Royal MS 12 F I

12 F. 1

THE METAPHYSICS of Aristotle and the Liber de causis, in Latin (cf. 12 D. XIV), with marginal and interlinear annotations, perhaps from lecture-notes (as in 12 G. ii and iii), but very neatly written. Contents: 1. The Metaphysics, the same version as in 12 D. XIV, art. 1, but without Averroes' commentary, though the lemma 'album in Greco' often remains. Books a and A are here marked 11, books B, , III and IV, the rest as in 12 D. XIV. The annotations are chiefly from Averroes and from the other translation. Beg. 'Consideracio quidem in ueritate'; gloss, 'Commentator: quia ista sciencia'. f. 1.

2. 'Sermo de essentia pure bonitatis' (so colophon): the Liber de causis [of David Judaeus] as in 12 D. XIV, art. 2. The demonstrations are written smaller than the propositions. Beg. 'Omnis causa primaria'; the annotations, 'In isto tractatu queritur de causis'. f. 100.

On the fly-leaf (f. 108) are a few lines of a treatise on grammar, beg. 'De regimine nominatiui in primo notandum'. Vellum; ff. 108. 11¹/₄ in. x 7¹/₄ in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings of 12, leaves (ii, iii¹⁰, x⁴), numbered, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'Principium ex superiori'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi. G. supprioris'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 550' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 31); cat. of 1666, f. 20b; CMA. 8514.