Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, D.XXII.5

Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, D.XXII.5

Averroes, Colliget
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: I + 80 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 349 x 248 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Recent foliation in the right corner of recto folios.
  • Collation:
    I-VI^12 (cf. ff. 2r - 71v ) VII^8 (cf. ff. 74r - 81v )
  • Decoration:
    The text is decorated by filigree initials and paragraph-signs alternating in blue and red. The title "Liber Mehemet Abinzosdim qui dicitur colliget" on f. 2r was written by a hand from the 15th century.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in 2 columns.

    There are 55 written lines in each column. The lines are made with plumb.
    No text on f. 80v- 81v
  • Hand Description:
    The code is worked out gothic handwriting (littera textualis) in brown ink. One can distinguish two hands:
    (A: ff. 2r - 25v ; B: ff. 26r - 80r )
  • Binding Description:
    Leather.
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript once was property of Giovanni di Marco , as we can know from the inventories of its assets (inv.A, 40, cat. B, n. 94).
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Gerhard Baader , "Die Bibliothek des Giovanni di Marco da Rimini. Eine Quelle zur medizinischen Bildung im Humanismus.", in: Kurt Treu (ed.), Studia codicologica (1977) , p. 60
  • Anna Manfron , Appendice II. Catalogo, a cura di Anna Manfron, in La biblioteca di un medico del Quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Biblioteca Malatestiana, Torino, Allemandi (1998) , pp. 179f.
  • Giuseppe Maria Muccioli , Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Malatestianae Bibliothecae fratrum minorum conventualium Vol. Tomo I, Cesena (1784) , pp. 79f.
  • Raimondo Zazzeri , Sui codici e libri a stampa della Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena. Ricerche e osservazioni, Cesena, Vignuzzi (1887) , pp. 184f.
Content
Anonymous Ad inveniendum coniunctionem lune cum sole 1r - 1r
  • Incipit:
    Ratio ad inveniendum coniunctionem lune cum sole...
  • Explicit:
    ...et sie in quarto in XXIIII.
Averroes Colliget 2r - 79r
  • Incipit:
    Quanto ventilata fuit super me voluntas... Primus liber tractat de anathomia...
  • Explicit:
    ...et ex ipsius lumine universos oculos illuminare dignetur. Explicit liber Mehemet Abinrosdin qui coliget nominatur.
  • Note:
    Translated by the Jew Bonacossa in Padua (1289)
Anonymous Medical Text 79v - 80r
  • Incipit:
    Nomina simplicium medicinarum...
  • Explicit:
    ... Medicine iste sunt 290.