France, Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, 220

France, Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, 220

Averroes In metaphysicam

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 167 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Simple initial letters in colour. Titles or numbers of the books are not given.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two colums. Aristotle's textus is always initiated by "Aristoteles dicit" or "A", its words are in bold letters.
  • Provenance:
    From the library of the benedictine monastery of Mont Saint-Michel. One can read on f.1r: "Hic liber est de monte sancti michaelis Abricensis Diocensis."
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.433
  • Ministère de l'instruction publique (France): Catalogue Général des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques publiques des Départements, Tome IV (1872) , p. 535
  • Averroes & Gion Darms , Averroes (Ibn Rušd). In Aristotelis librum II (α) Metaphysicorum commentarius. Die lateinische Übersetzung des Mittelalters auf handschriftlicher Grundlage mit Einleitung und problemgeschichtlicher Studie, Freiburg (1966) , 30f
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 167v
  • Incipit:
    Primus tractatus mathematice, qui dicitur animorum. Dixit Aristoteles: Consideratio quidem in veritate difficilis est uno modo et alio facilis. (f. 1r ) Averroes: Aristoteles dicit: Quia perscrutatur scientia simpliciter, incepit notificare... (f. 1r )

  • Explicit:
    ...et impossibile est etiam non ponere contrarium boni et intellectus.