Italy, Foligno, Biblioteca Jacobilli e del Seminario, 555 (D.I.38)

Italy, Foligno, Biblioteca Jacobilli e del Seminario, 555 (D.I.38)

Aristoteles, Metaphysica with glosses
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 72 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 330 x 220 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    On the top of the pages are titles: "liber 3,4,5,6, etc. Metaphysice"
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 1 column.

    27 lines to the textus-column. Up to 58 lines to the commentary.
    The Aristotelian text is in the one main column, whereas the commentary by Averroes surrounds it in the margins. A hand of the 14th century wrote "commentator Avherroys " on every folio.
  • Hand Description:
    One Italian hand.
  • Acquisition:
    Once this code was possessed by Ludovico Jacobilli (1598-1664) from Foligno.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , pp.973f.
Content
Aristotle Metaphysica 1r - 72v
  • Incipit:
    naturalis autem sicut Emp[edocles] attribuit unum alii. Manifestum quod fingit quod unum est ens...
  • Explicit:
    ..quoniam si alia fuerant movebitur igitur quia sunt perfectio
  • Note:
    Begins abrupt in Book III. Ends incomplete.
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 1r - 72v
  • Incipit:
    ...et fingit, id est quoniam, cum Empedocles opinatus est quod amicitia est causa que facit omnia esse unum, ideo est magis digna...
  • Explicit:
    ...relinquitur igitur, cum iste intellectus fuerit denudatus a potentia, ut intelligamus per ipsum secundum quod actio est substantia et est ultima prosperitas
  • Note:
    Begins abrupt in Book III. Ends incomplete.