 1957). For the manuscript tradition of this recension see p. 12; see Bruni, Opere, 23; Glorieux, Répertoire, II 296; Zumkeller 38.
B6v [Colophon.]
Imprint:
Padua: Hieronymus de Durantibus, 25 Sept. 1493. Folio.
A-029(1)
Copy
Binding: Late nineteenth-century(?) olive green morocco on pasteboard. Gold-tooled on the turn-ins. Marbled pastedowns; the British Museum's gold stamp of a crown.
Size: 380 × 210 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 302 × 203 mm.
Provenance: Petrus Matthei Obornicensis (sixteenth century?); inscription on B6v.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
London, British Museum; black octagonal stamp indicating the Sloane collection; shelfmark from the Montagu House period: 2Pm and 6Mk/10; cancellation stamp; two British Museum shelfmarks deleted; BMC VII 925 describes this copy.
Acquired in 1934.
SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I14.1493.1.
