Beinecke MS 225                                                         Bohemia, 1422
Scholar's Notebook

          The following list of contents follows the table written inside
     the front cover of the codex; this table was apparently added when the
     manuscript was owned by the Carthusians at Erfurt (see below).

     1. ff. 1r-29v    Auctoritates siue Flores totius philosophie naturalis
     moralis et logice.

          Includes: 12 sections de metaphisicis; 8 de physicis; 4 de celo et
     mundo; 2 de generacione; 4 de metroris [sic]; 3 de anima; 1 de sensu et
     sensatu; 1 de memoria et reminiscencia; 1 de sompno et uigilia; 1 de
     longitudine et breuitate vite; 1 de iuuentute et senectute; 1 de morte
     et vita; 19 de animalibus; 1 de causis; 10 de ethicis; 1 de bona
     fortuna; 1 de yconomica; 3 de politicis; 3 de rethoricis Aristotelis; 1
     de poetica Aristotelis; Epistola Aristotelis ad allexandrum; 1 de
     regimine principum; 1 de morte uel de pomo Aristotelis; Epistola Senece
     ad lucillium; 1 de moribus senece; 1 de fortuna uel moribus vite
     senece; 1 de beneficijs senece; de remediis fortuitorum senece; 5
     sections headed Boecius de consolacione philosophie; 1 headed
     Auctoritates boecii de disciplina scolarium; 1 headed liber appulei de
     deo socratis; 2 based on Porphyry and Aristotle.

     2. ff. 29v-30v    Cantilogium siue aliquid de musica.

          Unidentified selection on monochords followed by a religious text,
     mostly rubbed and illegible.

     3. ff. 31r-42v    Passages dealing primarily with Aristotle's
     Meteorologica (at least one leaf missing between ff. 42-43).

     4. f. 43r-v    Miscellaneous notes added.

     5. ff. 44r-263r    Puncta pro gradu magisterii [apparently the notes of
     Jacobus de Paradiso; see Provenance, below].

          The major divisions in the text are: f. 44r Iste liber de celo et
     mundo cuius subiectum est Ens mobile...;f. 44v Diffinicio philosophie
     naturalis; f. 85r Iste est liber de generacione et corrupcione; f. 111v
     Metaphysica; f. 124r Brief notes de physica, de meteorologica (f. 130v
     blank); f. 131r Physica (ff. 150r-v, 157v blank); f. 158r [C]irca
     inicium paruorum naturalium; f. 198r Circa inicium librum de memoria et
     reminiscencia; f. 208v Circa librum de sompno et vigilia; f. 219v De
     sompnis et diuinacione; f. 225v Circa inicium libri de longitudine et
     breuitate vite; f. 235v Circa libellum de morte et vite; f. 243v Circa
     principium libri de respiracione et inspiracione; f. 248v Circa inicium
     liber de iuuentute det senectute; f. 252v Circa inicium phisonomie
     Aristotelis.
          Colophon on f. 263r: Finis disputatorum Paruorum naturalium
     reportatorum post Reuerendum Magistrum Paulum de Worczin in studio
     Craconien. Anno domini M^^o cccc^^o xxij^^o, feria iiij ante festum sancti
     michaelis. ff. 263v-264v blank

     6. ff. 265r-266r    Descriptiones terminorum moralium; Ibidem aliquid
     in Geometrica. ff. 266r-267r blank

     7. ff. 267v-278r    Aliqua puncta circa primos sex libros Ethicorum.

     8. ff. 278v-279v    Aliquid modicum circa libros politicorum.

     9. ff. 280r-294r    Aliqua notata [on the Parua naturalia]. ff. 294v-
     295v blank

     10. back pastedown    Upper half of a leaf from a liturgical manuscript
     (Germany, s. XII^^1) written in long lines, with the number "clxxxxiij"
     added at the top in a later hand. Strips of parchment, probably from
     the same manuscript, appear in the center of each quire.

          Paper (thick, rough; watermarks: unidentified bull's head), ff.
     295, 217 x 150 (ca. 165 x 120) mm. Format varies considerably from one
     article to the next; most leaves are frame-ruled; prickings in all
     margins except inner.
          I^^12 (-1, 2), II-III^^10, IV^^12 (undetermined number of folios lost
     at end; the gathering [ff. 31-42] is composed of paper noticeably
     different from the rest of the codex); V^^14 (-14, no loss of text),
     VI-VIII^^12, IX^^14, X^^12, XI^^16 (-3, 4, 16, no loss of text), XII^^12,
     XIII^^16 (-1), XIV-XXI^^12, XXII^^12 (-11, no loss of text), XXIII^^16,
     XXIV^^16 (-15, no loss of text). Remains of catchwords.
          Written primarily (ff. 44-294) by a single person in a cramped
     running script, with many abbreviations and in a more elegant display
     script for some headings and colophon (see colophon in art. 5 and
     below); several other writers are responsible for arts. 1-4.
          Plain initials, headings, and paragraph marks, in red, for ff. 1r-
     29v. Spaces left for initials and rubrics on ff. 44r-294r.
          Binding: s. xv. Original sewing on three double, twisted, tawed
     thongs which are laced into wooden boards of unequal shape and
     thickness. Plain, wound endbands sewn on tawed cores are laced into the
     boards from the spine edge. The cover is adhered to the square spine
     and kermes pink placemarks to the fore-edge. One quarter covered in
     brown calf, blind-tooled with lines forming triangles, and very small
     flowers. One fastening, the catch on the upper board, the brown calf
     strap attached to the lower with a metal plate. Parchment labels at
     head of front board. Lower joint repaired, strap wanting.

          The main portion of the codex (arts. 5-9, with contemporary
     signatures 1-20 in upper left corner, on recto) was written in Cracow
     in 1422 by a student of Magister Paulus de Worczin. Belonged to the
     Carthusians of Salvatorberg, Erfurt; no. 42 in the 15th-century
     catalogue of the library (see P. Lehmann, Mittelalterliche
     Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz [Munich, 1928] v. 2,
     p. 488, no. 42). According to this catalogue these are the notes
     recorded by Frater Jacobus de Paradiso (Jacobus de Jueterbogk) who
     studied and taught in Cracow and came to the Carthusians at Erfurt in
     1442; presumably he is the scribe responsible for ff. 44-294. The
     remaining portions of the text seem to have been added, the codex
     bound, and an index pasted to the inside of the front cover at Erfurt,
     sometime in the 15th century. Ownership inscription (s. xv) inside
     front and back covers: "Hic liber est domus carth. prope Erfford."
     Belonged to A. Franck of Paris (ca. 1850-60; booktag); obtained in 1931
     from Goldschmidt's by the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes (bookplate).
     Purchased by Yale in 1956 with the Penniman Fund.

	secundo folio: per se potest

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2276, no. 2; Faye and Bond, p. 42, no.
     225.

     Barbara A. Shailor