Commentary on the First Three Books of Aristotle's Physics

the original: τὴν || 370,1 having the good in itself original: ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὸ εὖ ἔχουσα || 5 to be moved original: κινεῖσθαι || in original: ἐν instead of not original: οὐ || 7 indeed in original: ἔθεν μὲν || 8 indeed in the original: μὲν ἐν τῷ
|| 11 if original: εἰ instead of into original: εἰς || 12 never original: μηδέποτε || 13 for the original: γὰρ τοῦ productive original: ποιητικοῦ the original: ἡ ||

p. 493,16 and original: δ' instead of it is necessary original: δεῖ || 18 to consider original: ἀποσκέψασθαι || 22 another original: ἄλλη || 23 it seems original: δοκεῖ || 26 birth original: γέννησις || 28 may be original: ᾖ (sic) instead of might be original: εἴη || 494,4 may be original: ᾖ || 5 indeed original: μὲν instead of but original: δὲ || but original: δὲ instead of for original: γὰρ || 7 for it might indeed be finished original: περαίνοιτο μὲν γὰρ || 8 to touch original: ἅπτεσθαι || 10 this original: τόδε instead of the not original: τὸ μὴ || 13 of the random original: τοῦ τυχόντος in both places originally || 17. 18 surface — touches original: ἐπιφάνεια — ἅπτεται omitted (the same omitted by M, about which I reported falsely in the note) || 19 for original: γὰρ instead of but original: δὲ || yours original: ὑμέτερον || 20 signifies original: σημαίνει || 21 new original: καινῶ originally || but original: δὲ omitted || 22 has been bounded original: πεπέρασται || 495,4 it is necessary for him original: αὐτὸν ἀνάγκη || 14 all at once original: ἀθρόως || 13 by infinity original: τῇ ἀπειρίᾳ || 18 divide original: διαιρε but original: δὲ || after 21 end of the commentary on the third book original: τέλος τῆς ἐξηγήσεως τοῦ τρίτου βιβλίου ||

Parisiensis 2063 [Catal. Bibl. Reg. II 438], paper, 14th century, and R contains other things and (f. 56—317) Aristotle's Physics, written by one scribe, as it seems, and provided with very many scholia up to f. 258^v (Arist. Δ 10 p. 218^b3 revolution); the rest are owed to another scribe, who wrote no scholia except for a few certain ones on f. 316^v sq. Again, another scribe, who uses a greenish pigment, wrote scholia, partly Simplician and partly Philoponean, in the margin or between the lines of leaves 56—58, which contain the first three Aristotelian chapters up to p. 186^b7. For these three leaves were added outside the order of the quires, by which it happens that on f. 59^r you again have excerpts of Simplicius and Philoponus pertaining to the beginning of the Physics, and on f. 60^r the words of Aristotle begin again from the beginning of the first chapter. After the Physics, the codex has the books On the Heavens up to p. 269^b33 (it is not), in which on the bottom margin of leaf 316^r the name of the owner, Fr. Mariano, is read. Furthermore, in the critical note to p. 1,1, I falsely said that excerpts from Philoponus' prologue exist in this codex. Diels had sent specimens (cf. pref. Simpl. Phys. p. XIX), but I myself examined the codex again in Florence. I shall add a few scholia by way of example, and given the opportunity, I will also use codices ABC as witnesses: I shall indicate R^a as the scholia written in greenish pigment.

Arist. A 1 p. 184^a10 to know is more universal than to have scientific knowledge — method is a habit that finds the way with reason — but principles and causes are either from the parallel: he says the same thing etc. (cf. Philop. p. 6,9 sqq.) R^a.

2 p. 185^a24 This is an example of all things being one as in species; but this displeases Philoponus (p. 36,9); he says rather that this is an example of all things being one by number. R^a.

Cf. Philop. p. 5,7 sqq. The principle according to Aristotle is fourfold; for it is either that from which, as matter, or that according to which, as the form, or that by which, as the agent, or that for which, as the end. But according to Plato, also that to which, as the pattern, and that through which, as the instrumental: — but it is worth noting that the example of the whole and the composite (sic C: compose R) is proper to the subjects, but not that of the universal; for the universal is not composed of particulars as if of elements, just as the whole and the composite etc. CR.

Those around Thales and Anaximenes and Anaximander said that the first principle of beings is one and moving, Thales indeed water, and from this and according to change the others, I mean air and fire and earth, and from these the composites, but Anaximenes and Anaximander and Diogenes etc. ABCR.