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Résumé :

The history, nature and importance of codex Vind. phil. gr. 100 ( J), from the 9th c., and its mysterious second half – lost except for a fragment of the Historia animalium preserved as ff. 13–14 in the Par. suppl. gr. 1156 – has been reconstructed up to now by means of paleography, codicology and textual criticism. Regarding all three research areas, especially for the 13th c., scholars found evidence for a sojourn of the Vind. in Southern Italy. The present article aims to confirm this insight, on the one hand by locating f. 138, the secondarily added beginning of book α elatton of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, more precisely regarding date, place and stemmatic position. On the other hand, recent research into the translation work of the Dominican friar William of Moerbeke (~1215–1286) permits a further step in the reconstruction of the second half of the Vindobonensis: locating Moerbeke’s first model of his translation of the De partibus animalium in the Greek transmission seems to clearly suggest that this model must be identified – as already in the case of the Historia and De motu animalium – with the materially lost second half of the Vindobonensis.