France, Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 702, fol. 251r, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-FR-PAR-ARS-702/page/507
Decoration:
There are blue titles on the top of the pages, decorated with red lines. Initials with minitatures on ff.
1r
,
14r
,
35r
,
61v
,
97v
,
98r
,
143v
,
152v
,
153r
,
209r
,
224v
,
248r
,
248v
,
276v
,
290r
,
330r
and
342v
in gold and color, with dogs, hares, birds and fantastic animals.
The greater initials are painted in gold or in different colours surrounded by wreath of leaves and decorated with artful pictures. All initials are extended in the margins and between the columns. Two initials were cut out on ff.
143r
and
225r
.
Layout:
Text is set in 2 colums.
Hand Description:
It seems that one gothic hand worked out the code that elegantly.
Provenance:
It seems that the code once was a code of the College of Navarra.
History
Origin Date: 14th century
Origin Place:not available
Henry Martin ,
Catalogue des Manuscrits des Bibliothèque des
l'Arsenal Vol. Tome II, Paris (1886) , pp. 45
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 482
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) , 33
1st versio (Moerbekiana): De veritate theorica sic quidem difficlis est, sic vero facilis. 2nd versio (Arabica): Consideratio quidem in veritate difficilis est uno modo et facilis alio. (f.
14r
)
Note:
The new translation of the 14 books, given in two translations.
IFFF
