France, Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 3473, fol. 68v, digital image published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-FR-PAR-MAZ-3473/page/114
Condition Description:
After f.
103v
four folios excised.
Decoration:
Titles on top of the pages.
From ff.
128r-
162r
the page titles are written in alternating red and blue letters.
Tall initials are in red and blue with elongated lines, decorated with images. Littler initials are painted either in red or in blue also with elongated lines as decoration.
The ink is sometimes blackish, sometimes gleaming.
Paragraphs alternating in red and blue.
Layout:
Text is set in two columns.
About
92
lines to the page.
Averroes
' Long Commentary on
Aristotle
's Physics:
Aristotle
's textus is given in bigger letters than
Averroes
' commentary.
Hand Description:
Text is written by many hands.
One of the hands is English.
At times the hands are shaky.
Provenance:
A hand from the 15th century (f. x4): Ego frater Johannes de Bosco, conventus Ondegavensis (sic), confiteor esse assignatum pro magistro studentum (sic) et promitto obedientiam Deo et beate..."
An inscription printed in the 17th century: "ex bibliotheca FF: Praedicatorum Sancti Jacobi". So one can know, that the manuscript comes from the Dominican monastery St. Jaques in Paris.
History
Origin Date: Late 13th / early 14th century.
Origin Place: St. Jacob in Paris
George Lacombe ,
Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , pp. 495f.
Agence bibliographique
de l'enseignement supérieur (France):Calames. Online catalogue of archives and manuscripts in
French University and Research libraries
[Ms 3473]
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) , 32
Postquam expedivimus nos auxilio Dei... Iam nosti ex tractatu...
Explicit:
...quod est principium efficiens alicuius rerum naturalium, et quomodo debeat esse in eius potentia...
Note:
Just a fragment.
In the margins over the first words: "beat esse in eius potentia". And in the margins of f.
14v
one can read: "vacat hec, quia erat principium physice
Avicenne
".
Tibi, Stephane de Pruvinio, hoc opus quod ego
Michael Scotus
dedi latine ex dictis
Aristotelis
specialiter commendo, et si aliquid
Aristoteles
incompositum [aut] incompletum dimisit de constitutione mundana, in hoc libro recipies, cujus supplementum ex libro
Averoys
quem similiter dedi latine et es in eo exercitatus. Maxima cognitio nature...
Colophon:
With a letter of dedication from
Michael Scotus
to
Stephanus de Provino
.
Averroes
Middle Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione
100v - 103r
Incipit:
De generatione autem et corruptione... Intentio nostra in hoc libro est quod..
Explicit:
...numero a precedentibus.
Note:
The text ends incomplete.
Anonymous
Questiones Nicolai Peripatetici (just the beginning)
103r - 103v
Incipit:
Quoniam terra est sperica, ideo vapor ascendens...
Explicit:
...exterius autem magis siccum. Si autem ...
Averroes
Long Commentary on De Anima
104r - 123r
Incipit:
Quoniam de rebus honorabilibus est scire... Intendit per subtilitatem...
Averroes
Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sensu et sensato)
123r - 123v
Incipit:
Virtutes, inquit, sensibiles quedam sunt necessarie...
Averroes
Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia)
123v - 124r
Averroes
Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de sompno et vigilia)
124r - 124v
Incipit:
In isto tractatu incipit perscrutari...
Averroes
Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite)
124v - 125r
Averroes
De Substantia Orbis
125r - 126r
Incipit:
In tractatu isto intendimus perscrutari de rebus...
Note:
No text on ff.
126v-
127v
.
Written by another hand.
Aristoteles: Incipit metaphysica Aristotelis cum commento Averrois. Consideratio quidem de veritate difficilis est uno modo et facilis alio modo. (f.
128r
) Averroes: Quia ista scientia perscrutatur simpliciter, incepit notificare... (f.
128r
)
Note:
In the margins the number of the commentus are given. Sometimes we read even titles of the chapters, i.e. "De statu in causis finalibus"
... et inconvenientem auditorem propositorum sermonum propter inexperientiam
Avicenna
Physica
162r - 170v
Incipit:
Hic incipit liber Phisicorum
Avicenne
primus... (title on the top of the page by a hand from the 14th century) Postquam expediuimus nos, auxilio Dei... - ...et Deus sit dator auxilii. Iam nosti ex tractatu...
Explicit:
... et hee propositiones per se note sunt.
Avicenna
De caelo et mundo
170v - 173r
Incipit:
Beginning of the chapters: Primum quod corpus perfectius est... - quod opus fuit eis.
Differentia inter corpus et quamlibet aliam magnitudinem ...
Explicit:
Et perhennis in quiete non mo. Completus est capitulum in eius completione completus est liber. Laus sit creatori. Amen.
Avicenna
Metaphysica
174r - 194v
Incipit:
Liber Ps.-
Aviceni
de philosophia prima sive scientia divina. Capitulum de inquisitione subiecti philosophie prime...
Explicit:
... et vicarius Dei in illo. Completus est liber. Laudetur Deus super omnia quemadmodum oportet.
Note:
On f. one can read:
194v
: "Qui legit emendat, scriptorem non reprehendat".
IFFF
