France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6510

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 6510

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 293 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 320 x 230 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Headings on top of pages in red and blue. Large initials in gold and various other colours. Other initials in red and blue.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two colums.
  • Hand Description:
    The codex is elegantly written by two scribes from northern France.
    First hand: ff. 1r- 256v .
    Second hand: ff. 257r- 292r .
  • Provenance:
    On f. x4 : "Liber iste est fratris Francisci Pauli de Sancto Severino, ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: Nothern France
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Bnf. Gallica - Online catalogue [Latin 6510]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , 521f.
  • Jörg Fauser , Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung Vol. Part 1, Münster (1982)
Content
Albert the Great De caelo 1r - 94r
Albert the Great De natura loci 94r - 109v
  • Explicit:
    ...ab oriente numidiam et
  • Note:
    Ends in Tr.3, ch.8.
Albert the Great De causis et proprietatibus elementorum 109v - 129r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam autem iam nos complevimus ea que communiter de natura...
Albert the Great De generatione et corruptione 129v - 158r
Albert the Great Meteora 158r - 256r
  • Note:
    No script on f. 256v .
Albert the Great De mineralibus 257r - 285v
Averroes De Substantia Orbis 287r - 290v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 290v - 291r
  • Incipit:
    Sermo de questionibus secundum quod accepimus de Nicholao...
  • Explicit:
    anima astificis.
Averroes On Whether the Active Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it Is Clothed with the Body 291r - 292r
  • Incipit:
    Intentio nostra in hac distinctione est quod probeamus omnes vias claras...
  • Explicit:
    et hoc est in vita et in morte.