Commentary on the First Three Books of Aristotle's Physics

book, the excerpts of the codices EF were unknown to me, and therefore other Philoponean material may have escaped my notice. Certainly, everything ascribed to folios 160v–191 is owed to Simplicius. However, in the scholia pertaining to Book VIII, I found much Philoponean material. Those that agreed with the Venetian scholia On the Remainder, etc., I have commemorated in the critical annotation placed beneath them, and the rest I have inserted among the Parisian excerpts (from p. 825 onwards), enclosed in double brackets.

NEAPOLITANUS III D 7 [Cyrill's Catalog II 380], paper, 14th century, does not contain, C

as it seems, any of Philoponus' commentary, which Cyrill falsely concluded from the title. For it begins in two columns as follows:

column I
Exposition by John Philoponus the Alexandrian, also called the Scholastic, on the Physics of Aristotle

column II
Exposition by Simplicius on the Physics of Aristotle

But under column I, it is not the commentary of Philoponus that appears, but that of Simplicius; under column II there are excerpts such as those in Paris. R, but none of Philoponus.

LAURENTIANUS LXXXVII, 10 [Bandini III 389], paper, 14th century, D

consisting of 185 folios, 25 cm high and 17 cm wide. It only came to my attention in these very days. It contains on f. 1v–2v some excerpts from Philop. p. 6, 9 sqq. 7, 25 sqq. 31, 3 sqq., etc.; but on f. 7v, some things taken from Philoponus' proemium, namely p. 1, 3–22, p. 2, 13–3, 8 (up to concerning motion), to which he adds: The part before many is the theologian's, the part concerning many is the dialectician's and later derived in common abstract and intellectual thought, but the part in many is the physicist's. Cf. Philop. p. 11, 29 sqq. 192, 25. 229, 24.

p. 1, 3 according to Aristotle om. || 4 and the || concerning || every om. || casts (sic; originally he had written has) || 5 Aristotle om. || 6 being divided || 6. 7 the mathematical, the theological (om. and) || 7 especially om. || 9 Aristotle (sic!) || physical || 13. 16 division (which I do not know by what empty scruple I did not receive as a correction from Diels) to be made; for of the things accompanying physical objects, some || 17 coexist eternally (om. separately) || 18 and of the things belonging to those in generation and destruction, some belong to all commonly, and some to certain ones specifically; and of those belonging specifically to some || 19 (of the things in = t) || 20 belong ||

p. 2, 16 in the former four || 17 four || is om. || 18 and many — accompaniments om. || 20 the whole || 21 some (om. of the physical) || 22 and 23 both om. || all om. || 24 again om. || he said to be in each || 25 and Democritus the infinite atoms || 26 by no means || 26. 27 in this (sic) of the present treatise (om. Aristotle) || 29 according to parts || in general || 30 I mean || 31 (day = t) || (whole) || 33 to say om. || thus also || 34 to be correctly || 36 this || 38. p. 3, 1 concerning — so much om. || p. 3, 1 and om. || 3 of matter and form || 6 more concerning form or matter || 7 and vacuum || 8 four ||

PARISIENSIS 1853 [Catalog. Bibl. Reg. II 410], formerly Mediceus, parchment, E

very large size, from the end of the 9th or beginning of the 10th century, not written by one and the same scribe. Bekker designates this codex in his Aristotle with the same letter E. The Physics occupy the first place (ff. 3–67; concerning folios 1–2 cf. Torstrik, preface in Arist. de An. p. IX sq.), provided with scholia