Abstract
This note presents an edition and brief discussion of the anonymous text Divisio philosophie preserved in London, British Library, MS Additional 62130 (saec. XIII–XV), which is a large miscellaneous codex, compiled at the Cistercian Abbey of the Blessed Virgin at Fountains. Despite its title, the text does not present a full division of the sciences; rather, it engages particularly with the “physical” or “natural” ones, i.e. phisica, mathematica and theologia, or in other words, with the branch philosophy called philosophia speculativa. In addition, the author also divides the physical sciences into superior and inferior, explaining the meaning of this categorization three times. Judging from the contents of the text, the date of its composition can most likely be placed in the first half of the twelfth century.
Highlights
The short anonymous text discussed and edited in this note is copied as a second column on fol. 138r of the British Library, MS Additional 62130
This large miscellaneous codex, compiled at the Cistercian Abbey of the Blessed Virgin at Fountains, comprises texts on a variety of topics written between the thirteenth and the fifteenth century
The unit is made of three gatherings occupying fol. 130r–150v, and the Divisio belongs to the first of them. It is preceded by an excerpt from the Ars catholice fidei of the French theologian Nicholas of Amiens (1147–c. 1200) and followed by another anonymous text entitled De aquis supra firmamentum questio quedam
Summary
The short anonymous text discussed and edited in this note is copied as a second column on fol. 138r of the British Library, MS Additional 62130. 138r of the British Library, MS Additional 62130 This large miscellaneous codex, compiled at the Cistercian Abbey of the Blessed Virgin at Fountains, comprises texts on a variety of topics written between the thirteenth and the fifteenth century. 150 left blank), and the Divisio belongs to the first of them 1200) and followed by another anonymous text entitled De aquis supra firmamentum questio quedam .1. It is possible, but not absolutely certain, that the Divisio and the De aquis were intended to be read as two thematically linked components of one and the same piece. International journal on the transfer of knowledge, 5 (2020), p. 393–399 ISSN: 2445-2378
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