France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 16159, fol. 4v, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-FR-PAR-BNF-lat.16159/page/11
Foliation:
1-385. Made with black ink by a modern hand.
Decoration:
Titles in red or blue. Big initials in different colours; small initials in red or blue.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns, except for ff.
370r
-
385v
which are set in long lines.
About 52 lines to the page.
Averroes
' Long Commentary on
Aristotle
's Physics:
Aristotle
's textus is given in bolder letters than
Averroes
' commentary.
Hand Description:
The different treatises are done by different scribes.
Provenance:
On f.
385v
: "Iste liber est pauperum magistrorum collegii de Sorbona, ex legato magistri Jacobi de Padua, in artibus medicina et theologia doctoris, socii hujus domus. Precii 4 librarum." Thus this manuscript is one of 22 manuscripts send to the Sorbonne in 1338 by the legacy of Magister Jacobus of Padua, Dr. med and theol.
History
Origin Date: 13th century
Origin Place:not available
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 569-570
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) , 34
Aristoteles: Consideratio quidem in veritate difficilis est uno modo et facilis alio (f.
292r
) - Averroes: Quia ista perscrutatur scientia simpliciter, incepit notificare... (f.
292r
)
Note:
The Text of the Metaphysics comprises book I-II the full text, furtheron only short lemmata. Numbers of the books and of the textus are continuously given. A lot of corrections and glosses are made in english script.
IFFF
