Fragment

Cambridge: St John’s College, LL.4.2.1

Textual information

Subject: 
Philosophy
Author of work: 
Aristotle, James of Venice (trans.)
Title of work: 
Physics (translatio nova)
Section: 
Book 1 (190b-191a)
Orientation: 
upright
Transcription: 

[col. 1] ||est autem sicut tria et est quidem sicut … [much of the text in both columns covered by a bookplate] … quamdam aliam et cedentes ob in||

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Script detail: 
Textualis rotunda
Place of production: 
England
Date of production: 
s. xiii
s. xiii ex
s. xiv
s. xiv in

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Type of fragment: 
Pastedown
Fragment type detail: 
Front pastedown
Element of folio: 
Near complete leaf, cut to remove small horizontal portion to fit binding
Ruling: 
lightly drawn in lead-point
Decoration: 

Running header in red, paraph marks in alternating red and blue

Further information

Notes: 

The text is surrounded in all margins with early glossing in at least two hands

Bibliography: 

Ker, POBo, no. 278

Dimensions

Fragment: 

325mm (h) x 190mm (w)

Number of lines: 
35
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
2mm
Space between lines: 
4mm
Upper margin: 
25mm
Height of written space: 
195mm
Lower margin: 
100mm
Inner margin: 
4mm
Width of text 1: 
62mm
Reservation 1: 
12mm
Width of text 2: 
62mm
Outer margin: 
50mm