Two leaves, with single column of 26 lines in a small university hand, capitals touched in red, red and blue paraph marks, small initials in simple red (one enclosing penwork), one very large initial 'Q' (opening ""Quoniam quidem intelligere et scire ..."", the prooemium of De Physica) in red and blue with scrolling foliate designs left in blank vellum within its body, the initial enclosing penwork foliage, remains of a text bar at top and innermost sides with red penwork, both recovered from reuse in a later binding and hence with scuffs, folds, small holes and discoloured areas, overall fair condition, each approximately 170 by 110mm
From a handsome portable volume of this text. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-74), the celebrated Dominican theologian and philosopher, embraced newly rediscovered works of Aristotle and attempted to synthesise Aristotelian philosophy with the fundamentals of Christianity. His commentary on De Physica was a grand and detailed work. The text here is from the opening of the work (that citing the sixth- and fifth-century BC. Greek philosophers, Parmenides of Elea and Melissus of Samos as ""pymenides et mellissus"") and Lectio 8
