France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6504

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6504

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 267 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 360 x 245 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    F. 40 is not signed out.
    Ff. 244 and 245 are foliated twice (cf. f. 243r and f. 245r , f. 244r and f. 246r : 243-244-245-244-245-246). Therefore there are even 267 folios and not 266 as suggested by Lacombe.
  • Decoration:
    Titles at the top of the pages given in red. Large initial letters decorated differently; small initial letters in red or dark blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 70 lines to the page.

    The commentary is indicated by the alternating of the words " Aristotelis " or " Averroysta " at the beginning of each paragraph.
  • Hand Description:
    Manuscript done by several Italian scribes.
  • Provenance:
    Formerly this codex was in Papiensis (Tab. III philosophie, Lib. XII).
History
  • Origin Date: January 17th, 1377
  • Origin Place: Italy
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.519f.
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 71r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Commentum Secundum Averroys Commentator Super Libro Physicorum Aristotelis ...
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation The prologue to book I is given at the end of the work. The prologues to books III and VIII are missing.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 72r - 148v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Caelo 150r - 221v
  • Explicit:
    explicit ex abrupto in fine libri IV.
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 225r - 265v
Anonymous Fragment 266r - 267v