Commentary on the First Three Books of Aristotle's Physics

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N VATICANUS 250 [Brandis Abhandl. der Berl. Akad. 1831 p. 67 nr. 100], paper, 15th century, consisting of 342 leaves written by one scribe in a very unskilled manner. They occupy the first place (f. 1–93) Aristotle’s Phys. books I–IV with Philoponus' commentaries, which from f. 32 on are no longer in the margin but are written after individual Aristotelian chapters; there follow f. 194–238 Aristotle’s books V–VIII, and f. 239 sqq. Simplicius’ commentaries on these books, mutilated at the end, as in codex K. Augustus Mau sent specimens, from which I gathered that it agrees consistently with K and can be neglected without loss. I would not, however, wish to conjecture that one was copied from the other. For K omits p. 8, 3 "and of the final" and "and," 17 "his" (first instance), 24 "and," 14, 26 "this one," 15, 1 sq. "to know — things," but N does not omit them; conversely, p. 7, 22 N gave "for" original: γὰρ instead of "it happens" original: γίνεται, K omitted; 22, 24—25 "not concerning — beings," and likewise 490, 18 and 20 "in energy" original: ἐνεργείᾳ and "in potentiality" original: δυνάμει are in K, but N omits them; 491, 19 "6th" is worn away in N, omitted in K; 786, 2 "for" in K, "indeed for" in N, etc.

O LAURENTIANUS LXXXV, 1 [Bandini III 236. Diels pref. Simpl. Phys. p. XII].

After Simplicius’ Phys. f. 292^r40 Aldine, it has (f. 648^v sqq.) Philoponus’ excerpts "on the remainder," etc., taken from codex F, in which not a few things have faded and are difficult to read today. The learned Christian Belger described a part of the Philoponean fragment; I myself compared the whole.

P PARISIENSIS 2057 [Catal. Bibl. Reg. II 437], paper, 15th century, smaller format, 235 leaves.

It contains books III–IV of Philoponus' commentaries, mutilated at the beginning, for it starts from p. 339, 17 "necessary then, etc." On the bottom margin of f. 1^r, a recent hand noted: "Seven quaternions are missing from the beginning. Exegesis of the third book of the Physics." Likewise f. 233^v: "Fourteen quaternions of this book remain, but seven were lost from the beginning; the total of the preserved leaves of the quaternions (is) is 235," and below, "the book itself belongs to the most holy monastery of Casula." Similar things are repeated on f. 235^v. The codex seems to have been copied from M, with which it clearly agrees, such as p. 467, 2 "past"; 585, 2 and 15 "near"; 586, 15 sq. "unmoved" corrected to "unmoved" original: ἀκίνητου; 644, 6 "pushing." Furthermore, p. 468, 22 it omits "the" in a lacuna, which we saw was obliterated in M; similarly p. 469, 4 it omits "on" with no lacuna indicated. Conversely, discrepancies are of no value, such as p. 526, 2 "not" original: οὔτ instead of "not," 4 "water" instead of "form," etc., or the itacism errors of the sometimes corrected codex M. I myself examined the codex, which was transmitted to Florence.