France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6443, fol. 11v, 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.6443/page/24
Condition Description:
Ff.
10v-
11v
are damaged by a liquid, small parts of the text are affected.
Readability on ff.
100r-
100v
and
190r
is affected in larger parts of the text.
Decoration:
In ff.
2r-
13r
and
111r-
142r
, the titles on top of the pages are given in red and blue, the others are given in black. After f.
186r
the title is given on just the first page.
The larger initials up to f.
156v
are golden, in various colours. The minor initials and the larger from f.
156v
onward are in red and blue, entwined with lines of alternating colour. Some have elongations.
The text is rubricated and has paragraph signs.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns, except for f. 221v.
Hand Description:
Text is written by multiple librarians.
Provenance:
The codex once belonged to Thuaneus. On f.
2v
we have: "Jac. Aug. Thuani".
The signature of the codex was once Colbertinus 3000 and Regius 4866. 3.
Postquam autem, auxilio Dei ... finis est certitudo opinionis et credulitatis. Opinio ver et credulitas ...
Explicit:
... vicarius Dei in illo. Completus est liber. Laudetur Deus super omnia quemadmodum oportet [Laudetur ... oportet: added between the lines] quem transtulit
Dominicus Gundisalui
archidiaconus Tholeti de arabico in latinum.
Note:
This is the emendated version. According to the explicit, the translator is
Dominicus Gundissalinus
. Rubricated, we have: "Particula prima Metaphysice
Avicenne
. C. 1 de inquisitione subiecti Prime Philosophie ad hoc ut ostendatur ipsa esse de numero scientiarum" and "Liber
Avicenne
de philosophia prima siue scientia diuina".
Reuerentissimo Tellectane sedis archiepiscopo et Yspaniarum primati Io. israelita philosophus gratum debite seruitutis obsequium ... (f.
70r
)
Liber iste diuiditur ... (f.
70r
)
Iam compleuimus ... (f.
70r
)
Capitulum primum in quo affirmatur esse anima et diffinitur secundum quod est anima. Dicemus igitur ... (f.
70r
)
Explicit:
... non dubitetis (f.
70r
).
... instrumenta anime (f.
70r
).
... totus noster liber (f.
70r
).
... cum loquemur de animalibus (f.
90v
).
Note:
The text is abbreviated, but has a preface by the translator. In the margins, we have: "Prima particula sexti libri Naturalium
Avicenne
" (f.
70r
). A different hand added "hic igitur est liber 6^us naturalium ..." in the bottom margin of the same folio.
Primum quod corpus perfectius est ... (f.
90v
)
[Rubricated:] Primum capitulum quod corpus ... (f.
90v
)
Differentia inter corpus ... (f.
90v
)
Explicit:
... opus fuit eis (f.
90v
).
... modeste et benigne (f.
96v
).
Note:
Rubricated, we have: "Collectiones expositionum [ab] antiquis Grecis in libro
Aristotelis
de mundo qui vocatur liber celi et mundi, vel expositiones iste in XVI continentur capitulis" (f.
90v
). The titles on top of the page are: "Liber
Auicenne
de celo et mundo", "L. celi et mundi
Auicenne
" and "L.
Auicenne
celi et mundi".
... ex alio loco. Explicit Liber
Auicenne
de animalibus. Deo gratias, Alleluia.
Note:
The text includes a letter of dedication. In the lower margin, there is an inscription for the rubricator: "Frederice, Romanorum imperator ... collo tuo. Incipit Abreuiatio
Auicenne
libri animalium" (f.
101r
). The titles on top of the page are: "L. 1^us (19^us)
Auicenne
de animalibus".
Usus fuit aput philosophos proponere naturalem scientiam ... (f.
143r
)
Iam autem diximus ... (f.
157v
)
Explicit:
... amplius nouit quam hoc (f.
157v
).
... quod volumus inducere de sententiis philosophorum, logicis, dizinis et naturalibus. Deo gratias (f.
165v
).
Note:
We have "Liber 1^us Methaphisice
Algazelis
" in the upper margin. The title on top of the page is: "Liber 1^us (5^us) Metaphisice
Algazelis
". Ff.
157v-
165v
appparently contain the Physica of
Al-Gazel
. We have an inscription in the lower margin for the rubricator: "Incipit Phisica
Algazelis
. Capitulum loquendi de naturalibus" (f.
157v
).
Sicut omnes homines natura scire desiderant veritatem ...
Explicit:
... vel ignorantie consuletur.
Note:
We have a title in the upper margin: "De intellectu possibili questio". On f.
167r
, there is a note in the upper margin: "hic innuuntur 3 errores
Auerrois
...".
De tempestate [sic] presagiis tractaturi a sole capiemus exordia. Purus Oriens ...
Explicit:
... tempestates prenuntiant. Explicit liber de presagiis tempestatum.
Note:
The title is inscribed in the lower margin for the rubricator (starting with "Incipit ...") and can also be found in the upper margin (f.
184v
). The text is an extract from the Historia Naturalis (XVIII, 342 - 365) by
Pliny the Elder
(cf.
Schönberger
et al.).
Authorship is not clear in this case.
Incipit liber
Ysaac
de diffinitionibus translatus a magistro
G. Cremonensi
in Toleto. Plures eorum qui antiquorum libros ...
Explicit:
... eius contrarium.
Note:
Rubricated, we have: "Finiunt collectiones
Ysaac Israhelite
medici in descriptionibus rerum et distinctionibus earum et differentia inter diffinitionem et descriptionem" (f.
190r
).
In the margins, one can see the following note: "Incipit Logica
Algazelis
; in alio incipit Logica
Auicenne
" (f.
202r
). Rubricated, we have: "Capitulum de hiis que preponi debent ad intelligentiam logice et ad ostendendum utilitates eius" (f.
202r
).
Rubricated, we have: "Capitulum de excitando ad scientias
Auicenne
" (f.
208r
). In the margins, there are notes by the same annotator ("Logica
Auicenne
hic incipit secundum quemdam, secundum alium alibi", f.
208r
).
According to
d'Alverny
, the bishop referred to in the title is
Stephanus Tempier
. The text was added by many current hands in the
13th - 14th century
.
IFFF
