France, Vendôme, Bibliothèque municipale, 167

France, Vendôme, Bibliothèque municipale, 167

Averroes, Long Commentary on the Physics
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: II + 188 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Each section of a graeco-latin translation starts with small initials. Upper-case initials on ff. 1r- 184v in gold and various other colours. Lower-case initials on ff. 1r- 184v in red and blue. Originally no ornamental initials on ff. 185r- 188r , they seem to have been added later. Headings on top of pages on ff. 1r- 184v in red and blue. Originally no headings on top of pages on ff. 185r- 188r , they seem to have been added later.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    About 45 lines to the page.

    Aristotle 's textus is given in bigger letters than Averroes ' commentary.
  • Hand Description:
    Text is written by 2 hands.
    First hand: ff. 1r- 184v .
    Second hand (trembling and imprecise): ff. 185r- 188r .
  • Provenance:
    On the first flyleaf: Ad usum fratris Bernardi de Aretz , ordinis...
    On f. 1r : Iste liber est ordinis...concessus fratri...
History
  • Origin Date: 13th - 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 615
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 184v
  • Note:
    Prologue to the first book is missing according to Lacombe .
    Textus: both translations (vetus and Scotus ) are given.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 185r - 188r
  • Incipit:
    Hic sequitur commentum 76. Quoniam autem motus localis sit primus motuum testantur omnes qui aliquid dixerunt...
  • Note:
    Textus: Scotus -translation; the vetus-translation was added between the lines by a later hand (only lemmata)