Roma Vat. Lat. 5988
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Jump to navigationJump to search- fol. 001ra-20ra; 22ra-24rb; 24rb-26rb;34ra-41va; 41va-47rb Adam Buckfield De vegetabilibus
- fol. 20va-21ra Ioannes de Peckham Tractatis de perspectiva (excerpta)
- fol. 29vb-33rb; 48ra-63vb Thomas Aquinas In Lib. De causis , De unitate intellectus
- fol. 63ra-81va[1] Petrus de Hibernia In Isagogen Porphy.
- fol. 82ra-108vb[2] Petrus de Hibernia In Periherm. Aristot.
Dalgaard:
- Since Pelzer (1922) first described the commentary on Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias in ms. Vat. lat. 5988 ascribed to Petrus de Hibernia (Peter of Ireland), no other manuscript of this text has been found.
- I. The Ms.
- Ms. Vat. lat. 5988 consists of 108 folios of approximately 323 mm x 244 mm; these folios are parchment bound, green on the sides and white on the back. The coat of arms of pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) is printed in gold on the front and back of the cover.
- The 108 folios are preceded by one and followed by two parchment folios turned upside down, the last two counted as ff. 109-110. These are probably remnants of an earlier binding, and are as well physically as regarding the contents not of the same origin as ff. 1-108.
- The ms. consists of two originally separate manuscripts:
- A = ff. 1-62, containing anonymous commentaries on Aristotle's philosophy of nature and De Causis, written by several contemporary scribes on rather homogeneous parchment.
- B = ff. 63-108, containing (B1, ff. 63-81) Peter of Ireland's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge; (B2, ff. 82-108) a commentary on Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias by the same author. Both commentaries are written by one scribe, who is not identical with any of the scribes in A. The parchment is homogeneous but different from the parchment used in A.
- A and B are not connected materially, that is in the parchment, but have been bound together to one manuscript in the Vatican sometime between 1627, when the inventory of the Vatican described it as "sine tegmino", and 1644, the last year of Urban VIII's reign.
References
- Commentary on Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias / Ed. K.E. Dalgaard, CIMAGL, 43, Copenhagen, 1982.
