Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 352

Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 352

AverroesIn physicam
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 108 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 363 x 257 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Intended colourful intial decoration is missing. No extensive rubricatons, although space is left for it.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 65 lines to the page.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bolder letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Text of several hands, rough style up to f. 81v ; from this point a clear, probably Italian hand.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden cover with leather coating, showing a majuscule S. On the exterior, the old signature "75. phil. natur", on the interior, by a librarian of the 15th century: In hoc volumine continetur commentum commentatoris Averrois super libris physicorum ( Aristotelis ) notabile.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p.663
  • Markowski Mieczysław , Repertorium Commentatorium Medii Aevi in Aristotelem Latinorum quae in Bibliotheca Amploniana Erffordiae Asservantur, Wrocław [et al.] (1987) , p. 186
  • Wilhelm Schum , Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin (1887) , p. 247
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 105v
  • Incipit:
    [I]ntencio mea in hoc libro est glossare librum Aristotelis qui dicitur auditus naturalis...
    [Quoniam] quidem intelligere et scire contigit circa omnes sciencias.
  • Note:
    Textus: both translations (vetus and Scotus ) are given.