29-08-2019, 07:49 PM
@JKP I agree, I have no problem with that date based on palaeographical grounds - it looks like late 15th/early 16th century handwriting to me too. A post added to the mailing list after I had shared the item here indicated that the concerns relate to the texts this MS shares with some early printed material, but a few different people indicated that they had looked at it and had material due for publication about precisely that question.
I wanted to share the MS here not because of the weird date controversy, but because I think it's a useful example of how people in the 15th C were arranging information in non-standard ways in MSs that seem to be for personal use and with relatively informal production standards and methods.
@VViews I completely agree with your assessment of the diagram. I just want to add for anyone else who isn't familiar with this sort of medieval thinking that the concepts explored in the diagram above are part of a long tradition that exploded from the availability of Latin translations of Aristotle and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) in Europe in the late 12th century.
I wanted to share the MS here not because of the weird date controversy, but because I think it's a useful example of how people in the 15th C were arranging information in non-standard ways in MSs that seem to be for personal use and with relatively informal production standards and methods.
@VViews I completely agree with your assessment of the diagram. I just want to add for anyone else who isn't familiar with this sort of medieval thinking that the concepts explored in the diagram above are part of a long tradition that exploded from the availability of Latin translations of Aristotle and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) in Europe in the late 12th century.