Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 14 sin. 1

Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 14 sin. 1

Aristotelis quaedam
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 223 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In folio
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Intial letters in several colours, the first one showing an image of a lecture of Aristotle .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in two columns.

    31 lines to the page.

    Averroes ' long commentary on Aristotle 's Physics is given in form of marginal glosses by a later hand.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
    The titles of the separate works are often repeated at the end.
  • Provenance:
    In the beginning of the manuscript there is a note referring to Cosimo de Medici .
History
  • Origin Date: 13th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.945
Content
Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 1r - 59v
  • Note:
    Textus: vetus-translation Prologue is missing.
Aristotle De plantis 59v - 71r
Aristotle De anima 72r - 96v
Aristotle De memoria et reminiscentia 96v - 99v
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 99v - 107v
Aristotle De differentia spiritus et animae 108r - 112v
Aristotle De longitudine et brevitate vitae 112v - 114v
Aristotle De sensu et sensato 114v - 121v
Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 122r - 139v
Aristotle De caelo 140r - 187v
Aristotle Meteorologica 188r - 219v
  • Note:
    At the end of the Metheora, a chapter of De mineralibus is added without distinction.
Aristotle De causis 220r - 223v
  • Explicit:
    Completus est sermo de causis, textus et commentum. Deo gratias. Explicit liber de causis.
  • Note:
    With comments.