Beinecke MS 234                                                     Byzantium, s. XIV
Aristotle, Porphyry, etc. (in Greek)

     I.1. ff. 1r-51r    [Greek]. f. 51v blank

          Aristotle, De caelo; I. Bekker, ed., Aristotelis
          Opera (Berlin,
     1831), v. 1, 268al-313b23.

     II.2. ff. 52r-63v    [Heading in red, crossed out:] [Greek]. [heading,
     in brown:] [Greek].

          Aristotle, De incessu animalium, with marginal notes drawn from
     Michael of Ephesus; Bekker, op. cit., v. 1, pp. 704a4-714b23.

     3. ff. 64r-80r    Aristotle, texts from the Parva Naturalia, with
     marginal notes drawn from Michael of Ephesus.

          A. ff. 64r-66v    [In a later hand:] [Greek].

          Aristotle, De longitudine vitae; Bekker, op. cit., v. 1, 464b19-
     467b9.

          B. ff. 67r-80r     [Greek] [added in black:] [Greek]. f. 80v
     blank

          Aristotle, De iuventute; Bekker, op. cit., v. 1, 467b10-480b30.

     III.4. ff. 81r-88v    [Greek].

          Porphyry, Isagoge, with marginal notes; A. Busse, ed., Porphyrii
     Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias Commentarium (Berlin, 1887) pp. 1-
     14.

     IV.5. ff. 89r-114r    [Greek]

          Aristotle, Categories; Bekker, op. cit., v. 1, 1a1-15b33.

     V.6. ff. 114r-127v    [Greek].

          Aristotle, De interpretatione, with marginal commentary of Michael
     of Ephesus; Bekker, op. cit., v. 1, 16a1-21a1.

     7. ff. 128r-129v    [Greek].

          Aristotle, Analytica priora; Bekker, op. cit., vol. I, 52a29-
     52b32.

     8. ff. 130r-176r    [Greek].

          Aristotle, Analytica posteriora; with marginal commentary derived
     from Themistius and Philoponus; Bekker, op. cit., v. 1, 71a1-75b14.

     9. f. 176v    [Anonymous letter; text begins:] //[Greek]. [In the lower
     left margin another hand has added: [Greek]]

          Cf. P. Moraux, "Unbekannte Galen-Scholien," Zeitschrift fuer
     Papyrologie und Epigraphik 27 (1977) p. 1, with note.

     10. ff. 177r-198v    //[Greek].

          Scholia to Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus, De locis affectis,
     De elementis secundum Hippocratem; Moraux, op. cit., 1-63.

          The work is divided into five distinct parts, all of paper: ff. ii
     (paper) + 198 + ii (paper), 230 x 151 mm.
          I: ff. 1r-51v. Paper (heavy, no watermarks), written space 155 x
     120 mm. 24-26 long lines; no ruling or prickings visible. Quires signed
     in Greek notation on verso. Written in a rather careless Greek
     minuscule by two scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-16v; Scribe 2, ff. 17r-51v.
     Some marginal and interlinear notes by a later hand. Diagrams, labelled
     by the original scribe: syllogisms, consisting of geometrical figures
     and other groups of curved or straight lines. One simple 2-line initial
     in red; line-fillers and heading also in red.
          II: ff. 52r-80v. Paper (heavy, no watermarks), written space 163 x
     76 mm. 28-31 long lines; frame-ruled in hard point. No signatures or
     catchwords. Written in minuscule, large and rather careless, by Scribe
     2 of part I; marginal and interlinear notes by same hand. Contains a
     few diagrams of syllogisms. Title in red crossed out and rewritten in
     blackish-brown; one 2-line initial in red.
          III: ff. 81r-88v. Paper (thin, no watermarks), written space 162 x
     72 mm. Ca. 28-31 long lines per page; ruled in hard point, single
     vertical bounding lines, full across; an additional vertical bounding
     line in outer margin for notes; guide-lines for text extend across
     column for notes. Greek minuscule, small and very neat (tops of letters
     close to but not touching ruling), by Scribe 3; marginal and
     interlinear notes in red by original scribe; notes in brown by a
     different hand. Four-line initials in red, with floral ornaments; red
     also used for headings, notes of original scribe, and diagrams of
     syllogisms.
          IV: ff. 89r-129v. Paper (thick and rough), written space varies
     greatly. 1-25 long lines of text, depending on number of notes
     included; no ruling. Quires signed in Greek notation in upper right-
     hand corner or first folio recto of quire and at left in upper and
     lower margins of last folio verso of quire. Written in minuscule, large
     and rather careless, by Scribe 4, who adds flourishes in the margins; a
     few marginal notes by a later hand. Many diagrams of syllogisms with
     labels by the original scribe; some doodles in the margins.
          V: ff. 130r-198v. Paper (thick and coarse), written space ca. 180
     x ca. 115 mm. 5-32 long lines of text, depending on number of notes
     included; no ruling. Quires signed in Greek notation in lower margin of
     last folio of quire, verso, slightly left of center. Written in
     minuscule by several scribes: Scribe 5 (ff. 130r-176r), a small neat
     hand; Scribe 6 (ff. 177r-198v), a large and progressively more careless
     hand; f. 176v by a small, neat later hand. A few notes in margins by a
     later hand. Spaces left for initials within the text were never filled.
          I-VI^^8, VII^^8 (-5, 6, 7, 8), VIII-X^^8, XI^^6 (-4, 5, 6), XII^^2,
     XIII^^8, XIV^^8 (2 ff. after f. 89 numbered 90), XV-XVIII^^8, XIX^^2,
     XX-XXIV^^8, XXV^^8 (-8), XXVI^^8, XXVII^^8 (-8), XXVIII^^8 (-1).
          Water damage on ff. 9r-16v and ff. 161-174; Parts I and III eaten
     by worms. The pattern of the damage suggests that the parts of the
     manuscript were not originally bound together.
          Binding: s. xviii-xix. Brown calf blind- and gold-tooled. Cloth
     label attached to the spine reads "ARISTOTELIS OPERA VARIA G. M-S."

          Written in Byzantium in the 14th century; early provenance
     unknown. Belonged to Abate Luigi Celotti (signature on first flyleaf, 
     verso); his sale to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 890, number and stamp on
     f. ii recto). Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob
     Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957 (MS 6).

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 44, no. 234. 
	     Ziskind Catalogue, p. 45.

     Barbara A. Shailor