Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 20

Italy, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, lat. VI, 20

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 130 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 360 x 243 mm
Detailed Description
  • Layout:
    The text is set in 2 colums.

  • Hand Description:
    The text is worked out by a lot of hands in very small letters. The chapters by Averroes are written by a different hand also from the 14th century.
  • Provenance:
    Johannes Marchanova left this manuscript by his last will to the monastery Joannis in Viridario in 1467 (cf. note on f. 129r ).
    The manuscript came to the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in 1782.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.1090f.
  • Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli , Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. Digessit et commentarium addidit Joseph Giuseppe Valentinelli Vol. Tomus V, Venice (1872) , p. 12-14 [Link to p.12]
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
Content
Albert the Great Meteora 1r - 24v
  • Incipit:
    In scientia naturali corpus mobile...
  • Colophon:
    ...liber metheororum fratris alberti theutonici super librum metheororum Aristotelis.
Albert the Great De anima 25r - 46v
  • Incipit:
    Omnibus quae de corpore transmutabili et mobili, secundum locum...
Albert the Great De mineralibus 47r - 53v
  • Incipit:
    De commixtione et coagulatione, similiter et congelatione et liquefactione...
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in corde) 54r - 54r
  • Incipit:
    Et dico de splene...
  • Note:
    This is just a fragment. (see Arist. Lat. I, p. 228)
Albert the Great De generatione et corruptione 55r - 62v
  • Incipit:
    Cum duae sint considerationes de mobili...
  • Colophon:
    ...liber generacionis et corrupcionis fratris alberti theutonici super libro philosophi.
Albert the Great De sensu et sensato 63r - 68v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam de anima secundum se ipsam considerata...
Albert the Great De memoria et reminiscentia 69r - 70r
  • Note:
    No script on f. 70v .
Albert the Great De morte et vita 71r - 72v
  • Incipit:
    Probatum est in fine primi coeli et mundi...
Albert the Great De somno et vigilia 72v - 77r
  • Explicit:
    ...sed neque tunc reputans tertio dormivit cui socius//
  • Note:
    Ends incomplete in Book 3, tr.1, ch.10. No script on f. 77v- 78v .
Albert the Great De natura et origine animae 79r - 82v
Albert the Great De spiritu et respiratione 83r - 85r
  • Incipit:
    Multa sunt animalia...
  • Explicit:
    ...de respiracione et exspiracione.
  • Note:
    Tractatus duplex.
Albert the Great De motibus animalium 85r - 87v
  • Incipit:
    Tempus et ordo expostulat..
Albert the Great De iuventute et senectute 87v - 88r
Albert the Great De intellectu et intelligibili 88v - 89v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber primus de intellectu et intelligibili... Sicut a principio huius operis...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit deo gracias. Incipit liber secundus de intellectu (erased) de spritu et respiratione...
  • Note:
    This is only the first book, for the second see ff. 99r- 100r .
Thomas Aquinas De ente et essentia 89v - 90v
Thomas Aquinas Utrum liceat uti iudiciis astrorum 90v - 90v
  • Incipit:
    Quia petisti a me ut scriberem tibi an liceat iudiciis astrorum uti...
  • Note:
    This book was edited by Brother Reginaldum.
Albert the Great De causis et proprietatibus elementorum 91r - 96r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem complevimus iam communiter ea quae de natura locorum et distinctione dicenda sunt...
Albert the Great De nutrimento et nutribili 96v - 97v
  • Incipit:
    De anima secundum seipsam dictum est in precedenti libro sed...
  • Explicit:
    ...dicta sint a nobis.
Alexander of Aphrodisias De intellectu et intellegibili 98r - 98v
  • Incipit:
    Aristoteles intellectum tribus modis distinguit; unus est intellectus materialis...
  • Note:
    In the interpretation of Alexander Aphrodisiensis de intellectu exists also a little work by Hieronymus Bagolinus from Verona, edited in Verona in 1516. Incipit of the Praefatio: "Enarrationem Alexandri Aphrodisaei de trino intellectu ex Aristoteles placitis...".
Albert the Great De intellectu et intellegibili 99r - 100r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber de perfectione naturali intellectus. Post hoc autem de perfectione animae intellectualis videtur esse agendum...
  • Explicit:
    Explicit de perfectione naturali intellectus.
  • Note:
    This is only the second book, for the first see: ff. 88v- 89v .
Albert the Great De unitate intellectus 100v - 102v
  • Incipit:
    Quia apud nonnullos eorum qui philosophiam profitentur
  • Note:
    Libellus contra eos qui dicunt quod post separationem ex omnibus animalibus, non remanet nisi intellctus unus et anima una. This book is also often edited as: "De unitate intellectus contra Averroem ".
  • Colophon:
    ...libellus de unitate intellectus.
Albert the Great De natura loci 103r - 106v
  • Incipit:
    De natura tractuari quae provenit ex habitudine loci ad coelum...
  • Explicit:
    ...et magnitudine celebres habentur.
  • Note:
    Ends with Tr.3, ch.9.
  • Colophon:
    ...liber de natura locorum habitabilium
Thomas Aquinas Super secundum sententiarum 107r - 128v
  • Incipit:
    Primo quaeritur utrum sit tantum unum principium...
Claudius Ptolemaeus Almagest. Opus omnes celorum motus continens (Fragment) 129r - 130v
  • Incipit:
    ...[divisio]nibus eius et partibus sumere investigationem scientie loci declivis orbis per quem orbem signorum intelligimus...
  • Explicit:
    ...orbium quorum unumquodque alteri opponitur et unus eorum quod est ad id quod...
  • Note:
    Fragment, begins in incomplete in the beginning of "Dictio prima, Capitulum secundum de ordinibus modorum huius scientie" and ends incomplete in the middle of "Dictio prima, Capitulum octavum quo declaratur quod primi motus qui sunt in celo sunt duo".
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in colore oculi et in coloribus immutantibus) 54r - 54r
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in diversitate temporis conceptionis animalium) 54r - 54r
Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Sermo in diversitate vocis) 54r - 54r
  • Note:
    No script on f. 54v .