Italy, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, H. 102. Sup.

Italy, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, H. 102. Sup.

Aristotele Ethics
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 102 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    A pencil foliation 1-102.
  • Decoration:
    In the margins and between the lines one can find a lot of annotations. At the beginning of the Ethics we can even find citations of single books, but not so lot. And here we can also find the whole beginning of Averroes Commentary on the Ethics.
  • Layout:
    Initial letters are painted in the colours red and blue.
  • Hand Description:
    The code was written by one hand.
  • Provenance:
    Once the code belonged to the family De Griffionibus (hence we can find their insignes on f. 1r : "A.D[e] G[riffionibus]" and to their heir Senator Rovidius of Milan, who gave it a. D. 1606 to Antonio Oligato, who was the prefect of Bibliotheca Ambrosiana.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.988
Content
Aristotle Liber ethicorum 1r - 102v
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 1r - 102v
  • Note:
    Averroes is cited mainly at the beginning of the first book with annotations in the margins.