Identifier:

*170/322.

Scope and content:

ff. 1-140v: [Summa naturalium] Plurimorum astrictus precibus . . . [f. 25va] in 3° de anima igitur etc, Igitur sic est finis prime partis summule naturalium et sequitur 2^a scilicet de celo et mundo etc.; f. 26rb Finita prima parte in quo de motu . . . [f. 39vb] et leviora super graviora quare etc. Explicit 2^a pars summule naturalium scilicet de celo et mundo et sequitur 3^a que de generacione et corrupcione; f. 40 Tractaturus de generacione et corrupcione . . . [f. 55] correspondere una potentia etc. et sic est finis huius 3^e partis summule. Incipit 4^ia pars scilicet Methaurorum, Necesse est mundum hunc . . . [f. 74va] superflue continue habundantis supervenientis [canceled: quare etc. . . . ]. Explicit quarta pars summe naturalium acta per reverendum sacre theologie doctorem magistrum Paulum de Veneciis ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti Augustini; f. 75 [Quinta pars] Quoniam scientia de anima . . . [f. 107] sint materiales sive immateriales etc. Sic est finis istius tractatus qui est quintus in summa naturalium acta per reverendum magistrum Paulum de Veneciis ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti Augustini completum 1421 in die sancti Antonini [2 Sept.] Iohanne de Beylario etc. Yhesus Christus nostra salus quod reclamat omnis malus nobis sui memoriam dedit in panis hostiam. Mentem sanctam spontaneam honorare deo et prius etc. Ave maris Stella dei mater alma atque semper; f. 107rb [Sexta pars] Naturalium pars ultima difficultates methaphisicas . . . donare dignetur per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. Scriptum Arimini per me fratrem Iohannem de Beylario Colonie provincie in studio Ariminensi. Sub anno domini M° CCCC° XXI° ultima die decembris completum. Finito libra sit laus et gloria Christo. ff. 141-145v ruled but blank.

Paulus de Venetiis, Summa naturalium (Venice: Ioh. de Colonia, 1476); Hain 12515. For lists of surviving manuscripts see Zumkeller 739; C. H. Lohr, “Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, Authors: Narcissus-Richardus,” Traditio 28 (1972) 314-320; and A. R. Perreiah, Paul of Venice: A Bibliographical Guide (Bowling Green, Ohio 1986) 45, 53.

Acquisition information:

Written in 1421 by Johannes de Beylario at Rimini in a studium, presumably Augustinian; he belonged to the Cologne Province, a designation appropriate to an Augustinian but not a Dominican or Franciscan; concerning the studia at Rimini sec C. Piana, Ricerche su le Università di Bologna e di Parma nel secolo XV (Florence 1963) 548. Johannes's German background is evident in the opening lines of each part, written in a larger book gothic (see esp. f. 1) and in the decoration of the initials. Belonged to Master Franciscus de Bolzano; f. 1 bottom, his name in late fifteenth-century blue capitals, and his coat of arms in a floral frame with gold balls: parted per fess or and vert, in chief an eagle's wing erased sable; Franciscus de Bolzano, a Franciscan, was professor of theology at Cremona in 1489; the facsimile of a colophon with this information, from a gradual that he commissioned for the Franciscans of Belluno, appears in Sotheby's catalog of 10 June 1963, p. 40, lot 151, T. De Marinis Co. sale catalog (1911) p. 23, lot 71; to Federico Patetta (1867-1945), professor of law at Turin etc. and collector of manuscripts; f. 1 top, his signature and ex libris, “Federico Patetta, MS n° 130”; concerning Patetta see Enciclopedia italiana 26 (1935) 505, and App. 2.2 (1949) 509. Purchased by UCLA from John Howell Books, San Francisco, in 1963/64.

Physical description:

Paper ( , similar to Briquet no.11685, 11687, 11699, all northeast Italy, s. XV ; ff. 76-88, 97-98, , similar to Briquet no.6024, Augsburg 1423), ff. 145; 290 × 215 (200/205 × 140/145) mm. 1 2 3-6 7 (-1,+1) 8-11 12 (-12). Framed catchwords in the lower right-hand corner; leaves signed 1-6 lower right, usually cropped. 2 columns of 55/56 lines; frame ruled in pale ink. Written in a small semicursive gothic hand (littera notularis); ink varies from dark brown to greenish, 24-line initial in red on brown penwork, f. 1; 4- and 5-line initials in red usually on brown penwork; red paragraph marks; initials in the text slashed with red; running titles, on the recto only, in small brown minuscule. Notabilia in the margins and a few marginal corrections to the text by the copyist; sporadic marginalia by contemporary hands.

Bound in parchment on paper boards, s. XVI-XVII; on the spine in bold gothic, “F. Franciscus de Bolca:.”

Note:

Secundo folio: 2^a conclusio corpus naturale

Fig. 15

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