Aristotle, De Caelo, with Commentary, Latin. England, ca. 1400

Two leaves. 290 by ca. 175mm, and 280 by 200mm. Double column, up to 52 lines, ruled in leadpoint, written space 268 by 177mm; the lemmata in a rounded gothic bookhand and the commentary in a cursive bookhand.

Text: Commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo iii.7–iv.1.
Decoration: (leaf 23a), one 2-line initial in red. (leaf 23b), two 5-line initials in red and green.
Provenance: Recovered from a binding. Source and date of acquisition unrecorded.
Reference: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 86.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 23a.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).