Structure and Layout

Parchment, 216 fols. ii (parchment) + 216 + 1 (parchment). Fols. 4v, 149v, and 216 blank: I (1); II (5) 8; III (13) 8; IV (21) 8; V (29) 8; VI (37) 8; VII (45) 8; VIII (53) 8; IX (61) 8; X (69) 8; XI (77) 8; XII (85) 8; XIII (93) 8; XIV (101) 8; XV (109) 8; XVI (117) 8; XVII (125) 8; XVIII (133) 8; XIX (141) 8; XX (149) 8; XXI (157) 8; XXII (165) 8 + 1; XXIII (175) 6; XXIV (181) 8; XXV (189) 8; XXVI (197) 8; XXVII (205) 8; XXVIII (213) 4

218 × 152 (justification, 146 × 93) mm. Written in 2 columns, 48 lines; ruled in pale brown ink. Text and gloss intermingled. In rubrics, text = T, Aristote , or Texte de Aristote ; gloss = O, Or , or Oresme . Gothic bookhand; one scribe, Raoulet d'Orléans, brown ink. Prickings for rulings visible. Catchwords and signature marks, lower right verso; modern pencil foliation. Book title, prologue, and book numbers centered in upper margin, alternating pen flourishes and red and blue filigrees; chapter numbers in blue Roman numerals in margins. Alternating red and blue pen line endings and paraphs; chapter titles in text in rubrics. Below miniatures beginning each book a 5–7-line gold initial, dentellated and foliated (those of fols. 110 and 170 have an interior motif of a dragon, which appears as an upper terminal on fols. 5 and 63). In glossary of difficult words, 3-line initials, alternating red and blue flourishes. Alternating red and blue, 2-line initials for chapter headings and summary paragraphs. Capital letters stroked with yellow. Diagrams (Book I, fol. 10; Book III, fol. 43v; Book V, fols. 89, 91, 92, and 92v). In the margins the abbreviation for the word note (no .) written by the scribe (fols. 8, 65, 156v, 170, 181, 182v, and 187v). Arms of Charles V effaced, fol. 5 (supporting angels still visible) and fol. 193.

Binding, 18th century, brown calf; spine, 4 raised bands; blue-colored edges, gold tooled. The placement of the glossary of difficult words at the beginning of the volume (instead of the end as in A ) may have occurred when the book was rebound. Otherwise, the text and gloss do not differ significantly from those of A .