Royal MS 12 G III

'VOLVMEN DE NATVRALIBVS Aristotilis': the same books in the same translation, but in a different order. Acquired for the same monastery by the same prior. The annotations are probably another set of lecturenotes. They are slightly fuller, but have several gaps, probably where the scribe has missed lectures. The same authors are referred to as in 12 G. II. Contents: 1. Physica, cf. 12 G. II, art. 1. For part of lib. v and the whole of libb. vii, viii the notes are wanting, and the hand of the text is not the same. f. 3.

2. 'Liber de celo et mundo', cf. 12 G. II, art. 2. Libb. i, ii in the original hand, though there is a large gap in the notes to lib. i; lib. iii in the second hand, not annotated, concluding with the note 'quartus autem liber est in fine huius voluminis'; lib. iv accordingly is found at f. 268 in the original hand with notes. f. 79.

3. De generatione et corruptione, cf. 12 G. II, art. 5. f. 137.

4. Meteorologica, cf. 12 G. II, art. 4. f. 157 b.

5. De vegetabilibus, a spurious work, cf. 12 G. II, art. 3. f. 193 b.

6. De anima, cf. 12 G. II, art. 7. f. 205.

7. De somno et vigilia, cf. 12 G. II, art. 10. In the second hand. No notes. f. 233 b.

8. De sensu et sensato, cf. 12 G. II, art. 11. Johannicius is also cited in the notes. f. 245.

9. De memoria et reminiscentia, cf. 12 G. II, art. 6. f. 254.

10. 'De morte et vita' (sic), cf. 12 G. II, art. 8. In the second hand. No notes. f. 257 b.

11. De differentia spiritus et animae, by Costha ben Luca, cf. 12 G. II, art. 9. In the second hand. No notes. f. 259 b.

On the fly-leaf is entered in a 14th cent. hand the prologue of Manfred, Viceroy of Sicily, to the treatise De pomo (cf. 12 C. XX, art. 8), with colophon 'Explicit prologus in librum de pomo, qui scribitur in fine istius libri ad hoc signum ', but no such treatise or mark now exists in the volume. Beg, 'Cum autem homo creaturarum dignissima'. f. 1.

Vellum; ff. 275. 13 in. x 8 in. End of XIII cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 3), i-iv¹⁴, v¹², vi⁸, vii-ix¹⁴, x¹⁶, xi, xii¹⁴, xiii¹⁶, xiv-xvi¹⁴, xvii¹⁶, xviii⁶, xix¹⁶, xx, xxi⁸, with catchwords; each described at the beginning as a 'pecia', but 'vndecima pecia' (f. 268, cf. art. 2) is out of place, following 'xxi^a pecia'. Sec. fol. '-dendum et'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged to Rochester Priory (see above), the title in the ownership inscription preceded by Il. Old Royal pressmark 'no. 877' (Westm: invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 36); cat. of 1666, f. 8 b or 20; CMA. 8446 or 8449.