Gerardus de HarderwyckCommentum super Artem veterem Aristotelis secundum viam Albertistarum, cum textu.
Analysis of content:
AA1r [Title-page.]
AA2r [Gerardus de Harderwyck: Dubia on the Quinque praedicabilia.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca initium logice ueteris, et primo circa Isagogas Porphirii mouenda sunt quedam dubia . . .’
BB2r Porphyrius: Quinque praedicabilia. [Also known as Isagoge. Translated by Boethius.] Porphyrii Isagoge, ed. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, AL 1/6-7 (1966), 5-31.
BB2r Gerardus de Harderwyck: [Commentary on Praedicabilia.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber Predicabilium Porphirii qui diuiditur in duas partes . . .’
Hh1r [Gerardus de Harderwyck: Dubia on the Praedicamenta.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca exordium Categoriam Arestotelis quod Latine Predicamenta appellatur . . .’
Hh2r Aristoteles: Praedicamenta. Categoriae vel praedicamenta, ed. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, AL 1/1-5 (1961), pp. xxxix, 5-41. Anonymous translation, traditionally ascribed to Boethius; see Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, ‘The Genuine Text of Boethius' Translation of Aristotle's Categories', Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1 (1942), 151-77 (= Opuscula, 1-27) and Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, ‘The Text of the Categoriae: the Latin Tradition', Classical Quarterly, 39 (1945), 63-4 (Opuscula, 28-39). The translation is wrongly ascribed to Johannes Argyropylus in BMC.
Hh2r Gerardus de Harderwyck: [Commentary on the Praedicamenta.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber Predicamentorum Arestotelis in quo postquam determinatum est de quinque . . .’
Ss2v Gilbertus Porretanus [pseudo-]: De sex principiis. L. Minio-Paluello, AL 1/6-7 (1966), 35-58. On the authorship see Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, ‘Magister sex principiorum', Studi medievali, 3rd ser., 6/2 (1965), 123-51 (= Opuscula, 536-64), AL (1957), I 95, Lohr (1968), 166 and PAL 77 no. 86.
Ss2v Gerardus de Harderwyck: [Commentary on the De sex principiis.] Incipit: ‘Iste est liber Sex principium qui diuiditur in tres partes principales . . .’
Yy1r Aristoteles: De interpretatione. [Translated by Boethius.] De interpretatione vel Periermenias, ed. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, AL 2/1-2 (1965), 5-38.
Yy1r Gerardus de Harderwyck: [Commentary on the De interpretatione.] Incipit: ‘Iste est primus liber Perihermenias Arestotelis subtilissimus de quo . . .’ See Lohr, 24 (1968), 162, no. 1.
2DD2r [Colophon.]
2DD2v Langius, Rudolphus: ‘Epitaphium in Albertum Magnum.’ See G‑076.
2DD3r Langius, Rudolphus: ‘Ad urbem Agrippinensem.’ See G‑076; with interlinear commentary.
2DD3v Langius, Rudolphus: ‘Epitaphium in Johannem [Hulshot] de Mechlinia.’ Incipit: ‘Hic ueneranda premit summi lapis ossa Ioannis | Immortale iubar quem Machlinia dedit'; 9 elegiac distichs.
2DD3v Langius, Rudolphus: ‘Epitaphium in Jacobum [Tymann] de Amersfordia.’ Incipit: ‘Aurea miraris regum quicunque sepulchra | Scriptaque marmoribus grandia uerba stupes'; 16 elegiac distichs.
2DD4r Langius, Rudolphus: ‘Epitaphion' [for] Nicasius Brabantinus (Nicasius de Voerda). Incipit: ‘Ad tumulum (properans licet) hunc subsiste viator | Et lege posteritas queque stupenda feret'; 11 elegiac distichs.
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Bound with: 1. Johannes Buridanus, Quaestiones super octo libros Politicorum Aristotelis. Paris: Nicolaus de Pratis, for Jean Petit, 1513; 3. Aristoteles, Politicorum libri octo, etc. Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1526.
Wanting AA1, RR5, VV1,2 BB1.6, and2 DD2.3.
Binding: Seventeenth-century English reversed calf, probably for the Bodleian Library; two ties lost; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover. ‘10' on fore-edge in black ink.
Size: 263 × 198 × 88 mm.
Size of leaf: 257 × 185 mm.
Pen-trials and scribbles, especially on DD4v. Irregular early manuscript foliation and pagination supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Thomas Johnson (sixteenth century); inscription on DD4v: ‘Thomas Johnson is my name and which by my hande I wrote'.
Thomas Habington (1560-1647); inscription on DD4v: ‘Thomas Habingtons [book?]'.
Thomas Fulforde; either (i) (1604?-1643), or (ii) (b. 1598?); inscription on DD4v: ‘Thomas ffulforde his booke'.
William Wardropper (sixteenth century); inscriptions on DD4v: ‘W. Wardroper me aliqua ex parte tenebit' ‘Gulielmus Wardropper [me?] tenebit'.
[ ] Hollynges(?); perhaps Matthew Hollinges (b. c.1619); inscription on DD4v: ‘Dominus Hollynges me omni ex parte tenebit'.
[ ] Jackson (seventeenth century?); inscription on DD4v: ‘Dominus Jackesonus me omni ex parte tenebit'.
John Bayly (c.1596-1633); inscription on DD4v: ‘Johannes Bayly: Exon. Coll. socius Artium Bacalaureus 1616 collect.'
Thomas Barlow (1607-1691)(?); shelfmark.
Item 3 also has (seventeenth century?) inscriptions and names of John Plainard, Richard Pers[ ], John B[ ]s.
Old shelfmark: A B 5.10.
Perhaps bequeathed in 1691; certainly in the Library by 1738; see Fysher, Catalogus, I 71 and 205, the former entry listing item 3, the latter item 1, misdated 1500, giving for both items the shelfmark the volume has today.
SHELFMARK: C 12.10(2) Linc.