Fragment

Cambridge: St John’s College, LL.4.2.2

Textual information

Subject: 
Philosophy
Author of work: 
Aristotle, William of Moerbeke (trans.)
Title of work: 
Physics (translatio nova)
Section: 
Book 2 (193b--194a)
Orientation: 
upright
Transcription: 

[col. 1] ||aliquid circa simplicem generationem … lineam Sed [col. 2] non in quantum mathematica … nos finis dupliciter enim ^est^ id cuius causa fit||

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: 
Back 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 with letters in alternating red and blue; chapters open with a pen-flourished letter, alternating red and blue with the flourishing predominantly in the other colour.

Further information

Notes: 

Surrounded in all margins by added glossing in at least two early hands in anglicana, with pointing faces in both vertical outer margins

Bibliography: 

Ker, POBo, no. 278

Dimensions

Fragment: 

320mm (h) x 195mm (w)

Number of lines: 
35
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
2mm
Space between lines: 
4mm
Upper margin: 
25mm
Height of written space: 
198mm
Lower margin: 
97mm
Inner margin: 
22mm
Width of text 1: 
62mm
Reservation 1: 
8mm
Width of text 2: 
62mm
Outer margin: 
33mm