Commentary on the First Three Books of Aristotle's Physics

...serviced, if you except the first three leaves, which are damaged by dampness and bookworms. It contains Aristotle’s Physics, Book IV, divided into short chapters distinguished by red numbers, beneath which are generally placed portions of Philoponus' commentaries without lemmata (cf. ad p. 496, 1). The Aristotelian text is written in spaced-out letters. Sometimes Aristotelian passages, cited by Philoponus within the scope of his explanation, are also written in the same characters and continue the series of Aristotelian chapters. I have neglected these, but to prevent the reader from being deceived, I have noted at individual places that Aristotle’s words are omitted, such as p. 591, 16, 734, 17, etc. It must be noted, furthermore, that 22 quaternions gatherings of four sheets were lost before f. 1, for from f. 129^r the marks of the quaternions (λθ', μ', μα', etc.) 39, 40, 41 appear, though in the earlier part of the codex, they were cut away by whoever bound the pages. From this, you can conclude with a certain calculation that the codex once completely contained books III–IV. The 42 quaternions that remain are of eight leaves, except for the last (ξδ') 64, which contains three, and ν' and νη' 50, 58, which contain six leaves. The codex (of which I will shortly provide a photographic specimen in the Collezione Fiorentina di Facsimili) is designated by the same letter G by Bekker in Aristoteles: I myself indicated with the mark G² a recent corrector, who corrected or supplied a few things of no great importance. Besides this one, an older scribe also wrote a scholium at p. 640, 4 sqq., and yet another, the most recent of all (I once thought this to be the same as the purchaser of the codex, Christophorus de Bondelmontibus; cf. Bandini), added on f. 327^v:

"Spike, asar, wood-aloe original: ξυλοβάλσαμον, balsam-berries original: βαλσαμόκοκκα, cinnamon, mastic, saffron, six hexagia an ancient unit of weight of each, 1, 70, 8. Aloe, of equal weight to such types, that is, 8 hexagia, make pills beneficial for the stomach."

Torstrik compared part of the codex; I compared the whole.

K — MARCIANUS 220 [Zanetti p. 117], paper, 15th century, 540 leaves, written by one scribe, and a very unskilled one at that. The first leaves (1–232) contain Aristotle’s Physics, books I–IV, with Philoponus' commentaries; there follow on f. 233^r Aristotle’s books V–VIII and on 289^r Simplicius’ commentaries on these books (they cease at the words "is produced by one thing, that which is primarily and continuously moving"), after which, following a leaf blank of writing, is placed on f. 425^r the Elements of Physics by Proclus Lycaeus the Successor, and likewise after two other leaves blank of writing, f. 440–540, the Metaphrasis of the Dream of Scipio by Planudes. Philoponus’ commentaries are written in the margin up to f. 40; from f. 41 on, portions of the commentaries are placed after individual Aristotelian chapters. Therefore, almost all lemmata were lost in the first part (but cf. p. 25, 12; 29, 10, etc.), and in the other, the first lemma of each chapter is consistently omitted, and the rest are strangely abridged. A large gap has furthermore absorbed f. 173^v, the words of Philoponus p. 579, 24—597, 4 "in three ways — having said," perhaps because an entire quaternion had fallen out of the exemplar from which the book flowed. The codex is of good quality, as it fills not a few of the gaps of the others and is free from interpolations. I compared it in Florence.