Fragment
Cambridge: St John’s College, LL.4.2.2
Host volume:
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