Marston MS 88     Northern France, s. XIII 2/4
Aristotle, Opera varia, in Lat. tr.


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1.  ff. 1r-31r Primum oportet dicere circa quid et de quo est 
intencio. quoniam circa demonstracionem...cui autem b. a. omni et 
non pluribus sed convertitur si autem non:  non erit unum vnius 
signum.  Explicit liber priorvm analeticorum [followed by a diagram].  
f. 31v blank

Aristotle, Priora analytica, Lat. tr. Boethius.  L. Minio-Paluello,
ed., Analytica priora:  Aristoteles latinus v. III, 1-4 (Bruges-
Paris, 1962) pp. 5-139 (this manuscript cited on p. xxxvii, no. 265); 
translation identified by the editor (Intro., p. liii) as a mixture 
of the recensio Florentina and the recensio Carnutensis.  Text is
accompanied by extensive marginalia.

2.  ff. 32r-51r Omnis doctrina et omnis disciplina intellectiua ex
preexistenti fit cognicione...utique erit intellectus scientie
principiorum et principium principiis.  hoc autem omne similiter se 
habet ad omne genus rerum.  Explicit liber posteriorum analeticorum. 
f. 51v blank

Aristotle, Posteriora analytica, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus (ca.
1130-40).  L. Minio-Paluello and B. G. Dod, eds., Analytica posteriora:
Aristoteles latinus v. IV, 1-4 (Bruges-Paris, 1968) pp. 5-107 (this
manuscript cited on p. xxxiii, no. 287).  Text is accompanied by 
extensive marginalia.

3.  ff. 52r-66r [Part I:] Omnis ars et omnis doctrina.  Similiter 
autem et operacio et proheresis boni alicuius operatrix esse uidetur...
[f. 57r:] habitum autem eos qui laudabiles uirtutes dicimus 
intellectuales. [Part II, beginning on line 8:]  Duplici autem 
uirtute existente hac quidem intellectuali illa uero consuetudinali
...[f. 66r, line 20:] nomen autem incontinencie et ad puerilia 
peccata transferimus. [Additional paragraph, beginning with line 21:]  
habet enim simile...de castitate in tantum dictum sit.  Explicit liber 
ethicorum.

Although written as a single work in this manuscript, the text consists
of two distinct parts.  Part I is the "Ethica nova" (Bk. I of the Ethica
Nicomachea) in an anonymous translation produced s. XIII#i#n; R. A.
Gauthier, ed., Ethica Nicomachea:  Aristoteles latinus v. XXVI, 1-3.2
(Leiden, 1972) text:  pp. 65-95; detailed analysis of Marston MS 88, 
which was used to establish this edition, on pp. lxxi-lxxv.

Part II is the "Ethica vetus, editio longior" (Bks. II and III of the
Ethica Nicomachea) in an anonymous translation produced s. XII#e#x.
Gauthier, op. cit., text:  pp. 5-48, 130-131; Marston MS 88 discussed 
on pp. xx, xxxvii-xxxviii, xlii.  The text in this manuscript is called 
the "editio longior" because of the additional paragraph at the 
conclusion (cf. Gauthier, op.cit., Appendix on pp. cxlvii-cli).  
Text is accompanied by extensive marginalia; in addition, a long 
continuous text on the ontological structure of forms was written 
into the margins of ff. 56v-66r.

4.  ff. 66v-84r  [In upper margin:]  Incipit liber de anima.  
[text:] Bonorum et honorabilium notitiam opinantes magis autem 
alteram altera que est secundum certitudinem aut ex eo quod meliorum
...auditum autem ut significet aliquid sibi ipsi linguam uero 
quatenus significet aliquid alteri.

Aristotle, De anima, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus as identified by 
L. Minio-Paluello, "Le texte du De anima d'Aristote:  la tradition 
latine avant 1500," Autour d'Aristote:  Receuil d'etudes...offert 
a Mons. A. Mansion (Louvain, 1955) pp. 217-43.  The text is 
accompanied by extensive marginalia.

5.  ff. 84r-86r Reliquorum autem primo considerandum de memoria et
memorari quid est et propter quas fit et cui anime...memorantur 
animalia et de reminisci quidem et quo modo fit et propter quas 
causas dictum est. f. 86v blank

Aristotle, De anima ([Greek] from the Parva naturalia), Lat. 
tr. Jacobus Veneticus; this treatise follows art. 4 directly without 
break or rubric.  See L. Minio-Paluello, "Jacobus Veneticus Grecus:  
Canonist and Translator of Aristotle," Traditio 8 (1952) pp. 265-304.

Parchment (thin, pliable), ff. i (paper) + 86 + i (paper), 202 x 150
(117 x 80) mm.  Ca. 32 long lines.  Single vertical and double 
horizontal bounding lines; ruled faintly in lead.
	I-II 8, III 8 (-7, no loss of text),  IV-VII 8, VIII 10, IX-X 8,
XI 8 (-6 through 8, blanks, stubs remain).  Faint traces of catchwords, 
lower edge near gutter.
	Written in a small neat gothic text script, above top line and 
with uncrossed tironian et.  Marginal and interlinear annotations,
contemporary or slightly later, in a variety of scholarly hands;
annotations written in ink, crayon and lead, some very faded and 
barely legible.
	Attractive flourished initials, red and blue divided with 
penwork designs in the same colors, mark the beginning of arts. 1-4; 
first few words of each of these texts written in red and blue 
alternating majuscules.  For minor text divisions 2-line initials red
or blue with designs in the opposite color.  Paragraph marks in red 
(or sometimes alternating red and blue). Headings and instructions to
rubricator in red.
	Binding:  Germany, s. xix.  Parchment case binding made from a 
bifolium of a missal (Germany, s. xv) containing text for the end of 
the Secret for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost through part of the 
Gospel reading for the 12th Sunday.  Remains of title, in ink, on 
spine.  Pink (faded red?) edges.

Written in Northern France in the second quarter of the 13th 
century; given the extensive contemporary annotations, it was 
probably produced as a school text.  Contemporary inscription on 
f. 86v:  "pro duodecim sol. emptus fuit;" remainder illegible.  
Belonged in the 18th century to the library of the Benedictine 
monastery of St. Georgenberg, now Fiecht, in Austria (inscription 
in upper margin, f. 1r:  "Bibliothecae Montis Sancti Georgij.  II. 
68"); Gauthier, op.cit., p. xx (Marston MS 88 listed incorrectly 
as Marston MS 11 and assigned to Germany, s. XIII#e#x).  For a 
brief history of this monastery, pertinent bibliography, and a 
catalogue of its present holdings see P. Jeffery and D. Yates, 
Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill 
Monastic Manuscript Library, Austrian Libraries, Vol. II:  St. 
Georgenberg-Fiecht (Collegeville, Minn., 1985).  Traces of large 
bookplate, now missing, on front pastedown.  Pencil notes on front
pastedown and front flyleaf: "II c. 20" and "M. II. c. 20;" in ink
on front flyleaf: "14." Clipping, in German, from unidentified sale 
catalogue glued to front pastedown.  Two modern pencil notes on back 
pastedown:  "66 fl [?]W" and "M. Z. Sanders." Purchased from C. A. 
Stonehill (inv. no. 3034) in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  non album

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 74, no. 88.

Barbara A. Shailor