Commentary on the First Three Books of Aristotle's Physics

written partly by a contemporary or near-contemporary scribe in reddish ink, and partly by later hands. I have only inspected these new additions, which do not progress beyond Book IV, and I found them almost always to be Simplician and of no value, except for a fragment not entirely to be despised which I published in the critical annotation to p. 495, 7 (cf. Diels, Ueber das dritte Buch der Arist. Rhetor. p. 34, in Abhandl. der Berl. Akad. 1886). Conversely, I believed that all the ancient scholia distributed evenly through all the books (except IV and VII, which have very few) flowed from Philoponus' commentaries, moved by those reasons I set forth in the preface. The script is not inelegant, filled with frequent tachygraphic shorthand abbreviations for the words is, are, to be, will be, becomes, to become, time, day, through, along, toward, therefore, just as (cf. ad p. 787, 6), etc., and often also with signs—otherwise common in manuscripts of mathematicians—for the words let it be, equal, less, greater, center, triangle, square, circle, etc. Brandis published some of the excerpts pertaining to Books V–VIII (viz. ad Arist. p. 227a 27. 233a 21. 239b 5. 250b 19. 258a 20. 260b 7). I transcribed everything myself in Paris in 1883, and they are now published on p. 787–851, except that by chance a scholion to Arist. p. 254a 15 sq. fell out of my edition: That is to say, toward the refutations of the other hypotheses, having taken them up, we shall connect concerning the fourth. But in order to be certain about the nature of the excerpts, I shall add specimens of the scholia on the earlier books:

Arist. B 1 p. 192b 8 not simply of all (om. of existing things), but either, etc., up to intellect. Philop. p. 202, 17. 21 (19 both om., 20 and those from, 21 he said as om.).
p. 192b 16 he says their genus is the essence — predicated. Philop. p. 203, 15. 16.
8 p. 198b 31 Empedocles in the Sphere, saying all forms were mixed in the first separation of the sphere at the beginning of the creation of the world, before the forms were completely separated from one another by the Strife, said that certain mixed animals were coming to be, such as the myths posit: the Centaurs, having the parts of a horse behind, and at the head, human meaning human-faced parts; as if not only the elements were mixed in the sphere, but also the parts of the animals. He says "man-faced" for those having human parts in front; for "pro" means in front. What I enclosed in brackets ⟨ ⟩ has been cut off. cf. Philop. p. 314, 7 sqq.
p. 199b 18 But the "that for the sake of which" is also in luck, as what is by coincidence; for someone coming from abroad bathed; but he did not come for the sake of this, yet the voyage happened as if for the sake of this, which he also did. It is also written "having ransomed"; which is "having redeemed"; for someone coming from abroad, finding one of his friends in bonds, ransomed him, but he did not come for the sake of ransoming. cf. Philop. p. 324, 10–23. Brandis Scholl. p. 355b 3. 4.
Γ 7 p. 207b 13 has the lemma but this number is not separable, then Philoponean material p. 489, 15–23 Since — has, in which, besides the variation noted in the critical apparatus, v. 19 has thus also being increased, v. 21 and 22 for and indeed om.

F MARCIANUS 227 [Zanetti p. 118, Diels preface to Simpl. Phys. p. XIII], paper, 14th century or certainly the end of the 13th, consisting of 436 folios, 26 cm high and 17 cm wide. They contain Aristotle’s Physics with Simplicius’ commentaries on books I–VI

f. 1–378r (378r End of Aristotle's Physics). Followed by f. 378v, scholia on Arist. p. 262a 19 sqq.: What he says briefly is this, etc. (The earlier of these are excerpted from Philoponus; for they appear among the scholia...