Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 318

Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 318

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 233 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 243 x 178 mm

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    On ff. 1r- 51v : larger initial letters in red and blue, smaller ones in red and blue, alternating. On ff. 52r- 91v : all initial letter alternating in colour.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    Main text and commentary alternating.
  • Hand Description:
    A miscellany, done by many hands in a heavily abbreviated german current script, hard to read. The part on ff. 1r- 51v can be dated on 1321 , cf. note on f. 33r .
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp.659f.
  • Markowski Mieczysław , Repertorium Commentatorium Medii Aevi in Aristotelem Latinorum quae in Bibliotheca Amploniana Erffordiae Asservantur, Wrocław [et al.] (1987) , p. 179
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Isagoge 33r - 36v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit in nomine Dei misericordis explanacio Averrois super libro Introductionum Phorphirii translata a magistro Wilhelmo de Luna de arabico in latinum.

Averroes Middle Commentary on the Categories 37r - 44r
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Interpretatione 44r - 51v
Averroes Long Commentary on De Anima 52r - 91v
  • Explicit:
    Explicit liber iste, commentum Averroys intytulatus a.d. 1320, super librum De Anima et cum hoc glossa eiusdem